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New Coriolis Adventure Announced By Free League

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Free League Publishing has announced a new Coriolis adventure is on the way…The Last Cyclade, the second part of the Mercy of the Icons campaign.

Far above in the darkness of space, a lone ship waits to enter the portal. Its crew stands ready to complete their mission: to reach the ghost ship Zafirah first to unveil the truth behind one of the horizon’s most ominous mysteries…

Many months ago, the destroyer Zafirah vanished. Now she is back, in a time of turmoil as the council and authorities are questioned, and people begin to revolt against their oppressors. The throat of the Third Horizon is exposed, and this is when something ancient rises from the shadows.

Coriolis was conceived by game designers Mattias Johnsson Haake, Mattias Lilja and Martin Grip as a sci-fi tabletop game set in a remote cluster of star systems called The Third Horizon. It is a place ravaged by conflicts and war, but also home to proud civilizations, both new and old. Here, the First Come colonists of old worship the Icons, while the newly arrived Zenithians pursue an aggressive imperialistic agenda through trade and military power. The Coriolis – The Third Horizon roleplaying game was awarded the ENnies Judges’ Spotlight in 2017. Earlier this year, Free League acquired ownership of Coriolis outright.

The Last Cyclade is a 240-page hardcover that actually consists of TWO stories: The Uharan Echo and In the Shadow of the Zenith. Within the book you will also find four new adventure locations, mission generator tables for making your own adventures, and in-depth background information for the DM.

Coriolis: The Last Cyclade will be available from Free League starting December 8. Pre-orders are now open.

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Gun And Gun Draws A Strong Crowdfunding Campaign

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Cincinnati-based Lion Wing Publishing has launched the Kickstarter campaign to bring over the Japanese card battling game Gun and Gun. It was created by the Japanese design studio Keepdry, famous for the Core Connection series.

Choose your character, then literally draw your weapons. Pick two of nine available guns and wield one for each arm. You get a series of cards related to the guns in your holsters and one of three skill cards. Then….fire! You will have two options at your disposal during every match, and you’ll have to choose the right weapon for the right scenario. Your Skill Cards will also help by blocking the opponent’s attack or boosting your own.

  • A unique battle card game brought to you straight from Japan!
  • Draw from two decks to blast your opponent into submission!
  • The ability to play casually with pre-built decks or competitively with deck construction!
  • Quick-playing and action-packed matches that can end just as quickly as they began!
  • The only authentic anime-themed expandable card game on the Western market.
  • An evocative cyberpunk post-apocalyptic aesthetic punctuated by vibrant Japanese art from the talented illustrators at Keepdry!

The Gun and Gun Kickstarter reached its goal in just seven hours. A $30 pledge gets you a copy of the Core Set and its first expansion, Overheat, plus all unlocked stretch goals. $90 expands the set to include a storage box, a playmat, an extra gun and foil cards.

This campaign will be open for just eight more days….it closes on October 22. If you want a copy, be quick with the trigger finger!

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Journey to Ecrya Launches Kickstarter Campaign

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Ecrya Games, a tabletop gaming studio founded by three former university students in Germany, has launched the Kickstarter campaign for the board game of their namesake: Journey To Ecrya. Originally conceived for a student assignment, the game grew in their minds until it became more than just a means to a grade…they had a full-fledged product.

You play as one of eight heroes setting out to find the lost, abandoned city of Ecrya. Swing swords, cast spells, and fight your way past powerful monsters as you explore the game’s world. The first hero to reach the city wins, but just getting there isn’t the final task…as you march toward the gates, you may find something inhuman has beaten you there.

Two years of development have already gone into Journey To Ecrya, and the game should reach completion early next year. After that point the production process will take them into the spring, and the finished games will arrive next summer. There is also a digital version of Journey To Ecrya in development.

A standard version of Journey To Ecrya takes a $30 pledge. You’ll also get a digital artbook PDF and digital wallpaper at that tier. At $54 you’ll receive a signed edition of the game, the digital version, and all unlocked stretch goals. Higher tiers offer bonuses like more wallpapers, a custom sketch, and the chance to play a session of the game with the dev team.

You can secure your copy of Journey To Ecrya by heading to this Kickstarter page. The campaign lasts until November 10, and the game is estimated to begin shipping in June of 2010.

