It’s always a pleasure to see DP9. This year was no exception. They have a in the mixer, Dreadnoughts, Jovian Chronicles, and anpthe HG Blitz KS.
In this interview Robert and I chat about their recent Kickstarter and some of the issues they ran into. Plus we discuss Dreadnoughts, Jovian Chronicles, and the planned Kickstarter for next year.
About a week ago I drove to Fort Wayne, Indiana for the Alliance Open House. This is primarily a trade show for retailers allowing them to meet with manufacturers, sit in on seminars, and engage other retailers. Since I’m a news and media guy I was coming in with curious expectations. All of which I would soon find answers to.
The very first thing you get to do when you arrive is register and then play games. Well, I spent as much time walking around and chatting with friends as I did gaming. The first familiar face was Mike Webb, and then Tony Gulliotti, it wasn’t long before we were playing Dragon Tides. Shortly after that I ran into Phil Reed and Rhea Friesen from Steve Jackson Games. Rhea and I played Munchkin Gloom. Wow, Munchkin Gloom is a unique experience. Atlas did a great job with this. I have never played Gloom and I want to know. It’s like playing telephone with transparent cards that evolve. I spent the rest of the night meandering and chatting with friends like Scott Morris and Aaron Brosman.
PAIZO PUBLISHING DEBUTS KEY PATHFINDER PRODUCTS AT GEN CON INDY
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Mythic Adventures and Visions of WAR: The Art of Wayne Reynolds Out Now
REDMOND, WA (August 15, 2013): From the exhibit hall of Gen Con Indy, Paizo Publishing, LLC, leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, novels, game accessories and board games, and the world’s best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, announces the release of three new Pathfinder products: the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, the new Pathfinder RPG hardcover Mythic Adventures, and Visions of WAR: The Art of Wayne Reynolds. All three released today at Gen Con Indy, and are available to purchase at Paizo’s booth in the exhibit hall (booth #203), on paizo.com, or at hobby game shops nationwide.
Designed by Mike Selinker and Lone Shark Games, the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game (PACG) translates the most popular Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (RPG) into an entirely new breed of card game, where players adventure, battle monsters and villains, and acquire new feats, items, weapons, and allies—all without a Game Master! The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords Base Set, based on the award-winning Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path, includes dice, nearly 500 illustrated cards, and everything one to four players need to create characters and begin their adventures for an entirely new Pathfinder gaming experience. The base set has an MSRP of $59.99.
Mythic Adventures also offers a new way to play the Pathfinder RPG, using familiar rules but adding a new layer to the game. Mythic adventurers are elevated above their non-mythic counterparts, gaining powers and abilities beyond their reach that allow them to take on tougher foes and more daunting challenges. A Mythic character takes on the agents of deities, rushes headlong into the abyss, and strives to build a legend, all while facing-off against a wide variety of foes from common monsters to other mythic characters and legendary creatures. Mythic Adventures has an MSRP of $39.99.
Visions of WAR: The Art of Wayne Reynolds is a journey through the amazing worlds of master artist Wayne Reynolds, a 256-page hardcover retrospective of more than 10 years of work from today’s leading fantasy illustrator. Packed with full-color covers, interior art, and card art from award-winning work on brands like the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Dungeons & Dragons, World of Warcraft, Magic: The Gathering, and more, this book has an MSRP of $29.99.
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the role of a brave adventurer fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil. Players take on the role of a canny fighter hacking through enemies with an enchanted sword, a powerful sorceress blessed with magic by the hint of demon blood in her veins, a wise cleric of gods benevolent or malign, a witty rogue ready to defuse even the deadliest of traps, or any of countless other heroes. The only limit is a player’s imagination.
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game builds on more than 10 years of system development and the largest open playtest in the history of tabletop gaming to create an unparalleled fantasy roleplaying experience. Players need only the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook to play, but Paizo Publishing produces a wide range of books and accessories to enhance your Pathfinder experience, from hardcover rules compendiums to complete campaigns to packets of beautiful full-color maps. For more information, visit paizo.com.
