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QE: Commodities (Minor Damage)

2024-09-28T17:52:50-04:00

Vendor: BoardGameTables.com
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	BoardGameTables.com
Players	3-5
Expansion For	Q.E. (Quantitative Easing)
Additional Info	360699/qe-commodities http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360699/qe-commodities/forums/63

Q.E. Commodities now presents new investment opportunities for each country! As an expansion to Q.E., you will now have the ability to diversify your portfolio by investing in gold, oil, and crypto. Each commodity adds additional variable victory points to bolster your score. The biggest element of the expansion however is that it now enables you to lower your total spend throughout the game, providing extra layers of strategy and unexpected twists!

-description from publisher

CoLab (Deluxe Edition) (Minor Damage)

2024-08-17T13:37:26-04:00

Vendor: Portal Dragon
Type: Board Games
Price: 89.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour Jon Mietling
Publisher	Portal Dragon
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	283634/colab http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283634/colab/forums/63

The dawn of a new age approaches and we stand at the precipice. The unbridled power of nature awakens something within. Mysteries demand to be explored and the results are not always what we expect. Creepy creatures, dangerous devices, precarious potions, CoLaboratory Incorporated provides a shared laboratory space that is the perfect home for your and your outlandish creations.

Build interesting devices that open new possibilities. Brew potions that grant you fantastic on-demand abilities. Create strange monsters and earn great renown. All while keeping an eye on your fellow scientist and their minions. Scientists bring research into the lab to use on their experiments but they are not the only ones who benefit. Occupy a space adjacent to the research dice held by any minion and you can use it for your own creations.

Collect monster, device, or potion dice to generate more research that can be used on your creations.

Expand the laboratory giving everyone new opportunities.

With each new creation, your collection grows and the placement of each creation in your grid can create new opportunities or gain more renown. Once a player builds their 12th creation the end of the game is triggered and the player with the most renown (points) wins.

CoLab worker and dice placement game with dice collection. Players compete to gain the most renown through building monster, device, or potion cards over the course of the game. Each turn you send a minion to a tower space to gather resources or return a minion. Your minions also hold your resource dice. This resource can be used by players at either adjacent laboratory location. Then you place your player miniature on a laboratory location and either put the adjacent minions to work collecting more resources or build cards according to what is available at that lab. As the game progresses the board expands giving new opportunities for all players who visit that location.

Build a wide variety of monsters, potions, and devices or focus on one type to gain the most renown and win the game.

CoLab employs a series of '“take this”' mechanics where players provide resources, minions, or other opportunities to their opponents in exchange for resources or points. Balancing how much you give away with the opportunities your opponents may create is the real trick to becoming the most renowned scientist in CoLab.

—description from the publisher

The Snallygaster Situation: Kids on Bikes Board Game – Far Out Rides Bonus Pack

2024-02-28T19:14:14-05:00

Vendor: Renegade Game Studios
Type: Board Games
Price: 3.50

Designer	Michael Addison Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	Renegade Game Studios
Players	2-5
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	The Snallygaster Situation: Kids on Bikes Board Game
Additional Info	341280/snallygaster-situation-kids-bikes-board-game-far-o http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/341280/snallygaster-situation-kids-bikes-board-game-far-o/forums/63

Promo pack for pre-ordering the base game. Pack contains:

1 Alien Kid standee (plastic base not included)
3 Ride cards (Sparkles, Sweet Heat, and Jeff's Lame Ride)

QE: Commodities

2023-02-09T02:10:58-05:00

Vendor: BoardGameTables.com
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	BoardGameTables.com
Players	3-5
Expansion For	Q.E. (Quantitative Easing)
Additional Info	360699/qe-commodities http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360699/qe-commodities/forums/63

Vault Wars: Relic Roadshow

2022-12-27T10:51:23-05:00

Vendor: Floodgate Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour Ian Moss
Publisher	Floodgate Games
Players	3-5
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Vault Wars
Additional Info	328641/vault-wars-relic-roadshow http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/328641/vault-wars-relic-roadshow/forums/63

Legends speak of ancient relics, locked away for untold centuries -- who knows what treasures and terrors await? Great power can be yours if you’ve got a villainous eye for looking past the other temptations of the vaults!

