by W. Eric Martin Many publishers had surprise game announcements at Gen Con 50, with one of those announcements being the revelation of Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 6 – France & Old West from designer Alan R. Moon and publisher Days of Wonder.I had scheduled an interview with Moon in the BGG booth, but my understanding was that we would discuss the Ticket to Ride family, game design in general, and whatever else came to mind. Moon doesn't appear at many game conventions, so this was an interview I was looking forward to — and in the end we filmed a game overview as we did with dozens of other guests. Ah, well, Moon is still a great person to have on camera as you're never sure where the conversation might lead.We haven't processed that video yet (or the 200-ish others that we recorded over four days), so let's go with a text description for now:Ticket to Ride Map Collection: Volume 6 – France & Old West includes a double-sided game board that features France on one side and the western half of the United States on the other.In the France half of this expansion, 2-5 players collect train cards and claim routes in order to complete tickets in hand, but most of the tracks on the board aren't colored! Each time that you draw cards, you must take a colored tile that's 2-5 train cars long and place that tile on an empty track bed. Once you've done this, any player can claim that route by discarding the appropriately colored cards from hand, as in any other Ticket to Ride game. (Single-length routes are already colored, and the map contains a number of gray-colored ferry routes.)Multiple track beds on the game board overlap, and once a tile has placed on the board, any track beds crossed by this tile are off-limits and nothing can be built on them. At the end of the game, players score their tickets, with bonuses being awarded for longest continuous route and most tickets completed.In the Old West half of the expansion, 2-6 players start the game by choosing (in reverse player order) a starting location for one of their three city pieces. The first route that a player claims must have this city as one of the route's two endpoints, and each subsequent route claimed must connect to that player's existing network.After claiming a route, a player can place one of their remaining cities on either end of that route by discarding a matching pair of train cards. Only one city marker can be in each city. Whenever a player builds a route that connects to a city owned by another player, the owner of the city claims the points for the route, not the player placing the trains. If both endpoints of the route have cities, then the owner of each city scores these points. Whoever completes the most tickets in this expansion scores 15 bonus points.As a variant, you... Read more »

by W. Eric Martin BoardGameGeek's SPIEL '17 Preview is now live! For those who didn't immediately leave to go look at it, a few notes about the preview:• Currently the SPIEL '17 Preview has "only" 168 titles on it. Only. That's it.I sent out requests for information to publishers on July 31, and in the subsequent three weeks I added some of the info I received to this preview, but not nearly as much as I had hoped to do. Work on the Gen Con 2017 Preview was the usual throw-everything-at-the-wall-at-the- late-minute experience, the internet in the Gen Con hotel was terrible, and I didn't complete nearly as many Gen Con previews as I had wanted to. Cue this convention's laments. I still have designer diaries in the queue that I had hoped/planned to publish prior to Gen Con, for example, and I apologize to those designers. You'll be hearing from me with new publication dates.• If you are a publisher who has sent me your SPIEL '17 list, I probably have your info in my inbox. If not, it's in a folder for such things. I'll get to it. You're welcome to poke me should you care to do so.• As I noted in my preview of the new convention preview tool, comments currently don't work. You can thumb game listings, add private notes, and tag games with a personal priority status, but you can't comment publicly on the listing itself. I'm not sure when we might have comments on the preview as I'm not the tech guy doing such things.• Users have suggested listing the game designer above the fold, adding different printing options, and doing other things with the preview format. We have read those suggestions, and we'll figure out what we want to do over the next two months prior to SPIEL '17. I want to find some way to indicate the languages included with a particular version of a game, for example, with links to rules being a dream addition. We'll see.As noted above, the past few weeks have been consumed with Gen Con prep, so I'm running with what I have available to me right now — especially since I promised to publish the SPIEL '17 Preview on Monday, August 21 — rather than waiting until some unknown day in the future. Act now! If needed, update later! I'm trying to do more of that, both in work and in life, and so far so good.That's it for now. Go have a look SPIEL '17 Preview, subscribe for future additions to the list, and don't burn your eyes out staring at the sun!... Read more »

