For the last couple of years, Michael Brown (Anachronism’s designer) and I have been working together on a new Bible-themed game called Crossroads. We like to describe Crossroads this way:

Crossroads™ is a game of epic adventure through the stories of the Bible. In Crossroads™, one to four players work collaboratively to chart their own course through the biblical story.The starter set presents four stories, each with its own particular challenges. Each player selects a vocation and a set of prayers to help the group meet the objectives unique to each adventure. Players then work together to build paths to reveal, face, and overcome the challenges of the game. Skill in navigating the maps and adept use of prayer to influence play will determine the group’s success. Which path will you choose?

Crossroads is a collaborative, expandable board game that features tile-laying, role-taking, and delivery of randomized and customized elements via cards and dice. Basically, when you play a game of Crossroads, you control a traveler who builds roads and then moves along them, facing challenges as you try to achieve your group’s overall goal. Your traveler has certain traits with values based on his or her vocation, and can offer prayers to alter gameplay. Crossroads scenarios are based on biblical stories; each story has a definite beginning and end, but the middle sections are randomized and a successful outcome isn’t guaranteed! The Crossroads Starter Set will include four biblical stories. Thereafter, periodic expansion sets and organized play opportunities will expand the library of Crossroads stories until, over the course of seven years, the list has grown to 80 stories available in the starter set and expansion packs plus 20 stories that you can experience in the organized play program.

If this interests you—and I certainly hope that it does—learn more on the Crossroads website and blog, like our Facebook page, and/or follow @CrossroadsGame on Twitter.