New Game Round-up: Nominating Cthulhu for King, Fighting Wizards with Rocks, and Exploring Key to the City

New Game Round-up: Nominating Cthulhu for King, Fighting Wizards with Rocks, and Exploring Key to the City
Board Game: King of Tokyo
IELLO has announced a new line of Monster Packs that will serve as mini-expansions for both King of Tokyo and King of New York with the first pack due out Q1 2017, and who else are you going to launch a monster-based line with other than Cthulhu? Here's an overview of what's inside King of Tokyo: Monster Pack – Cthulhu:

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King of Tokyo: Monster Pack – Cthulhu includes a new monster — Cthulhu, in case you couldn't guess — as well as eight evolution cards for use with King of Tokyo and eight evolution cards for King of New York. Fifteen cultist tokens are also included for card effects.
These packs will retail for $10-15 depending on their contents.


Board Game: King of Tokyo/New York: Monster Pack – Cthulhu
Yes, IELLO is aware of the typo on this promotional image


Board Game: At the Gates of Loyang
Board Game: Dungeons & Dragons: Rock Paper Wizard
• Uwe Rosenberg's At the Gates of Loyang is returning to print, with Pegasus Spiele planning to have German-language copies on hand at SPIEL 2016 in October and with Tasty Minstrel Games bringing the English-language version to market at a later date.

WizKids has announced another D&D-related title in its board game line-up, but this design from Cappel, Lim and Cormier is a far different beast than its Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game. Here's a rundown of Dungeons & Dragons: Rock Paper Wizard, due out January 2017 but possibly showing up in time for advance sales at SPIEL 2016:

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In Dungeons & Dragons: Rock Paper Wizard, the dragon has been slain, leaving behind a treasure over which to fight, and the players are wizards who are fighting to claim the most gold from the dragon's pile.

The players have cards depicting various well-known D&D spells, and each card shows a Rock-Paper-Scissors gesture that the player must make to cast, while pointing at another player as the target of the spell. All players choose their spells simultaneously, and the spells can move the wizards closer or farther away from the treasure or affect the game state in other ways as well.

The first player to collect 25 gold wins.
Board Game: Key to the City: London
• As is his custom, designer/publisher Richard Breese of R&D Games has created an explanatory Geeklist for the titles that he plans to debut at SPIEL, those titles being Key to the City – London (GL) and the Keyflower mini-expansion Keymelequin (GL). Complete rules for both items are linked to on their respective BGG game pages.

• I realize that BGG News posts have been sporadic of late, which is odd since this is the time of year in which I see more info on new games than any other. I've just been pouring all of that information onto BGG's SPIEL 2016 Preview — now up to four hundred listings! — and forgetting to post about them in this spot. I keep thinking about posting this or that, but then I see another five games and forget about the earlier ones. I'll try to keep y'all more up-to-date in the days and weeks ahead...

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