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Rio Grande Games Announces New ‘Dominion’ Expansion

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

Rio Grande Games will release a new large expansion for Donald X. Vaccarino’s award-winning Dominion card game in Spring 2015, as first reported by hobby retailer news website ICv2.com.

“We are now working on a new (large box with 400 cards) expansion we expect to have available in the spring (2015),” Rio Grande’s Jay Tummelson said in a recent Board Game Geek forum post.

“We expect then to be able to release the game in late spring – dare I say March or April or May.  We will send more information as we have it,” Tummelson also said in another post.

 

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As for future Dominion plans, he also stated, “We may replace the original Treasure and Victory cards (already available separately) in the base set and/or Intrigue at some point, and are also looking at offering a set of the metal tokens (the Treasure and Victory tokens) later in 2015.”

The original Dominion card game, released in 2008, won the 2009 Spiel des Jahres Game of the Year award, the 2009 Origins Award for Best Card Game, and a Mensa Award.  The popular card game last appeared on the Top 10 Card/Dice Games chart in Fall 2013. Dominion likewise can take credit for spawning a series of other deck-building board games, including Ascension, Thunderstone, DC Deckbuilding, Legendary, and many others.

 

 

 

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Mayfair Games to Release Collector’s Edition of ‘Catan: Ancient Egypt’ This Week!

Monday, November 10th, 2014

According to ICv2.com, Mayfair Games will release a limited English edition of Klaus Teuber’s Catan–Collectors Edition–Ancient Egypt on November 13th.  German publisher KOSMOS announced the stand-alone game back in June, but Mayfair’s U.S. release was not revealed.

In addition to the base game, which is set in ancient Egypt, there are variants.  The “Help from the Gods” variant adds 10 god cards which add celestial powers to the game, and “The Great Pyramid” scenario allows player to build boats and compete for the pharaoh’s blessing and the vizier’s favor by adding blocks to the great pyramid.

 

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The box contains: 19 Terrain Hexes, 6 Frame Pieces, 18 Number Tokens, 95 Resource Cards, 25 Development Cards, 4 Build Cost Cards, 2 Special Cards (Longest Trade Route and Largest Mercenary Army), 16 Temple Cities, 20 Settlements, 60 Oxcarts, 1 Robber, 2 Dice, 2 Card Holders, an almanac, and  a rules sheet.  It also contains the following components for  use with the additional scenarios: 12 Papyrus Boats, 1 Pyramid Building Site, 60 Pyramid Blocks, 10 God Cards, 4 God Summary Cards, 4 “Pharaoh’s Blessing/Curse” cards and 1 Vizier’s Favor Card.

The game is for 3-4 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 75-100 minutes.  As a collector’s edition, the English edition is limited to 5,000 copies worldwide.

 

 

 

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Ares Games Announces Deal for ‘Conan’ Board Game

Monday, October 20th, 2014

Ares Games recently announced a deal with Conan Properties International LLC to relaunch the Age of Conan strategy board game as well as release the new Adventures in Hyboria expansion after a Kickstarter funding campaign.  Ares has shared details with ICv2 about the expected trade release, according to hobby retailer news website ICv2.com.

The Adventures in Hyboria expansion expands Conan’s role in the game, and tracks his progress from warrior to mercenary to general.  With each adventure, Conan gains experience and moves from one stage to the next, becoming more powerful.  His goal is to be crowned king, but he is also subject to fits of melancholy, so his emotional mood is tracked with a Mood Wheel – which affects his statistics and dice rolls.  Not every game will end with Conan reaching his goal.   There are also Story cards, new Companion characters, Spies to help win wars, new Kingdom cards, and prisoners added to the game.

 

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The box contains 4 new Objective cards, 29 new Adventure cards, 30 Story cards, 20 new Kingdom cards (5 per Kingdom),  20 Spy tokens (5 per Kingdom),  9 Companion cards, 12 Adventure tokens (including Companion tokens), 3 special Conan dice, a Mood Wheel marker, a Conan reference board, a Conan experience marker, and a rulebook.

Box contents may change as the Kickstarter campaign progresses, and Ares said that while some backer goals (Sorcery cards, the Cloth bag) will not be included in the trade version, some will.  “Every time we achieve a goal, we will make clear if it becomes a part of the retail-level expansion or not,” an Ares Games representative clarified. “In any case, these upgrades are not exclusives, and they may become available to retail as accessories or as a part of future products.”

 

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‘Magic the Gathering’ Board Game Announced at Pro Tour

Saturday, October 11th, 2014

 

During the live stream of Magic Pro Tour Khans of Tarkir this weekend, Wizards of the Coast announced a Magic the Gathering board game! Unfortunately, other than this announcement, details are hard to come by. The only other information give is the date October 16, 2014, which just happens to be the large Essen game show in Germany.

 

What do you think this board game will be? Will it be a RPG-in-a-box game, in which you assume the role of a Planeswalker trying to gain power and defeat evil?

 

Will it be a deck building game like Netrunner, DC Deck Building game or Ascension?

 

Or perhaps a economy-based strategy game or a cooperative game?

 

What do you think the Magic the Gathering board game will be? Sound off in the comments below!

 

 

 

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Two Expansions Announced for Popular Game ‘Star Realms’

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

White Wizard Games has announced two expansions for its popular Star Realms Deck Building Game.  Star Realms: Crisis will arrive in November, with Star Realms: Gambit planned for winter 2015. This news is first reported by ICv2.com.

 

Crisis is a 48-card expansion which consists of four 12-card non-random packs, each sold separately.  The four packs concentrate on different aspects of the game–Events adds gaming-changing event cards, Heroesintroduces new character cards, Bases & Battleships and Fleets & Fortresses both add powerful new ships and bases.  Each display will include six of each expansion pack.

 

The Star Realms: Gambit set is currently only available as a second place prize in the organized play tournament kit, but will be made available for direct sale sometime this winter.  The 20-card set includes 13 Gambit “special ability” cards, 4 Challenge cards for solo and co-op play, and 3 Merc Cruiser cards.

 

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White Wizard has a third printing of the popular game due to arrive in mid-October, and a second printing of playmats available now.  Licensed deck boxes and card sleeves are also planned for winter release from Legion Supplies.

 

 

 

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Paizo Publishing Announces new ‘Monster Codex’ for October

Wednesday, October 1st, 2014

Paizo Publishing will release Monster Codex for the Pathfinder RPG on October 22nd, according to hobby news website ICv2.com.  The 256-page hardcover will retail for $39.99.  It will include chapters for 20 monsters:

 

  • Boggard
  • Bugbear
  • Drow
  • Duergar
  • Fire giant
  • Frost giant
  • Ghoul
  • Gnoll
  • Goblin
  • Hobgoblin
  • Kobold
  • Lizardfolk
  • Ogre
  • Orc
  • Ratfolk
  • Sahuagin
  • Serpentfolk
  • Troglodyte
  • Troll
  • Vampire

 

Each will include archetypes; over 10 new stat blocks; new rules like feats, spells, and magic items; advice and tips for game masters; and templates for customizing the monsters.

Interested in this product? Let your local Battleground Game & Hobbies know! Pre-order TODAY! Please don’t forget to let us know what you think in the comments below.

 

 

 

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