Hi PI-Fans,
The week isn’t done folks. Here’s another wave of releases, including many new sought-after releases. Lets get down to it.
The latest addition to the Smash Up “shufflebuilding” game: Take two twenty-card decks and shuffle them into a forty-card deck, then compete to smash more Bases than your opponents! Smash Up Munchkin brings Clerics, Halflings, Orcs, Warriors, Elves, Thieves, Dwarves and Mages to your Munchkin game, and bring the wacky antics of Steve Jackson’s Munchkin card game to your Smash Up table.
The latest titles in Seiji Kanai’s smash hit Lost Legacy series, Lost Legacy: Vorpal Sword & Whitegold Spire and Lost Legacy: Third Chronicle – Sacred Grail & Staff of Dragons continue the ongoing search for ruined components of the alien starship. Take charge of all new casts of characters and join the quest to find the Lost Legacies as you race to hold your discoveries against the prying eyes of the other players.
Coup Rebellion G54 uses the same lightning fast rules found in Coup – claim, counter, challenge and bluff – and then adds an exciting strategic layer through character selection. Before each game starts, five character roles are chosen randomly from 25 different cards. Each of the five characters has a unique ability – the combination of abilities and interplay between them makes each game unique. Will your bluffing, deduction, negotiation and luck be enough to carry you through the rebellion? Or will your influence crumble in the face of your foes?
In Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game, the cake is no lie. Your team of test subjects has entered the Lab and is ready to perform all sorts of important, dignified, and dangerous testing procedures… all in the pursuit of cake! Do you risk gathering moist slices of industrial-grade cake early for a quick win? Or do you bide your time and wait until you can protect it better? It’s a fun and funny fast-paced fight to the finish — and by finish, we mean your team probably died.
The battle between the Informants and the Resistance has led to one final battle. In One Night Revolution, the resistance has prepared to strike, yet the Informants pose an ever looming threat within their tanks. Every player starts with a specialist role and an ID (either Government Informant or Rebel Fighter). Using their Specialist actions to gather information, switch roles, and share info, the resistance has to suss out the spies before the day is over, or all is lost.
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New Board Game Releases
A Game of Crowns
Coup Rebellion G54
Kittens in a Blender
Lost Legacy Second Chonicle
Lost Legacy Third Chronicle
Love Letter Adventure Time
One Night Revolution
Portal, The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game
Smash Up Munchkin
Board and Card Game Restocks
Card of the Dead
Dominion Intrigue Core Set
Exploding Kittens
Exploding Kittens NSFW Edition
Just Deserts
Munchkin
Munchkin Deluxe
Munchkin Legends
Munchkin Zombies
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
One Night Ultimate Werewolf Daybreak
Race For The Galaxy
Roll For It
The Resistance, 3rd Edition
The Resistance Avalon
Scotland Yard
Smash Up
Smash Up Science Fiction Double Feature
Smash Up Monster Smash
Smash Up Big Geeky Box
Stuff and Nonsense
Ultimate Werewolf Deluxe Edition
Role Playing Game Restocks
BattleTech Fiction Anthologies
Laundry Core Rulebook
Shadowrun Core Rulebook
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As seen in Wil Wheaton’s Titansgrave RPG, Green Ronin’s Adventure Game Engine or AGE system is a robust, simple RPG system perfect for both new players and jaded veterans alike. Jump into the AGE with both the Fantasy AGE Core Book and the Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana Setting Book, or just head back to Thedas to revisit the game that launched it all with the all new Dragon Age Core Rulebook.
You’ve fought Aliens aboard the Nostromo, now face down the Predators out to kill you in Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game. Using the elegant Legendary Encounters deck building mechanics, fight a hopeless struggle to bring your strike team back alive, or harvest grim trophies as a Predator on the prowl. And just to kick it up a notch, this is fully compatible with the Alien set. AVP? Yes please.
In Empire Engine, players take on the role of a mighty empire, powered by rotating gears. During the game, players simultaneously rotate their dials to choose their actions allowing them to collect resources, attack their enemies and defend, salvage, export, or collect resources. The player who scores the most points for the goods, soldiers and inventions in their score pile at the end of the game is the winner in this 30 minute game of interstate conflict.
In Alchemists, two to four budding alchemists compete to discover the secrets of their mystical art. Players gain knowledge by mixing ingredients and testing the results. Players can also earn money by selling potions of questionable quality to adventurers, but money is just a means to an end. The alchemists don’t want riches, after all. They want respect, and respect usually comes from publishing theories. What arcane secrets do these strange ingredients hide? Now it is time to find out.
p back in time to stop a Tragedy? In Tragedy Looper, you can. In each game, a hidden Mastermind player will unfold a mystery as the Protagonists try to figure out what is going on and break out of the time loop maze and create a happy future. Will you earn your happy ending? Or will the Mastermind feast upon the misery of their opponents.
In Samurai, players compete to gain the favor of three factions: samurai, peasants, and priests, scattered about the board, which features the islands of Japan. The competition is waged through the use of hexagonal tiles, each of which help curry favor of one of the three factions . As each faction is surrounded, it is awarded to the player who has gained the most favor with the corresponding group.
In this reprint of a classic, in HEY! THAT’S MY FISH! a gaggle of Penguins battle over fishing grounds on a rapidly shrinking iceberg. Each turn, a player moves one penguin in a straight line over hex-shaped ice tiles. The player then collects the hex from where the penguin started its movement from the table, thereby creating a gap which penguins can’t cross on future turns. When a penguin is stranded, it’s removed from play with its owner claiming the tile on which it stands. The player who collects the most fish wins.
If Takenoko’s panda wasn’t already driving the gardener insane… the introduction of a second panda might just push the poor dude over the edge. The Emperor of China has sent another gift – this time a FEMALE panda. Want to flood the board in panda cubs? The Takenoko Chibis expansion might be for you.
In Parfum you assume the rule of a master perfumer trying to distill the most desired fragrances and sell them to the picky customers. Each customer has their own favorite fragrance that a perfume must contain as well as a price they‘re willing to pay. Will players wake up early to snatch the best ingredients? Or are they willing to sleep in and hope for the best?
The Builders: Antiquity — a standalone card game based on The Builders: Middle Ages — offers a whole range of challenges to its builders. Between hiring workers, managing their organization, purchasing slaves or tools, and taking out loans, you’ll have to make the right decisions to fulfill your dream: Becoming the greatest builder the age has ever known. But don’t you get caught with slaves at the end of an era, you’re going to have problems on your hands.
Can’t get enough of Cash n’ Guns? It’s time for the More Cash n’ More Guns expansion. In this expansion to the run-away hit, you’ll be able to get your hands on four new pistols, new loot cards and new special powers. Just when you were starting to relax around your fellow thieves, crooks and criminals, More Cash N’ More Guns will leave you looking over your shoulder long after the police sirens have faded.