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Are These Kickstarter Board Games As Soothing As a Cup of Tea?

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Aug 28 2024
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A nice cup of tea, a Hollywood casting call, and a treasure trove of magical items and lore for 5E are all on Kickstarter this week.

Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding and Kickstarter highlights – including board games, RPGs, and STLs!

Everdell Duo – Competitive and Co-Op, 15-Chapter Campaign Game

 

Wisely govern your woodland city to ensure that your critter citizens are joyful, buildings are properly constructed, and plenty of Events are held to celebrate your triumphs!

Everdell Duo is an all-new 1-2 player game in the world of Everdell. Discover a new way to visit the Emerald Valley of Everdell. Play competitively or cooperatively in campaign mode, where the players work together to complete challenges from chapter to chapter.

A Nice Cuppa – A Card Game Almost As Soothing As A Nice Cup of Tea

 

A Nice Cuppa is the seventh game in Button Shy’s Simply Solo series. Designed by Scott Almes, the game tasks the player with managing Worries through careful card management across 8 turns. As Worries are revealed, they complicate your life and force you to become distracted. Focus on your tea to eliminate those pesky problems and soothe your shattered nerves. Once your tea is ready, evaluate how you did.

Our Simply Solo series consists of Food Chain Island, Ugly Gryphon Inn, Unsurmountable, Fishing Lessons, The Royal Limited, The Last Lighthouse, and now A Nice Cuppa. Each game was designed by Scott Almes for single-player gameplay, focusing on elegant rules that create complex situations. Like the previous games, A Nice Cuppa delivers a fun puzzle that’s sure to hit the table again and again.

The Quest Kids: Realms of the Kingdom – Acclaimed Fantasy Board Game For Heroes 5 & Up

 

The Quest Kids is a critically acclaimed and family favorite fantasy board game for young heroes 5 years old and up with over 10,000 games sold!

With this campaign we’re thrilled to introduce a new expansion: Realms of the Kingdom! This new adventure introduces a new Quest Kids hero, new magical Tolk Gems, and new realms to explore through awesome portals!

This campaign will also help us reprint the nearly out-of-stock Trials of Tolk the Wise and Big Bads of Tolk’s Cave expansions.

No Escape: Dead Man’s Tale – Puzzle Escape Experience Like No Other

 

Immerse yourself in 5 unique pop-up chapters that pur you at the center of a trecherous quest. Delve into a trove of immersive documents and experience the story through the unique lense of facsimile narrative artifacts. Follow in the footsteps of an ill-fated treasure hunter, as you scour personal correspondence, newspaper, journals, and more. Uncover clues, solve puzzles, and follow a map to unearth lost treasure – curse be damned.

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Casting Call – Step Into The Spotlight As A Movie Director In This Party Game

Bring the hilarity and drama of Tinseltown into your home with Casting Call, a dynamic, interactive party card game that is brilliantly easy to play.

Your home becomes a Hollywood battlefield as friends and family transform into aspiring thespians clawing their way onto the silver screen. Watch them ham it up as they compete for a chance to make it big and become a movie star!

Casting Call is your ticket to lights, cameras, and action-packed fun.

Treasures From the Astral Forge – Tome of Magical Items, Story Hooks, Secrets & Lore for 5E

reasures From The Astral Forge is a 5e tome of magical items unlike any other. The book includes 160 magical items crafted by the Forgemaster, an archfey toiling in an ancient forge deep within the astral sea. This book is more than just a list of items, as each entry includes intricate artwork, well-balanced mechanics, and story hooks for building quests around discovering, earning, or recovering these magical objects. The book also includes details on the forge as a drop-in location, including the eccentric creatures that call it home.

What’s in the book:

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  • 160 magical items with attached more, story hooks, secrets, and mechanics
  • A map of the Astral Forge
  • Details about the forge and its inhabitants
  • A guide to traversing the astral sea
  • Adventure ideas for finding the forge in the astral depths
  • New backgrounds for characters linked to the forge
  • 50+ forge boons, single-use magical blessings from the archfey

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