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Cryptozoic Announces Wonder Woman 1984 Card Game

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Cryptozoic Entertainment, makers of minatures and tabletop adventures based around your favorite characters, is gearing up to celebrate the long-delayed release of Wonder Woman 1984 with their own card game based on the movie. Presumably, this card game has been sitting around complete for quite a while as well, but they seem to feel confident enough in the latest release window to reveal this product.

Two to four players will take on the task of stopping the evil Cheetah in the Synth ‘n Glitter Age as Amazonian princess Wonder Woman. Seriously, you’ll all be playing Wonder Woman at once, there are no other characters…but who would really want to be anyone else anyway?

Each player will be given a deck full of moves…choose Block, Lasso, Sprint and Punch to get the upper hand on an army of enemies and rescue the civilians caught in the chaos. Whoever saves the most bystanders is the winner, and each game takes about 25 minutes.

Inside the Wonder Woman 1984 Card Game box you’ll find 162 cards divided into four Action Decks (35 per player), one Enemy Deck with 22 baddies to beat, 30 Civilian Tokens to save and one Rulebook.

The Wonder Woman 1984 Card game will be released this winter.

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Customize Your Game With Doodle Dice

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Mythroll Armory, inventors of the Tin20 Folded Dice Sheet, have struck again with another creative take on the analog number generator that makes tabletop games run. Whether they’re working on their own creation or just want to mix it up at the next D&D session, some prefer to make their own gaming dice.

If you want to create something permanent, though, it means messing with molds, mixing resins and working with pressure pots — easy things to mess up for those just getting into it. You could pay someone else to craft your dice, but that costs even more. “We thought, ‘what if anyone could design their own unique dice, with little investment, regardless of their age or skillset?” says Dave and Joel, founders of Mythroll.” What if you could make a unique set of dice for each of your characters for the cost of getting one set from ‘those other guys?'”

To solve this problem, Mythroll invented Doodle Dice. They’re sets of blank tabletop dice that come with eight permanent paint markers in black, white, blue, red, green, yellow, silver, and gold. Mythroll tested and experimented with many different materials for both paint and dice molding, and arrived at the perfect chemistry…now they’re launched a Kickstarter to fund and sell Doodle Dice.

Can’t you mess up just as easily here as with a resin dice set? It’s possible, but it’s also easier to erase a goof-up: the paint comes off with nail polish remover and a cotton pad.

You can get your own set of Doodle Dice with a Kickstarter pledge. $20 buys the basic package…seven blank dice and eight markers. The Party Pack costs $87 and includes 60 dice, plus five different sets of markers. Retailers can stock their hobby shops with a $132 pledge that includes ten packages with hang tabs.

You have eight days left to get your Doodle Dice…the campaign ends Friday, October 16!

 

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Gloomhaven: Fallen Lion Comes To Comics This December

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First, Gloomhaven was a tabletop game. Then it became a video game. Now Isaac Childres’ creation is invading another medium: comic books. Gloomhaven: Fallen Lion is a one-shot book released through Ox Eye Media and Deep Water Games that expands the lore with a new story written by Travis McIntyre.

“We’ve all put a lot of thought into what exists in the canon of Gloomhaven, and what Isaac’s vision is, and how story arcs fit into that and where there’s room to create,” says Travis. “I think we are going to be coloring in some areas that were left a little gray previously and adding shades and variations to bits of lore that previously existed.”

The City of Gloomhaven can be a tough place to make it as an adventurer and being in the right party is key to survival. The Jaws of the Lion are the top of the mountain in the hierarchy of the city, but their latest job goes sideways, and Anaphi, the mindthief, is to blame! The first comic from the wildly popular GLOOMHAVEN game launches a fantasy world unlike any in existence. Get ready for Quatryll punk bands, drug dealing Inox street gangs, and a dark God sleeping beneath the surface, eager to destroy the world. Welcome to the City!

Gloomhaven first came into existence as a tabletop game that earned $4.4 million from its Kickstarter campaign and more than 45,000 backers. When the game was released, BoardGameGeek gave it its highest rating and awarded it the honor of “Board Game of the Year” in 2017. Gloomhaven was then converted into a video game from Asmodee Digital that mixes tactical RPG elements with randomized dungeon crawling.

Gloomhaven: Fallen Lion will be $3.99 on the day of release, but you can preorder it now at a discount of $1.99. The Gloomhaven board game remains purchasable at most hobby retailers and the video game is available right now through Steam Early Access.

