The King's Dilemma lets you run a kingdom with your friends
Into the ground, if you fancy
"I'll put two power down in favour of the killer wasps," says my pal Haydn. We're playing The King's Dilemma, a board game about bickering noble houses attempting to run a kingdom. We've sent some explorers out in search of a fabled treasure, but their journey is not going smoothly, as they are bogged down in a swamp with wasps that like to burrow into human flesh and let their babies eat people out from the inside. Our general, we've been told, wants to weaponise them.
The council is divided.
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