Roll For Supremacy In Fantasy Flight’s Twilight Inscription
September 15, 2022 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games' Twilight Imperium spin-off is nearly here with Twilight Inscription. Their Roll N' Write game is still available to pre-order and being delivered to local gaming stores pretty soon.
Twilight Inscription // Fantasy Flight Games
Twilight Inscription takes only 120 minutes to play rather than an entire weekend but still hopes to be an epic experience for you and up to eight players at the tabletop. You'll still be fighting for control of the galaxy and the throne on Mecatol Rex but you'll be doing it with a limited pool of resources.
Twilight Inscription Contents // Fantasy Flight Games
You'll want to be magazine your Navigation, Expansion, Industry and Warfare tracks as you gain victory points and use your skills in order to craft the perfectly balanced engine that fuels any empire, even those in the far future.
Whereas most Roll N' Write games concentrate on just one piece of paper, Twilight Inscription has you trying to command four. Each of them gives you routes to victory but if you devote too much time to one, you'll start to lose out elsewhere.
That's without also throwing into the mix the twenty-four different factions that will give you unique bonuses and help forge the identity of your interstellar empire.
There is plenty of complexity here in the mix for Twilight Inscription but it will be interesting to see if works for the Roll N' Write genre which tends to move towards the "simple" end of things in terms of mechanics. A lot of folks have had their hands on it already and said it's pretty good but nothing mind-blowing.
Are you tempted or will you roll right on past this one?
"...that's without also throwing into the mix the twenty-four different factions that will give you unique bonuses and help forge the identity of your interstellar empire"
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I may pick this up. Big fan of the game, when I have a crowd willing to play, and the Tim Pratt books I’d highly recommend for some light sci-fi reading. This looks great.
Looks like a interesting gaming environment.
It is very colourful for sure.
I really like playing Twilight Imperium so I am naturally curious on whether this will “scratch the itch” when the mood to play hits.
Priced around £50: I am going to read the after release reviews to get a better indication whether this roll & write is for me.
A comparison between the two games could provide interesting content for a content creating table-top gaming site.