Plaid Hat Games has released information on the Mice and Mystics: Downwood Tales board game expansion planned for release this August.
 
The expansion provides a new story book, with a return to the wild environments of the first game.  Adventurers will be able to scale tall trees, choose between branching paths in the story, and see how day and night impact player progress.  There are new opponents: froglodytes, fearies, and a massive snake; as well as new heroes: Ditty the shrew, Ansel the mouse, and Jakobe the gecko.
 
The box contains 3 mouse hero figures, 23 minion figures, 1 tree overlay, 1 branch overlay, 8 dual-sided forest  tiles, 34 mouse ability cards, 61 search cards, 9 encounter cards, 3 mouse hero cards, 3 sheets of die cut counters, and a 100+page story book.  The game is for 1 -4 players, ages 7 and up, and plays in 60 -90 minutes.  As an expansion it requires the Mice and Mystics base game.  MSRP is $74.95.