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Review #34: The Resistance - Avalon

# of Players:  5-10 Playtime:  30-60 Minutes Core Mechanic:  Deduction Theme:  Medieval Type:  Party Weight:  Light Year:  2012 Rating: 9* After I discovered Ultimate Werewolf and played it many times, I started looking out for other social deduction games. The Resistance was a game that was just released and was receiving rave reviews. Of course, the game I am reviewing in this post isn't The Resistance but instead its follow-up The Resistance: Avalon; still, I thought it would be helpful to provide a bit of background. Anyway, my original plays of The Resistance fell flat for the group I was playing with but I saw the potential based on the rules and was still looking to try it some more. Then I found out about the Avalon re-theme and that it added some special characters to help boost the game a bit. There are two factions in the game - Good and Evil. To win the game, members of Good must complete three quests successfu...