Designer David Cuatt's Swamp Devils from Blood Bayou! is a love-letter to a monster movie that never was, with a fast-and-fun chit-pull combat mechanism that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
But that's against the law in these parts - and so our handsome leading man Sheriff Harkins heads into Blood Bayou with a posse in tow. Soon he will be joined by the mysterious Professor Saunders, his glamorous daughter Charlotte, and a ragtag band of outlaws, scientists, and character actors. Will they close the portal in the final reel, or will they be a light snack for hungry Elder Gods?
One player controls the desperate humans, and one the Swamp Devils and their dread masters, the Abominations. It's an I-Go-U-Go turn sequence. Many of the human characters, and the Abominations, have special abilities that break the rules in some fashion.
There are multiple victory conditions for each side-- do the humans want to perform an arcane ritual to banish the Swamp Devils, or research a more purely scientific solution? Or maybe brute force will do it, by hunting down the Abominations and showing 'em what-for. On the other side of things, the Swamp Devils might want to concentrate on infiltrating the town, or on killing off the humans with top billing.