by W. Eric Martin • Lots of game announcements have been coming forth in the week prior to Gen Con 50. Well, no more than normal actually, but the games being revealed (1) tend to be of higher profile and (2) are being demoed or sold at the convention that opens Thursday, August 17, so they're jumping into the spotlight.The newest contender for the stage is Clank! In! Space!, a standalone game that uses the same game system as in Paul Dennen's Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure, one of the hits of Gen Con 2016, but with player now trying to escape an alien spaceship instead of an underground dungeon. Makes sense to me — space is a vacuum, so noise wouldn't travel there and you could clankity-clank-clank all you want, but put yourself on a spaceship with, say, a xenomorph-type of thing, and you now have a gaming recipe. Here's the setting of this new title from publisher Renegade Game Studios:The evil Lord Eradikus has all but conquered the galaxy and is now on a victory lap across the sector in his flagship, Eradikus Prime. He may rule with an iron grip, but his most prized artifacts are about to slip through his cyborg claws. You and your fellow thieves have challenged each other to sneak aboard his ship, hack your way into its command module, and steal from him.Along the way, you'll recruit allies and snatch up extra loot. But one false step and — Clank! Careless noise draws the attention of Lord Eradikus. Hacking into his command module and stealing his artifacts increases his rage. You'd better hope your friends are louder than you are if you want to make it to an escape pod and get out alive...Beyond that, we have only a couple of images to share, but soon we'll see a lot more of the game because Renegade is selling "a limited number of copies" of Clank! In! Space! at Gen Con 50, with the game due to hit retail stores in Q4 2017.• A competitor for the spotlight is Stuffed Fables, a new design from Mice and Mystics' Jerry Hawthorne and publisher Plaid Hat Games. This title will be available for demo games at Gen Con 50, with a release due to happen before the end of 2017. Here's an overview of the game from the publisher:Stuffed Fables is an unusual adventure game in which players take on the roles of brave stuffies seeking to save the child they love from a scheming, evil mastermind. Make daring melee attacks, leap across conveyor belts, or even steer a racing wagon down a peril-filled hill. The game delivers a thrilling narrative driven by player choices. Players explore a world of wonder and danger, unlocking curious discoveries. The chapters of Stuffed Fables explore the many milestones of a child's life, creating a memorable tale ideal for families, as well as groups of adults who haven't forgotten their childlike sense of wonder.Stuffed Fables is the first "StoryBoard Game",... Read more »

by Matt Riddle "Wasteland Express Delivery Service includes an emergent narrative story that takes place interactively over the course of eight games. Alternatively, players can dive in with a randomly generated scenario that will play out over the course of a single story-driven game session for infinite replay possibilities."Plus, in case it wasn't totally clear there are a bunch of SWEET minis. Like super, awesome ones where you can actually load the goods right in the back. IN THE BACK. Even the goods are minis because why the heck not.Hi! This is Matt Riddle. I am generally no one of consequence, but I am kicking off this 4,000+ word designer diary because I am one of the three designers. Buckle up.Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons. At least compared to the sheer talent, will, and stunning good looks of the designers assembled to create Wasteland Express Delivery Service (WEDS), the new hotness coming soon from Pandasauraus Games. Ridbackmour? Gilbackddle? Pinchmouridle? Manbearpig? Whichever celebrity name you prefer for the trio of Jon Gilmour, Ben Pinchback, and Matt Riddle and wherever you intend to get it tattooed on your body doesn't matter so long as you do not forget to check out this game.I mean, look at that sexy; there is literally SOOO much of itAt some point nearly five years ago, Ben and I started kicking around the idea of doing a train game. We played a lot of Steam, but we wanted to actually pick up and deliver goods, not just build routes. At the time, we had just seen Fleet released to moderate success, so we were totally prepared to take on Martin Wallace and a top 100 game and make it better — also, not really, as Steam and WEDS have almost zero in common beyond the BGG mechanism classification. Still inspiration is just that, inspiration. Ben is the designer notebook guy. He sketches and doodles and jots down ideas. One of those ideas was octagons with different movement patterns that left squares in the middle that could be cities. As it turns out, not completely original since Keythedral did it ten years earlier among others, but it was very underutilized. Let me turn it over to Ben to discuss some of the initial design.Early octagonal action... in space — SPACE VIKINGS!BenBefore I get to that, I want to talk about Jon. I'll never forget the day I first met Jon Gilmour. It was a great day for him. Not so much because he met me, but rather because it was Thursday of Gen Con 2014 and well over a hundred people were wrapping around the Plaid Hat Games booth and down the aisle waiting in line to buy his new game, Dead of Winter. And by down the aisle, I mean so many people that it was blocking the entrance to some other pretty major publishers' booths.(Matt: Like Queen Games, their booth was completely surrounded. How were gamers going to rush to grab Cubo... Read more »