Relic Roadshow adds new temptations to Vault Wars allowing you to bid your way to the dark side! New Vaults are uncompromised by special rules and instead award the second-highest bidder with powerful Relics to craft! Drawn by the corrupting power, Aspiring Villains reward you for crafting their desired Relics. Vices give powerful, unique abilities... if you’re willing to take on a bit of corruption, of course! Step right up and place your bid!

Players will take turns as an Auction Master, leading a cut-throat bidding war to selling off Vaults full of items to the other players.
Each Vault provides a unique experience, introducing new ways for the players to bid.
No player quite knows everything that's in a Vault, and there's lots of junk to fool your opponents into bidding on.
Between auctions, players may sell off their items to gain Gold, or save them for Victory Points -- paying storage fees to keep them around.
Collect gems for massive Victory Points, Weapons to gain lots of Gold, or rare Artifacts to gain powerful abilities.
Each player has up-and-coming heroes who are looking for specific items, giving out bonus victory points (but try to keep that a secret from your opponents).
The player with the most victory points after all the auctions will be the winner!

Dinosaur Island: Mascot Promo Card

2022-09-10T10:38:33-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.45

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour Brian Lewis
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Dinosaur Island
Additional Info	266839/dinosaur-island-mascot-promo-card http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266839/dinosaur-island-mascot-promo-card/forums/63

Card Description (Specialist):

After placing patrons at attractions, every 3 patrons waiting in line at your Park score 1 VP.

This promo card was available in the Man Vs Meeple Season 2 kickstarter

CoLab (Deluxe Edition)

2022-01-31T18:41:46-05:00

Vendor: Portal Dragon
Type: Board Games
Price: 95.73

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour Jon Mietling
Publisher	Portal Dragon
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	283634/colab http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283634/colab/forums/63

Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game

2021-07-06T11:40:07-04:00

Vendor: Plaid Hat Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designers	Jonathan Gilmour Isaac Vega
Publisher	Plaid Hat Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Honors	2014 Board Game Quest Awards Most Innovative Game Nominee 2014 Board Game Quest Awards Game of the Year Nominee 2014 Board Game Quest Awards Best Thematic Game Winner 2014 Board Game Quest Awards Best Thematic Game Nominee 2014 Board Game Quest Awards Best Coop Game Winner 2014 Board Game Quest Awards Best Coop Game Nominee 2014 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee 2014 Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Nominee 2014 Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Winner 2014 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee 2014 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Winner 2014 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee 2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2015 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee 2015 Origins Awards Best Board Game Nominee 2015 SXSW Tabletop Game of the Year Nominee 2015 Tric Trac Nominee
Integrates With	Dead of Winter: The Long Night
Accessories	The Broken Token - Dead of Winter Organizer Meeple Realty - The Winter Cabin ( compatible with DEAD OF WINTER™ ) Gaming Trunk - Crossroads Organizer for Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game (Gray) Insert Here -Dead of Winter Organizer E-Raptor - Dead of Winter Complete Tokens Set (134psc) E-Raptor - Insert compatible with Dead of Winter™ E-Raptor - Organizer compatible with Dead of Winter™ Folded Space - Dead of Winter / Long Night Deluxe Token Bundle compatible with Dead of Winter™
Additional Info	150376/dead-winter-crossroads-game http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1444131/dead-winter-crossroads-game/reviews

"Crossroads" is a new series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside.

Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, the first game in this series, puts 2-5 players in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity is either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.

Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition — but for each individual player to achieve victory, he must also complete his personal secret objective. This secret objective could relate to a psychological tick that's fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or (worst of all) vengeance against the colony! Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal, but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's looking out only for his own interests!

