Series: Monster Maker (Arclight)

Monster Maker 3: Nihon Youkai

boardgame

Monster Maker 3 is a card game where players defeat Japanese mythological beasts. They form hero parties, challenge monsters, use dice and assistance cards in battles, and score points for victorious combat.

Monster Maker 6: The 7 Sorcerers ('Spellnames')

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In Monster Maker 6, players fight for magical items to become the ultimate wizard. By deploying heroes, monsters, and equipment, players win items in rounds. The game ends when the deck runs out, and the player with the best elemental artifact affinity wins, unless someone correctly guesses their element.

Monster Maker School Festival

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This card game places Monster Maker characters in a fantasy high school setting. Players compete in school festival events by playing numbered cards from 1 to 10 to score points. Some unpopular events yield negative points, and ties are resolved uniquely by the highest non-tied ranking card played.

Monster Maker: Demon Slayer

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Based on the "Monster Maker" card series, players travel an overland map, encounter events, and hunt monsters. By strengthening their characters, they aim to defeat the demon. Cards feature dual orientations to serve as either monsters or treasures.

Wolflend Saga

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Monster Maker: Dungeon Wars

boardgame

This fantasy board game is based on the Monster Maker card games, using cards for spells and events. The board consists of four sections showing corridors and rooms, which are assembled to create a variable map for every single game.

Monster Maker 4: The Four Elements

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This is the fourth installment in the Monster Maker main series. The system returns closer to the original game, but omits the corridors which only appeared in the very first game and a few board game spin-offs.

Monster Maker 5: Sofia's Holy Knights

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Monster Maker 5 is the fifth installment in the card game series. Compared to previous titles, the gameplay is more complex because monsters are now differentiated by more factors than just their pure strength.

Monster Maker 2: Dragonbuster

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Monster Maker 2 differs greatly from its predecessor. Players compete to slay a dragon by first hiring a strong enough party. To afford these fighters, they must gather treasure by hunting various smaller monsters beforehand.

Monster Maker: The Queen of Darkness

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This is an amateur yet near-professional unlicensed expansion for Monster Maker. It adds extra cards, treasures, and events to the base game. The original core game is required in order to play this expansion.

Monster Maker 7: Prophecy

boardgame

The seventh installment in the Monster Maker series pits the forces of light against the dark. Compared to earlier games, this card game features less role-playing flavor and more direct conflict.

Magic Master

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This card game resembles Monster Maker in style but features more complex rules. The decks consist of spells, characters, monsters, and event cards, each displaying a variety of statistical values for gameplay.

Monster Maker: Space Trader

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This game places familiar Monster Maker characters into a science-fiction setting. It retains the series' core mechanics using player, monster, and treasure cards, but completely omits the traditional corridor cards.

Monster Maker

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In this game, similar to Mille Bornes, players play corridor cards to descend into a dungeon. Monsters halt progress while characters fight them. Collecting treasures and prizes grants victory points, and the most valuable collection wins the game.

Monster Maker School

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Monster Maker Gakuen is the first card game in the fantasy high school spin-off series. Players try to match characters to create romances while navigating obstacles like ex-girlfriends. A lighthearted card game.

Monster Maker M3

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This unofficial and unlicensed board game is based on the Monster Maker world. It uses sexual items to arouse characters and features a combat theme involving beautiful women.

Monster Maker Wars Gaiden

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Monster Maker Wars Gaiden plays similarly to Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation. One player escorts the heir Vishnus to the castle, while the other tries to stop them. Characters remain hidden, use special abilities, and resolve combat with added cards.

Monster Maker Resurrection: The Monster Maker TCG

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A collectible card game featuring Monster Maker characters where players construct custom decks. Unlike earlier series entries, it uses art from various illustrators rather than a single artist. Expansion sets were also released.

Monster Maker: Dragon Treasure

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A cardless hex-and-counter board game where players must retrieve stolen treasures from a dragon. The first person to collect three treasures and successfully return to the castle wins the game.

Monster Maker: Dungeon Wars 2

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Based on Monster Maker, this board game offers two modes. The focus is a deep solo dungeon crawl featuring randomized room, monster, and treasure cards. In contrast, the multiplayer mode functions as a simplified maze-racing game without combat.

7 Missions

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Monster Maker: Dragon Attack!

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In this fantasy board game, adventurers explore the ruined kingdom of Silverado, recruit allies, and gather treasure. Meanwhile, an enraged dragon threatens the land. Players must defeat it and accumulate the most loot before it destroys the royal palace.

Monster Maker 30th Anniversary Remake Edition

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Monster Maker School Excursion

boardgame

Monster Maker Shuugaku Ryoukou is a card game set in a fantasy school. Players plan school trips by finding travel companions and flights to destinations. Exotic locations yield victory points, while trips to the Dark Land result in negative points.