by Adam P. McIver OH, HI BGG! I'm Adam P. McIver. You may know me from the art/graphic design work I've done on the smattering of games flashing in my GIF-y little avatar over there on the left, or you may remember my slick little microgame Coin Age, which won a Golden Geek award a while back, or you may have no idea who I am at all, which is totally fine, obviously. No worries, I get it. There's a lot to keep up with these days, it's hard to stay on top of it all. It's way more important to know your next-door neighbor's name than some guy on the internet. Make connections! Build community!Anywho, you may be asking how I went from designing a microgame that is essentially a single card to creating Ex Libris, a hotly anticipated Gen Con 2017 release with over 150 cards? Well, it certainly wasn't as easy as just adding 149 or so cards, let me tell you. Turns out I actually had to design a COMPLETELY different game!Just Another Idea in a NotebookI, like so many other game designers, keep a lot of notebooks. Over the years I've filled probably a dozen or so notebooks with board game ideas, sketches of components, development notes, and more. A common bit of wisdom you hear from game designers is to get your idea into prototype form and on the table as early as possible. This is one of many areas in which I'm not terribly wise. I tend to keep game ideas in my notebook for a long time, making more and more notes, tweaks, sketches, and more sketches. Ex Libris began in the same way, with a few scribbles and notes to outline an idea.Also pictured above: a couple of the dozens of doodles my wife Kerry sneaks into my notebooksI love games where you're visibly building something in front of you as you play, games like Best Treehouse Ever, Caverna: The Cave Farmers, Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy, Suburbia, Sapiens, etc., games where the placement of the components result in your own little creation by the end of the game. Being a bit of a bibliophile, I realized that one of the most aesthetically pleasing things to me is a well-curated, substantial bookshelf filled with hardcover books and old leather-bound tomes. And graphic novels. I'll be honest, about half of my library consists of comics. I decided to design a game about building libraries. And not just any libraries — fantasy libraries.Why fantasy? Because I really enjoy when something potentially mundane and dry is paired with a magical setting. I prefer Caverna to Agricola, for instance. I bought into Thunderstone instead of Dominion. I'd likely rather play Dungeon Petz than a pet-raising game set in reality...Actually, a realistic pet shop strategy game sounds pretty cool to me, now that I think about it. Lemme make a note in my notebook real quick...Oh, yeah, fantasy libraries. With that seed in mind,... Read more »

by Evan Song The first time I worked on Slide Blast was when I was designing game projects that were called "games for beginners". These projects were created specifically for people who didn't have experience with board games. To create them, I started by looking at classic games and worked on adapting some of the mechanisms. I really wanted to do a tile-laying game, but I realized that unfortunately a lot of these games were already on the market.I sought the help of fellow designer Samgoo Seo who was very interested in the project. He came up with a simple game design of tile placement with hexagonal tiles on which he had traced some roads. The game at this stage was too simple, so we didn't have any big expectations — but we liked the game play, so we started the project with this concept in mind.The first prototype of the tile placement gameWe went around board game stores and the BGG website to look out for similar games and took care to point out what issues those types of games had. Our prototype version was too easy to play, and it was hard for us to make it stand out. We tried to add more elements with many tests done over several weeks. There were several tiles which had to be changed and we made lots of scoring adjustments.The next step was to find the right theme for the game to improve the player's immersions and fun. Among several concepts, we chose two themes: one was roller coasters, the other was waterpark slides. We were more inclined to choose the roller coaster theme at first — I'm a big fan of Rollercoaster Tycoon! — but we finally decided the waterparks were better as there are not a lot of games with that theme! Scenes in the game similar to what I pictured in my head; the waterpark looked more lively and funAt this stage, we were feeling confident with the game's development. Alas, we hit a wall that we had not thought of during our first playtests: "What happens if two players collide?" We realized that player collisions were going to be a considerable problem, and we did not find a solution to fix the issue right away. The game then fell down in my priority list and development stopped for a while.During another playtest, as we were confronted with the issue once again, a friend of mine came up with an idea: "What if one player goes underwater to avoid the collision?" This made me think that players could possibly jump from one tile to another as a way to avoid the problem. The right solution came alive with the "lifeguard" tile that can be used by players to jump from one place to another in the waterpark. Not only did it make the game more balanced, but the theme was improved as well! I couldn't wait to show this game to publishers!When I showed the game to... Read more »

