

On top of all this, one of the winning conditions of Living Forest is collecting twelve different trees. Finally, placing a tree on a corner spot earns an immediate bonus action. What's more, if you complete certain columns or the central row, you receive bonus stats. and adding trees to your board bumps up your stats each round, regardless of what you flip. Each tree comes with a bonus - 2 sun, 1 water, 1 whirl, 2 sacred blossoms, etc. Tree lets you acquire one new tree tile and place it on your board adjacent to what's already present.Animals with the white "gregarious" symbol often have negative stats, but a gregarious symbol cancels a solitary symbol, allowing you to flip still more cards at the start of a round, which will ideally more than compensate for that negative.


The cost of each animal is in the lower right of the card, and you can take any combination that sums to at most your sun value. Sun lets you acquire new guardian animals to (abstractly) help you protect the forest.Busting on three solitary cards in a row might be terrible now, but your next turn will (probably) be full powered.Īs for what you can do with your elemental stats: Introverts already know that solitude (times three) isn't so bad, but you need to have that realization in this game, too. In other words, I'm pretty much taking only one useful action anyway, so why not flip again? Maybe I'll pump up the water or tree value to something useful, and if I don't, then at least I removed a solitary symbol from what I'll see on future turns. If I reveal a third solitary symbol, I can take only one action - yet that's not necessarily a disincentive at this point as I have 10 sun (which is fabulous), 1 water (which is useless), 1 tree (same), 1 swirl (which can be used productively, but isn't that great), and 1 sacred blossom (which does nothing other than possibly win you the game - details later). I've revealed five guardian animal cards so far and have revealed two black "solitary" symbols (visible in the upper left-hand corner of a card).