Dead of Winter is an experience that can be accomplished only through the medium of tabletop games. It's a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives, but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up.

Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily- thematic, wildly-varying decisions that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.

The Snallygaster Situation: Kids on Bikes Board Game

2021-07-05T23:09:15-04:00

Vendor: Renegade Game Studios
Type: Board Games
Price: 56.95

Designers	Michael Addison Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	Renegade Game Studios
Players	2-5
Playing Time	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2020 ENnies - Best Family Game Nominee
Expansion	The Snallygaster Situation: Kids on Bikes Board Game – Far Out Rides Bonus Pack
Additional Info	324957/snallygaster-situation-kids-bikes-board-game http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/324957/snallygaster-situation-kids-bikes-board-game/forums/63

Something is very wrong in Lakeview. You know it, but nobody believes you, especially not the "adults" who dismiss you for being a kid. You've lived here your whole life, but it was only a little while ago that you started to notice the strange sounds at night, and now the new kid at school has vanished. You're sure that a hideous creature has been unleashed on your town — and it's up to you to defeat it!

In the co-operative game The Snallygaster Situation, which is based on the Kids on Bikes RPG, you and your best friends must face off against one of four diabolical monsters set on destroying Lakeview — and possibly the entire world! Get on your bikes to search for clues about the monster's weakness, find the missing kid it has abducted, and end the threat to your hometown. Oh, and watch out for the Federal agents because they can put a real damper on your epic adventure.

In more detail, one player takes the role of the Lost Kid, selecting a card to play each turn that provides clues about their location such as street names, buildings, or landmarks — but the card also dictates how the monsters and the Feds move and attack on the board. You might have the perfect clue to give, but then the monster will attack one of your friends, sending them back to the treehouse and advancing the "doom marker", i.e., the game's timer.

The other players are trying to defeat the monster and save their friend. On their turns, they use their rides — skateboard, dirt bike, inline skates, etc. — to search the town, look for clues, use special item cards, and avoid the monster, which might be the Jersey Devil, a Dover Demon, Bloody Mary, or (of course) the Snallygaster. Each monster has a different level of difficulty with unique gameplay elements.

Once the Lost Kid is found, they join their friends to try to defeat the monster.

Mint Cooperative

2020-11-20T01:04:57-05:00

Vendor: Poketto
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designers	Jonathan Gilmour Brian Lewis
Publisher	Poketto
Players	1-4
Playing Time	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	282765/mint-cooperative http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/282765/mint-cooperative/forums/63

The "big game in a tiny tin" Mint Series continues with Mint Cooperative, a co-op game that fits in a mint tin!

Work to deliver Mintopia City and the other towns of Mortimer County from the periodontal peril that is the Dominion of Halitosis!

The players, will be collectively trying to defeat the villain by making it through all of the Mayhem cards in the Trouble deck, utilizing each of their individual Superhero specialties and other randomized stunts, before triggering the end of the game.

To win, the players must reveal and process all of the Mayhem cards in the Trouble Deck without the Regional Panic Track meeting or exceeding 27.

Mental Blocks

2019-04-08T16:02:13-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour Micah Sawyer
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-9
Playtime	10-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	275089/mental-blocks http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/275089/mental-blocks/forums/63

Mental Blocks is a game of puzzling perspectives, with players trying to complete a puzzle using oversized foam blocks, despite seeing only one perspective of the design. You have to co-operate to complete the puzzle as a team, but you have a time limit, so don't just sit around staring at the pieces. In addition to the time pressure, players have other challenges, such as not being able to talk or to touch certain color blocks.

Mental Blocks features sixty puzzles: thirty "family mode" puzzles and thirty "challenge mode" puzzles that ramp in difficulty. For an even wilder game, you can add a traitor to the table to block your block-building...

