Pyramid Review
The Testimony of Jacob Hollow
Published by Third World Games
Game design by Frank Bustamante, Michael Nickoloff
Additional game design by Jason Jung, Randy Harrington, Eric Devlin, & Keith Kuntz
Graphic design by Dan Smith & Frank Bustamante
120 full-color cards (6 character cards, 15 Locations, 99 terror cards), 12 six-sided dice (6 each of two colors), rules sheet; requires (but does not include) one pawn per player and a way to track Investigation Points; $19.95
Jacob Hollow is a man, not a place. The place is Castle Bay, and something horrible has happened to it and every person there save one. Jacob is that one person, the soul inhabitant who made it out past the disaster. Everyone wants to know what he knows and what happened there, but Hollow is most certainly mad now. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the details of The Testimony of Jacob Hollow, as crazed as the tale is, aren't exactly and precisely right. The awful events in question are for two to six players to uncover in the new horror card game from Third World Games.
The object of the game is to be the first investigator to start his turn with 10 Investigation Points under his belt . . . or to be the only one left alive at the end of a turn. Each participant receives a character card to play; each of these personalities has a special ability that benefits them a special way over the others. The characters have a measure of Life and Mind -- the former keeps you alive . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: June 20, 2003
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