Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten

Had a great time at The Abyss last night playing Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten.

The tabletop

My Hunting Party

In a scene right out of One Million Years B.C., two tribes of four cavemen went out looking for a Mammoth and ended up tangling with a Brachiosaurus, a Pachycephalosaurus, and a Deinonychus. The 90-minute hunt ended in success: Mammoth steaks, Brachiosaurus ribs, and enough battle scars to earn our warrior status.

William's/Grug's clan approaches the target

A raptor appears 

And engages one of my figures.

Huge thanks to Graham for running the game game, and to William for being my fellow willing victim. Graham provided everything needed for the game. Below the mighty hunters succeed both in the hunt and fighting off the raptor.

It was a packed room at the Abyss, although the club only had another three SAGA tables in action as members prepare for November's Grand Melee.

Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten is a stand-alone set of gaming rules for recreating prehistoric animal hunts on your table top. The game models a time when humans were not yet in control of the world around them, when the landscape could just as easily give succour to a struggling tribe, as it could cripple a thriving people. Designed with solo and multiplayer games in mind, players take on the role of the hunting party while an integral response mechanism means that beasts react in different ways in different situations. In an unforgiving world, the choice is simple - either eat, or be eaten.