In lieu of being able to have a dozen polar bears, I'd love to have a whole pack of doggos. I'd love to have a mix of German Shepherds, Corgis, and Pyrenese Mastiffs. But that's me. Unfortunately, I'm
In lieu of being able to have a dozen polar bears, I'd love to have a whole pack of doggos. I'd love to have a mix of German Shepherds, Corgis, and Pyrenese Mastiffs. But that's me. Unfortunately, I'm in a tiny apartment, so I can't really have all those dogs. Thankfully, I can still play All the Goodest Puppers and live vicariously through it. The game's up on Kickstarter now.
From the campaign:
Do you like adorable doggos? Good pups? The bestest woof woofs? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, you're in the right place! All the Goodest Puppers is a cute game about gathering a big group of cute dogs who all share the most important pupper goal: burying a nice stash of bones. A game takes about 30 minutes, can have 2-4 players(Age 8+), and is very easy to learn!
What's inside? 100 cards, featuring beautiful watercolor art of the finest puppers we could imagine. That's all you need to play! (Okay, fine, there's a rulebook too.)
The campaign's working its way to 1/2 funded with 20 days left to go.
Welcome, friends, to Saturday. Another week is over and it's time to relax with some gaming. When this posts, I'll be in the middle of a D&D session. The current DM and I are gonna tag out once more a
Welcome, friends, to Saturday. Another week is over and it's time to relax with some gaming. When this posts, I'll be in the middle of a D&D session. The current DM and I are gonna tag out once more and I'm gonna take back over the campaign. Of course, that leaves my character I was playing. I've told the other DM I want him to go out in a blaze of glory. So we'll see what happens.
Anyway, we've collected together a bunch of review articles we've come across and present them to you here now.
In this batch, we've got reviews/previews of: Wrath of Kings, AquaSphere, DC Comics Dice Masters, Dragon Punch, Cauldron, Battlebards, Elysium, Panamax,
Mike Paschal from PHD has given us a great overview of the new Wrath of Kings miniatures game by Cool Mini or Not. Learn about the history of Arikania, the Ancient King, and how the 5 Scion Kings of the land (and water) are positioning their generals to seize the throne.
Each House has a unique theme and play style. The game's mechanics and great visuals make it easy to enter into this rich world.
AquaSphere is a worker placement game in which you are a scientist studying in an undersea lab. Can you utilize your time better than your opponents and score more knowledge points?
Dragon Punch is a tiny 15-minute fighting game for 2 players, inspired by video games like the Street Fighter series. It’s all about trying outwit your opponent with the timing and positioning of your attacks and defenses.
The game was designed to be super-portable: it’s just 21 cards so it’ll fit in any pocket, and you play it entirely in your hand, so it doesn’t require a table or other playing surface. Take it anywhere, play it anywhere.
Cauldron is the first game to be designed by Altema Games. Cauldron launched on Kickstarter today April 29th, 2015. In Cauldron, players chose a character with variable powers such as the Alchemist, the Wizard, the Druid or the Trickster. There are 7 different characters available for play. Each player will compete to develop different basic and advanced potions or spells to determine who is the greatest alchemist of all! Victory is achieved by being the first player to get to 35 victory points.
Battlebards is an on-demand, tabletop audio library replete with a built-in mixer and player that will bring your stories to life in a whole new way. There will be no more need for the DM to master accents, dream up some archaic sounding language or strain their vocal chords attempting to imitate a dragon as that foul beast turns the corner to attack. Now you can have professionally recorded voices, music and sound effects that complement and enhance your games narrative, creating a living, breathing world that your fellow gamers will remember long after the adventure ends.
Cauldron is a competitive board game set in a fantasy world. Taking on roles of powerful mystical characters like the Druid, the Shaman or the Wizard, players will brew potions to grow their magical power, while casting spells to stop others from getting ahead. Cauldron is a resource management game that plays with 2-5 players aged 10+ in 1 hour.
So you walk into your local board game shop, eager to make a purchase. An unhealthy, bubbly excitement starts building inside you, as if you were a shaken can of cola. You scan the shelves, letting your obsession rise from the pit of your stomach to slightly above your stomach. You’re taking one of these boxes home.
So you drop to all fours, ready to begin the hunt. The shop owner doesn’t give you a second glance. He’s seen it all before. You prowl between the aisles, buttocks undulating like a pair of bald men being ritually drowned. What’s this? Elysium... ?
It’s a brand new release from Space Cowboys, the hot young publisher of the wonderful Splendour and the entirely passable Black Fleet. Elysium looks great! It’s got cards, Greeks, gods, it looks lovely and it’s different every time you play.
So it turns out that Paul has actually always had something of a fascination for big ships. It also turns out that Panamax mixes big ships with big business and (very) big bucks. After all these years, could this be the way that Paul finally makes his millions?
Of course not. It's a board game. Still, it could be good, right? Let's see what Shut Up & Sit Down's North American Correspondent thinks in a video made in the style of some of our very first reviews.
In Impulse, each player controls fleets of transports and cruisers that are used to explore the galaxy, activate actions, and attack enemy ships. Players are able to gather resources and research new technologies in order to help their empire grow. Actions that each player takes on their turn is controlled by the Impulse, a set of cards that is continually refreshed and added to and shared by each player.
