The Worlds of Boris Vallejo

The Worlds of Boris Vallejo is a strategy board game.^[1] Its components are:

• Thirty world tiles, each featuring a different painting by Boris Vallejo
• Thirty world reference cards, one for each world tile
• A deck of cards, made up of characters, scrolls and artifacts, each with a numerical combat strength
• Plastic pawns^[2]

One player chooses a world tile and places it on the tabletop. Players then take turns choosing world tiles and placing them so that they touch another tile. This continues until all thirty tiles have been placed. Each player then chooses one of the worlds to be their home tile, places their pawn on the home world tile, and receives the reference card for that tile.^[2]

Each turn, the active player draws three cards from the deck, and may play up to two cards — a character, and an item that character can use — as defense on a world tile that they control.^[2]

Each turn, the active player can move their pawn one tile. If that tile is uncontrolled, the player now owns it, and receives the reference card for that world. If the world is controlled by another player, combat results.^[2]

The attacking player plays two cards — a character card and either an artifact card or scroll card. The total of the two cards' combat factors is compared to the combat factors of the cards that the defending player previously assigned to the world. Either player can ask other players to aid in the combat by providing one card to be added to either the attacker or defender. Whichever side has the greater sum of combat factors wins the combat.^[2]

The first player to control eight worlds wins the game.^[1]