Minion Hunter

Overview

Minion Hunter is a cooperative board game published by Game Designers’ Workshop in 1992, tied to the Dark Conspiracy role-playing game. Players work together as agents to stall or defeat the plans of four Dark Minion races while pursuing individual advancement as a secondary goal. The game features career advancement, equipment acquisition, and tactical combat against alien threats.

Components

• 1 full-color mounted game board (map of Dark America, career tracks, minion plot tracks)
• 8-page rulebook
• 72 Plot Cards
• 40 Equipment Cards
• 10 pawns with full-color stickers
• Tablet of character sheets
• 100 paper money bills

Setup

1. Place the board centrally.
2. Each player creates a character and takes a character sheet.
3. Place player pawns on starting career positions.
4. Shuffle Plot and Equipment card decks.
5. Distribute starting money.
6. Set up the four Dark Minion tracks.

Turn Structure

On your turn:

1. Career Phase: Advance on your career track.
2. Equipment Phase: Purchase equipment from the Equipment deck.
3. Plot Phase: Draw a Plot Card; a Dark Minion plot advances.
4. Action Phase: Move, investigate, or combat a Minion threat.

Actions

Career Advancement

• Progress through career stages on the board tracks.
• Higher career levels provide better abilities and resources.

Equipment

• Purchase weapons, tools, and special items using money.
• Equipment improves combat and investigation capabilities.

Investigation and Combat

• Move to locations on the Dark America map.
• Investigate Minion plots to uncover and counter them.
• Combat uses dice and equipment bonuses.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

Cooperative win: Players succeed if they prevent all four Dark Minion races from completing their plots before the game’s time limit.

Individual scoring: Among the successful team, the player with the highest career advancement and most accomplished character wins.

Loss: Any Dark Minion race completes its plot track.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• The game is primarily cooperative but has a competitive individual element.
• Four different Dark Minion races have independent plot tracks advancing simultaneously.
• The game is out of print; PDF versions are available from DriveThruRPG.
• Ties to the Dark Conspiracy RPG setting.

Player Reference

Turn: Career -> Equipment -> Plot advances -> Action (move/investigate/combat)

Win (team): Prevent all minion plots from completing

Win (individual): Highest career advancement among successful team