# The Crescent Empire (2nd Ed.)

The Crescent Empire (2nd Ed.) is a board game.

- **Complexity:** 2 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2017
- **Categories:** Campaign Setting (game world)
- **Mechanics:** Skill Based (buy or gain skills), Point Based (allocate points to get skills, powers, etc), Trait / Aspect Based (personality affects gameplay), Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc), Dice Pool (Roll multiple dice vs target), Dice (Primarily d10)

**Designers:** Leonard Balsera, Michael Curry, Robert Debroeck, Adrian Arroyo, James Mendez Hodes, Jeremy Elder, Nicole Winchester, Dale Andrade, Betsy Isaacson, Shoshana Kessock, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, Floor Coert, Dan Waszkiewcz, Brett Zeiler, Anne Toole, F. A. Real H., Tara Zuber

**Artists:** James Mosingo, Matt Forsyth, Mark Richardson, Emily Marsh, Thomas Deeny, ShenFei, Diego Rodriguez, Meagan Trott, Marissa Kelly, Charlie Creber, Zulkarnaen Hasan Basri, Giorgio Baroni

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/the-crescent-empire-2nd-ed)
- [The Crescent Empire (2nd Ed.) in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/the-crescent-empire-2nd-ed)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/231725)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-11-10. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._