New Game Round-up: New Adventures for Dominion, New Tickets for Zug um Zug & New Almes for the Poor Gamers Who Want More Almes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. You're not sure which, but at least you've narrowed it down. You are rich with life experiences, but have had trouble trading them for goods and services.

It's time to seek your fortune, or anyone's really — whoever's is closest. To the west there's a land of milk and honey, full of giant bees and monstrous cows; to the east, a land of eggs and licorice; to the north, treacherous swamps; to the south, loyal jungles. But all of them have been thoroughly pillaged. You've heard legends, though, of a fifth direction as yet unspoiled, with its treasures conveniently gathered into troves. You have your sword and your trail mix, handed down from your father, and his father before him. You've recruited some recruits and hired some hirelings; you've shined your armor and distressed a damsel. You put up a sign saying "Gone Adventuring". Then you put up another sign, saying "Beware of Dog", in case people get any ideas. You're ready. You saddle up your trusty steed, and head florst.

Dominion: Adventures, the ninth addition to the game of Dominion, contains 400 cards, 60 tokens and six mats. This expansion has 30 new Kingdom cards, including the return of Duration cards that do things on future turns, plus Reserve cards that can be saved for the right moment. There are also 20 Event cards that give you something to buy besides cards, including tokens that modify cards.

Who hasn't dreamed of building the best treehouse in the world? Now it's time to live that dream!

In Best Treehouse Ever, players compete to build their best treehouse, outfitting their treehouse with cool rooms, while also making sure that their tree doesn't tip over and that their rooms are more impressive than all of their friends' rooms at the end of the game.

Building takes place over three weeks/rounds, and in each round, players use card drafting and spatial reasoning to add five new rooms to their treehouse. Players must pay attention to the other treehouses being built since they take turns determining which types of rooms score for everyone at the end of each round.

At the end of the third week, the winner is the player with the best treehouse ever!

As for why I published this on BGG News, Falch had posted on the Up Front KS page that he was preparing a statement, and I thought something like that deserved to be seen by as many people as possible, so I offered to publish the statement. Effectively his statement – labeled as an article on BGGN and not that different from a opinion column by a politician or businessperson in a newspaper – is a promise to people, and we'll all see how it holds up in the months ahead. If the KS campaign blows up, then Falch (and Valley and Radiant) will have defaced themselves in a highly public manner; if not, then there's still the underlying lawsuits that will be resolved in time one way or another.