The newest expansion EXTREME HAUNTINGS adds a whole new level to gameplay for The Three Pillars: A paranormal Card Game. With the addition of Entities, Objects, Curses, all new Events, Locations and a new Pillar class to this set the stakes have never been higher. 

 

ENTITY CARDS -- The Pillars will encounter some pretty nasty spirits while they are trying to close cases. The Entities are shuffled into the Investigation Deck and will come out randomly, wrecking havoc on your investigation. The game text on an Entity will directly affect your Pillar, most likely hindering them in some way. Whether it’s a Murderous Spirit, a Poltergeist or a Bone Demon, they are all formidable adversaries. The Entities can either be banished from a location, or vanquished in battle using Combat Rules. A victory condition of Extreme Hauntings is that a player must defeat at least one Entity throughout the course of the game. When an Entity is vanquished, the player will score points equivalent to the banish number. 

 

  The Extreme Deck, which can be accessed when an Entity is present at a location, consists of 20 cards. Once per turn you may draw a card from the Extreme Deck in an attempt to gain an item. These items will allow you banish Entities, remove curses by collecting and combining the Items to match corresponding numerical values on Curses or Entity cards. One used, Items are reshuffled back into the Extreme Deck. Each item also has a printed battle function in helping to vanquish Entities. 

 

  Be cautious because mixed into this deck are Curses. 

 

  For example: Your Pillar is investigating Pennhurst State School and there is an Entity in play. An Elemental is looming, threatening to suck away a piece of your evidence at the end of your turn. In a bold move, you decide to draw a card from the Extreme deck at the beginning of turn in hopes of obtaining a level 2 or level 3 object which will allow you to Banish the Elemental into the discard pile. Picking the top card you realize that you just made matters worse for yourself as you have drawn a curse that will reduce the size of your hand until this curse is dispelled. Now, not only will the Elemental remain at the location and take your evidence, you will also need to make another attempt at getting an item to break free yourself from the curse. There are three levels of curses.

 

CURSES -- 

LEVEL 1 will affect your Pillar’s ability to properly investigate.

 

LEVEL 2 will affect your current location – this type of Curse will also affect your opponent at that same location.

 

LEVEL 3 is the most power level of the Curses and will affect your entire Team. Curses are cumulative and a single player can languish under multiple curses simultaneously.

 

  Curses will remain in effect until they are removed. Therefore, a Pillar who has already closed out his/her case may still be cursed. While it is possible to complete the game while remaining under curses, it is not advisable strategy as it may result in a loss of total points in the scoring phase. 

 

EVENTS -- Twenty new Events, including several new personalities. As always some of the events may help you, while others may have potentially disastrous effects. The Events are meant to replace the original set in a stand alone game, however, you may freely choose to merge in the original Events, as well as those from previous expansions depending on if you are also utilizing the Allies & Adversaries and/or Batteries Not Required expansion sets in your game. 

 

CASES -- There are nine new locations to investigate, each with unique game text that will make the cases more difficult than ever before. Some of these locations may be “Home” to a particular Entity, if that’s the case, that Entity may Not be banished while present at this location. 

 

PILLARS - Now you have even more options. Aside from two new Skeptic Pillars (an updated Chris, and adding Beth Ezzo onto the team), there is also an entirely new Pillar Class: The Clergy. That’s right, when cases get this extreme it’s time to call in for some spiritual backup. A player is still allowed to complete the game using only three Pillars, but you can use this new class to replace a Psychic, Skeptic or a Scientist during one of your investigations. These Pillars are particularly useful for helping with Curses and banishing Entities.