Cory and Jimmy from the Dirtbags of Holding podcast do a board game review of The Alpha, from Games by Bicycle.
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Chris takes a look at the Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook from Paizo and gives his opinion on this major role playing system.
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Chris goes through his group’s adventures playing through “The Secret Name”, the 3 part of “The Circle Undone” campaign for Arkham Horror: the Card Game.
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Chris takes a look at the Black Widow deck from Marvel Champions and how it plays out of the pack.
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Chris talks about the second scenario of “The Circle Undone” campaign for Arkham Horror: the Card Game; a living card game published from Fantasy Flight Games.
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Chris played through the Rhino scenario of Marvel Champions with the newer Thor character deck and gives his thoughts.
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In this review, Chris takes a look at Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, the latest D&D setting book describing the world of the famous “Critical Role” webseries.
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Chris describes his experience playing through the first part of “The Circle Undone” campaign for Arkham Horror: the Card Game from Fantasy Flight Games.
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Chris takes a look at Wrath of N’kai, an upcoming novel from Aconyte Books set in the Arkham Horror universe. To help the review, he created some custom Arkham Horror the Card Game cards using the theme of the book.
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Chris begins tracking his Arkham Horror: the Card Game plays again, this time jumping into a new campaign: The Circle Undone!
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Chris reviews The Summit of Kings, an adventure set in the Afropunk world of Swordsfall.
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Chris read the new Tales From The Crucible book from Aconyte Books, a series of stories set in the world of the board game Keyforge from Fantasy Flight Games.
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It's been…4 weeks since we started this </Barenaked ladies>. Like most of you, I've been locked up in the house, only going out for the essentials. First of all, if you work in any of the fields keeping us afloat during this time, thank you so much! Also, my heart goes out to everyone who's having trouble during this time, whether it be loss of job, dealing with family issues, etc. I've been lucky in that my job situation is fairly stable, but I know that is not the case for a large portion of the world right now.
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On the past couple of episodes of Boards & Swords, I’ve been hinting at a big project that I’ve been working on over the past few months. Well, its time to pull the rug out from under myself and show the world! Since we launched our Patreon last year, we’ve promised an Actual Play RPG featuring the Boards & Swords cast playing as Cats. I originally called it “Yarnfinder” because I was going to use the Starfinder RPG. However, the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to create something new.
So I am! Sorta. Going off the premise of “Firefly, but with Cats,” I’m going to be working on my own custom version of the Blades in the Dark from Evil Hat Publishing (using their “Forged in the Dark” license). This means you if you’ve never played a RPG, you wouldn’t need to go buy fancy D&D dice, you can use just regular six sided dice (or our Patreon dice if you are a backer)!
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I wanted this post to be my initial look at the new Thor Hero deck for Marvel Champions that released last week. However, I haven’t had the chance to get it to the table just yet. Luckily for me, Fantasy Flight Games had a stream where they teased the upcoming Hulk Hero pack that should be coming out in the June time frame. Just like I did for Black Widow and Doctor Strange, let’s take a look at the cards that were teased from the FFG stream and announcement post.
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“Wait….The Broken Token doesn’t make an insert for Arcadia Quest,” you might be saying to yourself right now. This is technically true, but I have figured out a solution that might be “close enough” for me. First, some backstory:
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Disclaimer: If you haven't heard about Arkham Horror: The Card Game, you might have trouble with this post. Also, potential spoilers ahead.
Last time we talked about Path to Carcosa, we had gone inside a library to investigate a rumor that weird play “The Yellow King” had toured through Arkham years beforehand. In our search, we found that one man, Daniel Chesterfield, survived that encounter and was now being held at Arkham Asylum. So in this scenario, we venture to the asylum to find the Joker…..I mean Daniel Chesterfield. This was the first scenario in Path to Carcosa that I haven’t previously played before, so I was kind of excited to play this scenario and experience some new content.
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Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) 5th Edition hit a big milestone last year, as it was the game’s fifth anniversary. Which means for us players, we should probably expect to hear rumors of the next edition coming along shortly. However, for Wizards of the Coast, they took the opportunity to celebrate the big milestone with some hefty gifts...if you were willing to spend the money. The most elegant of these was the Sapphire anniversary dice set, which was a magnificent set of dice for the low price of just $299.99…Wow.
Equally as elegant, but not as back breaking, was the Special Edition reprint of “Tyranny of Dragons”, the adventure series that launched with D&D 5th Edition with the books “Hoard of the Dragon Queen” and “Rise of Tiamat”. It’s a great idea: celebrate all the good years that D&D has had by going back to where 5th edition started. Plus, it took these two adventure books and combined them into a single looking hardcover with a new beautiful cover.
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February was a very busy month for me, so I didn’t get a whole lot of board gaming in. Especially when it comes to the Marvel Champions card game from Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). I did get a chance to go back to North Carolina and play the game with my dad, but we ended up playing Rhino again since we convinced my wife to play (that’s a story for another time). I was fortunate enough to get a copy of The Wrecking Crew scenario expansion, it wasn’t until earlier this week that I was able to get it to the table and try it out.
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This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with 2 creators of another Kickstarter in the Roleplaying Game (RPG) genre, Richard Kreutz-Landry and Rich Howard of Descent into Midnight (DiM). Based on the popular Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) engine, this Kickstarter still has a couple of weeks to go and is already well above its $25,000 goal.
In DiM, you play as characters in an underwater society, one that has not interacted with any type of human society. It is your responsibility to create this community and defend it from some type of threat. The exact nature of that threat can vary between games, as the game is centered around how the characters respond to these varying threats. I’ve kept an eye on the development of DiM for a while now, ever since I played in a couple of games with Richard at Acadecon a few years ago.
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