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Now On Kickstarter: Mythroll Armory’s Perplexing Puzzle Experience

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Add a little interactivity to your tabletop RPG adventuring with Mythroll Armory’s Perplexing Puzzle Experience, now currently in the middle of its crowdfunding campaign. The RPG combines traditional dungeon-crawing gameplay with physical puzzle items that have to be solved to reach victory.

The game contains a ten-page narrative and instruction booklet, an expansion booklet with another setting, five custom oversized Mythroll Armory treasure dice, a nine-inch block puzzle terrain by Inkarnate, 22-inch maps of the Phelaneau and Krrag Farrlun regions (by the same artist), and four puzzles: the 3-piece Krrag Farrlun map puzzle, the 2 Interlocked keys puzzle, the 2-piece Caged Prism puzzle, and the 5-piece cryptographic decoder puzzle. The DM will have the power to create their own puzzles as well.

  • Physical puzzles including a 5-piece custom encoder/decoder
  • A campaign and instruction booklet that lets you customize the puzzles for your own campaigns
  • A custom Syrinscape sound set with cues written into the book
  • An expanding world based on Inkarnate maps that lets you re-use the puzzle, adding to their value

You can secure your copy of Mythroll Armory’s Perplexing Puzzle Experience with a $74 pledge (currently discounted to $57, but the amount of discounted units is almost gone). You’ll receive everything listed above plus a bonus puzzle, all stretch goal content and a custom Syrinscape soundscape.

The Kickstarter for Mythroll Armory’s Perplexing Puzzle Experience has met its goal and will wrap up September 16. The game is expected to ship this November.

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You Can Now Play Tales From the Loop On The Roll20 Virtual Tabletop

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Tales From The Loop is one of Free League Publishing’s most successful tabletop games, taking place in an alternate 1980s where weird monsters roam the countryside. It’s inspired spinoffs, been re-adapted as a board game, been re-envisioned as a TV series, and more. But until now, there was no official way of playing it online.

Now there is. Free League announced today the Roll20 Virtual Tabletop now supports an official module for Tales From The Loop. The module contains everything the core physical version does: the rulebook, including the Four Seasons of Mad Science campaign, VTT-ready maps and diagrams, player handouts ready to share, and a new official online character sheet with a customized virtual dice roller.

In Tales from The Loop, particle accelerator experiments conducted decades prior seem to have bridged the gap between our world and another one. Machines are malfunctioning for mysterious reasons, and unknown creatures no one has ever seen before are roaming the land. As one of the pint-sized kid characters that Tales From The Loop focuses on, your reaction can be summed up in one word: “Cool!” You and your friends decide to investigate and get close to the phenomena as you can. The game is inspired by the paintings of visual artist Simon Stålenhag.

The Roll20 Virtual Tabletop version of Tales From The Loop is available now at a price of $24.99.

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Deck Of Wonders Launches Kickstarter Campaign

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Cincinnati-based Furia Games has announced the crowdfunding campaign is now open for their solo card-battling game, Deck Of Wonders.

Fate is a powerful mistress, but what’s the source of that power? Maybe it’s the deck of cards she keeps with her at all times, as her most prized possession. Actually, today is one of those rare days Fate doesn’t have her cards….because you stole them!

Boy, is Fate mad. She’s sent her friends to retrieve the Deck from you, and the only way to save yourself will be to use it against them. Along the way, you’ll meet other individuals who don’t happen to be powerful agents of Fate, but heard you have her cards and would like to swipe them from you. You’re the most popular person around!

Deck of Wonders is meant as a solitary card game, but there is support for two-player co-op gameplay. To fend off foes like Cullin the Spoiled Prince, Aurora the Empath and others, draw your cards. Each card will contain a unique ability based on who draws it. Do battle by casting spells, summoning minions and dodging attacks from the villain. The Deck of Wonders itself fits in a compact totable box, but holds over 200 cards within.

Secure your own Deck of Wonders by heading to the Kickstarter page and making a $35 pledge. Upping the pledge to $55 gets you the Signature Edition with a special card signed by creator Dennis Furia and illustrator Lauren Brown. The deck will become a finished product by November 2021.

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Monster Hunter World Board Game Announced

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Steamforged Games is the world-famous translator of video games into tabletop versions…previous products of theirs include board games based on Dark Souls, Resident Evil 2, Horizon Zero Dawn and Devil May Cry. Next year, you’ll be able to add Monster Hunter World to the list….the board game was announced this morning.

