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Princes of the Dragon Throne is an area control and resource management board game that uses deck-building as a driver for the other game elements. Players acquire citizen and dragon cards from a changing pool of available prospects to build their unique deck of recruits. Players use their recruits to gather resources and gain control of the various Guilds of the Kingdoms, earning special favors to advance their bid for the throne. The player with the highest prestige when the Parliament is full will win the Dragon Throne and rule over all the Kingdoms of Lo'en.

Xia: Legends of a Drift System is a 3-4 player sandbox style competitive space adventure. Each player starts as a lowly but hopeful captain of a small starship.

Players fly their ships about the system, completing a variety of missions, exploring new sectors and battling other ships. Navigating hazardous environments, players choose to mine, salvage, or trade valuable cargo. Captains vie with each other for Titles, riches, and most importantly Fame.

The most adaptive, risk taking, and creative players will excel. One captain will rise above the others, surpassing mortality by becoming Legend!

In Cornish Smuggler is a strategic board game that challenges you to build the most successful smuggling network you can. You do this by buying and selling goods for gold while employing a network of local characters, secret knowledge, hidden locations, bribes, dirty tricks and a healthy dose of cunning to evade the attentions of the customs officers and the other players.

The Red Dragon Inn is a fast-paced, light-hearted card game for two or more players. You and your adventuring companions have spent all day slogging through the dungeon, killing monsters and taking their stuff. Now you're back in town, healed up, cleaned up, and ready to party at the Red Dragon Inn.

Drink, gamble, and roughhouse with your friends – but don't forget to keep an eye on your Gold. If you run out, you'll have to spend the night in the stables. Oh, and try not to get too beaten up or too drunk. If you black out, your friends will continue the party without you – after they loot your body for gold, of course! The last conscious adventurer with gold wins the game!

The Red Dragon Inn is a modular game with standalone base sets and single-character ally expansions. You can mix and match characters from any of them so you can have the party composition of your choice! Each of the three base sets includes four unique characters, a drink deck, gold pieces, and all the parts for 2-4 players to play right out of the box. Each of the ally expansions includes a character deck as well as gold pieces and bits so that you can add another character to a base set.

The Red Dragon Inn 4 features four nautically-themed characters. These characters are the crew of the Crimson Drake, a sturdy sailing vessel that our heroes use when their adventures take them to sea. Of course, it can be combined with any previous Red Dragon Inn sets to allow for larger games and new match-ups!

Stones of Fate is played with a spread of nine cards laid face down on the table. Players seek to win these cards by placing stones next to "zones" on the borders of the cards. Stones of Fate is turn-based. A turn consists of any two of the following actions:

-----• Peek at a card.
-----• Place or move one of your own stones.
-----• Flip over a card to determine who wins it.

The depth of the game comes from player interaction and the special abilities on cards which are triggered when they are flipped or won. These abilities allow you to rid yourself of negative cards, win more cards, or foil the plans of your opponents.