Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

The Lothal Wastes Skirmish Map for Imperial Assault is a 26” by 26” slip-resistant mat for use with your skirmish battles. Not only does the mat provide easy setup for your intense head-to-head games, it keeps them organized, neat, and mobile. Setting up the Lothal Wastes map now only takes the second that you need to unroll your mat.

Once your match begins, you’ll soon find that the spacious borders around the map give you plenty of room to place your Deployment cards, Command deck, and tokens, while still keeping them out of the way of the action. The map even comes with its two Skirmish cards, giving you all the information you need for your battles at the tip of your fingers, whether you're diving right into the action, or controlling areas of immeasurable power.

With powerful, thematic art of a death trooper and a grizzled clone warrior drawing you into the Star Wars universe, this skirmish map is the perfect site for your next battles.

The Wastes

Whether you’re preparing for a tournament or just competing against some friends, the Lothal Wastes Skirmish Map keeps your games of Imperial Assault tidy, organized, and neat. Keep all your tools at your fingertips and dive right into the action of Imperial Assault!

Vendor: Queeng
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

• A Set of Playing Cards: 52 Playing Cards + 2 Jokers 

• Gorgeous, vibrant, hand-drawn illustrations on the equal gender, multi-ethnic face cards & jokers. Face cards include male & females Monarchs, Duke, Duchess, Prince & Princess.

• Top casino-quality playing cards, size 63 x 88 mm with round corners and a 4 mm white border, printed on 300 gsm cardboard with CMYK ink, smooth finish + standard playing card varnish

• The option to choose standard/traditional decks or left-handed decks. Lefty decks have numbers in all 4 corners, while standards decks have the traditional numbers only in 2 diagonal corners.

• Printed by Cartamundi, the #1 card printing company in the world!

Vendor: Queeng
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

• A Set of Playing Cards: 52 Playing Cards + 2 Jokers 

• Gorgeous, vibrant, hand-drawn illustrations on the equal gender, multi-ethnic face cards & jokers. Face cards include male & females Monarchs, Duke, Duchess, Prince & Princess.

• Top casino-quality playing cards, size 63 x 88 mm with round corners and a 4 mm white border, printed on 300 gsm cardboard with CMYK ink, smooth finish + standard playing card varnish

• The option to choose standard/traditional decks or left-handed decks. Lefty decks have numbers in all 4 corners, while standards decks have the traditional numbers only in 2 diagonal corners.

• Printed by Cartamundi, the #1 card printing company in the world!

Vendor: Classic Board Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

This beautiful folding chess set with walnut wood stain is small for easy travel. Features a magnetic board to help keep the chess pieces from falling over when bumped. Checker pieces are nonmagnetic. Board measures approximately 8 1/2 inches with a 1 1/2 inch king.

• Classic chess & checkers set – travel size
• Wooden board with walnut finish – folds in half – 8 7/16 inch
• Magnetic chessmen to help prevent pieces from falling over
• 32 magnetic (light and dark) chessmen – king measures 1.5 inch
• Includes 24 wooden checker pieces (light & dark) – checkers are nonmagnetic

Vendor: Green Couch Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Vendor: Not specified
Type: Board Games
Price: 0.95

Was available at International Tabletop Day 2018

Adds 25 cards to the base game. Each card features a cat celebrating International Tabletop Day and prompts to tell their Action Cats! story.

Vendor: Classic Board Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Vendor: Tasty Minstrel Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Orléans Stories is based on the bag-building mechanism known from Orléans, with this mechanisms having been further developed into a storytelling experience in which players go through different eras and face different challenges. Broadly speaking, instead of focusing on the city of Orléans and trade with the surrounding villages, player are now settling the Loire Valley. Players must farm and produce, found villages, and build fortresses and churches. They will experience times of prosperity and success, but also times of deprivation; they must defy hunger and plague, fight for their land, and perhaps conquer foreign lands to secure the lives of their settlers. In the end, however, there is peace and the joint administration of territories and villages.

The game includes two stories: "The First Kingdom" and "The King's Favor". "The First Kingdom" is an epic story that spans eight so-called eras, and each era features different conditions and emphases. Sometimes knights settle down, with whose help you can conquer foreign territories, sometimes the plague threatens to decimate the population of settlers unless all have worked together to develop medicine.

