XenoShyft has an aliens feel to it. It’s a deck-building game and a resource management game at the same time, and the challenge is to get the balance right so you can withstand nine waves of, increasingly challenging, alien assault.
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Free to Download: Apocalypse Prevention, Inc (2e)
Characters in the game aren’t just humans trying to save the planet but monsters and demons too. After all, says the game, these creatures call Earth home as well.
Free to Download: Nine Worlds from Scythe designer Jamey Stegmaier
Rather nicely, this is a game you could play remotely with friends over Houseparty, Skype, Discord video, Google Hangouts, etc.
Tabletop Scotland reschedules to avoid Covid-19/UK Gaming Expo clash
Tabletop Scotland has revealed that their new dates will be 10th and 11th October 2020, at the Dewars Centre in Perth.
Free to Download: Amazing Tales quickstart and adventures
Amazing Tales was the most popular family RPG of 2018 on DriveThruRPG and is one of the bookshop’s few adamantine best sellers.
Free to Download: Castles & Crusades Players Handbook 7th printing
Troll Lord Games have made the 194-paged PDF edition of the 7th edition of their popular Castles & Crusades RPG a free download.
Diamond halts comic book and game delivery as the pandemic worsens
The game distribution company it owns, Alliance Game Distributors, is also shutting down until further notice.
World Wide Wrestling finds Kickstarter gold
You don’t need an in-depth knowledge of wrestling to play the game. You just have to like a bit of action and soap opera level drama.
20GB of Roll20 and Astral Tabletop compatible maps and tokens
Matts Massive Map Menagerie is 20 GB of free to download (or raid as needed), copyright compliant tokens and maps for your use.
World of Tanks gets a miniatures game from Gale Force 9
The starter set (a choice of name which implies more sets to come) includes four of those tanks, six custom dice, tank cards, terrain and tokens as well as crew, equipment and damage cards.