About Gen Con
Gen Con, LLC produces the largest consumer hobby, fantasy, science fiction and adventure game convention in North America, Gen Con Indy, The Best Four Days In Gaming!™. Gen Con will return to the Indianapolis Convention Center on August 15-18, 2013. Acquired in 2002 by former CEO and founder of Wizards of the Coast Peter Adkison, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. This year’s Co-Sponsors include Paizo Publishing, Mayfair Games, and Wizards of the Coast. For more information, visit the website at gencon.com. For up-to-the minute details, check out facebook.com/genconindy.
About Lone Shark Games
Lone Shark Games is a design studio in Seattle headed by designer Mike Selinker. They are responsible for the design of the games Lords of Vegas, Unspeakable Words, Pirates of the Spanish Main, and Harrow and the Titanic Games board game line for Paizo. Their game books include The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design, Dealer’s Choice, Puzzlecraft, and the upcoming puzzle novel The Maze of Games.
About Paizo Publishing
Paizo Publishing®, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo’s Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game, the result of the largest open playtest in the history of tabletop gaming, is currently the best-selling tabletop roleplaying game in hobby stores. Pathfinder Adventure Path is the most popular and best-selling monthly product in the tabletop RPG industry. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. In the ten years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than 50 major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.
The Fall of Pompeii™ $35.00
Can you escape the inferno?
It’s the year of the Consulship of Augustus and Vespasianus. The rich, beautiful Roman city of Pompeii sits at the foot of majestic Mount Vesuvius. Renowned for exotic, easy, and ample luxury, the wealthy town attracts the best of Rome’s proud citizens.
But a terrible secret lies deep beneath the slopes of the mighty mountain. A primeval secret is about to unleash unspeakable horrors on this fateful afternoon. The mountain, so very long asleep, is finally reawakening…
Come to beautiful Pompeii! Use your cards to attract your Roman friends and relatives to visit select sites. But beware! The dreaded Vesuvius card means the mountain is awake, spewing fiery lava onto the unsuspecting city.
Now you must struggle to get your compatriots out of the doomed town before they are engulfed. Rushing to avoid lava flows, your people must flee before Vesuvius explodes and ash seals their fate. Lead the most survivors to safety and you win !
Designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, the talented creator of “Carcasonne”
A historically rich, fun game for 2-4 players age 10+, “Pompeii” plays in ?45 minutes
Includes 3 dual vent tiles and a new “Dual Vent” variant!
“Pompeii” contains:
• 120 wood pieces
• 62 game cards
• 45 lava tiles
• 3 dual vent tiles
• 1 volcano
• 1 cloth bag
• Game board
• Simple rules
MFG4125 The Fall of Pompeii™ $35.00
Ages 10+
For 2-4 Players
Playing Time 45+ minutes
UPC 0-29877-04125-1-03500
ISBN 1-56905-269-7
Case Pack 6
Designer: Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Art: Oliver Freudenreich & Guido Hoffmann
Made in the U.S.A.
Dimensions 10.875” x 7.5625” x 2625” (approximate)
Pompeii and The Downfall of Pompeii are trademarks of Mayfair Games, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2013 by Mayfair Games, Inc.
Development with AMIGO Spiel & Freizeit GmbH (Germany)
Global Mogul™ $55.00
THE WORLD AWAITS
Welcome to the heady days of global finance! Money and deals are flowing like water. From sparse beginnings build your empire across the globe, sending agents far and wide as you expend capital and gain access to valuable resources needed to fulfill lucrative contracts. Struggle to dominate world markets and control resources regionally. Expand your interests, acquire companies that provide an edge on the competition and more efficient use of resources.
