New Game Round-up: Find the Replicant in Blade Runner 2049, Find New Keepers in L5R, and Find Your Wallet to Meet Your Destiny

New Game Round-up: Find the Replicant in Blade Runner 2049, Find New Keepers in L5R, and Find Your Wallet to Meet Your Destiny
Board Game: Star Wars: Destiny – Luke Skywalker Starter Set
Board Game: Star Wars: Destiny – Boba Fett Starter Set
Board Game: Star Wars: Destiny – Legacies Booster Pack
Board Game: Star Wars: Destiny – Rivals Draft Set
Let's take a break from the recent stream of designer diaries to recap some of the non-SPIEL '17 game announcements that have occurred:

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.


Board Game: Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game – Tears of Amaterasu
Board Game: Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game – For Honor and Glory
Board Game: Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game – Into the Forbidden City
Board Game: Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game – The Chrysanthemum Throne
Board Game: Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game – Fate Has No Secrets
Board Game: Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game – Meditations on the Ephemeral


Board Game: Team Play
Board Game: Kung Fu Zoo
• 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:

Quote:
In Blade Runner 2049: Nexus Protocol, detectives, citizens, and Rick Deckard compete to figure out who is a replicant posing as a human. They know that one of them is a replicant, but not even the replicant knows who they are.

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?
Board Game: Dark.net
• February 2018 should see the debut of Richard Yaner's Dark.net, wth the game seemingly inspired by all the sci-fi I read back in the late 1980s:

Quote:
The tech-future which mankind has been working towards is finally upon us! Sadly, the tech-future is not all we thought it was cracked up to be; technology couldn't save us from ourselves, and there are no hoverboards or floating cars in sight. Contrary to our hopes and dreams, four mega-corporations dominate and dictate every aspect of our lives.

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.
• Also due in February 2018 is a new version of Charlie Price's Kung Fu Zoo, a dice-flicking game that he demoed in the BGG booth during Origins 2016 when he was self-publishing the game. That version had a wood board, while the WizKids production will not in order to keep the MSRP at $40. Here's an overview of the game:

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