Evil High Priest (EN) Toys and Games

ORIGINAL GAME IN ENGLISH: Evil High Priest is a worker-placement game in which players take on the roles of priests of a Lovecraftian entity. All players worship the same Great Old One, but are partially non-allied. When they awaken their Great Old One, he will decide which of them is the best (based on VPs) and appoint that priest, and that priest only, to be the High Priest, whoever wins. The game contains cards, cardboard tokens, and multiple different boards - each player has an inner sanctum, plus a priest board to manage their sect. In addition, there is a town council, representing Lovecraft country; a ritual board, representing magic spells; and a cult council, representing the Great Old One you seek to summon. The game is played in Action phases. Players take turns moving their cultists to activate various sites on the different boards, gathering resources, summoning monsters, shattering Elder Signs, and launching investigator raids (which attack all players). When all players run out of cultists, the Action phase ends, and players recover their cultists, freeing up the board sites for the next Action phase. Victory is determined when the last Elder Sign blocking their Great Old One is shattered, and at that point all the totes on top score. Different resources are worth different amounts, but the most valuable are the Elder Signs. Running the game requires the player to recruit more cultists and gain more resources, balanced against their need to shatter Elder Signs and protect themselves from the dead investigators' attacks. Unusual among worker placement games, the cult board can be swapped out between games for a different experience. The Cthulhu cult board does not play the same as the Black Goat cult board, and they require different tactics and planning.