The venture capital market is giving away money, you don’t even have to pay it back—but it does tie up valuable agents until you do. You can always use an extra agent on your quest to dominate the world
Global Mogul™ is a limited action, worker placement, resource acquisition, and opportunity management game. Win by being best at balancing your short term goal of fulfilling contracts for cash with your long term goals of building corporate infrastructure, controlling markets, and regions. So, what are you waiting for? The world awaits…
Global Mogul is an ever-exciting game for 1-4 players. Explore it solo, or share it with friends or family
Global Mogul™ contains the following components:
• 1 turn marker
• 1 1st player token
• 32 market cards
• 40 company cards
• 30 private contract cards
• 20 government contract cards
• 88 wood cubes (22 x 4 colors)
• 20 wood double cubes (5 x 4 colors)
• 60 round wood markers (15 x 4 colors)
• 72 resource markers (24 x 3 types)
• 75 money markers (25 x 3 denominations)
• 8 market research markers (2 x 4 types)
• 6 used/not used markers
• 4 Base Game action/production charts
• 4 Base Game summary/VP charts
• 4 Standard Game action/production charts
• 4 Standard Game summary/VP charts
• 3 venture capital/resource market charts (for 2-, 3-, and 4-player games
MFG4127 Global Mogul™ $55.00
Ages 14+
For 2-4 Players
Playing Time 120 + minutes
UPC 0-29877-04127-5-05500
ISBN 1-56905-273-5
Case Pack 4
Designer: Bill Crenshaw
Art: Pat Raubo & Morgan Dontanville
Made in the U.S.A.
Dimensions 11.625” x 9.375” x 3.125” (approximate)
Copyright © 2013 Mayfair Games, Inc. and William Crenshaw. “Global Mogul” and the “Global Mogul” mark are trademark properties of Mayfair Games, Inc. All rights reserved..
Gen Con Names Official Charity Partner for 2013
SEATTLE (April 3, 2013) – Gen Con Indy, The Best Four Days In Gaming!™, has selected Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana as its official Charity Partner for 2013.
“With more than a century of history as an impactful charity, Big Brothers Big Sisters has shown that their mentorship provides a lasting, important service to the community,” said Adrian Swartout, CEO of Gen Con LLC. “Due to this long-standing commitment to youth, the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana are an ideal candidate for our official 2013 charity.”
Gen Con will host several events during its 2013 show, running August 15-18 at the Indiana Convention Center, in which all proceeds will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana. Events will include, but are not limited to, a charity auction, construction and demolition of a giant “Cardhalla” made of assembled trading cards, the “Slay the Creature” balloon sculpture battle, and the Aces of Aces event entering its twelfth year.
“We are excited about this opportunity and look forward to partnering with the Gen Con team this year,” said Kristy Weaver, Director of Corporate Giving and Events at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana.
For more information regarding Gen Con Indy, click on www.gencon.com <http://www.gencon.com> . Additional information about the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana (BBBSCI) can be found at www.bebigforkids.org <www.bebigforkids.org> .
About Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana (BBBSCI)
Every year, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana provides more than 1,200 children ages 8-18 with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 adult-to-youth relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. BBBSCI partners with parents/guardians, volunteers and others in the community to help children facing adversity achieve: educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors and higher aspirations, greater confidence and better relationships.
About Gen Con
Gen Con, LLC produces the largest consumer hobby, fantasy, science fiction and adventure game convention in North America. Gen Con will return to the Indianapolis Convention Center on August 15-18, 2013. Acquired in 2002 by former CEO and founder of Wizards of the Coast Peter Adkison, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. This year’s Co-Sponsors include Paizo Publishing and Mayfair Games. For more information, visit the website at www.gencon.com <http://www.gencon.com/> . For up-to-the minute details, check out http://www.facebook.com/genconindy <http://www.facebook.com/genconindy> .
Mayfair Games is ecstatic to announce the Catan World Championships (CWC) will be live-streamed around the world this year!
With the 44 best Settlers of Catan™ players from 27 nations around the world, live music from world-class folk group The Fiddlers of Catan and even an appearance by Bob and Angus, the invitation-only World Championship is one of the hottest tickets in gaming.
But now, you can watch the event LIVE over the internet at http://www.livestream.com/mayfairgames starting September 15th!
Streaming times are (all times are EST): Saturday 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM (rounds 1-2); Saturday 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM (rounds 3-4); Sunday 10:00 AM (semi-final); Sunday 2:00 PM (final). Contestant introductions and other content will be interspersed between these broadcasts.
