Game Arrivals: Nov. 21, 2018

The River Days Of Wonder

In The River, players compete to make the most amazing settlement of a new world.  In order to outmatch your opponents, construct valuable buildings and cultivate your river banks into harmonious and productive tracts.  Reserve resources, enlarge your territory, and block your competitors.

The River

Every decision counts in this fast and streamlined tile placement game.  But be careful, some of your pioneers will decide to settle along the way and  the lack of a workforce could cost you the victory.

KeyForge Call Of The Archons Fantasy Flight

Call of the Archons is a unique deck game created by Richard Garfield and published by Fantasy Flight Games. In it, players take on the role of Archons in the world of the Crucible. Each Archon races to be the first to collect “Æmber” and forge three keys.

 Each player must have their own deck in order to play the game.

Dominion Renaissance Rio Grande Games

 Renaissance is the newest and 12th expansion for the popular deck-building game, Dominion.  This expansion comes with 300 cards, with 25 new Kingdom cards.  There are tokens that let you save coins and actions for later.  Projects that grant abilities, and Artifacts to fight over.

Dominion Renaissance

Between Two Castles Of  Mad King Ludwig Strongmaier Games

New from Ben Rosset and Matthew O’Malley designers of Between Two Cities comes Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, a tile-drafting game in which each tile is a room in a castle.  You work together with the player on your left to design one castle, and with the player on  your right on another castle.  On each turn you select two tiles from your hand, reveal them, then work with your partners to place one of you selected tiles into each of your two castles.

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New In A Series

Codenames Harry Potter is the newest in the Codenames series, a team word card game.  As operatives for the Order of the Phoenix in Diagon Alley, you must share information with other Order Members.  your objective is to contact all 15 Members while avoiding both Ministry of Magic Officials and the Death Eathers.  You know where some of the Members are located; your partner knows where the rest are.  By giving each other one-word clues that can point to multiple cards on the table, you  must identify all the Order of the Phoenix Members before time runs out.

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New Game

New Game

Master Of Orion The Board Game Cryptozoic

You will lead one of the mighty races that face each other in a grand space struggle.  your actions will determine the fate of the sneaky Darloks, ingenious Psilons, versatile Humans, and many others.

Master Of Orion: The Board Game

Prepare to rule the vast  star systems! manage your resources and production capacities wisely.  You can choose a military way: Strengthen your space fleet, attack  your opponents’ planets, and train your spies.  Or you can choose a peaceful strategy: invest in ecology, learn to control weather, implement resource recycling, and improve the quality of your race’s life.

New Game

Subatomic Genius Games

New Game

New Game Expansion

Terraforming Mars Colonies Stronghold Games

Colonies is the newest expansion to Terraforming Mars.  Colonies lets you visit the outer solar system.  It features colony tiles where you can build colonies and send your trade fleet.  It also includes new cards and corporations.

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Legendary Ant-Man is the latest expansion to Marvel Legendary, a cooperative deck-building card game.  The Ant-Man expansion adds Wonder Man, The Black Knight, and Jocasta to the Avengers roster and join forces to battle with dastardly masterminds Ultron and Morgan le Fay.  This expansion introduces all-new keywords and brings familiar ones like Size-Changing to a new level.

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Invaders From Afar is the 2nd expansion to Scythe, an engine-building game set in an alternate-history 1920’s period.

While empires rise and fall in Eastern Europa, the rest of the world takes notice.  Two distant factions, Albion and Togawa, send emissaries to scout the land and employ their own distinct styles of conquering.

Invaders From Afar expansion adds 2 new factions, 10 minatures, 62 custom wooden tokens, and more.  It provides play for up to 7 players.

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Onitama: Way Of The Wind is the second expansion to Onitama, a 2-player quick-playing abstract strategy game that captures the essence of martial arts.  This expansion includes the Wind Spirit, a new game piece with its own set of cards that create a new layer of choices and interaction in the game.  This indomitable force will interfere with the students, but it may on occasion grant an unforeseen benefit as well.

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With new artwork and a new publisher, Arboretum is back!.  Arboretum is a 2 to 4 player card game. Players will develop a garden of different types of trees. Making the most beautiful arboretum will not be an easy task, and some planning will be required. Which species will you choose? Lilac, willow, or maybe maple?

The goal in Arboretum is to create a pathway of tree of increasing value, where the first and last cards are of the same color.  This is a player’s arboretum and is created on the table in front of each player.  Players will also need to collect in their hand as many of the trees that match their tree path.  At the end of the game the dealer names each tree, one after the other. For each type of tree, the players reveal each card in their hand matching that tree. The player who has the highest sum in a given tree gains the right to score points for any paths matching that tree in their arboretum.  Along a path, each card must be greater in value than the one preceding it. Therefore, the smallest possible path is made up of 2 cards of the same tree, and the longest is made up of 8 cards (this path must start with a 1 and end with an 8). 

New DnD Books

D&D Guildmaster’s Guide To Ravnica

D&D Waterdeep Dungeon Of The Mad Mage

• Camel Up
• Castles Of Mad King Ludwig