The boardgame review room: Serpent’s Tongue - a podcast by Interviews and RPG Publishing advice by Paco García Jaén

For a long time now I have been looking forward to playing Serpent’s Tongue,
a game I came across at Spiel at the Arctic Union booth. The game looked just
gorgeous and the premise was seriously alluring; two magi battle by casting
spells against each other.

Presented like that you’d be forgiven for thinking I am just getting carried
away and that there are many other battling games out there. You’d be right, but
no… you’d be wrong.

This game has something unique. In this game you actually have to cast the
spells by reading the symbols of magic and learning their pronunciation and
their somatic component. You actually have to learn what sort of spell it is,
how to pronounce the beautiful magic alphabet and develop your strategy to
defeat your enemy.

The game comes more than a hundred spells, of which you can only use a
handful in each battle, thus having a bit of deck building element to it.

So Michael
Chamberlain and I got together, pulled the spells book and followed the
walkthrough to learn to play this game.

This is our experience! Hope you enjoy the show!

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