Hello everyone! A few times this year, we’ve teamed up with PAX to give some of our readers a chance to head to one of the PAX events. Over the years, we’ve had PAX Online events along with the most recent PAX East 2022 and PAX West 2022. Some of us here at Marooners’ Rock ventured out after not being able to head to conventions in person since 2020.
Fans of survival city-builder game Frostpunk are about to have a whole new way to experience the challenge of managing the last city on Earth. Launching on Kickstarter today, Frostpunk: The Board Game is now live and ready for backers.
Over the years, I’ve been keeping a keen eye on many of the board game tables that I’ve glanced at. Alas, when going to events such as PAX East and seeing tables I’d love to own the price tag is what kills the need for one. I often look around Kickstarter or even get random ads that are promoting upcoming Kickstarters the team at Nilo caught my interest. What is Nilo creating? It...[Read More]
I just came back from a year of working in Tokyo. While that might sound like a great, interesting experience, it was also an isolating one. See, my Japanese is mediocre at best and Tokyo is much like New York City; busy, impersonal, unfriendly, and sometimes hostile, though in a more passive-aggressive way than NYC. Between the language barrier, Japanese shyness, and a fairly prevalent distrust o...[Read More]
Tanto Cuore (pronounced Tan-toe Coo-reh) is a two to four-player deck-builder card game from Japanime Games. It features cute anime maids that you hire and have serve you by giving you lots of love, some of them even stay in your chamber. Y’know, saying it out loud at all feels creepy, but this game is entirely innocent, I promise!
For those of you living in the Boston area and those who simply love to travel to cons, get out your calendars and memo pads because PAX East 2020’s schedule is now live! Gotta say this looks like another interesting lineup. Stars of both the Indie and AAA industries will present their latest projects, upcoming releases, and informative industry panels. As always, this is an amazing experience dur...[Read More]
Dice, the magic click-clack math rocks, are a staple of every tabletop fan’s arsenal. With the roll of a die you can win or lose, strike down an enemy or yourself, win the heart of a crush, or make an absolute buffoon of yourself. A set of dice with a variety of number of sides are crucial in Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder, each using various dice to determine attack...[Read More]
A hilarious new tabletop card game has just been announced on Kickstarter called MatchBreaker! The goal is simple, try to score a hot date while also destroying friend’s dreams of getting that dream person of theirs!
Recently sharing some news, Sea of Thieves creator Rare announced via the games official Twitter account that a tabletop version of the game would be coming out soon. Surprisingly, Rare’s official website has not made an official post about the upcoming game but we could expect one within the coming weeks. According to the Twitter announcement, The Sea of Thieves board game will be published...[Read More]
As of late, I’ve been getting more and more into tabletop games to play alongside Erin. We’ve also been backing a lot of card games, which some are out and some will soon be out via Kickstarter. With International Tabletop Day coming up. I thought best to give a short list of games to check out. While some you can now obtain in store, others you can pre-order via Kickstarter and some y...[Read More]
Role-playing games are some of the most beloved games of the medium. When looking at lists of must play games or an all-time ranking, there’s almost always a spread of RPGs at the top. This is why for developers, an RPG has to be a fairly daunting task, especially when trying to make something large in scope that will stand the test of the time. Masquerada: Songs and Shadows has all the elements o...[Read More]