Gates of Niflheim Box Set

In Gates of Niflheim , an ancient Viking site, long sealed to contain the threat it held, has been disturbed by the rapid expansion of the Christian faith. A monastery built just above the old Viking tomb has unwittingly awakened a perilous supernatural enemy of the Norsemen, who now threatens to escape its prison by crossing the Gates of Niflheim and returning to the mortal world.

But the growing threat posed by the site of this adventure didn't just alert the Vikings. The Christian Church also sent heroes to eliminate this obvious threat to humanity, leading to a fragile alliance between the Viking forces and the warriors sent by the Holy Church.

Welcome, player, to Gates of Niflheim , created for you by the creative team at Raybox Games. Within these pages, you are invited to participate in a heroic tale of mythical horror, which will test your mind and courage in the trial fields of a brand-new Paths Unknown adventure .

The innovative Paths Unknown game engine powers this system by seamlessly blending popular "dungeon crawl" style games with the storytelling and branching decision-making of "choose your own adventure" style books of the past.

Paths Unknown creates a new hybrid method of play where the board game experience is no longer spread across a giant table using a network of tiles, but is instead contained within a book that focuses on the game area representing your hero's current physical location in the adventure.

Bound in a spiral-bound book designed to lie flat, the individual "game pages" of your Paths Unknown adventure will display the location rules your miniature must navigate on the LEFT page of the open book, as well as the physical game board on which the model will move and fight on the RIGHT page of the open book.

Paths Unknown is a non-linear adventure. This means that the direction or EXIT your miniature hero chooses to leave a game page will determine the new page of the book where they will travel and experience the next part of their adventure.

Each game page your miniatures explore will manifest its own unique perils and challenges, offering the models the opportunity to acquire new items, resources and skills, as well as perhaps find new companions to aid them in their quest.

Gates of Niflheim is the third game in the Paths Unknown system and takes an exciting detour from the zombie-infested trenches of World War II to a path inspired by Viking folklore! Once again, a team of extraordinary heroes must put aside their differences to face a greater threat to humanity.