Having reclaimed my dining table from the MtG cards (an act that should worry WotC but doesn’t) I’m ready to start playing once again The 7th Continent.

It’s been nearly three years since I last played this game. Which is a shame. It really deserves having the love that playing it gives it.

Since I last played it there has been a new expansion What Goes Up, Must Come Down. Which adds two new curses plus a hot air balloon, a raft, three new explorers and a goat. It was joined by two smaller expansions as well (The Flying Roots and Creature Comforts).

Having been an original backer when I backed the new expansion I was also given an upgrade kit that replaced a handful of cards to make my original version the same as the reprint (ie 2.0).

Yesterday I spent the afternoon replacing cards, adding new ones, and undoing my previous saved game state.

I wanted to start afresh with all the new stuff mixed in.

Naturally I’m going to be boring you with my tales of exploration and adventure on here. I’ve got nothing better to do, have you?

So before I set off on my travels across The 7th Continent I thought I would document the setup for this curse.

In to the action deck are the four cards that come with the new Flying Roots expansion. Plus the new Comfort Creatures (not sure what that adds but it will be interesting to find out). Which with the Face the Elements and Fear the Devourers from the original Kickstarter make up the extra stuff I’m likely to bump into.

Because this is my first play in such a long time I’m using the original games easy mode (card 777) plus the new Prodigy Mode (5 learning from mistakes cards added to the action deck) PLUS the new Immortal Mode (card 888). This later mode is aimed at those more interested in exploring than surviving.

I’m also using the Pocket Watch from the base game.

With the What Goes Up, Must Come Down expansion we also got this rather cool fake leather binder to use instead of the Satchel and Journal card. So all the cards that would normally go under the said card will go in this instead.

Oh and the dice I will be using to track the usage of items will be the cool bone looking dice from the original Kickstarter.

I’ve decided to go with one of the new explorers from What Goes Up, Must Come Down, Anjika Patel.

The curse chosen is the one advised in the rulebook for first plays “The Voracious Goddess”. I didn’t get very far into it anyway three years ago, and can’t remember what I did. So it’s a good starting point.

Right that’s the setup time to go off into the unknown…