by W. Eric Martin In January 2017, I received the cover for Photosynthesis from the European branch of Blue Orange Games while preparing for the Spielwarenmesse fair and was stunned: "Whoa, this thing is fire!"At Spielwarenmesse 2017, designer Hjalmar Hach gave me a runthrough of the game (video here), but a brief runthrough doesn't give you a good feeling of how the game actually plays out. You can understand the gist of things — collect light with your trees in order to plant and grow new trees, eventually harvesting them for points — without understanding how mean this game can be. It's the most pacific mean game I've played in years. Everything about the graphic design is inviting and joyous, yet you're all meant to embody cruel nature, block everyone else from the light, and see them shrivel to nothing in the forest while you reign as the oakest with the mostest.That's the hope anyway. Sometimes, of course, you're the one doing the shriveling, especially since you can block yourself as easily as others. In some ways, though, you have to block yourself, just as you block yourself in your regular non-tree life as a human, taking on more responsibility than you should or agreeing to a project that you know you'll regret or just wanting to do more than you'll ever have the time for (which is a common refrain in the Martin household come convention time).If you're going to be at Gen Con 50, you can check out Photosynthesis yourself at the Blue Orange Games booth. I hear that they're offering a discount for those who cosplay as an sycamore, but that might have been something I made up right now.Youtube Video... Read more »

by Daniel Skjold Pedersen 13 Minutes: The Cuban Missile Crisis is a two-player microgame with tough decisions released in early 2017 by Ultra PRO and Jolly Roger Games.When the big brother to 13 Minutes — 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis — was released in 2016, Asger and I wrote a 13-chapter long designer diary. In that spirit, this piece will be 13 short, almost anecdotal stories of what 13 Minutes is and how it came to be.1. What is 13 Minutes?The 13-second pitch is that 13 Minutes is Love Letter meets 13 Days.2. No, really, what is 13 Minutes?The slightly longer story is that it is a two-player microgame set at the height of the Cold War during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In the game, you want to flex your superpower muscle and dominate battlegrounds, but — and there is a but — if you push your agenda too far you may trigger nuclear war, so be careful.And did I say that you play only five cards per game, so each decision matters a lot?3. Sitting by a poolWhen 13 Days was funded on Kickstarter back in July 2015, I was vacationing in Italy. I celebrated by the poolside, but not with a glass of red wine as you would expect. In my hand I had 13 blank cards and 13 red and blue cubes and a pen.Half an hour later, I had figured out how to translate the 13 Days experience into a microgame setting and sketched the basic cards for the first prototype of 13 Minutes.Designing the easy 80 percent4. Why 13 Minutes?The idea of making a microgame version of a political card-driven game had been buzzing in the heads of both Asger and I for some time back then. We like to push game genres into new territories. 13 Days did just that as a 45-minute distillation of some of the nail-biting and tense moments from epic political games like Twilight Struggle.13 Minutes is pushing that genre quite a bit more. We wanted to see whether it would float.5. BrinkmanshipStakes are high in 13 Minutes, which is no different from in 13 Days. The game is all about brinkmanship. It is a balancing act of cunning play and a tug-of-war of brute force.You want to dominate battlegrounds to gain prestige, but each time you add influence to a battleground, you draw that card closer to your side of the table. Doing so is great because at the end of the game cards on your side will be all yours if no one dominates — but then again it is not great at all because all cards have a colored DEFCON symbol. If you end the game with three of the same color, you have triggered nuclear war and lost the game.6. First originI use my notes app on the phone all the time, and a lot of that is for game-related stuff. For me it is a useful tool to get thoughts out of my... Read more »