Mat Hart, co-founder of Steamforged, admitted in a Polygon interview that turning Monster Hunter World into a board game will be one of the more challenging projects they’ve taken on. “Monster Hunter is very open-ended,” he said. “You can play it for forever and a day. And and we know that in a board game, that’s not going to work. There’s no sense of peril, there’s no sense of threat, You need a timer or you need a threat to kind of give a sense of value to the actions that you’re doing. Otherwise it becomes a bit of a grind.”

The obvious solution was a device other board games that wish to create tension have used: a timer. “You have a fixed number of campaign days,” Hart says. “If you want to do an exploration mission to gain more information about the next creature, that’ll cost you a day. If you want to do some crafting, that’ll cost you a day. If you want to go on a hunt, depending on the complexity of the hunt, it might cost you two days or four days or five days. You’re kind of managing the time that you have available to you.”

This means each game will take longer than one gameplay session to complete. Players prep for battle, scavenge for material and armor, and then take on the monsters they believe they’re ready for. Battling is controlled by a deck of cards, and just like the game, some areas of the monster will be more vulnerable than others. While all this is going on, you’ll be tracking your health and stamina on a sideboard. This is going to be one of those math-heavy RPGs Dipper Pines loves so much.

It will be a while before Monster Hunter World: The Board Game is released. The Kickstarter campaign isn’t even ready, but Steamforged says when it is, they’re expecting a base game worth a pledge around $100. More to come in the future.

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Metal Gear Solid Board Game Delayed Into 2021

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Last year, IDW Games announced they were working with Konami on the creation of a Metal Gear Solid tabletop game. Said game was originally intended to be released this summer, but it’s been hit with several delays, and the latest — announced today — will push the game’s release into the summer of 2021.

Supporting one to four players, the Metal Gear Solid board game will let you and your friends step into the roles of Solid Snake and his allies, sneaking stealthily through twelve missions with the fate of the world at stake. You’ll have several strategy options at your disposal…you can choose to sneak around guards, or quietly dispatch them. You can use Otacon’s hacking skills to disable lasers, cameras, and reroute the paths of guards. Or you can play as “that ninja” and just make your way through haphazardly with your sword.

“We will not compromise our standards for the quality of game our community deserves,” said IGN in a public statement regarding the delay. “We are steadfastly committed to working with acclaimed designer Emerson Matsuuchi to bring his vision for this title to life on the tabletop no matter how much time it takes.”

Whenever the Metal Gear Solid Board Game is released, it will come with 29 miniatures of the series’ iconic characters, 123 game cards in 17 different decks, eight Boss encounter cards, four Hero boards, three punch boards with over 200 tokens, a thick campaign story book, and a book for VR missions and rules. The Day 1 edition will pack in even more, including miniatures of tanks, helicopters, and two little cardboard boxes.

Preorders for the Metal Gear Solid Board Game are still open at IDW’s website, but understand it will be a long wait. All preorders made up to this point are still good.

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Twilight 2000 Revival Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Twilight 2000 Revival Launches Kickstarter Campaign

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Back in 1984, Game Designers’ Workshop introduced the apocalyptic role-playing game Twilight 2000 to the tabletop market. The game was set in the future year of 2000, during a raging World War III. Now GDW and Amargosa Press are looking into producing a new version of the game, twenty years past the sell-by date in the title.

How can one possibly release a game set in a future war that never happened? Easy…you just re-classify the story. The new Twilight 2000 is billed as a “retro-futuristic” tabletop RPG set in a world where the events that led to the game’s conflict actually happened. It’s a Y2K where the Soviet Union never collapsed and the tensions between the superpowers escalated beyond their early-80s height.

In the game, players take roles of survivors in the aftermath of World War III – soldiers or civilians. Their goal, beyond surviving for another day, can be to find a way back home, to carve out their own fiefdom where they are, to find out more about the mysterious Operation Reset, and maybe, just maybe, make the world a little bit better again.

Twilight 2000 may be an older game, but players of titles like Mutant: Year Zero will recognize the game mechanics. The new version uses the same “hexcrawling” system that Mutant and survival fantasy Forbidden Lands do, as well as an adaption of the Mutant Year Zero game engine for its core rules.

Since the Kickstarter was launched a few days ago, it hit its goal in just seven minutes and has grown massively…as of this writing it’s earned $283,000 from a target of $11,500. You can get a digital edition of Twilight 2000 for a $35 pledge, or a physical edition for a $58 pledge. Reserve yours by heading here.

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