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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost – A Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship Review

18. August 2025 um 15:00
Somewhere, Matt Leacock is walking around, chained to a big goose as gold as the sun. For the love of God, someone let this man design something other than Pandemic. Not today. While not betrayed on the cover, The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is described as a Pandemic System game. And…

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I’m Sorry, Dave – A 2001: A Space Odyssey the Board Game Review

13. August 2025 um 15:00
Prospero Hall is back. I’m sorry, that’s a lie. 2001: A Space Odyssey the Board Game is not a Prospero Hall title. It’s a Phil Walker-Harding design courtesy of Maestro Media. This fits right alongside quirky board game cuts like The Warriors, Fast & the Furious: Highway Heist, and Rear Window. I almost don’t trust…

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BGI 381 The One About Fun at Gen Con 2025

Von: admin
13. August 2025 um 07:57

BGI 381 The One About Fun at Gen Con 2025

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Marvel Champions Black Panther Hero Pack

12. August 2025 um 16:28

First a bit of background on Black Panther, Shuri, she is a princess of Wakanda and was the young sister of T’challa. The Black Panther Name was carried by the Males of the family until the death of her Brother, when with reluctance she took it on. Shuri rediscovered the the plant that gave the user the powers of Black Panther and then took it. she gained more abilities including Super-Strength, Speed, and Agility which she combined with her amazing Scientific Mind and fighting abilities to become a mighty hero.She fought the loss of her Father her Brother and then her Mother to try and keep her anger in check and to stop her heroine self from becoming a monster. She has great leadership abilities, amazing science knowledge and is a mighty fighter.

So how does she play in the game? In her Alter-Ego form, Shuri can exhaust herself to search her deck or discard pile for any “Black Panther” or “Tech” upgrade and play it, reducing its cost by 2. Allowing her to quickly get her core upgrades into play, as well as any other valuable Tech cards in her Justice deck. While in her hero identity she has four “Black Panther” upgrades. These cards, such as Kimoyo Beads and Spider Bites, are a central part of her hero identity, which she can make use of after a basic power.

Her game is more about a consistent, tactical approach as opposed to her brother who in the core game is more about explosive, single-turn damage .

Her ability to trigger her upgrades often and her powerful Alter-Ego ability to find and play key cards make her a very fun and strategic hero to play, and you can order her at https://www.bgextras.co.uk/marvel-champions/marvel-champions-hero-wave-9-agents-of-shield/marvel-champions-the-card-game-black-panther-hero-pack

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Who Disrupts My Coronation? – The Old King’s Crown in Review

11. August 2025 um 15:00
The Old King’s Crown is beautiful. It’s a lavishly illustrated craft with peerless style. This charisma reverberates in the game’s excellent writing, with passages leaping from the page in order to set the scene of a King Lear-like situation with a vacant throne. Expectedly, the gears of the work are likewise dashing, powering the entity…

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V6.1 More for Avatars

Von: Suzan
08. August 2025 um 16:30

In this new version of the app there are more Avatar options, more Avatar settings and more Avatars!

Changing multiple Avatars

You can now use Multiple Select to set Illustrations, Background colours and Shapes for multiple selected Players. This makes it even easier to visually create a group of Players!

Avatar Settings

It is now possible to:

  • Choose to set a random color for default Avatars: when no Avatar is assigned, the background colour of the default Avatar will be random.
  • Choose where you want to see Avatars: Overview, Plays list, Play overview and Edit Play screen.
  • Choose the default Avatar import settings: this will be used whenever you import Plays (can always be changed on the Import matching screen).

Read more about Avatars and all options here: Avatars

More Avatars

Illustrator Annika was so generous to create another illustration!

You can now use her chameleon to create even more Avatars.

Her range of pöppels is also expanded with 5 new colours!

BGI 380 The one about GenCon a bit

06. August 2025 um 09:20

BGI 380 The one about GenCon a bit

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The Adventures of Conan expansions

03. August 2025 um 20:28

The Adventures of Conan expansions pack contains two expansions Queen of the Black Coast and  Nemedian Chronicles

Queen of the Black Coast.
 