by W. Eric Martin U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games loves to unveil surprises prior to Gen Con, the largest board game convention in the U.S., and it's unleashed a doozy in the form of Fallout, a "post-nuclear adventure board game" based on the popular video game series from Bethesda Game Studios, specifically Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 and their downloadable expansions. Here's a short description of this design from Andrew Fisher and Nathan Hajek:Fallout is a post-nuclear adventure board game for one to four players. Based on the hit video game series by Bethesda, each Fallout scenario is inspired by a familiar story from the franchise. Survivors begin the game on the edge of an unexplored landscape, uncertain of what awaits them in this unfamiliar world. With just one objective to guide them from the very beginning, each player must explore the hidden map, fight ferocious enemies, and build the skills of their survivor as they attempt to complete challenging quests and balance feuding factions within the game.As they advance their survivors' stories, players come across new quests and individual targets, leading them to gain influence. Who comes out ahead depends on how keenly and aggressively each player ventures through the game; however, if a single faction is pushed to power too quickly, the wasteland will be taken for their own, and the survivors conquered along with it.The game announcement from FFG has more details on the set-up and how gameplay unfolds in this 120-180 minute game. You start the game with a single Influence card and will likely acquire more during play, with these Influence cards providing points based on how you meet the goals listed on them or how well one in-game faction does against the other one. Each scenario has two factions, representing the opposing poles of "Security" and "Freedom", and while you're mostly functioning on your own, you probably want to align yourself with other players and one of these factions to have a larger impact on the game.Each scenario has distinctive landmarks — e.g., The Capital Wasteland, The Pitt, The Commonwealth, and Far Harbor — but otherwise the map is variable, with players exploring the terrain and (ideally) avoiding radiation to uncover equipment and do whatever it is they want to do to gain influence.FFG lists a release date of Q4 2017 for Fallout, but perhaps the game will be on a few demo tables at Gen Con to give attendees a first-hand taste of how the game plays out.(Note that this is the second Fallout title due for release this year as in April 2017 UK publisher Modiphius Entertainment announced the Nov. 2017 release of Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, a minis-heavy design from James Sheahan. Modiphius has confirmed that title as being available for demos during Gen Con 50, so perhaps we'll have head-to-head Fallout fever to see which games best survives the fire and fury of fans.)... Read more »

Publisher: Shades of VengeanceHarness amazing Psionic abiltiies for your character in A New Dawn, our fourth expansion for Era: The Consortium! Bring Psionic abilities to bear in the battle between the Consortium and the Resistance! A New Dawn brings the story of the end of 450CE, when a serum that imbues the user with Psionic abilities is created by Gaia Adaptation and Adjustment… then promptly stolen by both sides for use in the ongoing conflict. While the Senate argues over whether it should have been distributed under their control and the inventor wishes it had never been created, Psionic operatives appear on both sides. With this expansion, any player can get Psionic abilities, for a price: not only does a Psionic character’s body reject all their implants, but they begin their path down a slippery slope into Psionic Madness… N.B. This expansion requires the Era: The Consortium Core Rulebook or Rulebook Primer for use.Price: $5.00... Read more »

Publisher: RPG Fantasy GraphicsThis infomation comes with 7 new paths for classes and 4 new feats included in this mini pack. Price: $1.99... Read more »

Publisher: Studio 101The twenties of the XX century. The Global Society of Inquisitive and Investigative embraces the curious from every corner of the world. Their paradigm is the knowability of the Universe. They believe in the triumph and omnipotence of science. And now, when the Great War is over, the Society faces the challenging task to distinguish hidden from fictitious basing on the centuries-long legends. The alarming news came a day ago: a huge city literally rose from the ocean abyss near the shore of Douarnenez (France). The exquisite high gate of the city had the name carved on it — Ys.Price: $0.00... Read more »

