Mr. Johnson has a job for your team. Gather your runners—there’s nuyen to be earned. Shadowrun Crossfire is a cooperative deck-building game from Catalyst Game Labs, set in the cyberpunk fantasy Shadowrun RPG universe.
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My original plan had been to summarize my first 10 sessions of the Adventurers League Encounters event for GeekDad.com and share with readers my thoughts and experiences as I returned to the most important game of my youth. I planned on continuing to play each Wednesday night at Titan Games & Comics in Atlanta, GA but would discontinue my session reports. Apparently that was a mistake. For the past few weeks, I’ve continued to receive email requests to “keep going.”
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Two words: Steampunk pirates. Airship captains are all after the same treasure—so they bet their own gold to see who has the best crew for the job. What will be your Captain’s Wager?
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Even the vilest beast was once an adorable baby, and with the Baby Bestiary you can easily bring them both to your table and your wall.
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The circle is complete. Wizards of the Coast has released its 5th edition Dungeon Master’s Guide, and with that book the trio of books that has formed the basis of Dungeons & Dragons for decades is united again in a new edition. Earlier this year, WotC released the 5th edition Player’s Handbook and followed it up with the 5e Monster Manual. Based on reviews and fan reaction and my own informal discussions with numerous players during my own Adventurer’s League gathering every Wednesday evening, the opinion seems to be that the 5th edition is a welcome return to traditional dungeon crawls and role playing to satisfy veteran players while bringing in enough new content and rule updates to freshen up the game and make it welcoming to new players. These reactions, however, have been based on the Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and the handful of ready-made adventurers that have been offered up to dungeon masters and players through the Expeditions and Encounters events. The 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide has been the most obvious missing element, but no longer. It’s here…
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Wil and friends, Felicia Day, Alan Tudyk, and Jon Heder, take on the cooperative game Forbidden Desert on this week’s episode of TableTop.
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Decorate your own game board, apply stickers, and color playing pieces with this fantastic collection of games for kids.
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In this post-apocalyptic world, everyone’s trying to survive long enough to make it into the Golden City, either by building up their reputation, by fulfilling missions, or just sheer skill. Raid & Trade is a board game now on Kickstarter from Mage Company.
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It matters little if the games are made of cards, paper, cardboard, or just imagination. What matters are times spent together as a group and memories formed of those times. We seem to have a difficult time getting together to play games, but when we do we always have fun. Here are a few of the games we’ve all enjoyed playing. Some take tens of minutes, and some take many hours. Whatever your time schedule, there’s sure to be a game in here that you can enjoy with your family and friends.
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Like your goblins with a little gunpowder? Your orcs with a little ordnance? Then immerse yourself in the dark and gritty world of hardboiled nor fantasy with the Shotguns & Sorcery RPG Kickstarter.
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The Pathfinder Monster Codex is a great addition to any Pathfinder library, providing unique and useful content on twenty popular races of monster.
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If you like variations on Scrabble, here’s one that has an interesting twist: WordTov is an area-control game that happens to use words as weapons. Use your tiles to spell words, and then flip tiles over to your color. Your score isn’t based on which letters you use, but rather on which letters you own by the end of the game.
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Today it was announced that French game publisher Asmodee has acquired Fantasy Flight Games.
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If you’re itching to really know how you might stack up against your fellow drivers if car combat were a reality, a new Kickstarter has just gone live that will allow you and up to seven other players take to the open highways and duke it out with small, medium, and artillery-sized weaponry. It’s called Outrider, and here’s some basic info on how it’s played.
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It’s a big world, with lots of places to visit, people to meet, sights to see. In Expedition: Famous Explorers, you and other players direct the routes of three expeditions, trying to guide them to the locations that are important to you. Expedition: Famous Explorers is a new version of one of Wolfgang Kramer’s earlier designs, Wildlife Adventure.
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Well, I’ve done it again—I’ve found a whole bunch of Kickstarter board games that look like fun, and not left myself enough time to review them all before the campaigns are up. In some instances I’ve gotten a demo to try out, and in others I’ve just been following along with the campaign. Here’s a list of a few worth looking into, and I may follow up with full reviews as time allows.
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You’re in charge of a fleet of ships headed out to some faraway planets to mine valuable minerals there. Maybe it’s unobtainium? Oh, except there aren’t any pesky natives to worry about—at least as far as you’re concerned. There are, however, other fleets with the same idea—balance your speed, firepower, and cargo space.
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Board games are prime gifts to give during the holiday season. GeekMom has some great suggestions!
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The must-have piece of art for every geek’s game room.
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TableTop returns for season three with a cutthroat episode of the set-collecting travel game, Tokaido.
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Here’s your chance to win one of our favorite things from Gen Con: a copy of Euphoria with Game Trayz.
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It’s the late 1800s. You’ve got your Evil Doctorate and you’re ready to start working on your Doomsday Machine. Obviously, London is the place to be—plenty of henchmen to be hired, resources to acquire, not to mention a great place to move up in society. There are other evil doctors there, of course, but they don’t know the brilliant ideas you have up your sleeve. You can hear them asking: “What’s He Building in There?”
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Check out Ruckus: The Goblin Army Game for multiple levels of non-stop fightin’ action for the family.
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There are some themes that are pretty common in board games: fighting (zombies or monsters or just other people), magic, farming, animals. I haven’t played many games that focus on, say, attracting a suitable husband in the early 1800s or the intricacies of societal norms in the early 20th century. But—lo and behold—here are two games about polite (or sometimes not-so-polite) society: Marrying Mr. Darcy and Lords & Ladies.
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Just last month, Z-Man Games released the latest title in the Pandemic line, Pandemic: Contagion. This time, however, you’re not trying to eradicate infectious diseases. You are the diseases, working to wipe out as much of the world’s population as possible. With Ebola and Enterovirus constantly in the news, you’d think we’re on the verge of being wiped out by infectious diseases. As it turns out, that’s not as easy as the media makes it out to be—at least in this game.
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Collect key assets. Eliminate enemy agents. See the world. Web of Spies mashes up deck-building with a high-stakes chase all over the globe.
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Dragons, as you are probably well aware, love their treasure. What you may not have known is that they’re incredibly picky about what goes into their treasure hoard. And, of course, there’s always the problem of pesky knights—full of sharp, pointy bits that make the nest uncomfortable. In Dragonflame, you take on the role of dragons, collecting the right treasures and burning down a few villages for good measure.
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The world is full of mysteries, but you and your fellow investigators are on the case. Each case might involve local history, eyewitness accounts, and other evidence—but not everything is pertinent to the case. And, of course, there are some Truths Too Terrible to know.
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Despite all the fighting and grumbling (and sharks!), your lifeboat finally made it to land. You’re saved! … Or so you thought. As it turns out, you’ve ended up on a Desert Island, filled with rats and tsunamis and nasty diseases. So you work together to survive—up to a point. There’s that one person you could do without…
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Sometimes you don’t want an hour-long game with lots of decision trees and strategic options. If you want a game that requires split-second reflexes and causes your fellow gamers to twitch when you yell “SEVEN!!” then you need to try Jerk.
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