Book of Dragons

2019-02-12T13:55:58-05:00

Vendor: Grey Fox Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Stephen Avery Robert Burke Daryl Chow Jay Cormier Mike Fitzgerald Jonathan Gilmour Christopher Hamm Gil Hova Sen-Foong Lim Max Michael J. Ryan Opp Kenneth C. Shannon, III David Short Daniel Solis Nate Bivins Martin Wallace
Publisher	Grey Fox Games
Players	1-8
Playtime	15-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	233080/book-dragons http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/233080/book-dragons/forums/63

Book of Dragons is a game system featuring a deck of 40 tarot-sized cards beautifully illustrated by Kerem Beyit with graphic design by Luis Francisco.

The deck features four copies of ten unique dragons, with no text or iconography on any of the cards. Games are played only by use of the artwork on the cards, making all games completely language independent. Book of Dragons will launch with 18 designer games by 16 different designers as well as some re-worked public domain games.

Designers and games at launch include:

Dragon Bluff by Martin Wallace - A bluffing game for 3 or 4 players

Dragon Mystery Rummy: The Case of the Rare Dragon by Mike Fitzgerald - A mystery rummy game for 2 to 4 players

Wyvern's Knot by Jonathan Gilmour & John Burns - A cooperative game for 3 to 5 players

Dragon Master by Sen Foong Lim & Jay Cormier - An auction and negotiation game for 3 to 5 players

The Lost Dragon by David Short - A deduction game for 2 to 4 players.

The Rut by Max Michael - A push your luck bidding game for 2 to 4 players

Pentawar by Ken Shannon - A strategic battle game for 2 to 5 players

DragonKin by Ken Shannon - A hidden scoring and deduction strategy game for 2 to 4 players

Year of the Dragon by Daniel Solis - A solitaire game

Dragon Pass by Gil Hova - A pick and pass set collection and deduction game for 3 to 5 players

Dragon Inquisition by Nate Bivins - A hidden traitor game for 3 to 5 players

Dragon Draft by Robert Burke - A card drafting game for 3 to 6 players

Dragon Duel by Robert Burke - An area control battle game for 2 players

Dragon Poker by Robert Burke - A Cockroach Poker style bluffing game for 3 to 6 players

Dragon Scat - by Robert Burke - A "Bullsh*t" style bluffing game for 2 to 5 players

Age of Dragons by Chris Hamm - A two player strategic battle game

Bite Me! by Daryl Chow - A push your luck, deduction and memory game for 2 to 5 players

Dragon's Trick by Mark Kale - A trick taking game for 3 to 6 players

Dragon's Brood by Jess Birnstihl - An action selection, set collection game for 3 to 8 players

Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid

2018-11-07T16:24:29-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designers	Jonathan Gilmour Brian Lewis
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion for	Dinosaur Island
Accessories	Broken Token - Totally Liquid Dinomeeples Folded Space - Dinosaur Island / Totally Liquid

Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid adds components needed to play Dinosaur Island with up to five players, in addition to adding water dinosaurs to the base game, new parkboard extensions, executive worker meeples that give unique worker abilities to each player, a blueprints module that rewards players when they build certain park layouts, PR events that create hidden scoring opportunities, and more.

Outpost: Amazon

2018-01-13T16:37:49-05:00

Vendor: IDW Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Daryl Andrews Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	IDW Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	242024/outpost-amazon http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/242024/outpost-amazon/forums/63

Welcome to Outpost 2, located deep in the Amazon. You and your team have been sent on an expedition into the jungle. Unfortunately, a recent report shows that the locals are moving away from the riverbanks; also, night vision surveillance has captured photos that seem too strange to be true. Take the river boat to safety, but investigate and try to capture these creatures from the photos. Do you have what it takes to make it through the jungle in Outpost: Amazon?

News@11

2017-11-11T07:19:24-05:00

Vendor: Floodgate Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	John R. Burns Jonathan Gilmour Travis Magrum Ian Moss James Schoch
Publisher	Floodgate Games
Players	3-6
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	173302/news11 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/173302/news11/forums/63

News@11 is a recursive storytelling game in which the players are anchors at a news desk or on assignment in a world going weird. The game is played in three rounds — Morning News, News at Noon and Evening Edition — in which the players take turns making up news stories, using elements from the previous rounds, as well as bringing new items in. They have to think on their feet and adapt their news stories to different newscaster roles.

