As many as you like! The box comes with enough content to allow for up to four players, but you can add a fifth player by using pennies or other coins for tokens, and so forth.

Our rule is that you add four cards to the dungeon for every additional player, so you can fit 9 players in the dungeon with our base set of cards. But with more chamber cards on the way...

Michael has been working on it for almost three years. It started on index cards with just the basic info—names, classes, health, etc.

There was a lot of skepticism at this point for everyone who sat down with it, but once someone played it their first time, they were hooked!

Since those early days, we have been balancing and tweaking, gathering art, coming up with future plans, and demoing the game for crowds.

For someone who knows the rules and is familiar with the cards, a two-player game takes roughly 25 minutes. The cards you draw for the dungeon will also affect the length of the game, especially if you have things that heal, give mana, or grant you adventurers.

Additional players usually extend the game by about fifteen minutes each.

I was backpacking across the Himalayas with my trusty Sherpa.

No, nothing as cool as that, I'm afraid! I was stuck in traffic and a commercial for one of the many Monopoly tie-in games came on the radio. I wondered what it would be like to make a fantasy game that functioned like that but with stronger RPG elements than just Fantasy-opoly. Later that day, I started putting sample cards together, and my best friend and I played it later that week.

My favorite mechanic of the game is one we added late in the development process. Most competitive games remove players from the game when they are eliminated, leaving you waiting around until the next game starts. But in Quantum Quest, those unfortunate adventures still have a lingering effect. Players haunt whatever rooms they had before their adventurers died, and more importantly, they deal double damage!

In the spirit of Monopoly and newer games like Boss Monster, we love house rules. You can tweak the gameplay in Quantum Quest in a lot of ways, from gaining mana when noticing a player didn't adhere to the instructions on a card, to taking a shot for one of your fallen adventurers.