Mythic Games knows how to make miniatures games. They have had several successful Kickstarter campaigns including Solomon Kane, Reichbusters, and Joan of Arc. They are entering new territory with Super Fantasy Brawl, a fast-paced arena strategy brawler. The game comes with fantastic looking figures, but it includes variety in which
White Wizard Games made a name for themselves with Star Realms. After that they released another card game in a small box, Epic. Epic was a new take on Magic: The Gathering style game, but with each card playable every turn players didn’t have to worry about mana screw.
Rob Daviau and Isaac Childress are two giants in the board gaming community, and in some ways they couldn’t be more different. Rob Daviau started at Hasbro in 1998 as a writer for Trivial Pursuit and Taboo. He has had his hand in designing games like Star Wars: The
Panda Cult Games walks us through their light-hearted dungeon-crawler board game, Wander: The Cult of Barnacle Bay. If Gloomhaven is too dour for you, check out this fun little campaign-driven gem with a Saturday Morning Cartoon feel!
Warcradle Studios’ Stuart Mackaness explains the shared world of their Wild West Exodus and Dystopian Wars games, where Abraham Lincoln faked his death to secretly run a shadow war against America’s enemies and weaponized cybernetic steampunk whales exist.
We got a chance to chat at Gen Con this year with Ryan Hartman and Dabe Alan from Penny Arcade about the new 5E Acquisitions Incorporated source book. Just how hands-on were Jerry and Mike, again?
Fresh off of publishing their latest 5E supplement Legendary Dragons, Jetpack 7 tells us about their other books, their collaboration on the official young players books, and how their upcoming Kickstarter for a refresh of Gods & Goddesses is going to bring the bling.
When Andrew Valkauskas is asked why his RPG Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok doesn’t use dice, he talks about narrative, and how jarring rolling dice and doing math needlessly disrupt the game. Ragnarok’s rune-based system is not only thematically consistent with the Norse mythology setting, it specifically addresses
