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Tidal Blades - Banner Festival: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Area Control, Trick Taking Player Age:  8+  Player Count:  2 - 5 Players Time to Play:  30 - 45   Minutes  Game Designer:   J.B. Howell, Michael Mihealsick Game Artist:  Lina Cossette Publisher : Lucky Duck Games, Druid City Game Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  1.86 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the VR Distribution. Rundown: The Banner of Festivals has arrived in the coastal city of Tidal Blades. Over three days (rounds), you are a merchant trying to sell the best wears and bid successfully on the watercraft races. The gameplay of Banner Festival works as a trick-taking and area control game. There are four quadrants that each have their own hierarchy of best to worst suit out of the four colours. These colours are teal, purple, orange and yellow. The lowest player of the last trick will be able to move the trade gate 1, 2, 3 or 4 spaces, changing the quadrant players are competing in and

Rolling Realms: Promo Realms Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll and Write, Bingo Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1   - 6  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Jamey Stegmaier Game Artist:  Miles Bensky, Marius Petrescu Publisher : Stonemaier Games Year Published:  2021 BGG Weight:  1.91 Introduction: Rolling Realms has turned into a living roll and write game with multiple promo realms being released every couple of month. My game box is starting to become full and, as someone that already loves this game, that is fantastic news. Today I am focusing on my latest seven additions, and ordering them from least to most favourite. Expedition: Expedition is a relatively easy realm to learn where you are moving from one hex to the next based on the dice roll. The catch is that you are filling in the hex as you go so you are creating fewer locations on future turns. The only reason this is last in the order is because it doesn’t relate very well to the actual expedition game.

Kaikoro: Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll and Write, Modular Setup , Print and Play, Dice Rolling Player Age:  10 + Player Count:  1 - 100  Players Time to Play:  30 - 60  Minutes  Publisher : Rawr Games Game Designer:  Alexz Martínez Year Published:  2022 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Objective: Kaikoro is a simultaneous-play roll and write where players are trying to protect their village from five unique and destructive kaiju. Each kaiju has their own way of being defeated and once a player defeats all five kaiju, or takes 10 damage in their city they will end the game for themselves. Then they must wait for the other players to finish before final scoring. Each kaiju is filled with scoring possibilities, however, they need to be defeated before the player gains the score. This creates a constant push your luck experience. Game Anatomy: Dice: The game contains three dice; two of one colour and one red dice. The red dice will denote the tw

Kapow Volume 2: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Dice-Builder, Head to Head, Assymetrical  Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  1 - 2  Players (2 v 2 with volume 1 and 2) Time to Play:  20 - 60   Minutes  Game Designer:   Larry Bogucki, Robert Dougherty, Douglas Hettrick, Carl Van Ostrand Publisher : Wise Wizard Games Year Published:  2023 BGG Weight:  1.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Rundown: Kapow is a head-to-head game set in its own comic-themed universe. Players roll their dice pool and allocate it to a big board of possible actions. The board can easily be identified as attacking, defending, immediate actions and power-ups. Players designate their dice simultaneously, matching the icons required on the board set behind their player screen, which is then revealed. Each attack and defence is determined by a base number plus kicker (can have multiple kickers), and can then be multiplied. Each player calculates their total attack and then

Rolling Realms: Review Information: Mechanics:  Roll and Write, Bingo Player Age:  14+  Player Count:  1   - 6  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:  Jamey Stegmaier Game Artist:  Miles Bensky, Marius Petrescu Publisher : Stonemaier Games Year Published:  2021 BGG Weight:  1.91 Introduction: Rolling Realms is a roll-and-write game played over the course of three rounds where players are going to journey through nine realms (three per round). Each realm is based on a Stonemaier Games production and will have its own mini game representing the larger game it is based on. Each realm will give the player stars that equal points and resources that can be used to modify dice values. Game Anatomy: Dice: Every round two large dice are rolled. All players will generally use one die value on one realm and the other value on another realm, leaving one realm untouched for that round.  Realms: Each realm is based off one of a larger game in the Stonemaier catalogue.  Through promo ex