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Letter of Marque is now on sale
Letter of Marque | Published 20 November 2009 Rating  
 8 votes

Set a course for your local game store or our webstore, and embark on a quick and light card game of treasure, temptation, and trickery on the high seas. Available just in time for the holidays, Letter of Marque, a family-friendly bluffing game designed by the prolific Bruno Faidutti (creator of Citadels and Ad Astra), is now on sale!

This engaging card game features elegantly simple rules, but offers a treasure chest full of rich player interaction. Numbered cards indicate the value of a specific cargo, and detailed plastic corsairs represent your escorts. Only two of your five corsairs hide a cannon icon on the bottom of their base (indicating defensive capabilities), and your opponents can play attack cards to try to steal your treasure. You must shrewdly decide which transports will receive the actual defenses, and which ones will be protected by nothing but a bluff.

Check out our description page and our detailed preview, then get set to loot and plunder your friendly local game store!

Letter of Marque is a card game of treasure, temptation, and trickery on the high seas in which 3-6 players battle and bluff their way across the ocean to safely deliver their cargo.

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A Chance to Wield Your Vast Intellect
Penny Arcade: The Card Game is now on sale
Penny Arcade: The Card Game | Published 20 November 2009 Rating  
 8 votes

It’s finally here – Penny Arcade: The Card Game, a game of grievous personal injury, is at your friendly local game store and at our webstore!

Designed by James Hata, Penny Arcade: The Card Game is based on the characters and situations from the smash hit Penny Arcade webcomic. Two players take on the personas of Gabe and Tycho as they use everything at their disposal to obliterate their opponent and claim victory.

Check out the description page, then head to your local retailer or to our webstore, and let the unsporting conduct commence!

Penny Arcade is a card game for 2 players featuring the characters from the hit web comic of the same name. Gabe and Tycho employ various attacks, hijinks, and stuff they have acquired over the years to assist them in beating down their rival. Playable in less than 30 minutes, Penny Arcade is easy to learn and impossible to master.

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Your Local Retailer has a Rat Problem
The first battle pack for Warhammer: Invasion is now on sale
Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game | Published 19 November 2009 Rating  
 21 votes

In the sewers beneath the great cities, the clattering of thousands of claws against stone, along with the screeching of countless vermin, creates a menacing cacophony. This is the domain of the Skaven, the vile rat men who scheme from the dark corners of the Empire. Now, they are venturing from their filthy holes to join the fight for supremacy over the Old World in full force...

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce that The Skavenblight Threat is now on sale!

The Skavenblight Threat is the first monthly Battle Pack installment of The Corruption Cycle, a linked expansion series for Warhammer: Invasion, a card game of intense warfare, clever kingdom management, and epic questing. This 40 card pack contains 20 different never-before-seen cards designed to augment existing decks and add variety to the Warhammer: Invasion metagame.

Head to your local retailer, or to our webstore, and get your copy today!

Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game is a card game by Eric M. Lang in which 2 players develop their kingdoms and lay waste to their foes. Each side is comprised of either the forces of Order or the forces of Destruction as they seek to extend their empire to include the entire Old World. The Living Card Game format allows players to customize their gaming experience with monthly Battle Pack expansions to the core game.

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Dark Heresy | Published 19 November 2009 Rating  
 18 votes

The Radical’s Handbook, the much anticipated sourcebook for Dark Heresy, is now available at your local retailer and through our webstore!

Radical Inquisitors turn away from the path of the Puritan and rely upon tools that most of the Inquisition (and other organisations of the Imperium) consider blasphemous. Heretical allies, alien technologies, and daemon weapons of Chaos are but a few of these instruments chosen by Radicals who believe that the end always justifies the means.

This brand new sourcebook for Dark Heresy contains new rules, new (and dark!) background and career options, and forbidden gear. It is an excellent resource for both players and Game masters who wish to tread the forsaken path of the Radical.

Within the pages of this tome, you will find additional rules for sorcery, tainted psychic powers, and heretical technology developed by Radicals of the Calixis Sector. Whether you and your Acolytes prefer to destroy the Radicals or join them in their path to damnation, this sourcebook provides all you need to do both.