Publisher: Late Knight Games This product has six pregenerated characters for MajiMonsters, one for each binder class. These characters span the world, drawing inspiraction from NPCs and iconic binders created for various MajiMonsters products. It's up to you to customize these characters, or sort out to your players for a quick game session. Includes a pregenerated alchemist, concordant, knight, ranger, scoundrel, and scholar. Each binder has a level 3 MajiMonster each with 3 techniques. Further customization is left to the GM and players. Includes combined document and files separated by binder class. Back pages of each character has an at-a-glance rules rundown. Follow MajiMonsters on Facebook and Twitter for news, updates, and information! https://www.facebook.com/majimonsters https://twitter.com/majimonsters Price: $0.99... Read more »

Publisher: HT PublishersDurante los últimos años de la Edad Media, la plaga de muertos se extendió por toda Europa, África y Asia, dando lugar a la época más oscura de toda la historia. Es el año 1514 del Señor y héroes procedentes de todos los nuevos reinos del oeste se aprestan a reconquistar el mundo. Ultima Forsan es un juego de aventuras salvajes y letales peligros, situado en una macabra versión alternativa de nuestro propio renacimiento. La serie Ultima Forsan Digital está por pequeños suplementos, seis o siete páginas es la media, en formato digital y modalidad paga lo que quieras. De un modo similar a la Guía de inicio, se trata de una aventura o encuentro que expande y complementa la información del manual de ambientación o la guía regional. Por ejemplo, pueden añadir una nueva localización de aventuras, presentar a un personaje o reliquia de la ambientación o introducir una abominación única de la región. Muerte en Venencia es una aventura introductoria de Ultima Forsan, diseñada para un grupo de entre tres y cinco héroes Novatos y ambientada en la antigua Venecia. Los personajes, pasajeros a bordo de un dirigible de Ferrara, se estrellan en la desolación. Deben encontrar una forma de escapar de la ciudad y, para ello, primero necesitarán encontrar y conseguir la ayuda de los insidiosos lazaretos. Está escrita por Mauro Longo y Giuseppe Rotondo, los autores de la ambientación. Muerte en Venecia es totalmente compatible con la edición española del premiado juego Savage Worlds. Para usar este suplemento se necesita el manual básico de Savage Worlds y el libro de ambientación Ultima ForsanPrice: $1.18... Read more »

Publisher: Dean Spencer ArtThis stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts a dryad emerging from the shadows of the forest lit by dappled sunlight, she has bark-like skin covered in moss and fungus, and vines twisting around her body. In RGB colour, 8 inches x 5.3 inches @ 300dpi. This purchase includes one PNG file. If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me. All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.Price: $8.50... Read more »

Publisher: Gabriel PickardEight unique forested maps created for use at 25x25 grid squares on virtual table tops.  Each comes in summer and fall variations and with some trees and stumps customization.  Set includes: Dragon skeleton crash landing site, a bog, a roadside ambush, a river, and more.  Great for random encounters or for anyone who hates long setups. Maps are for personal non commercial use only.  Resale in whole or part regardless of modification is forbidden.  Happy gaming!Price: $5.49... Read more »

Publisher: Onyx Path PublishingChronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras reveals the world throughout its long and storied past. Through sixteen eras, you’ll learn the secret history of the world, from the flame-lit tales of the Neolithic to the drug-fueled rebellion of the 1970s. Delve into the past, and learn that the Chronicles of Darkness began long before the modern nights. Dark Eras: A Grimm Dark Era (Changeling: the Lost) With the publication of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, the Lost find themselves subject to the strength of stories, to a degree never before seen. As numerous stories reach greater audiences, the power of tales redefine what it means to be a changeling. Here, we explore a shift in the veil between fiction and reality, and find changelings who escaped by embracing the odd rules of the fantastic. This is a single chapter from the larger work, Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras. Now available on its own in PDF and Softcover formats. Also available now for Dark Eras: Tales of the Dark Eras As a companion to Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras the Tales of the Dark Eras anthology reveals secrets of the mystics, whispers rumors of the dead, and shines a light into the darkest corners of the world. This collection includes historical stories based within the shadowed past of Vampire: the Requiem, Mage: the Awakening, Werewolf: the Forsaken,Changeling: the Lost, and other Chronicles of Darkness settings. Price: $3.99... Read more »

