Dark Domains

Dark Domains casts every player as a frontier leader who is secretly in service to a Necromancer. Early buildings must look respectable enough to establish a working settlement, but the real objective is to corrupt that domain into a wasteland rich in skulls. Each round follows a structured sequence of worker placement, production, construction, corruption, magic, and attacks. Minions claim scarce actions and resources, buildings generate an economy, and henchmen, monsters, spells, and dark structures convert that economy into evil. The Torin Company continually sends heroes and adventurers from Harrows, forcing players to defend what they have built rather than pursuing points without consequence. Rivals can also interfere through hostile effects and contested action spaces. Tarot cards regulate events and the phases of play, creating a changing pressure that keeps a two-hour session from becoming a deterministic engine exercise. The winner is the overlord who best times the public masquerade, the descent into darkness, and the defenses required to keep the most skulls.