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Forbidden Lookout

Forbidden Lookout is a cooperative game for 1–6 players that reimplements the rules of Mat Leacock's excellent Forbidden Island ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65244/forbidden-island ) within the sumptuous universe of Campo Santo's Firewatch ( http://www.firewatchgame.com/ ).

Wildfires are sweeping through Shosone National Forest, but we have been unable to raise two of our lookouts, named Henry and Delilah, on the radio. You play as a team sent into the Two Forks region of the park to hold-off the fires long enough to gather evidence or clues about the pairs whereabouts. Once you gathered evidence, pull your team back to Thorofare Lookout and signal for helicopter extraction before it's too late...

The rules for this game follow closely those of Forbidden Island ( available at http://www.gamewright.com/gamewright/pdfs/Rules/ForbiddenIslandTM-RULES.pdf ). The differences are in theme and naming:

- instead of being flooded, tiles are on fire;
- instead of sinking, tiles become engulfed;
- instead of looking for mythical treasures, you look for clues (audio recordings, photographs, personal effects, or documents);
- the flood deck becomes the fire deck;
- the treasure deck becomes the investigation deck;
- investigators' roles are thematically changed (e.g. 'Search and Resuce' replaces 'Diver')
- instead of sandbag cards that shore-up flooded tiles, there are water drop cards that extinguish remote fires.

Thanks to the Firewatch Wiki ( https://firewatch.gamepedia.com/Firewatch_Wiki ) for high resolution screenshots that I used extensively in making the art for this game.