"The King's Favor" is shorter, simpler, and more suitable as an introduction to the game. Over five eras, certain tasks have to be fulfilled by the end of each era, and those who fail to do so will drop out mercilessly. The threat of having to end the game prematurely provides a constant thrill, but all tasks are achievable, so that (usually) all players experience the end of the fifth era — but those who have concentrated only on the tasks will be punished because at this point everyone's achievements will be compared in the king's castle, and you will receive victory points for territory size, buildings, goods, and coins.

The different eras affect the parameters of play as well as the rules of the game, creating new strategic possibilities. This challenges players to constantly adapt to current conditions, giving you the impression of experiencing a story, but unlike in legacy games, these stories can be repeated as often as you like. The changes from era to era require a new way of looking at things from a distance, but this is made easier for players by a story booklet in which players will find not only all relevant information and rule peculiarities, but also hints of how to prepare for the upcoming game in the form of a narrated story.

Vendor: Upper Deck
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

In Vs. System 2PCG, players choose a main character, build a deck with exactly sixty cards, and attempt to stun the other player's main character in a game of superhero battle. The first set — Vs System 2PCG: The Marvel Battles — contains characters only from the Marvel Universe, but future sets may add other IPs.

Vs System 2PCG: The Marvel Battles is superficially similar to the original Vs. System collectible card game, but is a completely rebuilt game that takes some inspiration from the original. Combat has been streamlined, the turn structure is different, the resource system has been revamped, and the game is no longer collectible, with cards instead being released in a non-random format. A single box contains a full play-set of all cards.

Vendor: Bezier Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

You’ve played Ultimate Werewolf countless times. You know the game and the roles inside and out. This is the expansion for you.

Ultimate Werewolf Pro contains over 50 new carefully balanced roles, a new player item, and new Pro rules that will enhance games specifically for experienced players and moderators.

Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Number of Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 30-45 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 8+

Fresco: The Card Game takes the core game play of Fresco and distills it into a smaller, faster playing design.

The Bishop has specific wishes when it comes to the new fresco that should brighten up the cathedral. He has very particular instructions about what should be painted in specific places. Players will take on the role of painters attempting to paint the new fresco according to his instruction, receiving points in the game for painting the Fresco and bonus points for fulfilling the Bishops' requests.

During the game players draw color cards which they will use to paint sections of the fresco. Color cards can be gained from the market, which holds the three basic colors, or from the workshop, which contains the mixed color palette. When players have enough colors they can paint a section of the fresco and gain points. Play the right combination of cards, and you will extra points.

When all sections of the fresco are painted, players total up their points and who has the most points is the winner of the game.

Fresco - The Dice Game

Roll and combine the right combination of dice to gain fresco tiles and be the first to complete your fresco!

The goal of the game is to complete the five different tiles to form a complete fresco. In order to complete a fresco tile players have to roll a result that matches the number next to each fresco tile.

On their turn, players roll the dice exactly three times, on each roll setting one die aside. After the three rolls, the pips on the three set aside dice are added together, which allows the player to collect the corresponding tile. If the result does not match a fresco tile number, they gain a portrait token which will grant bonuses or points. The two color dice can be used to double the number on the corresponding colored die, making it easier to reach the higher numbers.

Before a turn players can place the bishop on one of the five fresco tile spaces, earning extra points if they manage to roll that exact number. Other players can bet on whether the player is successful or not, and will earn some extra points if they guess correctly. At the end of the game, players count the points on their fresco and portrait tiles, and whomever has the most points is the winner of the game.

Vendor: Fryxgames
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Star Scrappers: Orbital by Jacob Fryxelius, the designer of Terraforming Mars, is based on his Space Station card game, which has been mechanically streamlined, updated and re-themed to fit the Star Scrappers universe - a space western setting created and developed by Hexy Studio.

You start your space station (Orbital) with a core module tile on the table, then over five years (rounds) you expand it by paying and placing new module cards. Each year you start with a five card hand, crew tokens and new money, with the amount of crew and money determined by the structure of your orbital. You use money primarily to pay for new modules, and the crew gives you special effects on many of your modules.

During the year, the players take turns doing actions such as building, using module actions, playing event cards, repairing or passing. When everyone passes, the year ends and victory points are awarded: there are six kinds (colors) of modules and for each kind, the player(s) with the most modules of that kind is awarded a victory point. At the end of the fifth year, the player with most victory point wins.

