Tabletop Games

Games based on comic books have come a long way, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past, the DC Deckbuilding Game, and Marvel Legendary becoming hits.  However, it’s not often that you’ll see a game based on a fictional comic book.  Other than Guardians Chronicles and

Board games use the theme of trains often.  From Ticket to Ride to Steam, riding the rails or building a rail empire bring gamers to the table often.  Now Iberian Rails is set to take on the train genre with its current Kickstarter campaign.  To find out more I asked

Burning Games is most notably known for FAITH: The Sci-Fi RPG.  It is a system that doesn’t use any dice.  However, they have a Kickstarter for a new game that relies heavily on dice, Ether Wars.  Since it was such a different endeavor from their original game, I wanted

While the fighting genre has a bit of a resurgence since Street Fighter IV was released, board games haven’t had many games that simulate this action.  While there’s Yomi and BattleCon, the battle between two individuals hasn’t been put on the tabletop often.  When I heard about

When you think of RPGs, you probably think of stacks of books, paper and pencils, and multiple odd shaped dice.  That changed a bit with the creation of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game.  While it was innovative, it seemed to focus mainly on combat.  However, it doesn’t do much

A few years ago Mythic Battles was released.  While it looked like a typical skirmish game, it had several interesting concepts, like several cards that represented the characters’ statistics.  As the character took damage, the current stat card would be replaced by one with lower stats.  However, it was difficult

Since its launch in 2009, Kickstarter has spearheaded a revolution in tabletop game production. In the last seven years, Kickstarter raised funds into the hundreds of millions of dollars for board games and RPGs, and these numbers have been increasing every year. Tabletop gaming remains a niche hobby, but its

You may recognize Keith Baker as the creator of the Gloom card game and the Eberron setting for Dungeons and Dragons.  So how does a designer get together with a band and create a new card game with funding on Kickstarter?  I was fortunate enough to ask Keith Baker about