Piggy backing on the theme (sorta) of last week's Source of the Nile , let's revisit this GW 'classic'. A year after releasing the highly thematic Fury of Dracula, Stephen Hand tried his hand (*rimshot*) on another classic monster. Was he successful? How did this game fail in ways FoD did not? Worth chasing down?

I'm in the minority but I like the game. I has a cardinal sin though of having turns where players get pushed into maze areas an encounter nothing. Borrring. So some house rules:

The starting player may play an addional navigation card. His sometimes allow him to get back to a decent space if he hols the correct card.

All spaces are counted as +1 encounter card space.

Each round spent in the secrets room gives you +1 to a skill. This starts a timer on the endame.

I've not played it enough to really playtest these but the couple of plays I did do were fun.
Also the game needs about double the encounter cards.

Steve"2 cents"Avery

Jeff -- This will be up for review in a couple of weeks. I would recommend it; especially if you have kids to play with.

All I can remember about it was hating it as a kid and thinking it was GW's first failure in a golden period.

Ancient_of_MuMu wrote:


I'm the same, found it dead boring as a kid. That metal mummy got plenty of use in roleplaying games for years to come though.

I played it once, years ago, but not as a child and found it boring. I can't recall the rules, but the guy who owned it and I gamed a lot and we never played it again. It did have nice minatures.