More Words, Concepts, and Great Old Ones for Your Table

More Words, Concepts, and Great Old Ones for Your Table
Board Game: Just One: Neue Begriffe
Board Game: Concept: La Recharge
• Belgian publisher Repos Production will release Just One: Neue Begriffe in September 2020, with this expansion for the 2019 Spiel des Jahres winning Just One coming packed with more than five hundred new terms to guess, in addition to two more player easels so that you can have up to nine players in the game.

Note that currently Repos has plans to release this title only in German.

• Along similar lines is Concept: Neue Begriffe, an expansion for 2013's Concept that contains 110 new theme cards — as many as in the base game — to give players 990 new terms and expressions to guess across simple, difficult, and challenging levels of difficulty. This expansion will also be released in French as Concept: La Recharge.

• In April 2020, French publisher Ludonaute announced a print-and-play upgrade kit to accompany its new revamped version of Cédrick Chaboussit's Lewis & Clark, with this kit containing new cards, time tokens, and updated rules.

Many people asked for a published version of this upgrade kit, and after surveying a thousand people, Ludonaute has decided to release one by the end of 2020. No details yet on price or how it will be made available, but now you know that one is in the works.

From gallery of W Eric Martin

Board Game: AuZtralia: Revenge of the Old Ones
AuZtralia: Revenge of the Old Ones is an expansion for 2018's AuZtralia from Martin Wallace, SchilMil Games, and Stronghold Games that turns the game from co-operative to competitive, with one player controlling the forces of the Old Ones. (As a result, the expansion allows for games with 2-5 players instead of 1-4.)

In addition to being able to decide where to place their forces, the Old One player can also summon creatures from the void to create even more havoc, raising Nyarlathotep or calling forth the Hounds of Tindalos to defeat the scourge of humans invading your lands.

Originating publisher SchilMil Games notes that maps of a TaZmanian island setting are also under development for AuZtralia.

Board Game: Good Cop Bad Cop: Promoted
• In June 2020, Pull the Pin Games ran a Kickstarter (link) for Good Cop Bad Cop: Promoted, the third expansion in that game line and one that rewards players with medals for heroism that they can use in a subsequent game for promotions with unique actions that only they can take. These medals are also worth points at the end of the game series.

Promoted has a U.S. retail release date of Oct. 28 November 25, 2020.

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