Description
Preorder / Backer Checkout
This is a preorder. Kickstarter backers will receive their orders in January. Other folks should expect their product in February. Digital files are available now.
Bad Baby Lich Lords is a fast-paced competitive card game of necromancy and sibling rivalry for 2-4 players.
Lich siblings battle it out in this competitive card game inspired by your favorite Saturday morning cartoons. Flip double-sided skeleton cards to raise the dead and activate their powers. Cast dark spells. Wrangle your unruly minions and set off chain reactions and combos. Collect sets of minion cards to meet the requirements to score on realms. Be the first player to make enough noise to wake up the sleeping Lich King!
How to Play
On the left is is a pile of Skeletons! On the right is a Realm!
On your turn, flip a Skeleton!
When you flip a skeleton it becomes a Minion and performs its Skills!
This Minion digs up a Skeleton from the Bone Pile!
Minions are unruly!
They move around, fight other minions, teach you spells,
and raise other skeletons to life with surprising results!
Match the Realm’s requirements before your opponent to score!
(This Realm requires 2 Minions with the Leave or Teach skill)
When you score, the Lich King stirs, destroying everything in the Realm!
Compete with your siblings to score Realms across the Kingdom!
First to 5 points wakes the King! (and is the worst baby)
Four Realms
The Kingdom is divided into four different Realms, each with a signature skill only minions of that Realm possess!
The Freeple
Freeple love telling other minions what to do. Use Boss to set up explosive combos!
Noblins
Friendship draws in minions from anywhere in the Kingdom. Set yourself up to score, or lure away an opponent’s minions with the power of friendship!
The Zard
In the Zard College, aspiring students Cast the forbidden magic of the Lich King. Usually this helps!
Ghoulies
The Ghoulies can Possess skeletons from the bone pile, causing them to act as though they were alive!
Print and Play Cards
The digital version of Bad Baby Lich Lords is delivered with a fully-playable, online version of the game through screentop.gg, as well as print-and-play files that allow you to have your own physical version at home! Print the cards out on standard, letter-sized paper. Fold, glue, and cut, now you have your own cards!
Components and Details
Number of players: 2-4 players, 30+ minutes, ages 8+
Style: Competitive card game
Box Edition
- Instructions
- 92 Unique Minions
- 24 Unique Realms
- 25 Spells
- 4 Stacking Realm Trays
- 4 Crib Sheets
- 2-4 Handmade Canvas Playmats (optional add-on)
Digital Edition
- Screentop.gg Activation Key
- Print-and-Play PDF Files
Impressions
“Bad Baby Lich Lords has tight tactical play, a lot of variety and unexpected emergent game situations. It also has a great look and sense of humor – I look forward to playing it more!” – Richard Garfield, designer of Magic the Gathering
“Bad Baby Lich Lords is easy to pick up, and its unique crunchy mechanics lead to a strong give and take with oh-so satisfying combo chains. It’s one of the freshest, most clever two player card games in a long while.” – Sarah and Colin Northway, designers of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Seattle Indies Expo Juror Feedback
“The balance between strategic thinking, messing with your opponent, and random chaos landed in a real sweet spot for me… I want to play more!”
“Nice, clean, simple ruleset with a lot of expressiveness.”
“Wow. So good. What a great balance of flexibility and strategic space with simplicity and ease of understanding.”
“The must-take-every-action element leads not only to some funny self-owns, but also greatly tutorializes the openness of the strategic possibilities.”