Mayfair Games is a publisher of fine board games and card games suitable for families and hobbyists. An Illinois-based company, founded in 1981, with more than thirty-one years of experience producing “The Games of our Generation”.
Origins is always a crazy week for me. Often it comes and goes before I even lay my head down, so it seems. This year was no exception. It was another full blown schedule and we added media coverage to the list this year. I guess I ‘m a glutton for punishment. My con went something like this.
I arrived in Columbus Ohio around noon only to find the off ramp I use is closed. “Oh no,” I wondered, “is this a sign?” Then I pulled off to see a boarded up building. “Am I in the wrong part of town?” I thought. About ten minutes later I parked my van and I was still alive. Registration was a breeze. I spent the rest of the day unloading the van, setting up terrain and waiting on Jason and Gerrit.
The plan with Jason and Gerrit was to play a game of Heavy Gear and display how well I knew the rules. I was so educated, I may never graduate. At least they prepared me for what was to come.
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A House Divided™
The War Between the States 1861-1864.
A House Divided simulates the epic struggle of the American Civil War that was fought over the twin issues of slavery and state’s rights. The period from 1840 to 1861 saw these issues brought to a boil, and in 1861 the nation became tangled in a terrible war that lasted four long years.
The game depicts the war between North and South from the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas Junction) to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse (or Grant’s surrender at Harrisburg…). Each player leads one of these two nations and makes the strategic decisions which determine the outcome of the war.
The game board represents the United States, north and south and from the Atlantic coast to just west of the Mississippi. Including Missouri, Iowa, Illinois Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. The play map contains a number of boxes, each representing a city, town or locations important to the war. These boxes are connected by transportation lines – blue for rivers, tan for roads and black for railroads – which provide the paths to victory or defeat.
Will you keep the Union whole or force the separation of the United States?
A House Divided ™ contains
o 48 miscellaneous 5/8” counters
o 45 Veteran Infantry ¾” counters
o 18 Veteran Cavalry ¾” counters
o 21 Crack Infantry ¾” counters
o 15 Crack Cavalry ¾” counters
o 42 Militia Infantry ¾” counters
o 6 Militia Cavalry ¾” counters
o 21 Utility ¾” counters
o 4 General counters
A House Divided™ $30.00
Ages 12+
For 2 Players
Playing Time 60 + minutes
Designer: Frank Chadwick
Artist: Jason Just & Franz Vohwinkel
Made in the U.S.A.
Dimensions 2.625” x 10.875” x 7.5625”
Copyright © 2012 Mayfair Games, Inc. A House Divided is the trademark property of Mayfair Games, Inc. (www.mayfairgames.com). All rights reserved.
Deluxe Automobile
$ 120.00 SRP
Automobile™ carries you back to the birth of America’s car industry, when inventors, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs created a wild array of marvels and misfortunes. You step into this rough, romantic trade hoping to create a fortune by building and selling cars. Tapping the talents of men like Ford, Sloan, Kettering, Howard, Durant, and Chrysler, you balance quality versus quantity, mass production versus premium branding, and innovation versus distribution and aggressive sales. Lose your balance and you go bust. Strike the best balance, shift the right gears to best your rivals, and you’ll be rich. You might even win. So, pull up your sleeves and start making cars!
Rich and brilliantly balanced, Automobile offers 3-5 players aged 13 and older. ~2 hours of great flavor and fun. “Any color you like… as long as it’s black!” The deluxe edition is packed in a fine dark wood box, with Automobile™ title laser etched on the lid. Everything in the basic game plus the limited edition pewter turn marker and wooded cars to be used in place of counters.
Automobile is packed in a Wooden Box and contains: • 1 limited edition pewter automobile turn marker • 120 Wooden Cars (5 colors each color a different style) • 40 salesmen (in 5 colors) • A full-color game board • 140 automobile tiles • 40 salesman tiles • 48 factory tiles • 16 demand tiles • 6 character tiles • 40 wood innovation cubes • 50 wood loss cubes • 9 wood special markers • 10 wood player tokens • Colorful paper money • Simple, full color rules
