Anonymous Tabletop – Episode 35: The Original Toxic Wasteland

Games from Hobby Updates

• Tim – Nothing, as usual
• Lathan – Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Season 2 Kickstarter
• Jean – The Voting Game, That’s What She Said – The Party Game of Twisted Innuendos
• Mario – D&D Adventurer’s League, Opportunity Attacks Convention
• Dave and Katie – Space Beans, Guillotine, Pimple Pete

Interviews, Kickstarters, and Friends of the show

• Joe Abboreno
  • Creatures and Offbeat Creations

• Brian Colin
  • Creature Curation
  • World of Revilo Campaign Setting & Bestiary for 5E DnD Kickstarter – Until July 19^th

• Ken Franklin
  • Calliope Games
  • The Mansky Caper

• Gary Krieger
  • Genesys Games
  • The Genesys Project Kickstarter – Launching July 12^th

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• Origins Awards 2019 Nominees
• Origins Awards 2019 Winners

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Games From Origins

• Draftosaurus – Available now – 25$
• • 2–5 Players, 15 Min, Ankama – Card Drafting, Dice Rolling, Set Collection
  • Your goal in Draftosaurus is to have the dino park most likely to attract visitors. To do so, you have to draft dino meeples and place them in pens that have some placement restrictions. Each turn, one of the players roll a die and this adds a constraint to which pens any other player can add their dinosaur.
  • Draftosaurus is a quick and light drafting game in which you don’t have a hand of cards that you pass around (after selecting one), but a bunch of dino meeples in the palm of your hand.

• Colors of Paris – Essen Release, Not sure in US
  • 2–4 Players, 60 Min, Super Meeple – Card Drafting, Set Collection, Worker Placement
  • You are a painter in Colors of Paris, and you’ve decided to participate in “Bateau Lavoir”, a friendly competition between several painters in a workshop in Montmartre, Paris. The newspapers know about this challenge, so perhaps this is a good opportunity to become famous, following the path of Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, or Renoir…
  • Colors of Paris is a management game in which you must take care of your paint tubes, mixtures, and time to create works, all the while anticipating others to perform as needed within a rotating set of actions.

• Noctiluca – Available now – 35$
  • 1–4 Players, 30 Min, Z-Man Games – Card Drafting, Set Collection, Worker Placement
  • In Noctiluca, 104 colorful translucent dice fill the pool on the game board to represent the different glowing noctiluca. Players take turns diving into the water from the edges of the shore to collect the noctiluca dice from the board and keep them safely in jars until they can deliver them to healers. After two rounds, players compare points from their successful deliveries and the player with the most points wins.

• Ascension: Skull & Sails – Available now – 40$
  • 2–4 Players, 30 Min, Stone Blade Entertainment – Deck Building
  • In Ascension: Skulls and Sails, players familiar with Ascension will continue to recruit powerful heroes and constructs and defeat monsters as they vie to collect the most honor. However, in addition to using runes and power to control the game, players will use a new resource, crew, to move their ship around the board map. Cast off around the board to gain an advantage over your opponents…or to challenge, Thukal, The Kraken!

• Deadly Doodles – Gen Con release
  • 1–4 Players, 20–30 Min, Steve Jackson Games – Roll-and-write
  • In Deadly Doodles, 1-4 players simultaneously draw paths through a dangerous dungeon. Draw cards, draw a path through your dungeon, and rack up points! Collect loot and fight monsters…or run away screaming! Can you defeat the dragon for the big score?

• Bad Doctor – Available now – 25$
  • 2–4 Players, 30–40 Min, Mayday Games – Tile Placement
  • Bad Doctor is a light tile-laying game in which doctors compete for the glory of being the best doctor by treating and curing patients. Treat patients by laying treatment tiles with matching malady symbols. Place your doctor marker on that malady to show you helped cure that patient. You place complication cubes on patients who are not visited during your shift (or turn), but if that patient has no spaces left for complication cubes then that means the patient has died on your shift!

• Kibble Scuffle – Available July 26^th – 20$
  • 2–4 Players, 30 Min, WizKids – Area Control / Area Influence
  • Kibble Scuffle is a tactical card game of area control to try to get the best food for your feline friends. With cards like the Robo-Vac and Laser Pointer, you can use toys to strategically distract your opponent’s cats. Using the game box as a cat food box to store the food cubes, players take turns placing their cats and resolving their abilities. For example, the Pounce Cat removes a cat at a bowl. The Greedy Cat eats two food cubes. The Mangy Cat forces another cat to move away from their bowl. Once five cats are at any food bowl, the feeding (scoring) phase begins, followed by a new round.

• Ringmaster – Available now – 10$
  • 2–4 Players, 5–15 Min, Stone Blade Entertainment – Hand Management,Take That
  • The game is fast and family-friendly. Each player starts with three cards, and on your turn, you draw one card from the deck, then you may play one card, following these rules:
  • Stars & Attractions are played in front of you.
  • Event cards trigger effects when played to the discard pile.
  • Sideshow cards are played in front of your opponents.
  • Now, here’s where things get tricky. Each player’s win condition changes throughout the game. For example, the “Three Ring Circus” card states that you win the game when you have three of them in front of you. Be careful, though, as your opponents can sabotage your best efforts, preventing you from becoming the “Ringmaster”!

• Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein – Gen Con release – 60$
  • 2–4 Players, 60–120 Min, Plaid Hat Games – Dice Rolling, Set Collection, Worker Placement
  • Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein is a competitive game of strategic monster building for 2-4 players, inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic novel of gothic horror. In the game, the creature demands your help to accomplish what his own creator would not: to bring to life an abomination like itself, a companion to end its miserable solitude. Through worker placement and careful management of decomposing resources, you’ll gather materials from the cemeteries and morgues around the city, conduct valuable research at the Academy of Science, hire less-than-reputable associates, and toil away in your lab — all in an effort to assemble a new form of life and infuse it with a “spark of being”. Do well, and the creature may reward you during one of its surprise visits; do poorly, and you may come to regret not putting forth more effort. Narrative elements come into play throughout the game, guided by your decisions, leading to potentially unsavory outcomes.
  • The game ends when you succeed in bringing your creation to life or when the Captain kills the creature, whichever happens first. Then the player with the most points fulfills Frankenstein’s dark legacy, becoming his heir, for good or ill…