Each round, the players need to adapt the story elements they are given to the news segment they have been assigned. Being assigned a segment helps players build a starting story and in future rounds causes stories to blend and change in interesting ways.

The three recursive rounds are at the core of the experience. Seeing the same news item start out as a relatively simple Home and Beauty segment, then in Sportsball a bit more odd and unbelievable, and finally as a Political where the hilarious chaos peaks adds to the zany nature of the recursion.

Atari's Missile Command

2017-10-29T09:17:59-04:00

Vendor: IDW Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	IDW Games
Players	3-6
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	223762/atari-missile-command http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223762/atari-missile-command/forums/63

As global tensions mount, leaders of powerful nations sit ready to defend their people or destroy their enemies. Alliances are formed, yet fragile. Deals made, but not always upheld. Diplomacy is just as important as strategic planning and procuring armaments. The missiles are at your command and the choice if yours: fire on your enemies or betray your allies in Atari's Missile Command.

In Missile Command, 3 to 6 players venture into the world of the classic arcade game. Each player builds and deploys their supply of Missiles, Nukes and Interceptors on a mission to destroy as many enemy cities they can, while trying to protect their own.

Each round, the players can negotiate with each other, forging temporary alliances and truces, or trading funds and Missiles. Then, they secretly plot their attacks behind their Radar Screens. Finally, they reveal their attacks, and destruction rains down from the skies!

In the end, the player who can best protect their cities while destroying their opponents' wins the game!

Outpost: Siberia

2017-10-18T12:05:46-04:00

Vendor: IDW Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Daryl Andrews Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	IDW Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	226878/outpost-siberia http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/226878/outpost-siberia/forums/63

Welcome to Outpost 1, the first science observatory located in the isolated frozen tundra of Siberia! You and your team have been investigating anomalous activities the region, and recently things have shifted for the worse. The coming storm is said to be the "storm-of-the-century"; it may last a month or more. Strange howls and buzzing fill the long nights, and yesterday a crew-member went AWOL... or worse. The call for evacuation was made, but it came too late. The long winter storm has set in. There's no hope of getting help until it clears. Now your crew's only hope is to use what little resources you have to survive the long winter cold (and whatever's out there in it). Use your rations wisely, and you may see the sun again.

Outpost: Siberia is a fully cooperative, survival game that plays with a single deck of cards. Using an inventive dual-facing system, a single card in Outpost can be anything from life-saving supplies to cataclysmic catastrophes. By enduring relentless weather and defeating untamable beasts, players are rewarded with the much-needed tools and food to continually resupply their resources.

Outpost: Siberia keeps the tension high, as players will need to collect their wits and ration their supplies in order to make through the perpetual perils that lie ahead!

Centipede

2017-08-26T15:45:57-04:00

Vendor: IDW Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Anthony Amato Jonathan Gilmour Nicole Kline
Publisher	IDW Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	223763/centipede http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223763/centipede/forums/63

In Atari’s Centipede, 2 or 4 players venture into the world of the classic Atari arcade game. On one side, a Player controls the Gnome, exploring the forest and trying to defeat the Centipede.

On the other side, the Centipede player, eager to destroy the Gnome, must wiggle their way to the other end of the board.

The Gnome Player rolls and spends their dice to perform actions, while the Centipede Player uses a deck of cards to spawn Fleas, Spiders and Mushrooms, trying to control the game board.

The first Player to eliminate their opponent wins the game!

