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Preview: Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #3

Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #3

writer: Fred Van Lente
artist: Eman Casallos
covers: Steve Ellis (A), Biagio d’Alessandro (B), Eman Casallos (C)
FC | 32 pages | Fantasy | $4.99 | Teen+

Trudging through the Mana Wastes, our team takes the opportunity to get to know each other a little better. As each of them explains their motives for the quest, all seems quiet and safe. But wait, what’s this? A KNIFE STORM!?!?

Masterfully crafted by writer FRED VAN LENTE with incredible art from EMAN CASALLOS and covers by Casallos, Steve Ellis, and BIAGIO D’ALESSANDRO, this timeless tale also features playable character stats and new character options, and is officially sanctioned by the Pathfinder Society!

Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #3

Preview: Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #2

Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #2

writer: Fred Van Lente
artist: Eman Casallos cardstock covers: Steve Ellis (A), Biagio d’Alessandro (B), Eman Casallos (C)
FC | 32 pages | Fantasy | $4.99 | Teen+

Trudging through the Mana Wastes, our team takes the opportunity to get to know each other a little better. As each of them explains their motives for the quest, all seems quiet and safe. But wait, what’s this? A KNIFE STORM!?!?

Masterfully crafted by writer FRED VAN LENTE with incredible art from EMAN CASALLOS and covers by Casallos, Steve Ellis, and BIAGIO D’ALESSANDRO, this timeless tale also features playable character stats and new character options, and is officially sanctioned by the Pathfinder Society!

Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #2

Preview: Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #1

Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #1

writer: Fred Van Lente
artist: Eman Casallos
cardstock covers: Steve Ellis (A), Biagio d’Alessandro (B), Eman Casallos (C)
FC | 32 pages | Fantasy | $4.99 | Teen+

New creative team! New party of Iconics! New lands of Golarion to explore! The tantalizing prospect of a rendezvous with a Geb defector in possession of priceless secrets from that undead nation brings a diverse group of adventurers to the Nexian metropolis of Ecanus. When they find themselves cornered by the city’s remorseless Deathsealers, can the Iconics band together for survival — and escape a city full of hostile wizards alive?

Featuring playable character stats for Seelah, the iconic paladin, and new character options for inhabitants of the magical military city of Ecanus; officially sanctioned by the Pathfinder Society!

Written by Fred Van Lente, with incredible art by Eman Casallos and covers by Eman Casallos, Steve Ellis and Biagio d’Alessandro (whose artwork will connect across all the issues of the series)!

Pathfinder: Wake the Dead #1

Pathfinder returns to comics! Starfinder comics announced!

Dynamite Entertainment has revealed the next Pathfinder comic book series! Tabletop connoisseur and fan-favorite writer Fred Van Lente is revving up an all-new party and campaign for Wake the Dead kicking off this May! Writer Fred Van Lente and artist Eman Casallos will be guiding the next adventure!

It’s a new creative team, a new party of Iconics, new lands of Golarion to explore, and unforgettable moments galore in the brand-new adventure. Paizo and Dynamite are teaming up once more to offer not only a thrilling tale but also extra features that players can bring right to their next game nights! It’s been nearly five years since the last major Pathfinder saga in comics, the critically acclaimed Spiral of Bones from writer Crystal Frasier. Since then, the world of Pathfinder in-game and in real-world popularity has exploded even more. With recent record-smashing sales of guidebooks and more, it’s the perfect time for fans of the game to explore this other avenue of carefully crafted content!

The tantalizing prospect of a rendezvous with a Geb defector in possession of priceless secrets from that undead nation is bringing together a diverse group of adventurers to the Nexian metropolis of Ecanus. Van Lente is assembling a mostly all-new grouping of heroes. Readers will get to hang out with Quinn the investigator, Sajan the monk, Lem the bard, and Seelah the champion. All have appeared before in various Pathfinder materials and even comics, but never met each other and partied up until now. Readers of the original hit series by writer Jim Zub and others will be reacquainted with Harsk the dwarf ranger too though! When they all find themselves cornered by the city’s remorseless Deathsealers, can the Iconics band together for survival and escape a city full of hostile wizards alive?

For this new series, Van Lente is joined by artist Eman Casallos, who will bring his dungeon master-esque storytelling to the page. Artists Steve Ellis and Biago d’Alessandro also contribute covers to issues, in addition to Casallos. d’Allesandro’s covers for each issue of the series will also connect to form a larger image when all are collected.

Each issue of Pathfinder: Wake the Dead features premium cardstock covers for a top-tier product for collectors and something durable that will survive the rigors of the gaming table. Issues will also come with bonus material useful for players of the game. These will include playable character stats for the iconic paladin Seelah, new character options for inhabitants of the magical military city of Ecanus, and more. All of these extra features are officially sanctioned by the Pathfinder Society!

Paizo and tabletop fans can stay tuned too, as the first ever Starfinder comics are right around the corner too! More information about that series will be revealed soon!

