Because what everyone needs is to collect dragons and visit them! No? Is that… not the takeaway of the game?
It is, more or less. Wyrmspan is about excavating caves for dragons, inviting them in, and exploring, picking up resources as you go! Despite sharing a system with Wingspan, it is quintessentially a dragon game, a process I had hardly considered the difficulty of until I was staring the results in the face. There are a lot of little shifts between the two sets of rules, ones that alter the internal balance while still coming out with the same results!
Crunchy bits aside, Wyrmspan approaches its material with the same enthusiasm as its predecessor, presenting dragons of different sizes, temperaments, and abilities, a booklet all about them, and a guild track for rewards! The little adventurer pieces, visual design and so forth are stunning, and if you like dragons and lots-of-moving-parts mechanics, you should definitely check it out.
