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David Lowry Guests on Nashville Today and talks Board Games and Guitars

David Lowry Guests on Nashville Today and talks Board Games and Guitars

  David Lowry was the guest on Nashville Today with Devon O’Day and Karlin Evins. David discussed the state of board games today, Freedom The Underground Railroad and 1775 Rebellion by Academy Games, Castle Panic by Fireside Games, and the upcoming Christian trivia game Thank Heaven by Zvago Games. David also talked about the upcoming live event series The Nashville Guitar Club staring up in the…

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Master the Forces of Nature in Element!

Master the Forces of Nature in Element!

Fire. Water. Earth. Wind. These four Elements have driven mankind’s mythology, philosophy and science for thousands of years. Now master these primal forces in this easy-to-learn but deeply strategic game.

Element, the latest release from the creative minds at Rather Dashing Games, is a unique strategy game for 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up. Players take turns drawing and placing Element stones…

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Burning Games 2017 Games Lineup

Burning Games 2017 Games Lineup

ALIENS, DRAGONS AND ZERO-GRAVITY SPORTS: BURNING GAMES ANNOUNCES NEW YEAR LINEUP

Two RPGs and one sport board game join the roster.

Burning Games has announced its upcoming game line-up for 2017, that ranges from new additions to existing IPs to brand new settings. Here’s the rundown:

Faith: Core Book

Genre: RPG | Format: Hardbound book | Release date: Kickstarter, March ‘17

Coming to…

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Kickstarter of the Week - ButtonShy Triple Play

Kickstarter of the Week – ButtonShy Triple Play

Three amazing new wallet games! Choose one, two or all three. Low priced with free US shipping & delivered to you in just a few months!

ButtonShy is shifting gears this year by tripling up and releasing three games at a time. This makes it easier to deliver more games quickly while saving shipping costs for backers.

First is Avignon: Pilgrimage, a standalone expansion to last year’s best-selling…

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Tank on Tank Digital by Lock 'n Load Publishing Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Tank on Tank Digital by Lock ‘n Load Publishing Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Publisher: Lock ‘n Load Publishing

Game Designer: Peter Bogdasarian

Lead Programming and AI: Jo Bader

Players: 1-2

Ages: 10 and up

Playing Time: 20-45 minutes

Game Mechanics: Chit pull, dice rolling, hex and counter

Suggested Retail Price: $39.99

  Digital Tabletop

Lock ‘n Load Publishing (LnL) recently released a digital take on their tabletop Tank on Tankseries covering both the East and West…

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Find Your Seats by Button Shy Games Preview by Maurice Fitzgerald

Find Your Seats by Button Shy Games Preview by Maurice Fitzgerald

Publisher: Button Shy

Game Designer: Mitchell Shipman

Players: 3-4

Playing Time: 10-20 minutes

Suggested Retail Price: $12

  It’s party time!

Button Shy is at it again with another round of three pocket games to start the New Year on Kickstarter. One of those games is Find Your Seatswhich puts you in the role of party planner, a much-maligned and rarely appreciated job. That is, of course, until…

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Kickstarter of the Week - Twilight of the Gods

Kickstarter of the Week – Twilight of the Gods

Choose your deity and fight to retain your glorious place among the Pantheon in this 2-4 Player Expandable Card Game.

It is the middle of the 5th century AD, and the gods are dying. In parallel to the unrest rotting the foundations of the Roman Empire, pantheons of deities across the globe see their temples profaned and their followers lament. Belief ebbs from the world….

The once-mighty gods,…

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Kickstarter of the Week - Con Carrier

Kickstarter of the Week – Con Carrier

Tired of carrying multiple bags around conventions or to your game night? Here’s an economical, simple, & convenient bag solution!

These EPIC bags will most likely NOT be available at retail stores and may not be available on the publisher’s website or at conventions because of the quantity of our order is unknown until after the Kickstarter.

