The objective of the games is to locate seven ancient coins lost in the marine area and in the land area of ​​the Islands. One of the participants in the game will assume the role of Game Master (GM), and will present to the others, as they move around the board, all types of treasures or threats inspired by nature, history and legends that surround the game. this territory. The GM will also provide information about the weather and tides, which have repercussions on the mechanics of the games; and you will be able to subject the players to questions or tests in exchange for giving them clues and gifts that will help them in their mission to find the lost coins.

Thus, players (referred to in the regulations as PCs, Playing Persons or Player Characters) will be able to access corners that in many cases are closed to human beings. On their own foot, or on the back of different species of terrestrial, aquatic and flying animals, they will discover the green and blue-tinged life of the seabed, they will ascend with the seagulls next to the formidable rock walls to the skies where flies the wind that howls in the coastal caves, and will run over the rocks, beaches, gorse fields and heaths to the secret heart of the forests. They will do so adopting the point of view of insects and birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and marine species; with the magical gaze typical of the people of Faerie,, the one that allows us to glimpse monsters and other fantastic beings invisible to human eyes.

Although Illas das Marabillas can be defined as a board role-playing game, from the point of view of the regulations and the possibilities it offers it fits into what is known in the world of board and digital games as one sandbox, that is, a background with a set of tools from which the people involved can develop their way of playing with great flexibility. Beyond the basic regulations, which can be completed or modified with complete freedom, this website will show proposals on how to carry out adaptations or extensions of the game, including ideas for its use in classrooms and the organization of macro games by combining boards from different archipelagos. You will also find information about the background and sheets of fauna, flora, new magical beings and elements that can serve as equipment for the characters. 

The basic philosophy is that, to the extent that it is inspired by a shared heritage, Illas das Marabillas also belongs to people who might want to delve into its secrets. For this reason, everyone is invited to complete the repertoire of plants, characters and animals that populate these archipelagos, both at the level of their physical and tangible heritage, which must be respected and collected with the greatest possible fidelity, and at the level of the imaginary. of the legends and folklore of the islands and surrounding areas, in which the new generations, as participants in a culture that is their own, can be an active and (re)creative part.