Worlds of Boris Vallejo, The

From the 30 world tiles (each featuring a different painting by Vallejo) each player, one at a time, chooses one and places it so that it touches at least one other tile. This is done until each player has placed 5 tiles. This makes up the playing board.

Each player then receives 8 cards from the card deck. Cards come in 4 flavors. World cards, which are not shuffled into the deck, have info about each world tile. The player who owns that tile takes the card for reference. Character cards have a base strength, class and a home world indicator. They can be played to a tile that you own as defense against attack. If they are played to their home world their strength is doubled. Scroll cards can be placed on worlds and used by characters that can wield magic. These cards boost the base strength. Artifact cards can be used by any character. They boost strength and sometimes have special powers.

Each player picks a world tile to be his home and places 5 of their 8 cards there to defend it. Players also have a pawn that represents their army.

The first player to control 8 worlds wins.