The Kickstarter for the first full expansion pack for Jane Austen's Matchmaker started on Friday and has already been funded – before I even managed to get this completed!
So now, if you want to add some ghoulish death and horror to your game, every backer will definitely get their copy sent out during March 2016.
Why Zombies?…
Not long after the original Jane Austen's Matchmaker Kickstarter had funded, we started to get requests for a 'zombie' expansion. Well… here it is!
This expansion consists of 50 new cards and rules to supplement the original game. You must still make advantageous marriages for your ladies and gentlemen, but now with the inconvenience of an Undead apocalypse, which threatens to make a bloody mess of your wedding plans. One player starts the game afflicted with the Curse of the Living Dead.
The Cursed player draws cards from the new deck – both on their own turn and when anyone gets married. This deck includes many Zombie cards, which transform the Cursed player's ladies and gentlemen into flesh-eating monsters! If the player runs out of characters to infect, they must pass the Curse onto someone else…
To see more details and to order your copy, please visit the Kickstarter page here.
- Designer's Note:
- We realize that many Austen purists might consider this expansion an abomination in more ways than one. Jane obviously didn't have much patience with gothic novels, which she gently mocks in Northanger Abbey. It was a year after her death that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published, so we'll probably never know her opinions on the 'living dead'. But if the very idea of her works combined with zombies makes you hot under the collar, I'd cordially invite you to consider Jane Austen's Matchmaker in its original composition and put all thoughts of flesh-eating monsters from your mind.
