Dice Tower News

Arcane Wonders, in conjunction with Greater Than Games, has launched a Kickstarter for the next title in the Dice Tower Essentials line, Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game , which is designed by famed designers Richard Launius, Adam Sadler, and Brady Sadler. The game plays 1-5 players, ages 14 and up, in about 90 minutes.

As its title implies, Freedom Five: A Sentinel Comics Board Game , features the Freedom Five from the Sentinels of the Universe world. In the game, the players are working together using action point allowance and dice rolling mechanics...

Japanime Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Kamigami Battles: Rise of the Old Ones . The game is designed by Rich Gain and the artwork provided by Brian Snoddy. The game plays 2-6 players, ages 12 and up, in about 45 minutes.

In Kamigami Battles: Rise of the Old Ones , the players each represent a different Great Old One who is trying to hold on to its dominance in their realm. The game uses a deckbuilding mechanic, building on the unique abilities of the god that they represent as players compete to get Warriors...

Quixotic Games, owned by famed game designer Andrew Parks, has announced that it has acquired the exclusive rights to Parks' popular deck building game, Core Worlds , from Stronghold Games, the previous publisher. Not one to sit on his laurels, Park is planning more games set in the Core Worlds universe. Already on the way is Core Worlds: Empire , a sequel of sorts to the original Core Worlds game, although Empire is a worker placement game, not a deck builder.

Parks has nothing but praise for Stephen Buonocore, the recently retired head of Stronghold...

Rock Manor Games launched an already funded Kickstarter campaign for an expansion to its highly-touted cooperative game, Set a Watch . The expansion, Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin , is designed by one of the original game’s designers, Todd Walsh. As with the original game, the expansion plays 1-4 players, ages 10 and up, in about 60-75 minutes.

Just like the original game, the expansion is fully cooperative as the players once again battle horrible creatures while trying to defeat them to defend their own lands. In the expansion though, the adventurers have left...