King of Tokyo - Halloween

Iello announced Halloween, a limited and spooky expansion for its hit game board game King of Tokyo. The expansion will add two new monsters to the game: Pumpkin Jack and Boogie Woogie. Each monster will have eight personal evolution cards, as well as a new evolution card feature that will allow players to pass evolution cards to other players.

King of Tokyo - Halloween will also include 12 new power and costume cards to allow your monsters to look scary, a set of 6 orange and black engraved dice, and a promo card for the as of yet unnamed King of Tokyo stand alone game programmed game planned for 2014.

Considering the name of the new monsters, one can only wonder how much Iello designers were influenced by Jack "The Pumpkin King" Skellington and Oogie Boogie, from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

The Phantom Society - New Release From IELLO

WELCOME TO SCOTLAND!

Yes, welcome to this country famous for its whisky, the Highlands, its castles, and, of course... its ghosts! The Phantom Society is a ghost-hunting game in which you play as sly spirits seeking to ruin a manor hotel or, if you prefer, intrepid ectoplasm hunters (a bit destructive round the edges) who never falter in the pursuit of their prey. While the ghosts have to be cunning and use psychology in order to remain concealed, the hunters use observation and deduction to flush out their sneaky targets.

Who will be the fastest? And above all, will the manor come through this madness intact? From award-winning author Hervé Marly (The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow, Skull & Roses...) and the new talent Frédéric Colombier, discover a super smart deduction game with an innovative 2-level game board and dazzling artworks from Naïade and Vincent Dutrait! 

Features:

• • Clever game with innovative 2-level board.
  • Asymetric 2-player or team game play based on deduction and deception.
  • Impressive artwork by 2 renowned artists.
  
  

Contents:

• A 2-level board game
• 36 Room tiles
• 4 Ghost tokens
• 16 Goal cards

• 1 rule book

The Three Little Pigs - New Release From IELLO

A FAMILY GAME WITH A CLASSIC TALE!

As a little pig, your dearest wish is to build a strong and beautiful house in which you can spend your long winter evenings. But you won’t need trowels nor scaffolds, as only dice will allow you to construct your dream home. Beware the wolf prowling around, whose only thought is to literally blow away your comfy house!

The Three Little Pigs is an easy and fun dice game for the whole family. On your turn, try to get the better combination with the 5 special dice and build the most lovely and sturdy houses by adding doors, floors and roofs. And if you accidentally bring the wolf out of the wood, just take a deep breath and shatter other players’ buildings by blowing on the wheel! This original game comes with an illustrated version of the famous tale it is based on.

Features:

• • A tale and a game in the same box.
  • A smart dice game for the whole family, with 2 diffculty levels.
  • Blow on the wheel for real!

  • Splendid artwork by Xavier Colette.

  

  
  

  
  

Contents:

• 5 special dice
• 1 Wolf wheel
• 36 House tiles
• 6 Goal cards

• 1 Tale Booklet
• 1 Rule Booklet

Guardians Chronicles, by IELLO

I am trying to scale back on my Kickstarter related contributions (or expenditures, if you ask my accountant).  However, since I just received my rewards from one of the Kickstarter projects I helped fund (Kickstarter: The Dice Tower), I decided to fund another one.  The lucky receiver of my money is Guardians Chronicles, by IELLO.

Guardians Chronicles is a 2 to 5 player semi-cooperative game.  One player assumes the role of evil Super Villian Pr. Skarov.  The remaining players assume the role of one of several superheroes, each with unique powers.  There are a different number of scenarios.  Each scenario poses different objectives and challenges for the Superheroes.  For example, a particular scenario may require that the Superheroes defeat three of Pr. Skarov minions and also stop the Super Villian from launching nuclear missiles that will reign destruction upon civilians.

The concept of Guardians Chronicles is not new.  In fact, it immediately brought to mind my experience playing Descent 2.0.  I really liked Descent 2.0.  Seeing how the mechanics are similar, I decided to fund this Kickstarter project hoping it will be as much fun as Descent 2.0.

The Kickstarter page for Guardians Chronicles has a playthru video, where the developers play a round or so of the game.  The playing pieces shown therein are *not* the final production pieces, so don't let that scare you.  However, the video will give you a good enough idea of whether this looks like the type of game you may be interested in backing.  If you like superhero RPGs, CCGs, LCGs or board games, this Kickstarter project may right up your alley.