In the brave tradition of George and Charles Parker, Milton Bradley, and Gary Gygax comes Cities of Darkscorchthe Numero Groups embattled first attempt at board game creation. Cities is the playable companion to Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, the labels 48th mainline release and a harrowing dive into the Stygian caverns of the American hard rock underground. A dice-rolling, card-driven, heavy rock band van ride through a fantasy landscape, Cities of Darkscorch could not begin to exist without Robert Soden, who, in 1975, set about creating a tapestry of maps, floorplans, and dungeon schemathe D&D-based lands of Eldara. Expanding upon Sodens meticulous vision, Cities of Darkscorch required newly commissioned card art and band logos to summon up a gravely themed mythical land of desolate outposts, warring bands, and the familiar ills that befall them.

Roleplaying as any of Darkscorch Canticles sixteen determined bands, one to six players traverse the broken roads of Darkscorchbattling such forbidding quartets as Grimsword, Narcissus, Ass-Centaur and 97 moreto collect city banners from such pits of hard rock competition as Afterdath, Wizards Wellspring, and Throk. Along the way, players may augment their bands through the use of fate cards with new artwork from the demented minds of John McGavock McConnell and Eliza Childress. The ultimate goal is Numenor, victory, and a record contract penned in brimstone, VD, and pot smoke.