Brave the dangers of the galaxy to get to your local retailer, or visit our webstore, to acquire your copy today!

Dark Heresy is a roleplaying game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, a setting in the grim darkness of the far future. Players take on the roles of Acolytes serving the Inquisition, rooting out heresy and corruption from within the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Man.

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An All-Purpose Tool
Gaming Tokens are now available at your local retailer
Fantasy Flight Supply | Published 19 November 2009 Rating  
 18 votes

Fantasy Flight Supply Gaming Tokens are now available at your local retailer!

Available in blue, red, green, silver, and gold, Fantasy Flight Supply Gaming Tokens come in packs of twenty and are a perfect tool for any gamer’s collection. Made of attractive marbleized plastic, these tokens are stackable and easy to store. Use them to replace the cardboard bits of your current games, or make them components in your own original game design projects.

Our webstore is already sold out, but you can pick some up at your local game store and add them to your collection!

Fantasy Flight Supply is a complete line of board game accessories to protect and customize your games.

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WFRP Has Left the Building
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay on its way to distributors
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay | Published 18 November 2009 Rating  
 41 votes

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay logo

It may have been a long and hard road leading up to this moment, but the results were well worth it.
 
Over the past few months, we’ve been pouring over and putting the finishing touches on our monumental re-imagining of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Today we’re proud to announce that these boxes have been shipping out on trucks all week long, making their way first to the game distributors, and then will be landing soon in your friendly local game store.
 
Here’s a picture of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay development team, with boxes of their pride and joy stacked high on pallets in our warehouse.
 
WFRP development team surrounded by boxes
 
If you’re one of the lucky individuals who took part in the Emperor’s Decree special event last week, thank you for getting out there to support your local store. We’re thrilled by the number of responses we have received from players and GM’s who had the opportunity to enjoy these very first public games of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.
 
The event was a success because of your participation, and both players and GM’s have been leaving feedback on our forums and across the web.
 
Here are a few highlights (and you can read more for yourself on our WFRP forums):
 
"...this system is written with storytellers firmly in mind. Everything about the rules is designed to promote, and even reward, creativity and flexibility."
 
“Great system...already pre-ordered mine based on the demo (I admittedly went in with a negative attitude and expecting it to be more a board game...that'll teach me to listen to theorycrafters on the internet).”
 
“The system plays smoothly, and while it is vastly different from the prior edition, it does an excellent job of fading into the background and letting the DM and players tell a story...I look forward to running a campaign with it...”
 
“The new dice mechanic. Very involved, very intuitive, and extremely easy to grasp after your first couple rolls. Gathering the dice pool really helps paint a picture of what you're doing...They are very much a story-telling aid, even more so than FFG has led me to believe from the designer diaries.”
 
“All the naysayers that complain about this being more a board game than an rpg apparently don't know what an RPG is....This is closer to pure storytelling than D&D4e/3.5/3 or any other 'real' RPG out there.”
 
Ask your local game store for more information. Soon you’ll have your own copy in hand and can passionately dive in to this brand new look at the Old World.
 
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a roleplaying game that sets unlikely heroes on the road to perilous adventure, in the grim setting of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy world. Players will venture into the dark corners of the Empire, guided by luck and Fate, and challenge the threats that others cannot or will not face.
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Character Counts
New Spoilers for UFS Set 14: Quest of Souls
Universal Fighting System | Published 18 November 2009 Rating  
 13 votes

The pre-release event for UFS Set 14: Quest of Souls is this weekend: November 20th-22nd! Here to present the final two spoilers for Set 14 is developer James Hata.


Hope you guys are looking forward to the upcoming pre-release for Set 14 this weekend. This will be the last spoiler before then, so lets get started!

Today we will be unveiling two of the characters in this set, Taki and Yoshimitsu.
 