Path of Light and Shadow

2017-08-14T22:11:45-04:00

Vendor: Indie Boards & Cards
Type: Board Games
Price: 74.95

Designer	Travis R. Chance Jonathan Gilmour Nick Little (I)
Publisher	Indie Boards & Cards
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Path of Light and Shadow: Solstice
Additional Info	217398/path-light-and-shadow http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217398/path-light-and-shadow/forums/63

The Realms lay divided, their former wonder lost and forgotten. The Tyrant Queen has seized the throne, forcing the rightful heirs deep into exile. You are the sons and daughters of the once-great houses: Foxway, Gorga, Mherzeen, and Spyre. Under the tutelage of advisors, you have gathered your followers, your conscripts. The time has come to take back what is yours.

Path of Light and Shadow is a massive empire-building experience, combining area control, deck management, and civilization customization. As players vie for control of The Realms, they must enlist and promote supporters, outfit their burgeoning empire with powerful technologies, align with powerful leaders, and lay siege to rival exiles after the throne. Above all else, each player must decide what type of leader they will become, cruel or merciful. But choose wisely, for each path has its rewards and perils.

Dead of Winter: Warring Colonies

2017-08-07T03:16:55-04:00

Vendor: Plaid Hat Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 46.74

Designer	Colby Dauch Jonathan Gilmour Timothy Meyer Isaac Vega
Publisher	Plaid Hat Games
Players	4-11
Playtime	45-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, Dead of Winter: The Long Night
Additional Info	206094/dead-winter-warring-colonies http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206094/dead-winter-warring-colonies/forums/63

The Dead of Winter: Warring Colonies expansion includes 15 new survivors, 50 new crossroad cards, 43 new items, and 11 new crisis cards, many of which can be used with either Dead of Winter base set. However, to play either the warring colonies variant or the lone wolf module, you need both Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game and Dead of Winter: The Long Night.

In the warring colonies variant, which is for 4-11 players, unique main objectives set two colonies against each other as they battle for territory with a new fighting system that includes tactics cards, bullet tokens, and 12-sided combat dice. New and terrible joint-colony crisis cards force cooperation and coercion every round. New simultaneous turn mechanisms and a sand timer keep things moving at a brisk pace.

With the lone wolf module, which can be used with the warring colonies variant or on its own, one player is on a team all by themselves, hiding out in their lone wolf den and carrying out missions that effect both teams.

Dinosaur Island

2017-05-31T15:46:56-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designers	Jonathan Gilmour Brian Lewis
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid Dinosaur Island: Mascot Promo Card Dinosaur Island: Dice Tower Promo Cards
Reimplemented By	Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write Dinosaur World
Accessories	Meeple Realty - Dinosaur Park Broken Token - Dinosaur Island Organizer Broken Token - Dinosaur Island V.I.P. Bundle Broken Token - Dinomeeples Folded Space - Dinosaur Island / Totally Liquid
Honors	2018 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee 2017 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee

Dinosaur Island is a game by designers Jon Gilmour (Dead of Winter, Wasteland Express Delivery Service) and Brian Lewis (Titans of Industry) and published by Pandasaurus Games (Machi Koro, Yedo, Wasteland Express Delivery Service) with amazing technicolor, ridiculously '90s artwork from Kwanchai Moriya and Peter Wocken.

In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most visitors each season that the park opens.

Do you go big and create a pack of Velociraptors? They'll definitely excite potential visitors, but you'd better make a large enough enclosure for them. And maybe hire some (read: a lot of) security. Or they WILL break out and start eating your visitors, and we all know how that ends. You could play it safe and grow a bunch of herbivores, but then you aren't going to have the most exciting park in the world (sad face). So maybe buy a roller coaster or two to attract visitors to your park the good old-fashioned way?

Flick 'em Up!: Dead of Winter

2017-03-30T22:52:00-04:00

Vendor: Pretzel Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.99

Designer	Gaëtan Beaujannot Jonathan Gilmour Jean Yves Monpertuis Isaac Vega
Publisher	Pretzel Games
Players	2-10
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	207016/flick-em-dead-winter http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/207016/flick-em-dead-winter/forums/63

Flick 'em Up!: Dead of Winter pits players against zombies in a dexterity game that has you using tools in various ways to take out the undead while they in turn shamble somewhat randomly in your direction.