 
In this expansion there is so much added for your fun that will just lift your gaming experience hugely. In this expansion is added The Black Coast map for your game  and five new realms, It also adds more allies, foes and another version of Conan to spice up your game even more. There is also added even more events, plots and scenarios.
This will open so much more to your gaming fun as you can now play as a new character while exploring new places and opening new plots and scenarios.
This expansion adds so much more playability for future games as well as so much more to do in the now.
 
Nemedian Chronicles
 
 
This expansion adds new scenarios with new ways to play, special encounter cards even more plots, you get Crom a new character this means he can take over and control Conan during the game, there is a set of characters put aside and if someone else takes over Conan  that player must choose onr of the rogue characters and take that over with all the benefits that comes with that character. You also have new event cards that play slightly differently so that will also shake  up your game a lot. 
There is also now a bazar to buy special effects to add to your character and this will change how they interact with each other.
Another great expansion. At this moment both of these expansion are in one amazing box. A highly recommended expansion which will add so much  to your game!
 
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BGI 379 The One With Outtakes Inside The Episode

30. Juli 2025 um 10:41

BGI 379 The One With Outtakes Inside The Episode

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Marvel Champions Silk Hero Pack

24. Juli 2025 um 15:31

First a bit of background on Silk, she is quite a new Superhero as she first appeared on 1st April 2014 in the amazing Spiderman. She is of Korean American descent and was a love interest of Spider-Mans, her full name is Cindy Moon and she was bitten by the same Spider that had bitten Peter Parker. Her abilities are Superhuman strength, Speed, Agility, Equilibrium, Reflexes. Stamina and Durability. She also has the ability o stick to solid surfaces, she has organic web generation, precog silk-sense, she is an expert in hand to hand combat and has an Eidetic memory.She was a member of Spider-Army, Web-Warriors and the Agents of Atlas. She briefly took on the name Spider-Woman during the spider verse story line of 2022-2023. 

So how does she play in the game? Her best ability is her tuck mechanic that lets her defuse dangeours encounter cards allowing her to turn them into a future card draw in her alter ego, this gives better control of the encounter deck espeically in a solo game. She has a strong defense allowing her to take damage which is useful whether playing solo or multiplayer where someone needs to take the hits. In a multi player deck with other web warriors she can share the benefit of those cards like Web of Life and Destiny. Her main disadvantage is her low damage output which especially in solo can mean she struggles against bosses.

You can order her hero pack at: https://www.bgextras.co.uk/marvel-champions/marvel-champions-hero-wave-9-agents-of-shield/marvel-champions-the-card-game-silk-hero-pack

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BGI 378 The One About Barbarians At The Gates

23. Juli 2025 um 10:37

BGI 378 The One About Barbarians At The Gates

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The Adventures of Conan

18. Juli 2025 um 16:22
 
This is a game where each player has a sheet which says how they can win.  The first player play as Conan. The next player chooses a foe to play, the next player chooses an ally to play and if you have a fourth player they choose another Foe to play. Each player has their own aims and objectives for the game which makes for an interesting time.  Each round plays with small combats and other exciting parts of the exploring then we see if there is a bigger fight to happen between Conan and the board and maybe a second fight as well.  If Conan does not loses one or both of his fights then the third player has   a chance to save the day, depending on the results bonus points go out to the players and you go on to round two. 
 
 
As you go through each of the rounds the game opens up and you get more and more fun from the playing of it. On your sheet for your player it tells you what you need to achieve to win the game for your character, so good luck and enjoy yourselves!  This is a complex yet fun game that is not going to be every-ones cup of tea, (I recommend giving it a go) yet it if you like this sort of game then you will love the complexities that come with exploring this realm adds to your life. I would highly recommend this great game!  Espeically if you enjoyed the Dark Horse Comics line of Conan titles where the characters, adventures and art are taken from.
 
 
This game also can be played on a Solo mission which means that you can try out as many ways to play or if you have a quiet afternoon, then you can play anyway.  You can order it at: https://www.bgextras.co.uk/other-games/other-board-games/the-adventures-of-conan
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BGI 377 The One About Not Everyone Being a Good Actor in the IndustryBGI 377

16. Juli 2025 um 08:22

BGI 377 The One About Not Everyone Being a Good Actor in the Industry

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