Background story:

Welcome to the Star Scrappers universe! Have a seat and get comfortable in the commander chair on a Space Station - one of many that are being constructed in the asteroid belt called the Sybil Cloud. Deposits of Hexis - the most desired mineral in the entire Galaxy - have been discovered there, attracting numerous daredevils willing to extract the precious crystals. Miners have to live somewhere, so you and your corporation are here to provide them with accommodation and, naturally, to get rich!

Terrons:

Terrons, the space station builders, are descendants of the humans who came to this galaxy a long time ago. Over a thousand years, united in the Interstellar Terron Federation, they have colonized many corners of the universe. The democratic system of the Terron society has encouraged the creation of many independent structures, such as corporations, commercial consortiums and mercenary guilds. By making contact with different alien species, they have caused their civilization to flourish and their influence to spread. At the base of their success lies ambition. Ambition that knows no bounds. This trait of character drives Terrons ever forward, to conquer new territories, to discover the unknown, to push the frontier of the Federation another step further. Their military forces are well-known across the Central Sector, as they strike fear in the hearts of alien beings inhabiting the Galaxy. They became famous during the two Hy’Dran Wars, proving unshaken and well-trained. Even now, in times of peace, the Terron fleet remains ready to defend their territories. And their businesses.

Other inhabitants of the Galaxy:

In the distant future, countless alien species explore the Galaxy in search of fortune and fame. The last interstellar war with the Hy’Dran Empire ended over fifty years ago and since then peace treaties have been in power. Newly discovered cosmic nations, like the cybernetic Biosses and the expansive Weedlocks, are beginning to influence the fate of the Galaxy, while the inhabitants of ancient planets, such as the mechanical Metanels and the mysterious Minegglers, are once again striving to achieve their goals.

Vendor: Kolossal Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

In a unique competition organized by an eccentric billionaire on an offshore oil platform, the world's best fighters and martial artists will compete for sumptuous prizes and the glory to prove that they are the strongest and most skilled. In Combo Fighter, you will play one of these fighters competing to become the ultimate champion. You will have your own unique 50-card deck and a set of combos to play against your opponents. Each hit removes cards from your hand and deck and the first to run out of cards is defeated! This VS Pack features 2 characters, Boko and Yoshida, with their own decks.

Vendor: Sierra Madre Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Number of Players: 1-6

Playing Time: 60-90 Minutes

Recommended Ages: 14+

Entry level Pax game - easy to learn for families and those new to the Pax series.

Pax Viking is a strategic, historical game for 1-6 players aged 12 and up about the lesser know Vikings that travelled eastwards. These adventurers and explorers primarily came from Sweden and were for most parts merchants: skillful opportunists when it came to the use of both shining silver and sharpened steel.

Pax Viking is a tile driven game where you compete over cards in a common market in combination with strategic movement of longships on the map. You can play cards you buy on map locations you control through your longships; create trading posts, claim benefits from events and more. You can also play cards on your jarlboard, adding abilities to your player through friends, allies and gods. In the east you explore and develop the regions and trade routes. In the west you can find powerful allies and gods to help you. Through your actions you collect followers to give you power and influence for your final bid: to be the first king of Sweden.

Vendor: Cool Mini or Not
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

We Care: A Grizzled Game, inspired by current world events, puts players deep in the trenches as Healthcare Professionals battling a terrible disease. Working together, players must use their limited resources wisely. The stress of the job is a constant worry, as is possibly contracting the illness themselves.

Based on the best-selling The Grizzled game

Part of the proceeds from sales will go to a healthcare NGO, letting players actually fight against the real-world pandemic.

Vendor: Ludonova
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

The frequent tremors, the looming clouds over the crater, and the ever-increasing smell of sulfur make it clear that it is time to escape. Direct your tribe through the waters of the Pacific in search of a new home, safe from the impending eruption of the volcano. Explore new sea routes that lead to unvisited islands, collect resources on those islands to offer to other tribes in exchange for their knowledge, and continue sailing in search of a safe place — all this being done to save as many of your tribe members as possible and lead them to new lands where they can prosper. The most successful individual through this difficult mission will be appointed the supreme chief of the Polynesian tribal group.

In Polynesia, players must save their tribe members from the dangers of the volcano by taking them to the islands that will give them the most points. At the same time, players must try to reach the objectives set by the tide cards, which will vary from one game to another. To succeed, players must collect resources in the form of fish and shells that will allow them to explore new sea routes, use the routes of other players, and sail from one island to another.

