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Gen Con 2015 IV: Monarch, The Undercity, Vault Wars, Bad Beets, Nevermore and Wits & Wagers Deluxe

Gen Con 2015 IV: Monarch, The Undercity, Vault Wars, Bad Beets, Nevermore and Wits & Wagers Deluxe
Board Game: Monarch
• While Codenames took the top spot on Geekbuzz during Gen Con 2015 — and did not surprise anyone by doing so — Monarch from Mary Flanagan, Zara Downs, and Max Seidman took the #2 spot and had many people wondering what the game was about, especially since it was available only for previewing and preordering (as Kickstarter backers had not yet received their copies). Flanagan dropped by the BGG booth to present an overview of the game.





Board Game: The Undercity: An Iron Kingdoms Adventure Board Game
• The award for table hog at Gen Con 2015 might go to The Undercity from Privateer Press as the game board and components dwarfed the tables that it occupied during the show.





Board Game: Bad Beets
• Designer Justin Gary is known for playing Magic: The Gathering and designing Ascension, but he's become smitten by microgames and decided to design one of his own in Bad Beets, which he describes in shorthand as a combination of Love Letter and Coup.





Board Game: Vault Wars
• Designer Ben Harkins from Floodgate Games offers a mash-up of his own, with Dungeons & Dragons and the television series Storage Wars coming together to create Vault Wars with co-designer Jonathan Gilmour.





Board Game: Nevermore
• Nevermore from Curt Covert and Smirk & Dagger Games has great inspiration: Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven, with Covert suggesting through this design an origin story for how this jerky raven came to be.





Board Game: Wits & Wagers
• For the tenth anniversary of North Star Games' Wits & Wagers, the company has released a more fancy-schmancy Wits & Wagers Deluxe that upgrades the components with poker chips and other changes. NSG's Nick Bentley notes in the video that more than one million copies of the game have been sold at this point.

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