The Con Carrier is made to carry games of all shapes…

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Match Madness by Foxmind Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Match Madness by Foxmind Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Publisher: FoxMind

Game Designer: Jeppe Norsker

Players: 1-4

Playing Time: 10-20 minutes

Ages: 7 and up

  Puzzle palace

If you’re a fan of puzzle games, I’ve got a neat little gem for you. The folks at FoxMind have just released a dandy speed pattern puzzler called Match Madness. This entertaining and challenging puzzle solving game has great components and easy rules, making it a sure fire hit…

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Kickstarter of the Week - Sherman Leader

Kickstarter of the Week – Sherman Leader

Command US Army forces as they roll into combat against the toughest German units of WWII!

In Sherman Leader, you command an American group of tanks, armored cars, trucks, half-tracks, and infantry squads. You get to choose your campaign. Anything from 1942 North Africa to 1945 Berlin, and everything in between. Of course we have the D-Day and Italian Campaigns!

Sherman Leader campaigns

Sherman…

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Get Rich Quick by Foxmind Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Get Rich Quick by Foxmind Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Publisher: FoxMind

Game Designer: Lenny Herbert

Players: 3-5

Playing Time: 30-45 minutes

  Fame and fortune

Everybody dreams of living large, making boatloads of cash and acquiring all of the fame. For the majority of us, it’s just a pipe dream that we’ll never come to realize. Thanks to FoxMind, we can now live out that fantasy vicariously with their latest board game Get Rich Quick!

FoxMindhas…

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Club Fantasci Christmas Sale!

Club Fantasci Christmas Sale!

  Club Fantasci Around the Web:

Club Fantasci on Facebook: www.facebook.com/clubfantasci

Club Fantasci on Twitter: www.twitter.com/clubfantasci

Club Fantasci on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Clubfantasciboardgames/

Club Fantasci on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lowryagency_clubfantasci/

Club Fantasci on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClubFantasci

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Feudum Kickstarter in final hours

Feudum Kickstarter in final hours

Optimize your hand, leverage your resources & compete for guild status in a fantastical realm for 2-5 players!

Modern game designer Jamey Stegmaier, known for his successful Kickstarter campaign for the game Scythe, said he “had the pleasure of playing a prototype of Feudum at Geekway to the West,” and found it to be very enjoyable calling it “a heavy Euro game with lots of interesting decisions…

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Kickstarter of the Week - Ether Wars Dice Placement Game

Kickstarter of the Week – Ether Wars Dice Placement Game

Custom-dice based game of strategic worker placement, resource management, area control and asymmetric science fiction ass-kicking.

Ether Wars is a dice rolling game of worker-placement and area control in which two to four players with asymmetric powers fight for control of the Ether in this 90 minute game.

Your troops are represented by custom dice; in total there are over 50 of them! You’ll…

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Hollow Cell by Lock ‘N Load Publishing Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Hollow Cell by Lock ‘N Load Publishing Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Publisher: Lock ‘N Load Publishing

Game Designer: Garrett Herdter

Players: 2-6

Playing Time: 30-60 minutes

  Battle to the death

Been looking to sway that video gamer friend of yours into trying a board game, but they’re always too busy working on their kill streak to bother? Well, tell them to put down the controller this Christmas break and join you at the table for a game of Hollow Cell from L…

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Machi Koro – By IDW Games

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Flamme Rouge by Lautapelit.fi Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Flamme Rouge by Lautapelit.fi Review by Maurice Fitzgerald

Publisher: Lautapelit.fi

Game Designer: Asger Harding Granerud

Players: 2-4

Playing Time: 30-45 minutes

Final lap

Flamme Rouge is the new game from Asger Harding Granerud, co-designer of 13 Days from Jolly Roger Games and published by Lautapelit.fi. It’s a quick and very fun, family-friendly bicycle racing game for 2-4 players simulating the final lap of a race that plays in about 30 minutes. The…