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New Game Round-up: Explore the Vault of Dragons, and Go for the Goal in 1st & Roll

New Game Round-up: Explore the Vault of Dragons, and Go for the Goal in 1st & Roll
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I've been focusing on the 2018 Origins Game Fair for weeks, with many game announcements falling by the wayside as I prepared for that show and prepped the Gen Con 2018 Preview. Let's check out a few of these titles:

• At NY Toy Fair in February 2018, Gale Force Nine revealed that it planned to release another Dungeons & Dragons board game in August 2018, but due to licensing restrictions, it could announce no more than that. Now the game's title and setting have been revealed, so here's an overview of Vault of Dragons:

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In Vault of Dragons, players take the role of unsavory factions from the streets of Waterdeep, factions who have heard rumors of a hidden vault of gold under the city and are determined to locate it first.

In the game, players send followers to locations in Waterdeep to uncover rumors and treasure. Brawling with other factions to control key locations is to be expected, but beware the City Watch. Double-sided location tiles give players even more places to explore. Uncover the clues and enter the dungeons of the Undermountain to find the vault of dragons.
Board Game: Fireworks
Board Game: Solarius Mission
• Renegade Game Studios has continued its partnership with Aza Chen with the announcement of a new version of Fireworks, first released in 2017 by Li-He Studio. In the game, you fill a box with hexagonal tiles that have various fireworks patterns (or parts of patterns) on them, but with the black backside face-up. On a turn, you drop or throw a wooden die into the box to *boom* see the fireworks reveal themselves against the night sky. You then pick up one or more tiles to add them to your display, attempting to create certain patterns to score points.

• Flying Lemur Game Studio debuted in early 2018 with a new edition of North American Railways, first published in 2016 by Spielworxx, and for its second title it's publishing another 2016 Spielworxx release: Solarius Mission from Michael Keller and Andreas Odendahl, with this edition (due out in early 2019) containing some graphic and component changes, along with new game variants from the designers.

• On Facebook, designer Stephen Glenn mentions that a second edition of his 2011 release 1st & Goal from R&R Games will appear in September 2018 in time for the new NFL season. This game, now titled 1st & Roll, contains no cards and is "[c]leaner and quicker", according to Glenn.


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