

Granted, I didn't spend $1,500 on it, but if I had my own laser cutter you can bet I'd be cutting and engraving all sorts of other things.Īlso the BYOLC is just way cool. I spent a good chunk of cash at my local maker space to get a bunch of hexes cut out for my game prototype - I could do it by hand with a matte cutter, but it takes a lot longer and isn't nearly as precise. I know, I know, you're saying something like "Wait a minute, what does a laser cutter have to do with board games?" Well, for one thing, a laser cutter is pretty darn handy if you're making board game prototypes. What is that, you ask? Why, it's the Build Your Own Laser Cutter. Okay, one last project and I'm done for today:
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The downside is it's a little pricey, but it's chock full of dice, which kind of makes up for that.

It's a worker-placement, dice-drafting game with really fun artwork and some interesting mechanics. I reviewed Castle Dice earlier this month but they're not quite at their goal yet with less than two weeks left, so I wanted to give it another push. How can you say no to that? Published by Gryphon and Eagle Games, you know the component quality will be outstanding, and they're closing in on their $20k stretch goal for a 5th player expansion - but this campaign is ending soon, so if you're interested you should take a look soon. It's a deck-building game, but it also has a modular board representing the river, and it's about salmon swimming upstream to spawn. I'll admit, I haven't actually played Salmon Run yet or even delved really deeply into the rules, but after hearing about it on the Dice Hate Me podcast a couple times I was really intrigued. It's an inexpensive, quick-playing game that would be great for a quick lunch break game - I just hope they put it in a small package to keep it portable, too. The DM places randomly-selected tiles throughout the dungeon, and the heroes (represented by a d10, d8, d6, and d4) attempt to disarm traps and kill monsters to get to the hidden treasures. I may have a longer review of this coming up soon, but in the meantime you can check out the Kickstarter page for more details. The heroes are trying to get three treasures, and the DM is trying to kill them off before they do.
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14 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PS5, Windows PC, and Xbox One and Xbox Series X.Dungeon Heroes calls itself your "lunch break dungeon crawl." It's a clever little two-player dungeon crawl, with one player as the Dungeon Master and one as the set of four heroes.

There are currently 23 playable Legends in the video game, who were reordered into four new classes with the launch of season 16 on Feb. The board game has already been in development for two years, Tuesday’s statement said, and the studio said it is “plotting a long roadmap with a growing line of modular maps and interchangeable Legends.”

Glass Cannon Unplugged plans to launch add-ons and other expansions for Apex Legends: The Board Game, some of which will be revealed once the Kickstarter gets going in May. The action unfolds on a “fully immersive, three-dimensional environment taken straight from the screen.” A promotional image (below) shows four unpainted miniatures: Bangalore, Bloodhound, Wraith, and Gibraltar. team miniatures game for 2-4 players,” according to a news release. Glass Cannon Unplugged recently did Frostpunk: The Board Game, another video-game-to-tabletop adaptation, which in 2020 drew more than $2.5 million in its Kickstarter funding campaign from almost 19,000 backers.Īpex Legends: The Board Game is an “intensely tactical team vs. It all begins with a Kickstarter campaign on May 17, through which fans may pre-order the game. Respawn Entertainment’s battle royale, which launched in the winter of 2019, will be adapted for tabletops under a licensing agreement announced Tuesday by game-maker Glass Cannon Unplugged and Electronic Arts.
