Once Upon a Time (3rd Edition) | Seafaring Tales Expansion

Note: This is an expansion; requires the base game Once Upon a Time to be played.

In Once Upon a Time, players tell a story together using cards that show fairytale elements and endings.

Now add more adventure to your game with the Once Upon a Time: Seafaring Tales expansion.

Inspired by daring pirates and stories of the sea, the 38 Story Cards and 17 Ending Cards in this set can be shuffled into your Once Upon a Time storytelling card game deck to add new themes and more variety to your game. For an even stronger nautical feel, try removing some of the core Story or Ending Cards.

The Once Upon a Time core game has a broad mix of cards appropriate to a wide variety of fairy tales. Each of Once Upon a Time’s expansions, though, focuses on cards of a certain theme. Enchanting Tales, Seafaring Tales, Knightly Tales, and now Animal Tales, each provide elements and endings that are specific to their subjects.

But because the core game has 165 cards and each expansion adds only 55 cards, simply shuffling an expansion into the core game can result in stories that are not as strongly themed as you might like, or be expecting.

To play with a game strongly flavored by a single expansion, we recommend making two adjustments:

1. Randomly remove roughly a third of the core game’s story cards (but leave in those listed to the right) before shuffling in the expansion’s story cards. This
   prevents the expansion from being too much diluted.
   
2. Use only ending cards from the expansion. That is, don’t use any from the core game. (This keeps everyone’s contributions solidly engaged with expansion’s theme.)