Taki revolves around generating blank foundations, whether if its transforming normal foundations into blank foundations or turning attacks into blank foundations. Her abilities really work well with her support, some of which interacts with blank foundations directly. Overall, between her ability to remove threats from the board and her ability to turn attacks into resources, Taki is definitely a very powerful character!
Yoshimitsu is an interesting blend between hand control and direct burn. By using Yoshimitsu’s enhance during each of your attacks, you force your opponent to choose to block the oncoming attack or lose cards out of his hand. If your opponent chooses to not block your attack and let the damage go through, Yoshimitsu can then directly burn your opponent’s vitality equal to the number of cards he discarded. In either scenario, your opponent loses cards out of his hand!


Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this round of spoilers for Set 14 and are looking forward to this set.

Until next time!

- James Hata


UFS (Universal Fighting System)
is the premier fighting game TCG where all of your favorite console fighting game characters get to slug it out in the Arena of Champions. For more information on UFS,
check out our UFS minisite.
 

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In Space No One Can Hear You Whine
Our first peek inside the box of Cosmic Incursion
Cosmic Encounter | Published 17 November 2009 Rating  
 22 votes

Cosmic Incursion logo

Today we’re thrilled to offer you a look at Cosmic Incursion, the upcoming expansion for Cosmic Encounter

The more the merrier.
 
Anyone who’s enjoyed a game of Cosmic Encounter knows that more players means more fun. Not only is the game more enjoyable because there are greater numbers of alien powers and flares to contend with, but the game is an incredibly social one. More opponents and more allies are always welcome!
 
In Cosmic Incursion we’ve included a full set of components in orange for a sixth player: twenty plastic ships, five planets, three matching destiny cards, and one player colony marker. 
 
All you’ll need to bring is the chair.
 
In addition, Cosmic Incursion introduces a brand new game variant in the form of the reward deck. This set of 32 cards is available only to defensive allies, who may choose to draw some or all of their defender rewards from it.
Reward deck fan
Click for an enlarged view
 
The reward deck is a collection of special, slightly more powerful cards perfect for getting the upper hand in an encounter: crooked deals can score you some extra cards after a negotiation, unstable rift cards offer an escape route for ships stuck in the warp but will detonate when taken as compensation, and kicker cards can swing fortune either in your favor or against it.
 
In space no one can hear you whine.
 
Cosmic Incursion also brings twenty new alien races ready to colonize the galaxy. Ten of these powers will be brand new and have never been seen before, while ten classic alien powers will be making their long-awaited reappearance.
 
Today we’re going to take a peek at one of your most requested fan favorites. We have heard you and we have obeyed...just as you must whenever you’re playing against the Sniveler
 Sniveler card
Click to read the Sniveler's power
 
 
Here’s a bit of history about this forlorn race: 
 
 
The Snivelers developed in the evolutionary shadow of a closely related but older and more gifted race. Beset by adversity at every turn, they looked to their elder brethren for succor and defense. Now grown adept at self-pity and having liquidated their generous patrons, they turn their wet, envious gaze toward the heavens.
 
Once per encounter, the Sniveler may whine about their position in the game: they might have fewer ships or colonies than any other player, or perhaps they’re lacking a particular card in their hand. In any case, the other players will then obliged to correct the situation. Ask (or whine) and you shall receive!
 
Coming up next...
 
In the weeks ahead, we will continue to reveal the aliens found in the Cosmic Incursion expansion. Keep scanning the skies and we’ll see you in a couple of weeks.
 
Cosmic Encounter is a classic board game for three to five players where fate and destiny collide against the unpredictable nature of the cosmos. With innumerable combinations of alien powers, and exceptional wheeling and dealing between players, this fan favorite game of galactic conquest is brimming with outlandish twists as players race to be the first to establish enough colonies to win.

 

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Quest with Confidence
The FAQ for Talisman is now on the support page
Talisman | Published 17 November 2009 Rating  
 23 votes

The quest for the Crown of Command is fraught with peril, but often the greatest shield an adventurer can carry is knowledge.

Protect yourself! The Talisman FAQ (pdf, 228KB) is now available on the support page.

Talisman is a classic board game of adventuring in which journeys through the lands in search of the powerful Crown of Command. Take control of one of 14 different characters from a powerful Troll to a magical Druid, and enter a beloved world of fantasy adventure!

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