Gryphon Games has placed Kevin G. Nunn’s board game Zong Shi on Kickstarter.com where the game has already earned more than 30% of its Kickstarter total with 58 days to go.  Nunn has a good Kickstarter track record having designed the successful Kickstarter games Rolling Freight and 1955: The War of Espionage.

 

Zong Shi (MSRP $70.00) is an elaborate board game set in a large city in ancient China.  It is slated for release from Gryphon Games in 2012.  Players are talented artisans competing to earn the title of “Zong Shi” (“Master Craftsman”), and there are numerous strategies that each can adopt.  Players can expand their workshops or they can acquire a specialist’s mastery over a single material. T hey can create a large number of smaller projects or put all their resources into a few masterworks.  The game balances worker placement, resource management, and project completion with special action cards providing both obstacles and opportunities to enliven the action.  Designed for 3-5 players, ages 13 and up, Zong Shi takes about 75 minutes to play.

 

The high quality game components come packaged in beveled edge, ultra sturdy box with a canvas-textured exterior, durable plastic insert, and a transparent plastic cover to keep the game pieces secure within the box.  Components include: 1 full color game board, 1 jade-green Buddha (start player marker), 5 master pawns (in player colors), 5 apprentice pawns (in player colors), 5 player workshop boards, 5 player reference boards, 20 respectful visit tokens (4 each in the player colors), 5 townsfolk award tiles, 32 project cards, 12 masterwork project cards, 36 scroll of fortune cards, 24 pawn shop exchange tiles, 1 cloth Chinese bag, and 40 boxes (tiles) of various kinds of raw materials.