Polynesia is played in rounds, and each round is divided into two phases. In the action phase, each player has three turns in which they can perform one of three actions: sail, explore, or populate and fish. In the maintenance phase, the volcano activity is checked for activity, and each player can collect resources depending on the islands where they have tribe members.

Vendor: Funko
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

Pick your favorite hero, rescue your friends, and win battles to defeat Thanos! Battleworld is a revolutionary cooperative, expandable, collectible adventure game featuring dozens of characters from all over the Marvel Universe! Players get to crack open the mysterious Thanostones during the course of play to reveal the mystery character inside for a constant sense of surpise and delight!

The Travel Portal is the first accessory in the Battleworld line! Players can clip this to their bag to carry their favorite character wherever they go – and the spinner base can be used instead of the dice in the game!
Each pack includes:
• 1 Travel Portal with spinner base!
• 1 Exclusive Gold Ultron character + Hero Card
• Backpack/bag clip to take it anywhere!

Vendor: Funko
Type: Board Games
Price: 10.95

Pick your favorite hero, rescue your friends, and win battles to defeat Thanos! Battleworld is a revolutionary cooperative, expandable, collectible adventure game featuring dozens of characters from all over the Marvel Universe! Players get to crack open the mysterious Thanostones during the course of play to reveal the mystery character inside for a constant sense of surpise and delight!

THis The Thanos Ship Showdown expands the game to include an exclusive Thanos character and his brutal flagship! The set includes:

• 1x Thanos Ship with dice-dropping and battle damage-tracking action!
• 1x Exclusive Thanos character mini-figure
• 1x exclusive die
• And everything you need to add this to your game!

Vendor: Horrible Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Railroad Ink Challenge is a quick-playing roll-and-write game for 1 to 4 players. Grab a board and a dry-erase marker, and get ready to reach networking nirvana! Roll the dice and draw the routes to connect the exits around your board. Expand your network with railways, highways and stations to collect points, but you will be penalized for any open connections, so plan carefully!

Railroad Ink Challenge has everything you love from the original Railroad Ink games and a lot more, with an all-new focus on player interaction thanks to in-game goals! Only those who achieve them first get the reward, so you have to keep an eye on what your opponents are doing and try to complete the goals before they do! A different set of goals is available each time, so no two games will be the same!

But wait, there's more! Draw unprecedented, mind-bending route configurations thanks to the new dice! Connect special structures to your network to trigger new effects: factories allow you to duplicate a die, villages give bonus points if they are close to a station, universities unlock extra special routes — use these effects wisely and you'll score big!

Railroad Ink Challenge comes in two versions, each one including one expansion with an additional dice set that adds new special rules to your games. Use oases to protect your cacti from the arid desert climate in the Shining Yellow Edition!

Vendor: Keymaster Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Number of Players: 2-8
Playing Time: 20-30 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 8+

PARKS Memories is a strategic matching game for two or more players offering simple and flexible gameplay. Parks are represented in tiles laid out in a grid across the table face down. Gameplay includes four simple steps: reveal two tiles; choose one of the revealed tiles and place it in front of you; add a new tile to the board; lock one of the tiles with the hiker token. Gameplay passes from person to person until one player or team has collected three sets of matching park tiles in front of them.

Memories captures a depth of strategy in player abilities which can be activated by finding matches of PARKS resource icons when you reveal tiles. There are a variety of ways to enjoy the game. Play a head to head game, or on teams. Expand the grid size for a bigger challenge, or simplify the game to a memory game without player abilities for younger gamers.

PARKS Memories: Mountaineers is one of three editions of PARKS Memories, highlighting the mountainous national parks of the United States. It features a uniques set of player abilities. Collectively all three editions showcase every US national park.

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

CloudAge is a strategy game from Alexander Pfister and Arno Steinwender. The award-winning authors have created a dark and dystopian world for 1 to 4 players.

Fifteen years ago, the mysterious secret society "Cloud" set fire to countless oil production sites and burned down large forests to destabilize the world. The resulting environmental catastrophe had disastrous effects on the entire planet. Now, years later, you travel above the dried-out landscape in your airships, searching for a better life. You visit cities, send out drones to collect resources, and battle Cloud militia.

An innovative sleeving mechanism makes a new, more immersive, form of resource gathering possible. Players try to predict which cloud-covered terrain will contain the desired amount of resources or where additional actions are possible. Resources allow players to develop useful upgrades for their airships or attract new crew members.

