Destinies: Sea of Sand Expansion Review

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If you play in the sand, you’re going to get sandy. Sand in your hair. Sand in your clothes. Sand in your mouth. But sand in your board games? Now you’ve gone too far. This expansion may be the exception. You’ll have plenty of other things to worry about such as getting over a wall, leading a siege, facing a powerful boss, etc… 

Destinies Sea of Sand is an expansion for Destinies, a competitive story-driven board game that needs no game master. This expansion can be played with 2 or 3 players, or solo, or as a 2v2 team game. 

You will need to have a tablet or other large electronic device to play this game and, ideally, a committed group.

In Destinies, players will make decisions and interact with characters in the game, using a variety of items and leveling up their skills along the way to achieving their destiny. The goal is to be the first player to do this. The expansion, Sea of Sand, plays much the same with a few new twists.

Each turn, the active player will choose whether or not to move to another tile, possibly revealing the contents of an unexplored tile. After moving (or not), the player will visit a point of interest on their current tile. Once at the point of interest, they’ll have multiple actions they can take such as interacting with a character, completing a skill test, scanning an item card, or scanning their destiny card. The app will guide the players through any of these options.

A key feature in the game are the three skills tracks. These start at different points, depending on which character you choose. Throughout the game, when certain options are chosen, tests are passed/failed, etc., you will move skill markers up and down to make future tests more or less difficult. 

The game unfolds with the