Stonesaga: Meals & Myths
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Someone burned the meat. Someone discovered a recipe that changes everything. And by the end of the meal, the valley is no longer the same.
WHAT IT IS ABOUT
When survival depends on the pot
Max Brooke and Luke Eddy expand their prehistoric world with a completely new layer: cooking as a survival tool. Meals & Myths takes Stonesaga's crafting system into unexplored territory, where hunting, gathering, and cooking become interconnected actions crucial for strengthening characters.
At the table, you'll hunt for new ingredients, discover recipes by experimenting (tokens fall into a pot with unpredictable outcomes), face a legendary behemoth, and explore a new region rich in ancient myths. Every meal prepared can save the group or create unexpected surprises. The expansion also adds a fifth character cloak, new structures and items, and allows you to leave an even deeper mark on the valley.
What they say abroad
Cooking in Stonesaga is survival with flavor—sometimes literal.
Cooking in Stonesaga is survival with flavor—sometimes literal.
— FroGames
The pot is chaos. The recipe is hope.
The pot is chaos. The recipe is hope.
— FroGames
Stonesaga: Meals & Myths
Stonesaga natively supports solo play, and this expansion maintains the same structure. The culinary system works perfectly solo: you experiment with recipes, manage resources, and face the behemoth with just one cloak. It only loses the sharing of discoveries at the table, but the crafting and narrative experience remains complete.
FrogScore · FroGames editorial rating · based on rules, international reviews, and play sessionsWhat's in the pot
The ingredients of the expansion
Culinary system
Hunt, gather, cook. Tokens fall into the pot and generate unpredictable results: powerful recipes, strange effects, sometimes disasters. Survival depends on fire.
Legendary Behemoth
A creature that changes the rules of the game. Facing it requires preparation, coordination, and perhaps that secret recipe you just discovered.
New region
An unexplored area of the valley, with ancient myths to discover and fresh challenges that redefine your relationship with the prehistoric environment.
Fifth cloak
Not just a fifth player: a new character with unique abilities, opening up completely different strategies and combinations at the table.
Recommended sleeves 167 cards in 2 sizes ▼
If you play often, we recommend protecting your cards with clear sleeves to make them last a long time.
| Size | Quantity |
|---|---|
| 56 × 87 mm | 158 |
| 70 × 120 mm | 9 |
| Total cards | 167 |
In a few hours, you will have discovered a recipe no one had ever tried. And you will tell of that meal that saved you from the impossible.
A game in five moments
What happens at the table
Not the rules. The experience.
The first ingredients
Someone hunts, someone gathers berries. The pot is empty, but everyone knows it will need to be filled soon. They talk about legendary recipes as if they were myths.
The first experiment
Tokens drop into the pot. There's tension: will a useful recipe emerge, or a smoking disaster? The result surprises everyone. Someone laughs, someone curses, no one expected it.
The discovery of the myth
Exploring the new region, you find traces of an ancient story. The group stops. There's a connection between food and legend, but it's unclear. More experimentation is needed.
The behemoth appears
When you see it, you understand that normal recipes aren't enough. You need coordinated strategies, the right culinary boost, and maybe a dash of luck. The tension is palpable.
The perfect recipe
In the end, someone prepares the dish that changes everything. It might be victory or defeat, but that combination of ingredients will stay in the group's memory. The valley is no longer the same.
How to play
The flow of culinary crafting
Each turn is a cycle of hunting, gathering, cooking, and discovery.
Hunt animals or gather plant resources in the new region. Each ingredient has different properties and combines in unpredictable ways.
Drop tokens into the pot. The drop-token system generates variable results: powerful recipes, side effects, sometimes total failures. Discover new combinations.
Successful recipes provide permanent or temporary bonuses to mantles. Survival depends on how well you nourish the group.
Use your culinary discoveries to confront the behemoth, build new structures, and explore ancient myths that reveal the valley's secrets.
Why it's different from others
Six reasons why Meals & Myths redefines Stonesaga
Drop-token culinary crafting
You don't choose the outcome: you drop tokens into the pot and see what comes out. It's crafting with physical suspense, where luck and strategy mix like ingredients in an unknown recipe.
Thematic unpredictability
Every experiment can generate brilliant discoveries or unexpected side effects. The chaos of the pot perfectly reflects the unknown of prehistoric cooking.
Legendary behemoth
A creature that changes the group's priorities. Facing it requires coordinated culinary preparation and strategies that the base game did not contemplate.
Myths and narrative
The new region brings ancient stories that intertwine with gameplay. Discovering a myth is not flavor text: it is strategic information that unlocks possibilities.
Fifth mantle and structures
Not just more players: a character with unique abilities and new structures to build. The expansion redefines the map of tactical possibilities.
Organic integration
The culinary system is not a separate module. It intertwines with hunting, gathering, basic crafting, and the campaign, creating a richer and deeper game ecosystem.
How it ends
Victory, defeat, and legendary recipes
Success depends on how well the group masters fire and the pot.
Victory
- Discover and complete the legendary recipes tied to the region's myths
- Defeat the behemoth using strategic culinary enhancements
- Build new structures and leave a permanent mark on the valley
Defeat
- The group runs out of resources before completing narrative objectives
- The behemoth overwhelms unprepared or underfed characters
- Culinary experiments repeatedly fail, leaving you without crucial enhancements
Meals & Myths is not a content expansion. It's an expansion of meaning: it transforms food into strategy, the pot into suspense, and the valley into a place where every meal tells a story.
Frequently asked questions
FAQ about Stonesaga: Meals & Myths
Is the base game required to play Meals & Myths?
Yes, this is an expansion for Stonesaga. It requires the base game to function. The culinary system integrates with the hunting, gathering, and crafting mechanics already present in the main box.
Is the fifth player the only new feature?
No. The fifth mantle is just one of the additions. The expansion introduces a complete culinary system (with drop-token mechanics), a new region to explore, ancient myths, a legendary behemoth, and new structures. It profoundly changes gameplay even for 2-4 players.
How does the drop-token cooking system work?
You gather ingredients (hunt/gather), then drop physical tokens into the pot. The result is partially random: you get recipes with different effects based on how they fall. It's unpredictable but thematic crafting, reflecting the uncertainty of prehistoric cooking.
Does Meals & Myths significantly increase complexity?
It adds mechanics but integrates fluidly. If you know Stonesaga, the culinary system can be learned in a few turns. Complexity increases slightly but remains accessible. The perceived weight grows more due to tactical options than to rules.
Is it available in Italian?
No, this edition is in English. It includes cards with text, narrative myths, and new content that require understanding English to be fully enjoyed.
Stonesaga: Meals & Myths is the cooperative expansion for 1-5 players designed by Max Brooke and Luke Eddy, published by Open Owl Studios. It adds a culinary crafting system with drop-token mechanics, a new region to explore, ancient myths to discover, and a legendary behemoth to confront. It includes the fifth mantle character, new structures, and items that enrich the prehistoric survival campaign. Gameplay intertwines hunting, gathering, and experimental cooking with unpredictable but thematic outcomes. Requires the Stonesaga base game. Available on FroGames.it.
Stonesaga: Meals & Myths
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