Kinfire Delve: Vainglory’s Grotto is the first in a series of dungeon delving card games from Incredible Dream Studios. It is set in the same universe as the excellent campaign adventure game Kinfire Chronicles: Night’s Fall. However, it is a much shorter and lighter affair with a single
Today Mantic Games announced a new partnership with 343 Industries which will be used to bring the Halo universe to the tabletop via a brand-new Halo miniatures combat game. Set to launch in September 2024, this new Halo miniatures game will feature 40mm Spartan miniatures which will help bring Halo
Continuing my series of interviews with RPG designers, I spoke with Luke Crane, the mind behind Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Burning Sands, and Mouse Guard. (The mice are not on fire, I assure you.) These games focus on the emotional and experiential aspects of a character first, as opposed to
To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how best to classify Molly House, Wherlegig’s latest cardboard masterpiece. I feel like I’m describing the subgenre of my favorite drummer’s metal side project; it’s an interactive queer history exhibit/ artwork crossed with a snappy semi cooperative board
Some ideas can look good on paper or in an echo chamber and need a stranger’s perspective. For board games, fresh perspectives can be especially hard to secure. Each tweak to a design demands a new, complete playthrough. Each play needs a full table of players. Eventually, that table
Free league recently announced that two new expansions will be released for Ruins of Symbaroum soon, including a 5E adaptation of the Symbaroum RPG: The Throne of Thorns Part I, which will be an epic campaign book serving as the beginning of a massive adventure chronicle, and The World of
Ravensburger has announced their plans for Disney Villainous in 2024 and there are some exciting things coming. Sugar and Spite has an interesting mashup of a classic villain, Shere Khan, with a comparatively newer character, King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph, and is the first in a new format of “expandalone”
Wyrmspan, a new Stonemaier game from Apiary designer Connie Vogelmann, was announced today. Wyrmspan is a 1-5 player competitive tableau and engine building game inspired by Wingspan, though Wyrmspan will up the complexity. In Wyrmspan, players take on the role of an amateur dracologist in the town of Wyrmspan, which
