Toast! 2016

Update: Toast! was not funded on Kickstarter, but the design was taken up by Horrible Games and developed into Raise Your Goblets.

Toast! is themed around ruthless medieval nobles trying to poison each other during the toasts at a royal function. The King has decreed a bizarre etiquette to be followed, in an attempt to discourage this behaviour. However, instead it has just turned the practice into an art and a sport, with each (surviving) noble having developed a particular expertise.

In a round of play, goblets are arranged in a circle in the middle of the table, one in front of each player, such that players can’t see their contents. Players take turns to secretly place wine, poison or antidote tokens into the goblets, switching the goblets around, or using their characters special abilities. Each player has a target, and their aim is to ensure that, when the round is ended by someone calling for the Toast and the players all ‘drink’, their target’s goblet is poisoned and theirs is safe!

The game supports 2-12 players. The main rules are for 4-6 players, there are special rules to extend up to 12 players (where pairs of players play as a noble and their wine-taster), and there is a separate game mode for 2-3 players (a sort of Russian Roulette with goblets).