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Please Don't Burn My Village!

Buy treasures, manipulate the Black Market, and offer the dragon a bribe rich enough to spare your village from the flames.

Economic Commodity Speculation Market Push Your Luck

Players

2-5

Play time

20-30 min

Age

10+

Complexity

1.5/5

Rating

6.40

Easier to teach Highly interactive Light strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.8/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.3/5

Light strategy

Player control 3.8/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 5 min
Teach time About 10 min
Table footprint Compact
Recommended edition Please Don't Burn My Village! – English Edition
High language dependence
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How it plays

How does it play?

Bribe a greedy dragon, speculate on treasure values, curse rival holdings, and make sure your village is the one left standing.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Please Don't Burn My Village! is a fast market game set in the Castle Panic world. Players collect fantastical treasures, influence their changing value at the Black Market, and offer carefully timed bribes to keep a dragon’s attention away from home. Curses can undermine treasures held by rivals, while an exhausted supply brings the reckoning closer. When no treasure remains, the dragon burns every village except the one whose bribe is worth the most, turning each purchase into both an investment and a very public threat.

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Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Please Don't Burn My Village! – English Edition 2025 English Fireside Games / US

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All specifications (21)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Play time
20–30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.5/5
Language dependence
High
App
None app

Practicalities

Setup time
About 5 min
Teach time
About 10 min
Teardown time
About 5 min
Table footprint
Compact

Campaign and continuity

Group continuity
Flexible
Resettable
Fully Resettable

Edition and product

Recommended edition
Please Don't Burn My Village! – English Edition
Language
English
Region
US
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard Edition
Current edition
Yes
Components
117
Consumable components
None.
Compatibility
Verified Fireside Games Physical English Edition With 104 Cards, 6 Treasure Tokens, Board, 5 Player Aids, Rules, And A Castle Panic Promo Card.
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Simon Weinberg

Artists

1
Tad Lambert

Publishers

1
Fireside Games

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