Lute! The Game of Loot
Project started in November 2023. A collaboration with a fellow RPG enthusiast, RHW set out to develop a board game just for fun to serve audiences who would love to play RPG’s, but are looking for simpler gaming mechanics for quick and fun board game nights. Lute offers players of all abilities the chance to adventure into the mystical Land of Lute!
For a free 8.5×11 printable game, or for the full size card game, Contact RHW.
You and your unsuspecting companions have stumbled into a mysterious land where a faint lute plays in the distance. You cannot escape – not even by death, you are resurrected after defeat. The lute compels you to stay, you may never leave without the lute! in hand and without freeing the unrelenting beasts that roam the glade – adventurers just like you, who never found the lute!
Shuffle the cards. Lay them face down in the seven central tiles for 1-2 players, or use the full board for 3+ players. Roll a die to determine starting player.
Immediately upon entering the glade, you stumble upon time-forgotten loot amongst the thicket that entices you to search for more. pick up your card, but don’t show your opponents. or a beast lunges from the tall grass! turn it face up, for all know you’ve found a beast, which must be defeated or befriended.
Search for the solitary lute! and use it to your advantage by revealing all adjacent tiles, wooing opponents into submission, or befriending beasts…
Use a coin flip to determine + (critical win) or – (critical fail).
Runes: A Lute Expansion
There are rumors that a hooded Mystic Hermit has taken up residence deep in the Land of Lute, unbothered by the never-ending melody, perhaps even empowered by it. The Mystic practices strange rituals that draw on the power of the Land of Lute, but in doing so has awoken strange ephemeral beasts from the beyond. The Mystic, fearful of these strange beasts, will trade your Loot for their Rune knowledge to help clear the Land of Lute of these new beasts. Adventurers take a heavy tole however using Runes. Noticing the Mystic’s skin, covered in charred markings, you realize that the magic must be etched onto your skin in order to be cast. And in doing so, leaves permanent deep scars. The only way to defeat these ephemeral beasts is with Runes or befriended ephemeral beasts.
The Trader: A Lute Expansion
A traveling trader has wondered into the Land of Lute and set up their traveling shop. A stranger that brings oddments from unknown places. Mechanical gadgets, gizmos and whatsits! Bringing new loot available to adventurers, you may trade with the Trader to your hearts content, and take a load-off in this crazy land. However not far behind are the Highwaymen that followed the Trader into the Land of Lute. Trade with the Trader and agree to defeat the bandits that threaten the Trader and your horde of Loot!