CloudAge is a mix of engine-building, deck-building, and resource management. The campaign system makes it easy to start playing quickly, with new elements being introduced into the game as players progress through the chapters. While you play, you also experience and help guide the story. If you prefer, you can also play standalone story spin-offs as single scenarios.

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

A fearless and furious Indian tribe, fast and smoking guns, a gloomy mystery under the Western hot sun — all of this awaits in Back to Tombstone, a Western-themed adventure for the game Mystery House: Adventures in a Box.

Solve all the riddles, and escape alive from the wild wild west.

Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 184.95

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Terrinoth is in peril. The demon-tainted Uthuk Y’llan barbarians stalk the realm and the undead servants of Waiqar the Undying venture beyond their borders for the first time in memory. The leaders of Terrinoth are divided and fractious, unable to unite against these common threats. And in the northern barony of Forthyn, the stage is set for the next great confrontation between Terrinoth and the forces of darkness...

For years, your journeys have taken you across the fantasy realm of Terrinoth, venturing into dark forests, shadowy cities, ancient crypts, and misty swamps… but your true legend is about to begin.

Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Descent: Legends of the Dark, the definitive cooperative dungeon-crawling board game for one to four players!

Forge your own legend together with your friends as you adventure across the vibrant fantasy realm of Terrinoth! Powered by its fully integrated free companion app, Descent: Legends of the Dark puts you in the role of a budding hero with their own playstyle and abilities. Together with your unlikely companions, you’ll begin an unexpected adventure—an adventure told across the sixteen quests of the Blood and Flame campaign. Throughout your campaign, you’ll face undead lurking in the mists, demonic barbarians stalking the wilds, and even more terrifying threats. With 46 pieces of 3D terrain and 40 stunning hero and monster miniatures to draw you into the game, your greatest adventure is yet before you!

Is this the third edition of Descent: Journeys in the Dark?

Descent: Legends of the Dark is not the third edition of Descent: Journeys in the Dark. Although it shares the realm of Terrinoth and the top-level identity as a dungeon-crawling board game indicated by the Descent title, we see Legends of the Dark as a new addition to our catalog, rather than a third edition of Journeys in the Dark.

Although Journeys in the Dark featured the Road to Legend companion app, that game was always designed as a competitive experience, pitting one to four hero players against a single overlord player. Legends of the Dark harnesses its integrated companion app to deliver a cooperative game from the very beginning, freeing you and your friends to fully focus on becoming the heroes of Terrinoth.

Core gameplay mechanics such as combat, fatigue, skills, items, and more have received completely new interpretations with Legends of the Dark, while a new approach to scenario layout and 3D terrain creates striking multi-level scenarios.

The app also brings new changes to gameplay, introducing enemies with adaptable strategies, complex status effects and triggers fully managed by the app, and the ability to develop your heroes based on the choices you make in scenarios. You’ll also uncover a wealth of activity between scenarios, such as crafting, shopping in the city, upgrading equipment, and more.

Because of these various differences, Descent: Legends of the Dark is not compatible with Descent: Journeys in the Dark content.

Heroes of the Realm

Descent: Legends of the Dark invites you to become one of six heroes, each eager to adventure across Terrinoth and brought to gorgeous life with stunning art and a beautifully crafted miniature. More than just their visual style, each hero boasts their own tactical approach to combat and their own virtues that you can choose to pursue during quests.

For example, you may play as Vaerix, the Dragon-Hybrid Outcast. A strong-willed survivor like Vaerix calls fellow heroes to follow a greater purpose, battling with the warbell or keeping their companions hale and ready for the next fight. The Human Avenger, Brynn, is eager to punish any insult, wading into the heat of battle and meting out justice with hammer and blade. Perhaps you prefer Galaden’s long-range attacks and balletic combat style, or you’ll call upon the forces of magic and your bond with your phoenix as Syrus. No matter which hero you’ve chosen for this quest, you’ll be able to explore their trademark combat style and tactics—and since you can choose your weapons, armor, consumables, and even your skills at the beginning of each quest, there’s almost limitless opportunities to remix your character and explore new styles as you play through the campaign!

With Descent: Legends of the Dark, the quality and scale of FFG's sculpted miniatures are pushed to new heights!