Publisher: MeditatingMunkyThe original Endless Dungeons Tile set Volume 1-4, all in one place and for a low price! This is 4 sets rolled into one at half price! Includes all of the Map Tiles and Placeable Objects from Volume 1-4 of Munky's Endless Dungeons for use in your favorite VTT! 9 Ready to play 25x25 Maps compatible with the tiles in this set Over 80 Placeable Decor and Objects from Barrels, Treasure Chests, Bloody Footprints, Traps, Levers, and more! Over 200 Basic Stone Dungeon Modular Tile Pieces in 3 different Skins, All designed to snap into place seamlessly in your favorite VTT Set Count Over 300 Pieces! These maps and tiles were made for VTT use. All grids align at a 70x70 pixel per unit ratio. All titles of the tiles are named with the pieces size in units- ie: 25x25_Map_03. That map or tile will fit your VTT at the size ratio for the grid size in your VTT of choice. All tiles Snap together on a grid in Photoshop or Gimp when assembled there as well! If you like these maps or tiles, check out more from me at /browse/pub/11814/MeditatingMunky By purchasing and/or downloading this file you agree to use it for personal, non income generating purposes only. No commercial provisions granted.Price: $9.99... Read more »

Some of your stories may involve a higher power scale than starting off at “level one” or the equivalent in your game system. Perhaps the tale you want to tell with your players is on a greater epic scale. Perhaps you tire of struggling to keep those lower-level characters alive. Perhaps it’s just time to […]... Read more »

The last new chapter of Hydro Hackers that I wrote was about Gear. It is the last thing I designed for the game. After this, I will be just adding text and mechanics to all the existing chapters of the game. Gear was a tough thing for me to wrap my head around. I knew […]... Read more »

Welcome to the Gnomecast, the Gnome Stew’s tabletop gaming advice podcast. Here we talk with the other gnomes about gaming things to avoid becoming part of the stew. So I guess we’d better be good. This episode we have Avery & Ang talking about How to Make Death Matter. Links How to Make Death Matter... Read more »

For starters, take these tips with a grain of salt. First, different approaches to productivity work for different people. Second, I have to be the world’s worst person at parking my butt and getting prep done. These are all things I have tried with varying degrees of success, but I am certainly not the world’s […]... Read more »

  There is one thing I can say on the internet in game spaces that I know will garner immediate eye rolls and groans of “oh, you’re one of those players.” All I have to say is, “I play kender.” Visions of spotlight hogging, thieving, obnoxious, self absorbed players dance into everyone’s minds like sugar […]... Read more »

If you’re out and about on social media with a preponderance of RPG loving friends, you may have seen the #RPGaDay thing that’s been going around for the month of August. I’ve been putting them up each day on my Facebook and it’s been sparking some interesting discussion. It’s especially fun to see friends that […]... Read more »

  It’s August 8th, 2017 and Gen Con is about a week away. I’m going through all of my pre-Gen Con rituals – planning for the Gnome Stew dinner at St. Elmo’s and the ENnies immediately afterwards, getting the books and materials for the games I’m running compacted into better traveling boxes, setting up the […]... Read more »

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a character dies. Maybe the dice weren’t in their favor, maybe they made a tactical error, maybe they grabbed that glowing skull even though it was so completely obvious it was an evil relic, oh my god, it could not have been more obvious if you’d lit […]... Read more »

  Welcome to the Gnomecast, the Gnome Stew’s tabletop gaming advice podcast. Here we talk with the other gnomes about gaming things to avoid becoming part of the stew. So I guess we’d better be good. This episode we have Senda, Chris, & Ang talking about continuity in games.  ... Read more »

TechRaptor has reviewed Masquerada Songs and Shadows: Masquerada Songs and Shadows Review Sometimes through public professionalism, we grin and bear annoyance, or put on a brave face in times of extreme stress. Sometimes, we steel ourselves to from personal embarrassment or for selfish goals....... Read more »

