Tagged Kickstarter
Mar 15 2026
The New “Cyberpunk” Trading Card Game Offers a Bright Glimpse of the Dark Future
Putting aside the Big Three—Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!—trading card games (TCGs) have always been a risky proposition for publishers and consumers alike. For the publisher, any new game must draw enough of a player base away from whatever TCGs they’re currently playing,…
May 01 2024
Eden Genesis Is Metroidvania Reloaded
Despite the technical issues facing Cyberpunk 2077 when it first released, it’s undeniable that the game (and the marketing campaign leading up to it) caused Cyberpunk‘s namesake storytelling genre to trend favorably. More and more products catering to the cyberpunk fandom—especially…
May 16 2023
Fablecraft Is a New Player in the Digital-Tabletop Hybrid Gaming Space
One of the top pastimes among tabletop role-playing GMs is crafting new adventures. While this might go no further than building a simple scenario for players to interact with, some of us like to take the presentation to the next level, with miniatures, 2D or 3D setting maps, music, and more. Because…
Jul 27 2022
When the Wolf Comes Promises an Epic Modern Norse RPG
In Scandinavia, as in so many other parts of our world, the introduction of Christianity pushed preexisting spiritual beliefs to the fringes of society, to be practiced only in secret, in fear of monotheism’s subjugation. However, it didn’t have to go this way, as writer Ian Stuart Sharpe explores…
Mar 23 2022
The Academic Deck Box Is the Professor’s Magnum Opus
Brian Lewis, better known as the Professor of Tolarian Community College, has made a career of reviewing card-gaming accessories, primarily deck boxes, card sleeves, and collection binders. Whereas with card sleeves the expectations are universal—that they are durable and will protect players’…
Nov 07 2021
In the World Auto Racing CCG, the Chase Is Just for Fun
Currently seeking funding via Kickstarter, World Auto Racing, or WAR—not to be confused with the mid-2000s trading card game WARS, or the classic playing-card game War—is a two- to five-player collectible card game about street racing in which drivers compete to be the first to collect 100 points,…
Jun 02 2021
Black Chantry Unleashes Vampire: The Eternal Struggle upon Kickstarter
I have written in the past about Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (VtES), a trading card game (based on the namesake conflict waged in the shadows by elder vampires in the World of Darkness role-playing IP) that has stood the test of time. A huge part of the game’s appeal for me lies in its core makeup, designed…
Mar 05 2021
Finding Anastasia Allows a Happier Ending than History Gave Us
Though since disproved by DNA tests, the rumors of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna somehow surviving the assassination of her family in 1918 persisted for nearly a century, offering historians a compelling mystery and serving as the premise of multiple feature films.
Both the legend itself and…
Sep 07 2020
Blitz: Speed War Will Provide Fast and Fun Tabletop Strategy
There is a good deal of overlap between tabletop gamers and electronic strategy gamers, and we see this with the success of Fantasy Flight Games’ board game adaptations of Sid Meier’s Civilization video game series—a series that itself pays homage to the similarly named 1980 board game by Francis…
Jan 28 2020
Hero Forge 2.0 Brings Custom Miniatures into Full Color
Though miniatures have long been an invaluable tool in helping to bring players’ role-playing characters to life, as the role-playing hobby evolves, so too must the miniatures themselves—and the means of acquiring and customizing them. Hero Forge, introduced five years ago and funded through…