Gameplay in Descent: Legends of the Dark is fast and intuitive. You’ll take three actions on every turn—one maneuver action and two additional actions of your choice! Maneuvering gives you movement points, as shown in the upper right corner of the character sheet, and since you always have a maneuver action, you’ll always be able to reposition and put yourself in a more advantageous position for attack. Other than maneuvering, you can use an action to attack an enemy, rolling your attack dice and drawing upon your hero’s abilities and weapons to deal maximum damage or inflict harmful conditions on your foes. Or, you may use the explore action to interact with a piece of 3D terrain or a token by using the app. You can also use your action to perform one of the most crucial actions in Legends of the Dark: the ready action.

The ready action lets you flip your hero sheet or one of your cards to its opposite side, unlocking new abilities! For example, Galaden can use his Light Step ability, suffering fatigue to shift his position and quickly move across the battlefield—or if he flips to the opposite side of his hero sheet, he can suffer three fatigue to expose an enemy in line of sight, cuing the app to inflict 20% more damage on that enemy during attacks!

When you ready Galaden and flip his hero sheet, you'll also remove any fatigue or condition tokens that have been placed on the sheet!

You’ll notice the fatigue limit in the lower right corner of each hero sheet, as well as other cards, such as weapons or skills. When you take fatigue to trigger Galaden’s Light Step ability, you’ll place that fatigue on his hero sheet. What’s more, attacks from enemies or environmental effects may cause your hero to suffer condition tokens, such as infected or terrified, which are also placed on your hero sheet. When you ready a card or hero sheet and flip it to its opposite side, you’ll also remove all fatigue and condition tokens from it—making this an ideal way to keep your heroes ready for action, as well as pulling out the right abilities for each situation.

Your hero sheet isn’t the only thing you can ready—every hero also has an attack card and skill cards! Each hero starts the game with two weapon cards, sleeved together back-to-back to create a single attack card. (Sleeves to create the attack cards are included in the game!) For instance, Vaerix creates their attack card by sleeving their two starting weapon cards, the Ironthorn Warbell and the Riverwatch Spear. When a hero attacks, the attack die is determined by their hero sheet, but damage and other special abilities, such as the type of damage being inflicted, are determined by the weapon you attack with! And as you can see, your attack card can also take fatigue—which is cleared by readying the card. Over the course of the game, you’ll have the chance to discover and craft new weapons, and at the beginning of every quest, you can build your hero’s attack card by drawing on the unlocked weapons from your hero’s two weapon archetypes.

Two distinct weapon cards are combined in a single sleeve to form the attack card—which can be flipped back and forth to offer different tactics.

Skill cards can also be readied, switching between two complementary abilities, such as Vaerix’s Destiny's Call and Fate's Embrace —two complementary abilities on opposite sides of the same skill card. It should be plain to see that readying forms a huge part of the strategy and tactics of every encounter. There’s even a positive condition token—Prepared—that can be placed on one of your cards, allowing you to ready that card without spending an action!

Strike Back Against Darkness

Evil is stirring in Terrinoth once more, and countless dangers arise throughout the game’s sprawling sixteen-quest campaign. As we’ve mentioned before, the gameplay foundation of Descent: Legends of the Dark is built on a fully integrated companion app, which governs everything from activating enemies, to building an unfolding scenario, to opening the door for activities like crafting and shopping between quests.

At the beginning of a quest, you’ll start with perhaps only a single map tile in play—but as you move deeper into the map and explore your surroundings the Legends of the Dark app will direct you to place more and more tiles and terrain. The combination of double-sided map tiles and underlays gives unparalleled depth to the number of scenarios you can create—and that depth is elevated with the addition of vertical levels and 3D terrain that give Legends of the Dark an unrivaled presence on your tabletop.

Your levels will be filled with staircases up to other rooms, sturdy bookshelves, towering trees, treasure chests, barricades, doors, and statues. And all this 3D terrain isn’t just decorative: you can interact with all of it through the app, plucking valuable tomes off a moldering shelf, cracking open a booby-trapped chest, or climbing a tree to scout out the terrain ahead.

Your objectives will change from quest to quest as you follow the overarching story of the campaign, but you’ll face constant opposition from enemies. From bandits waylaying you on the road, to Uthuk Y’llan berserkers howling for blood, to deadly fae, monstrous golems, ravenous wolves, undead wights, and even more terrifying foes, every enemy is fully brought to life with stunning miniatures.