Unboxing: Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game

Sanrio’s Gudetama comes to the tabletop with Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game. Gudetama has you channel your inner lazy egg in an over-easy trick-taking game. Take as many cards as you want but don’t get egg on your face with the last card.

The game is for ages 7+ and 2-7 players. Games take 20 minutes to play. The game comes with 63 cards.

Gudetama is published by Renegade Game Studios and Oni Games, designed by Steve Ellis and Ben Eisner, with art by Wook-Jin Clark, and graphic design by Sonja Synak.

You can purchase your own copy:
Amazon
Miniature Market
Cool Stuff Inc.
GameNerdz

Oni Games provided Board Game Today with a FREE copy for review
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Renegade Game Studios and Oni Games Announces Autumn Harvest: A Tea Dragon Society Card Game!

AUTUMN HARVEST: A TEA DRAGON SOCIETY CARD GAME

Renegade Game Studios and Oni Games have announced Autumn Harvest: A Tea Dragon Society Game designed by Steve Ellis and Tyler Tinsley. Illustrated by Katie O’Neill, Autumn Harvest is based on her Eisner-winning Oni Press original graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society and its companion The Tea Dragon Festival.

Autumn Harvest: A Tea Dragon Society Game follows up the 2019 Origins Award-winning family game The Tea Dragon Society Card Game and will allow fans and gamers to explore the secrets of Tea Dragon caretaking in an enchanting world of friendship. Autumn Harvest is a standalone game that can be combined with The Tea Dragon Society Card Game to expand gameplay, and is expected to release in late 2020.

Renegade Announces Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game for August 2020

Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game is a trick-taking game for 2-7 players where the goal is to avoid winning the final trick! The player who wins the final trick will score points equal to their card that won the trick (you do not want points).

Renegade Game Studios has announced the game which will be released in August 2020. The game was designed by Steve Ellis and Tyler Tinsley with art by Wook-Jin Clark. The game retails for $15.

Gudetama: The Tricky Egg Card Game

The Tea Dragon Society Card Game Box Art Revealed!

Renegade Game Studios and Oni Games have announced The Tea Dragon Society Card Game, an innovative deck-building game by Steve Ellis and Tyler Tinsley. Based on the Oni Press graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill, readers and tabletop fans will appreciate the detail and care to stay true to the heart of the story.

Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon care-taking within this enchanting world of friendship and fantasy. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons creating memories to share forever.

Each player’s deck represents their own Tea Dragon. From turn to turn, players will choose to draw a card, triggering effects and strengthening their position, or buy a card, improving their deck or scoring points.

The game takes place over four seasons, starting in spring and ending in winter. At the end of winter, the player who has the most points is the winner.

Features:

  • Based on the Oni Press graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill.
  • Beautifully illustrated with cute little dragons. Light card game with some deck building concepts.
  • No hidden information makes it kid-friendly.
  • Competition for Market and Memory cards, but no direct player-on-player nastiness.
  • Perfect for families.

Contents Summary:

  • Rulebook
  • Comic quick-start rules
  • 4 Tea Dragon cards
  • 1 Mentor card
  • 24 Memory cards (6 cards each for spring, fall, winter, and summer)
  • 28 Market cards
  • 48 Starter cards (12 cards each in 4 decks)

The Tea Dragon Society Card Game is in hobby stores summer 2018. This card game will have an MSRP of $20, is designed for 2-4 players to enjoy in 30-60 min., and will captivate gamers ages 10 and up.

Gen Con 2017: Steve Ellis Talks Oni Games

The comic publisher Oni Press is branching out with the launch of Oni Games, a new gaming imprint dedicated to bringing Oni Press titles to the growing tabletop market.

The focus of the Oni Games imprint will be on partnering with both new and veteran game designers and established game publishers to bring the unique characters and vibrant worlds of their original creator-owned comics to the world of games.

We got a chance to talk to Steve Ellis about this new imprint at Gen Con 50.

Oni Press Announces Oni Games

The comic publisher Oni Press is branching out with the launch of Oni Games, a new gaming imprint dedicated to bringing Oni Press titles to the growing tabletop market.

With the response to Renegade Game Studios’ Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game based on the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley and designed by Keith Baker, the positive critical and fan response to the recently launched Dead of Winter comic series based on Plaid Hat Games’ hit board game, as well as our previous collaboration with Pinnacle Entertainment Group in bringing Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun to the Savage Worlds role-playing system, Oni Press felt it was time to capitalize on the momentum for a more official entry into the world of gaming.

The focus of the Oni Games imprint will be on partnering with both new and veteran game designers and established game publishers to bring the unique characters and vibrant worlds of their original creator-owned comics to the world of games.
Joining Oni Press to help manage this initiative is industry veteran Steve Ellis. Ellis has worked in the gaming industry across a variety of capacities for almost 20 years, including retail as the founder and owner of Rainy Day Games, and a long list of credits in game design and development on projects like Dicey Goblins, the Trains series, and many others.