An Indigigogo campaign for the Action RPG Sole Descendant has been started: Sole Descendant Fast paced action RPG, with an emphasis on medieval combat mechanics and visually rich storytelling. loading... Awake and master sword fight in brutal, fast-paced melee combat across an engaging story campaign as the last cursed guardian of humankind....... Read more »

Co-op can be fun in Divinity: Original Sin II: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Co-op Spotlight loading... There are many ways to tackle situations in Divinity: Original Sin 2 and working together in co-op is just one of them. You don’t have to be like Apostol....... Read more »

Forbidden Unit is an isometric, science fiction, tactical, turn based RPG focused on four main characters. It is on Kickstarter asking for 65K and has 27 days to go. loading... Hi, everybody! We are very excited to present to you our latest game FORBIDDEN UNIT....... Read more »

@Gematsu BioMutant gameplay was on show at Gamescom. loading...http://gematsu.com/tag/biomutanthttp://gematsu.com/gallery/biomutant... Read more »

The Good Life was announced at Gamescom with this debut trailer. The game features cats and will be a daily life RPG set in a happy town where strange things happen at night. The game will launch on Fig September 2nd. loading...The Good Life first trailer for Backstage Pass Only....... Read more »

Swen Vincke presented at Gamescom Divinity: Original Sin 2 and showed never seen before gameplay. loading...... Read more »

Thatvideogameblog checked out West of Loathing: West of Loathing Review Right … well I’m not sure where to even begin with this one. I’ve either been doing this for to long and I’m hallucinating again or I’ve just spent an exceptionally large amount of time around lethal cows, bandits and immensely silly humor....... Read more »

Destructoid has reviewed the exploration survival game The Long Dark: Review: The Long Dark Winter is here loading... The Long Dark is out of Early Access, and there have been some changes since it was initially released in 2014. Its world has grown bigger, its animal AI has grown smarter, and its story mode has remained a promising yet barely distinguishable figure on the edge of the horizon....... Read more »

TechRaptor has reviewed Masquerada Songs and Shadows: Masquerada Songs and Shadows Review Sometimes through public professionalism, we grin and bear annoyance, or put on a brave face in times of extreme stress. Sometimes, we steel ourselves to from personal embarrassment or for selfish goals....... Read more »

An Indigigogo campaign for the Action RPG Sole Descendant has been started: Sole Descendant Fast paced action RPG, with an emphasis on medieval combat mechanics and visually rich storytelling. loading... Awake and master sword fight in brutal, fast-paced melee combat across an engaging story campaign as the last cursed guardian of humankind....... Read more »

Co-op can be fun in Divinity: Original Sin II: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Co-op Spotlight loading... There are many ways to tackle situations in Divinity: Original Sin 2 and working together in co-op is just one of them. You don’t have to be like Apostol....... Read more »

Forbidden Unit is an isometric, science fiction, tactical, turn based RPG focused on four main characters. It is on Kickstarter asking for 65K and has 27 days to go. loading... Hi, everybody! We are very excited to present to you our latest game FORBIDDEN UNIT....... Read more »

@Gematsu BioMutant gameplay was on show at Gamescom. loading...http://gematsu.com/tag/biomutanthttp://gematsu.com/gallery/biomutant... Read more »

The Good Life was announced at Gamescom with this debut trailer. The game features cats and will be a daily life RPG set in a happy town where strange things happen at night. The game will launch on Fig September 2nd. loading...The Good Life first trailer for Backstage Pass Only....... Read more »

Swen Vincke presented at Gamescom Divinity: Original Sin 2 and showed never seen before gameplay. loading...... Read more »

Thatvideogameblog checked out West of Loathing: West of Loathing Review Right … well I’m not sure where to even begin with this one. I’ve either been doing this for to long and I’m hallucinating again or I’ve just spent an exceptionally large amount of time around lethal cows, bandits and immensely silly humor....... Read more »

Destructoid has reviewed the exploration survival game The Long Dark: Review: The Long Dark Winter is here loading... The Long Dark is out of Early Access, and there have been some changes since it was initially released in 2014. Its world has grown bigger, its animal AI has grown smarter, and its story mode has remained a promising yet barely distinguishable figure on the edge of the horizon....... Read more »