 Thanks to the Legends of the Dark companion app, each of these enemies boast their own cunning ploys and adapt to the unfolding battle, whether that means laying their plans for a devastating future attack, inspiring other enemies in combat, or even more devious tactics. We’ll take a much closer look at combat in a future preview, since the strategic interplay between your hero abilities, weapons, and skills is a key part of every quest in Legends of the Dark!

Crafting Your Weapon

The Legends of the Dark app isn’t limited to your quests—in fact, it opens the door for even more opportunities between scenarios, such as crafting and weapon upgrades. Over the course of the adventure, as you slay enemies, open chests, or explore dusty chambers, you’ll uncover valuable crafting materials and gold, all tracked by the app. Once you’ve found the recipe for an item, you can craft and upgrade that item at the crafthall in your home city of Frostgate. Perhaps you’ll create new Seer’s Blades for Galaden, or a Gilded Warbell for Vaerix! No matter what you craft, all weapons can be upgraded, so long as you have the resources to pay for it, unlocking an even more powerful version of the weapon.

Weapons can be modified even further in the Frostgate armory. In Descent: Legends of the Dark, weapons have three parts. The first part dictates the weapon card that you use, but the other two parts grant your weapon secondary abilities with a percent chance of triggering each time your hero attacks. These bonuses are fully managed by the app, and in the armory, you can optimize for your next quest, or customize your weapons to fit your style of play.

As your hero grows and gains experience over the course of the campaign, you’ll have even more chances to customize your hero. Every hero has unique feats, tracked by the app, that you can complete to progress your hero’s personal growth. Completing feats can grant you powerful rewards, like new skills or exclusive recipes, so you’ll want to be sure you keep your feats in mind as you play. Your hero also earns experience points over the course of the quest that can be used to unlock skills. Your skills aren’t fixed however—at the start of any new quest, you can choose which skills you want to take, reallocating your experience throughout the campaign as you explore new playstyles and learn more about how you most want to play.

Your Legend Begins

The story told across the Blood and Flame campaign is an epic story that rises to its own finale—but at the same time, it’s only the first act of your story. You can look for Act II and Act III to be coming in the future as their own expansions, each box packed full of new content and the next full-length Legends of the Dark campaign. We don’t have anything more to say about these upcoming act expansions right now, but stay tuned in the months following the release of Descent: Legends of the Dark!

Terrinoth needs heroes—and there’s no better time to start forging your own legend. Get ready to start playing the definitive dungeon-crawling board game with the release of Descent: Legends of the Dark, planned for the second quarter of 2021.

Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Arkham Horror: The Card Game Core Set and The Dream-Eaters deluxe expansion are required to play.

Defend the Dreamlands from the schemes of the Spinner in Darkness in Weaver of the Cosmos, the sixth and final Mythos Pack in the Dream-Eaters cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game! 

Weaver of the Cosmos is Scenario 4–B of The Web of Dreams campaign for Arkham Horror: The Card Game. This scenario can be played on its own in Standalone Mode or combined with the other expansions in The Dream- Eaters cycle to form a larger four-part or eight-part campaign. After the events of Point of No Return, you have finally reached the perilous nightmarescape that you have been led to since the very beginning. Everything has led to this— Virgil’s writings, your companions’ unending sleep, the black cat, all of it. This trans-dimensional space is home to a spider creature that would obliterate your world and replace it with a new reality. If you cannot stop it, there will be no Earth left to return to, no escape from this hellish dream, and the Dreamlands will be lost as well. You have no choice but to fight.

Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Arkham Horror: The Card Game Core Set and The Dream-Eaters deluxe expansion are required to play.

Come face to face with madness in Where the Gods Dwell, the fifth Mythos Pack in The Dream- Eaters cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game! After your seemingly endless journey across the Dreamlands, you have made your way to the land of Leng, an icy wasteland where you believe the peak of unknown Kadath resides. All the while, a presence taunts you, gnawing at your insides— a wordless voice you cannot hear, but feel within the confines of your mind. A presence that is waiting for you.

Where the Gods Dwell is Scenario 4–A of The Dream-Quest campaign. This scenario can be played on its own in Standalone Mode or combined with the other expansions in The Dream- Eaters cycle to form a larger four-part or eight-part campaign. After the events of Dark Side of the Moon, you have finally made your way to lost Kadath, where Nyarlathotep is waiting for a battle that will force you to face deceit, lies, and shifting reality. If you can somehow draw him out, expose him, you may stand a chance, but how do you fight an enemy you cannot understand?