Crowdfunding Round-up: Conflict of Heroes, 4 Thrones, Argent, Dead@17, War of Omens & Much, Much More

The time has come for the selection of a new Chancellor at Argent University of Magic, and you are among the likely candidates for the job. Gather your apprentices, ready your spellbook, and build your influence, while secretly discovering and competing over the votes of a limited Consortium of influential board members. Only the one who is able to fulfill the most criteria will be claim the title of most influential mage in the World of Indines!

Argent: The Consortium is a cutthroat worker-placement/engine-building game of manipulation and secrecy in which the criteria for victory are secret and the capabilities of your opponents are constantly changing. You'll need to outwit the other candidates, use your spells at the right moment, and choose the correct apprentices to manage your plan.

Argent: The Consortium is a European-style game that minimizes luck and focuses on player interaction and strong core mechanisms that allow new strategies to emerge each time you play.

War of Omens combines elements from these two games. Players can collect cards and customize their decks, just like in CCGs, but as they sit down to play individual games of War of Omens they buy their cards from the bank each turn as if they're playing a deck-builder. Opponents in War of Omens have their own, separate deck; there are no public cards.

Each player starts with ten coins that can be used to purchase cards from their bank. The bank is populated with cards that you choose in the deck builder between games. As the player purchases cards from their bank, they're immediately put into play. Once spent or destroyed, cards go into the inventory, to be shuffled and dealt back into the hand. Each turn a new hand is drawn from the inventory, and as the game progresses, the inventory grows with cards purchased from the bank (or by other means, like stealing).

In Dead @ 17, players fight for the side of good or evil, building powerful decks. This game, based on Josh Howard's Image comic book series, has players taking on the role of the main character Nara and her friends. They will have to collect and use an arsenal of weapons that can range from knives to powerful magic. These weapons are used to push back the seemingly endless army from Hell. One player will use an evil avatar to summon these minions. Using characters right out of comic they will attempt to open portals to Hell at locations around the town of Darlington Hill.

The struggle between the factions plays out in the supply deck of cards as well as at the locations. Each card that the players acquire has a use for either the good or the evil player. The more powerful cards for one is a weaker card for the other. Players may take on aggressive or defensive strategies while building their decks. The game concludes as one player opens the gates to Hell or the other banishes them to the darkness.