Crowdfunding Round-up: Drink Beer, Murder a Medical Professional, Do Cowboy Stuff, Run from Zombies, and Attract Tolkien — or What W. Eric Did in Essen!

In Brew Crafters, players assume management of a local craft brewery, working hard to manage resources, use their workers wisely, and develop their brewing line to create the best local brews. Players can perform research into different beer styles, brewing recipes such as Smoked Porter, Pumpkin Ale, and Coffee Stout, crafting their own unique brewing strategy along the way.

Brew Crafters honors the tradition of classic Euro-style board games, but at its heart beats a unique brewery processing system that must be constantly improved, monitored, and manned in order to keep the beloved beverages rolling off the line. Each brewery has access to a variety of equipment upgrades, farms, markets, and a plethora of specialty workers, ensuring a high level of replayability and strategic avenues. In addition, each player is studiously working to be first to develop several rotating gold-label specialty recipes that will earn them a better reputation at the end of year three when the best local brewer will be honored.

In Get Lucky, each player controls two murderers, and Doctor Lucky is represented by a pawn that moves around the table. The turn moves with him, and Doctor Lucky's luck is represented by icons on the cards. When you're not trying to kill Doctor Lucky, you're often trying to save him from someone else! The game ends when Doctor Lucky's finally luck runs out, and someone manages to land the killing blow.

Get Lucky is fast, fun, and funny, playable by 2-6 players. It will be packaged in a compact two-piece box, similar to the one in the video. It has 72 cards and a single black pawn. Playing time is about 20 minutes. Age rating is 12+, mostly for theme. (The rules are easy.)

In Shadows of Brimstone, players create characters, taking on the role of a classic Western Hero Archetype, such as the Law Man, Gunslinger, or Saloon Girl. Forming an adventuring posse, the Heroes venture down into the dark mines, overrun with all manner of ancient demons and foul creatures from another world. With tactical gameplay, lots of dice, and a robust card-driven exploration system, no two games are ever the same as the Heroes explore the mines finding new enemies to fight, new Loot to collect, and new dangers to overcome. Players can even find portals to other worlds, stepping through to continue their adventures on the other side!

An exciting campaign system allows the Players to visit local frontier towns between adventures, spending their hard-earned Loot and building their characters from game to game! As players find fantastic Gear and Artifacts to equip their Heroes, they also gain experience from their adventures. This experience is used to level up, guiding the Hero’s path through an expansive, class-specific upgrade tree of new skills and abilities, allowing each player to develop their Hero to fit their own play style.

So load up yer' six shooter, throw on yer' hat and poncho, and gather the posse, the darkness is coming, and all hell's about to break loose... in the Shadows of Brimstone!

Run, Fight, or Die! is easy to play, taking only two minutes to set up and you can start learning the game by simply rolling the dice! Each player has his own Player Board and Character Card and his own group of zombies to fight off. Run, Fight, or Die! plays in 30-60 minutes and can handle six players! And there are a variety of ways to play. You can play with or without the different zombies. The base game contains only the walkers (sixty of them!) but that's all you need to get started. It's a blast any way you set it up!