Heroes and Tricks

2017-02-23T16:18:00-05:00

Vendor: Pencil First Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Eduardo Baraf Jonathan Gilmour
Publisher	Pencil First Games, LLC
Players	2-6
Playtime	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	188129/heroes-and-tricks http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/188129/heroes-and-tricks/forums/63

No matter race, creed, gender, or empire – each child of Gamedor is born with an affinity to one of The Four Suits: Card, Meeple, Die, or Token. In Love and War these suits are absolutely meaningless, but in Game, well, they mean everything. A true leader uses their cards, and any means necessary, to gain the favor of other heroes of the land. Can you best the other Lords of Gamedor and build the biggest party of Heroes?

The objective of Heroes and Tricks is to be the Player to win the most tricks (there by having the most Heroes) in the game. Each Trick is lead by a Hero card that defines the target suit and color, dramatically changing the play dynamic of typical trick taking games. Players then play into the trick, but only see the last played card and need to use deduction, item play, and hand management to win the most tricks.

Heroes and Tricks is played without a game surface as trick playing is managed through a special deck box that provides trick and hero sections.

Standard Play is a single round, but an Extended Play of Heroes and Tricks is played over three rounds.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service

2016-08-11T00:29:00-04:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour Ben Pinchback Matt Riddle
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	195560/wasteland-express-delivery-service http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/195560/wasteland-express-delivery-service/forums/63

In Wasteland Express Delivery Service, you take on the role of drivers inhabiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland riddled with outrageous, unhinged, and otherworldly characters who are set on unleashing mayhem at every turn.

To survive in this deranged universe, drivers must haul food, water, and guns between the handful of settlements pockmarked through the wasteland. You must battle insane raiders who occupy the void between cities, taking on missions from the three factions that have divided up the last of civilization: the fascist New Republic Army, is hellbent on bringing the world to heel for its own good; the heretical Oracles of Ceres, who have turned their attention to the worship of the land; and the technologically obsessed Archivists, who cling to the old ways and the hope of restoring our lost civilization.

But what do you care? You're here to get paid and live another day free. Outfit your truck, hire some insane riders to help fend off raiders, add some storage, and just keep truckin'.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service includes an emergent narrative story that unfolds over the course of 10 sessions. Each scenario begins with a beautifully illustrated comic book introduction that sets up the storyline and the constantly escalating stakes and challenges in front of players. Alternatively, players can dive in with a randomly generated scenario that will play out over the course of a single story-driven game session.

Vault Wars

2015-08-12T21:41:00-04:00

Vendor: Floodgate Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Jonathan Gilmour Ben Harkins
Publisher	Floodgate Games
Players	3-5
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion	Vault Wars: Relic Roadshow
Additional Info	169704/vault-wars http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1579576/vault-wars/reviews

Many heroes go forth to battle, but some never return; leaving behind their prized possessions. You'll be part of the bidding war for the vaults they left behind to gain valuable items -- each providing Gold, Victory Points or new abilities. Outbid your opponents, equip artifacts to gain new abilities and find the gear your up-and-coming heroes are looking for to be victorious in Vault Wars.

Players will take turns as an Auction Master, leading a cut-throat bidding war to selling off Vaults full of items to the other players.

Each Vault provides a unique experience, introducing new ways for the players to bid.
No player quite knows everything that's in a Vault, and there's lots of junk to fool your opponents into bidding on.
Between auctions, players may sell off their items to gain Gold, or save them for Victory Points -- paying storage fees to keep them around.
Collect gems for massive Victory Points, Weapons to gain lots of Gold, or rare Artifacts to gain powerful abilities.
Each player has up-and-coming heroes who are looking specific items, giving out bonus victory points (but try to keep that a secret from your opponents).

The player with the most victory points after all the auctions will be the winner!

Vault Wars is a bidding and bluffing game for 3-5 player that plays in less than an hour.