At Origins 2016 I had a chance to catch up with my good friend Bryan Poe from Arcane Wonders. We talked about Mage Wars Paladin and Siren. Bryan may have leaked a few other things as well.
I do believe if you listen closely a couple of allusions can be heard.
Shadowrun: Market Panic ($44.99)
Chaos is horrible for business—unless your business is shadowrunning. The Big Ten megacorporations of the Sixth World are reeling, with scandals, disasters, and crippling attacks coming at them from all angles. NeoNET is scrambling to maintain AAA status, Ares is trying not to let the secret rot at the heart of the corp become public, while Aztechnology, fresh from taking on a dragon in Amazonia, is looking at a facedown with another great dragon. And that’s not all—every corp is a pile of schemes, turmoil, upheaval, and teetering chaos, because that’s how they operate.
Market Panic runs down the state of the Big Ten for Shadowrun, providing the background, story developments, and plot hooks players and gamemasters need to add excitement, intrigue, and Sixth World flavor to their adventures and campaigns. If you’re going to run for or against the big megacorporations—and that includes all shadowrunners—this is critical information to have so you know what you might get thrown into, who you’re going up against, and how you might obtain enough intel to survive
The Syndicate Traders League (STL) Patrol Fleet has been designed to be light on its feet and rapidly deployed to deal with any incursion into space controlled by this faction. The highly capable Spur Class Battlecruiser takes up the Tier 1 slot on this fleet, bringing with it plenty of firepower and flexibility. Whilst not the most devastating spaceship in the Firestorm Galaxy, few rival its all-round capability in battle. Two Wraith Gunships add more violence to this Patrol Fleet, and 5 Shadow Class Frigates round things off. The Shadows can be fielded in a maximum of 3 to a Squadron, which allows players to field 1 full strength and 1 slightly under-strength Squadron OR take 2 of the Frigates and attach them to the Spur Class.
Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear: Solo Expansion
$45.00
The Conflict of Heroes Solo Boardgame System revolutionizes solo tactical play. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) utilizes a unique Emergent Behavior and Agent Based Logic system. With this system, each battlefield situation is evaluated and the AI implements the best course of action using available resources and unit assets. Even veteran CoH players will be challenged to hone and adapt their playing styles in order to overcome this resourceful high-level AI. You will experience tense and engaging solo play like never before!
Included are several stand-alone missions, plus two full campaigns covering the German 1941 advance on Moscow. In the first campaign, you command elements of the 10th Panzer Division. In the second campaign, you switch sides and command elements of the Soviet 32nd Army trying to undo your gains from the first campaign!
This expansion requires Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear.
Fantasy AGE: Basic Rulebook (Hardcover)
$29.95
The Fantasy AGE Basic Rulebook is your entry point to tabletop roleplaying. Now you can be the hero in your own sword and sorcery adventures! This is the game played on Wil Wheaton’s new tabletop RPG show, Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana.
The Adventure Game Engine (AGE) rules are easy to learn, and feature an innovative stunt system that keeps the action tense and exciting.
This Basic Rulebook includes full 20 level advancement for all three classes, a new magic system, advice for players and GMs, and an introductory adventure so you can get started right away. You can use Fantasy AGE to run adventures in the campaign setting of your choice or a world of your own creation. A new AGE is upon us!
Author: Chris Pramas
Cover Artist: Svetoslav Petrov
144 pages, Full Color, Hardback
Risk: Game of Thrones
$74.95 SRP
Game of Thrones RISK, based on the epic HBO series, features two ways to play, including factions of noble Houses vying for control of Westeros during the time of The War of the Five Kings, as well as Daenerys Targaryen’s rise to power in Essos.
Game contents include:
2 separate game board maps: Westeros and Essos
315 Army Pieces represent noble Houses: Stark, Baratheon, Lannister, Martell, Tyrell, Targaryen and Ghiscari (generic soldier army piece represent 1 unit)
7 Seats of Power represent noble houses
7 Player Boards represent noble houses
188 Cards include Territory, Objective, Character and Maester cards
63 Special Unit tokens
75 Gold Dragon coins
9 Dice
Instructions
Student Bodies is a cut throat zombie game designed by Michael Grenier and Matthew Regney. Published by Smirk and Dagger Games, it’s recommended for two to five players ages ten and up. I would say that the cut throat style of play in this game leads to a slap in the face kind of motif.
In Student Bodies you and your peers are faced with the dilemma of escaping the highschool during a zombie apocalypse. The problem is that there are so many zombies you first need to get to the chem lab and create an antidote or in game terms find it. Then you have to make a dash across the campus to escape out the front door after dodging a shambling mound of zombies without getting bitten. Don’t worry too much about being bit, if you’re turned into a smart zombie and can still win by eating other players, which I find to be a rather fun and redeeming factor when there are more than two players.
In this video Matt and David play through their idea of a Yashima Demo game. Then they share their thoughts on what is good or bad.
If you visit Tony Gullotti’s Facebook page you can get a look at some of the newer things they have planned.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Star Pack ARC-V Booster Display
$49.50
The Star Pack ARC-V set contains Deck themes from the first season of the new TV show, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V like Raidraptors, Performapals and Superheavy Samurai. Duelists can also collect popular cards available in various sets, stretching from Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon to Hidden Arsenal, so fans can find Mobius the Frost Monarch and Polymerization to Gem-Knight Fusion, X-Saber Souza, and Constellar Algiedi.
In this Box Breaking Matt looks at Dragon’s Gold from IDW. Dragon’s Gold is a card game for 3 to 6 players. The tag line for this semi-cooperative game is “Hunt together, win alone”
Music and Sound by Syrinscape.
