The first ideas for designing Jolly Roger came up in 2006. The trigger for it was playing the game “Junta” with my friends again. “Junta” is an old game from 1979 where players try to put the most money from a Banana Republic into a Swiss bank account. Insurrection and fierce street fights are the key words of this game. What I especially liked in this …
“Adventures in Hyboria” is the upcoming expansion for the Age of Conan Strategy Board Game, designed by Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi, and Francesco Nepitello. In this article, the third of the Designers’ Notes series, they explain how the Stretch Goals of the Kickstarter campaign were defined to further improve the expansion’s gameplay. When Ares decided to launch Adventures in Hyboria using Kickstarter, we knew that …
“Adventures in Hyboria” is the upcoming expansion for the Age of Conan Strategy Board Game, designed by Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi, and Francesco Nepitello. This is the second Designers’ Notes article about the expansion. In the previous article we have told you about the radical changes to the Adventure cards that govern the role of the barbarian in the game – but we only hinted …
“Adventures in Hyboria” is the upcoming expansion for the Age of Conan Strategy Board Game, designed by Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi, and Francesco Nepitello. In this first designers’ notes article, the authors talk about the concept of the Story Cards and how they add a greater level of detail to Conan’s adventures along with a new level of interaction. One of the design goals for …
In this last article, we’ll tell you about the development of the final two elements making Battle of the Five Armies unique from its predecessors included in Battles of the Third Age and we’ll set you up with the full PDF Rules. The Goblins An important strategic element in the battle’s story is the two-pronged attacks of the goblin horde. Bolg did not simply count on …
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