Growing the Grove Second Edition

Growing the Grove

Second Edition

by Nathan Large, Luminathan Games

Raise the world's greatest forest, abundant with trees and other sacred plants, while slowing your rival caretakers and taking advantage of their hard work.

Growing the Grove is a strategic card game in which players grow forests by placing cards which represent types of plants. Some of these plants also correspond to the fews or symbols of Ogham, an ancient Celtic writing and divination system. These Ogham cards can be alternately invoked, instead of planted, to use their magic and cause game effects: to draw cards faster, to force opponents to discard, to plant multiple cards at once, or even to steal plants from opponents' Groves, for a few examples. Choosing when to plant a card and when to invoke its Ogham effect is key to the game's strategy. The luck of the draw ensures that every game will be different, but making careful decisions and anticipating opponents' plans will benefit every player.

In addition to their game use, the cards are educational. Players can learn to identify the featured plants through original photographs on each card. The deck also can be used as an Ogham oracle; the name of each Ogham's game effect corresponds to one of its divinatory meanings.

The included Game Guide provides the full rules for the standard game and a team-vs-team variant, and the Ogham List gives clarifications about card effects and their interactions.

Growing the Grove is designed to inspire love and respect for all growing things, through exposure to a variety of plants, appreciation of their sacred natures, and embodiment of an underlying philosophy: grow more, grow faster, but never destroy what has been planted.

• This Second Edition updates the original game with improved art, rules, and card text, plus additional clarifications and optional rules requested by players of the First Edition. (See the Errata page, available here as a free download, for a list of rule and text changes between Editions.)

• An introduction to the game and its rules can be found here on YouTube.

• See also Cards of the Wild, a twelve-card expansion pack which adds new Wild Cards to the base game.