Hi everyone,
I hope you’re doing well wherever you may be.
As you may recall, shortly after our Gamefound campaign concluded in early 2024, Maxine Newman (co-designer of Arkham Horror the Card Game and former lead-developer of Lord of the Rings the Card Game) joined our team as the lead designer of Earthborne Rangers. We haven’t shared much about what she’s been working on over the past year and a half, but that is about to change!
Maxine’s first order of business was to help us put the finishing touches on the Legacy of the Ancestors Campaign Expansion, but once that was done, she got to work designing all-new narrative experiences for Earthborne Rangers. These would ultimately become an entire series of expansions called “Valley Expansions,” and today, I’m excited to announce that the first Valley Expansion, Spire in Bloom, is available now HERE!
Valley Expansions do exactly that: they expand the Valley by adding new locations to visit, paths to explore, people to meet, missions to accomplish, and rewards to unlock. Each Valley Expansion comes with 60 new cards, including a new path set, new missions, new weather, new rewards, and more.
Valley Expansions can be incorporated into your Lure of the Valley campaign (the campaign that comes with the core game), or they can be played as their own mini-campaign. Each also comes with a 36-page campaign guide, card set dividers, and an expanded Valley Map.
The first Valley Expansion, Spire in Bloom, brings the village of Spire into focus, turning what was originally a single location on the Valley map into multiple pivotal locations, each connected by an inventive new path type, the Thoroughfare.
A stark contrast to the experience of exploring the wilderness, the Thoroughfare set presents a fresh take on the mechanical ecology introduced in the core game. In place of overgrown thickets and prowling wolhunds, you’ll find bustling markets and pertinacious peddlers. Local townsfolk and rambunctious teens introduce entertainingly emergent complications to your journey as you explore the village, and new characters and storylines await at each new location.
Within you’ll also find new cards for the Lone Tree Set, the Valley Set, and the General Set (which includes eight baby animals, like the adorable bearsloth cub and the cuddly hydraworm spawn).
Moments in the Valley
Moments in the Valley is modelled after the previously released Moments on the Path, except the moment cards in this new expansion are specific to the terrain sets found in each Valley expansion. This expansion adds exciting and narrative moments to your path deck and can be used in conjunction with the four Valley expansions: Spire in Bloom, Shadow of the Storm, Into the Maw, or Sky & Smoke.
For more information about all of the Valley expansions, be sure to check out our announcement video! Spire in Bloom and Moments in the Valley are available now HERE for customers around the world by way of our friends at Team Covenant.
If you prefer to wait to order from your FLGS, or from a vendor closer to home, these expansions will also be available to brick-and-mortar retailers in the U.S. and retail and distribution outside of the U.S. We are currently taking orders and will be shipping to those third-parties soon.
Interested U.S.-based brick-and-mortar retailers please message us at info@earthbornegames.com for more information.
Interested retailers outside of the U.S. please emailsales@naylorgames.com.
The team and I are incredibly grateful for your continued support. It is because of you that we are able to deepen and enrich the World of Earthborne Rangers by crafting new experiences and narrative arcs. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them (and that’s a lot!).
Much love,
Andrew