Description

The Barrier Mountains are the site of a strange falling star from years ago! Your mine will strike the earth at the Barrier Mountains, and uncover the secrets of an ancient artifact buried deep below. Will you discover its secrets? Or will your mine fall to the odd creatures that inhabit these mountains? Play to find out, as your mine tells its story!

Barrier Mountains is an expansion to Dwarf Mine (the Dwarf Mine base game is required to play).

Like Dwarf Mine, Barrier Mountains is a game played by drawing a mine on graph paper. On your turn, you will first draw (dig) rooms, hallways, and ladders for your mine! Rooms will benefit your mine, and hallways and ladders let you reach other areas of your mountain.

After drawing, you will make two dice rolls - a treasure roll, and a combat roll. These rolls determine what treasure you find, and what creatures you may encounter in the mountain - after all, mining is dangerous business!

Each mine made has a story, and every story has a beginning, middle, and sadly, an end. Your game ends when your population reaches 0. By the end of the game, you’ll have created rich and unique history for your mine – no two games are the same!

Players are getting VP during the game and trying to see how many VP they can get each time they play. Kind of like a high score.

Barrier Mountains expands on this experience, by offering a sci-fi style of gameplay, which includes:
A brand new Dwarf Mine map
4 new rooms for your Dwarf Mine
4 new final bosses to fight
4 new Treasure Tables (one for each mine level)
4 new Combat Tables (one for each mine level)
New mechanics unique to this map

—description from the publisher