Players take control of one of seven magic wielders, each with their own unique skills on a quest to master the art of potion making. The game is separated into two phases, one being the harvest season, which will consist of harvesting resources from different fields and brewing potions to earn Magik (victory points). The second is the market season, where players will buy new potion recipes, spells, and plant new fields for more ingredients to harvest. To pay for these new things, players will need to spend the Magik they have earned during the game. This creates a balancing act for players to manage as they go throughout to the game. Unfortunately, the resources needed to brew potions are not unlimited and those pesky other potion makers are looking to make a name for themselves. Players will have to time their moves carefully to be the first to earn enough Magik points to win the game.
It's another Saturday and so that means it's time for another Review Round-Up.We've got reviews for Ares Games' The Battle of Five Armies, Red7 from Asmadi Games, Psycho Therapist, Gothic Invasion, an
It's another Saturday and so that means it's time for another Review Round-Up.
We've got reviews for Ares Games' The Battle of Five Armies, Red7 from Asmadi Games, Psycho Therapist, Gothic Invasion, and Mafia Casino. Along with those, there are a couple "favorites of 2014" and a Top 10 or two to check out.
Just because a game is new and shiny and fresh it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s better than what has come before, something I think we forget in this age of the cult of the new. It’s because of this, and influenced by the great Fire Broadside blog, that I like to look back at the games I’ve played the most over the previous year, we’ve already been through what I consider the best games of 2014 but where those the games I actually played the most during the year?
Sometimes a game doesn’t have to have the deepest (or any) theme to be enjoyable. While I don’t naturally gravitate towards these abstract games, every now and then I get sucked in by one that promises to be clever or unique. Recently, I’ve been hearing raves about Red7, a new card game published by Asmadi Games. Red7 seemed to be a fairly straight forward game, but what really got my attention was that it was designed by Carl Chudyk (Glory to Rome, Impulse), whose games I really enjoy. It’s probably because he’s a fan of “cards with multiple uses” like it am. So lets dive in and see what makes Red7 unique and if Carl has another hit on his hands.
Red7 is a quick playing hand management and set collection game for 2-4 players. Red7 takes about 5-10 minutes to play and plays best with 3-4 players.
So, you’ve been sucked in. You’ve checked out our list of the Top Ten Gateway Games and you’ve played most of them with your friends. But now it is time to head out for deeper waters. You want something with a little more strategy and a bit more depth. Rulebooks over two pages no longer scare you. So, what games are the best “Next Step” games?
We’ve put together the Top Ten Next Step Games. Most of these games would be considered medium-weight. There is still quite a variance in depth here, but the premise is that we would never start a person completely new to the hobby with one of these titles. However, a novice gamer might enjoy the added depth, complexity, or theme that these games provide. We’ve tried to limit the list to in-print or otherwise easy to acquire games. No use telling you how great a game is if you can’t get your hand on it! With that in mind, let’s get to it.
A humorous party game for 3-8 players. Players take on the role of a Psycho!Therapist and attempt to treat people with problems ranging from weird to WTF?!
Gothic Invasion is a card-driven wargame depicting the Gothic Wars from 377 to 382 A.D. Each player takes the roles of the Goth leaders (Fritigern, Alatheus and Saphrax) and the Roman leaders (Valens, Theodosius I, Gratian and Flavius Richomeres). The Goth player’s objective is to plunder nine cities of the East Roman empire between 377-382 A.D., while the Roman player must defend the imperial cities and slow them down as best as he can until the spring of 382 A.D.
In the card game Mafia Casino, you want to be the first player to raise $30 million, whether through legal means (such as building hotels or casino resorts to attract clients who deal in pearls and diamonds) or means that fall on the shady side of legal (such as extorting someone or planting bombs in the hotels owned by opponents). The game lasts a number of rounds, and in each round players have a choice between building, gambling, conducting “business”, or completing a mission.
Board to Death posted up a new board game review. This one's for Fealty from Asmadi Games.SourceFrom the review:The king has died with no clear successor! The players—potential heirs all—are scramblin
Board to Death posted up a new board game review. This one's for Fealty from Asmadi Games.
The king has died with no clear successor! The players—potential heirs all—are scrambling to put together their power bases by dispatching trusted agents and allies to garner support across the breadth of the kingdom. Nobody wants open warfare, but some conflict is sure to break out.
Fealty is a game of positioning and territory control. Each turn, all players add one piece to the game board, with increasing constraints on placement as time goes on. Some pieces have an effect when brought into play. At the end of the game, all pieces place influence in order of speed, claiming territory and blocking slower opposing pieces. The player who has maneuvered his or her pieces to place the most influence onto the board wins.
Channel A is a new party card game by Asmadi Games that's up on Kickstarter. They're halfway to their goal, so let's see if we can get that other half.From the campaign:Channel A is a new anime-themed
Channel A is a new party card game by Asmadi Games that's up on Kickstarter. They're halfway to their goal, so let's see if we can get that other half.
From the campaign:
Channel A is a new anime-themed party card gaming from Asmadi Games, makers of We Didn't Playtest This At All and 2010 Golden Geek Award winner Innovation. In the game players assemble word salad titles out of words on cards (Fighting Fight Fighters EX, Kaiser Bunny Legend, Love Ninja Z), and try to come up with the best pitch to go with it. The game is a uniquely creative take on party card games like Apples to Apples and Cards Against Humanity, and Asmadi Games is currently doing a Kickstarter funding drive that ends on March 31st.
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