Octopus Overlords

May 22 - Lee
We are very excited to announce that not only has the boardgame adaptation of Hand of Fate, HoF: Ordeals, hit Kickstarter, but it smashed its KS goal in less than six hours! Now that we’ve all had our morning coffees and shaken the disbelief out of our systems it’s time to reveal the first stretch goal - Goblins!

If you’ve encountered goblins in Hand of Fate before, you know what to expect from them on the tabletop: they’re going to steal your equipment! If you manage to take them down, however, you’ll be very richly rewarded.

Looking to future unlocks, there are a couple of addition encounters and trap challenges we're approaching the threshold for, and then the first of our big exciting secrets! Things so secret that I may have already said too much!

If you’re keen to pledge or to take a look at what we’re offering, head on over to Hand of Fate Ordeals on Kickstarter!

We’d love to have your support!

Spoiler:

hepcat wrote:For those who are interested, the kickstarter for the expansion to Roll Player is live.

Roll Player is a pretty well reviewed dice game about the process of creating a character for a role playing game. You don't actually adventure...although it sounds like this expansion might remedy that a bit.

I went hunting for the game after I learned about it last year. I was able to snag a copy at that time and I took it to an Octocon, where it got more than a few plays from folks. For a while, it was hard to find a copy. But this kickstarter also has an option to get the base game as well.

The War of the Worlds is a solitaire board game that puts you in command of the Human forces in a desperate attempt to defend Earth against the invading Martian Tripods!

While you plan and carry out the Human side of the war, the game system commands the Martian forces.

The War of the Worlds is a low complexity board game for gamers, science fiction fans, and anyone who likes an easy to play game with good decision-making. Each games takes only an hour or so to play.

Zombicide: Green Horde is a cooperative board game for 1 to 6 players that is both a standalone game, and fully compatible with Zombicide: Black Plague and its expansions! Players control a party of medieval fantasy survivors as they fight to rid the land of an invasion of zombie orcs controlled by the game itself. Survivors find weapons, learn spells, battle zombies, and gain experience. The more experienced they get, the more powerful they become, but the more zombies rise to face them!

Smoove_B wrote:War of the Worlds from DVG:

The War of the Worlds is a solitaire board game that puts you in command of the Human forces in a desperate attempt to defend Earth against the invading Martian Tripods!

While you plan and carry out the Human side of the war, the game system commands the Martian forces.

The War of the Worlds is a low complexity board game for gamers, science fiction fans, and anyone who likes an easy to play game with good decision-making. Each games takes only an hour or so to play.

Smoove_B wrote:War of the Worlds from DVG:

The War of the Worlds is a solitaire board game that puts you in command of the Human forces in a desperate attempt to defend Earth against the invading Martian Tripods!

While you plan and carry out the Human side of the war, the game system commands the Martian forces.

The War of the Worlds is a low complexity board game for gamers, science fiction fans, and anyone who likes an easy to play game with good decision-making. Each games takes only an hour or so to play.

Zarathud wrote:For me, the 3 original sets had the right theme with classic movie characters. And my wallet is still hurting from Burning Sun. And you can have too many zombies.

hepcat wrote:Everyone should own at least one CMON game.

If I hadn't backed their other new franchise, Massive Darkness, I would jump on this.

Defiant wrote:Crowdfunding for FLASH POINT: FIRE RESCUE digital version

hentzau wrote:Sounds like you're playing it solo? I haven't tried it solo, but I love the game. It's my favorite filler.

hentzau wrote:( And Airborne in your Pocket. Those two hurt.)

This is Mark Rapson from Word Forge Games. It is with great pleasure that we have agreed to publish the commercial version of Airborne in your Pocket, along with a reprint/redesign of D-Day Dice (see the statement on DDD’s page for more info on that reprint).

I first learnt of Emmanuel and his games when a good friend of mine was raving about D-Day Dice. Since then, Emmanuel and I have been in nearly daily contact and we have discussed a lot. He let me know about the AIYP issues and told me what he felt and what he wanted to do. I have a huge amount of respect for him, he is a true game designer who wants to see his invention enjoyed. It must be awful for him to see his baby, embroiled in such a catastrophe... but he has a plan and I am happy that Word Forge Games can help to put it into action.

Details aren’t set in stone at the moment. The game itself will be packaged differently, and we will probably have to modify/cancel some of the stretch rewards, but be assured we will do our best to compensate each and every backer of the original Kickstarter.

Deep Space D-6 is a self contained tabletop game designed from the ground up for solitaire play. In it, players take on the role of a starship captain stranded in hostile space. As captain, you'll be tasked with assigning crew member to various stations in order to deal with external threats like enemy spaceships, as well as internal threats like system malfunctions.