• Fantasy Flight Games has invited you to sell a kidney or two to keep up-to-date with Star Wars: Destiny, which will see two new starter sets — Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett — released in Q1 2018, along with the Legacies series of 160 cards that will be sold in booster packs.
On top of these items, FFG has Star Wars: Destiny – Rivals Draft Set, a supplemental set of cards and dice that is meant to enable competitive drafting of Star Wars: Destiny. To draft, each player opens three Star Wars: Destiny booster packs of any type, combines the cards, drafts one, passes the pack, drafts one, etc. You repeat this for a second set of three packs, passing cards right. Then you supplement the thirty cards you drafted with the contents of a Rivals Draft Set, which contains an assortment of cards and dice that are meant to fill out a deck and support whatever you were trying to do in the draft.
• In addition to that money vacuum, FFG is following the launch of Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game in early October with a luscious wave of content, specifically one new "Dynasty Pack" a week starting in early November 2017 until all six chapters of the "Imperial Cycle" have been released. If you want to build up a world quickly, I guess that's one way to do it. FFG has lots of preview picks from the packs on its website.
• In a vain attempt to keep up with FFG's output, WizKids has announced four releases for early 2018, starting with a North American version of Johannes Schmidauer-König's Team Play, which Schmidt Spiele debuted in 2015. In this card game for 3-6 people, players try to draft and pass cards with a teammate so that they can individually complete face-up goals on the table and move their team to victory.
• That title is due out in January 2018 along with Blade Runner 2049: Nexus Protocol, which bears this description and no designer name in the solicitation:
In this deduction game, you use your influence to meet contacts, gather information, and reveal evidence to identify the replicant. If you discover that you are the replicant, you have to scramble to conceal your identity and avoid early retirement.
Will you find the replicant, or will you be retired?
In Dark.net, players intercept transmissions to gain valuable information via their data network. Players use fences to buy and sell information so they can boost their ability to gather even more information, all in the service of acquiring reputation. To boost their reputation, players will accrue credits, extend their network, hire informants, install network boosters, and make contacts. Have more reputation than anyone else at game's end, and you win.