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Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition
2017
Rules assistance for Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1 player
- Complexity 2.0/5
Rules assistant for Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition
For 1 player
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Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition is a board game released in 2017 for 1 player. It was designed by Ivan Sorensen and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling and Solo / Solitaire Game.
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About the game
Five Parsecs From Home is back, leaner and meaner than ever before! Create a crew of randomly generated personalities and see if you can make a profit on the fringes of space. Look for patrons, get into gun-battles and build up your squad. Five Parsecs is aimed specifically at the solo gamer (though you can play with a friend just fine) and lets you build a crew, take them through missions, gain new equipment and level them up. Watch your men, women and bug-eyed aliens improve, grow (or die horribly) as you play. Experience random events and unforeseen circumstances. * * * * Who is this game for? If you have wanted a Necromunda style campaign experience to play solo. If you want to play a miniatures campaign in the style of Traveller, Trigun or Borderlands. If you want a game that is written with solo gamers in mind. * * * * This is a second edition of the original Five parsecs rules. It includes the following changes: Completely stand-alone game based on an original, ultra-simple system. Stream-lined to make it far more manageable for a single player. Solo advice for running enemy forces is included right in the combat rules. The game has been condensed to focus on the results that matter. That meant pruning some random tables down. Far fewer exceptions and special rules to keep track of. We added more optional rules and difficulty settings, allowing the game system to be customized to your liking. An economic system allowing you to earn and spend cash. —description from the designer
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Publishers
- Nordic Weasel Games
Questions and answers
Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition has a complexity rating of 2.0 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition belongs to these categories: Fighting, Miniatures, and Science Fiction. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling and Solo / Solitaire Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition are: Ivan Sorensen. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.