Paupers' Ladder: Second Edition (Preorder)

Manufacturer: Bedsit Games

Estimated Release Date: April 2025.

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It's back! After selling out earlier this year, this second edition of Paupers' Ladder brings the game back with lots of new cards, features, refinements and general tweaks and fiddles.

With your Pauper and faithful Bird companion, set out again on your journey to learn Virtues across the wild realms of Brighthelm. Battle with a huge variety of creatures, gather ingredients to craft powerful recipes and complete all manner of quests for the goodfolk of Brighthelm's city regions.

Along with the other new features in the game, you can now choose to play in Survival mode, where you can be injured in combat. Take too many hits and it's off to the city healer with you!

Garolium Scraggart, beloved ruler of the people, has died. Despite an upbringing of real hardship she rose to the highest rank in the royal court and did what she could to make sure the poorest in Brighthelm were not forgotten. She died too young, her work half done. A tournament has been announced to find her successor. Brave knights have travelled down royal highways. Bold paladins have knocked on royal doors. So too have bards, lords and heroes. All looking to take over Scraggart’s reign and rule the realm to their desires. And every one of them has been sent back to whence they came. Because Garolium herself had devised the tournament. It was the last thing she did, and she decreed it would only be open to those of the most limited means. Those whose potential had been locked by the chains of ill-fortune and poverty. Brighthelm's paupers. She had spent her whole life building their ladder and nobody was going to kick it away.

In Paupers' Ladder, players are a pauper in Garolium's tournament. Along with your bird companion, explore the wild and treacherous land of Brighthelm as you strive to learn three of the five virtues: generosity, fellowship, bravery, knowledge, and magnificence. Battle a bestiary of creatures, undertake quests, find ingredients to craft powerful recipes, and discover the sights and wonders of an exciting new world along the way. But beware! You're not the only pauper in town. the land of Brighthelm is illustrated with a playing board and over 400 cards depicting equipment, quests, recipes, monsters, ingredients, encounters, cities, villages and more besides.

On your turn you use both your Pauper and your Bird, in either order. Each character may move from the Region they occupy into any adjoining Region, or stay where they are. Paupers’ can pay to travel extra Regions. Your character now explores the Region they occupy.

The aim of Paupers’ Ladder is to learn any 3 of the 5 Virtues. Virtues are learned in different ways. For instance, you learn the Virtue of generosity by discarding a certain amount of gems from your purse. When a player has learned 3 Virtues, they have won the game.

Ages: 14+
Players: 2-4
Game Length: 60-90 minutes

Mechanisms:
• Area Movement
• Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
• Open Drafting
• Pick-up and Deliver
• Set Collection