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Across the five cycles of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, you’ve encountered new investigators in each new deluxe expansion, giving you more and more options for building your decks and exploring the mythos. Now, you have the chance to invite a new faces to your games with the Winifred Habbamock Investigator Starter Deck.Each Investigator Starter Deck includes a fully pre-built and ready-to-play 34-card investigator deck, as well as 26 additional cards that can be used to upgrade your deck as you play through a campaign. Perhaps you’re entirely new to Arkham Horror: The Card Game—if your friend has a collection of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, no longer do you need to buy your own Core Set or deluxe expansion to join in a campaign. You can simply pick out your favorite Investigator Starter Deck and start playing immediately.Even if you’re a veteran player, there’s plenty of reason to pick up these Investigator Starter Decks. Every starter deck offers a new investigator and a wealth of new cards entering the game for the first time, making these expansions the ideal way to quickly grow your player card collection and discover new ways to play. And of course, they’re perfect for helping a friend get started on their first campaign of Arkham Horror: The Card Game!

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Arkham Noir is a solitaire card game inspired by the interconnected stories of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors, re-imagined as noir detective stories. Each case stands alone. In Case #2 – Called Forth By Thunder, as private investigator Howard Lovecraft, you will investigate events based on the stories: “The Lurking Fear” (1923) and “The Diary of Alonzo Typer” (1938). New elements such as storm cards and formula cards are introduced, which will force players to face the new challenge in a different way.

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In The World We Left Behind, play as astronauts trekking across an alien planet. Learn about the planets flora and fauna while uncovering vestiges of the past. What happened to the sapient species that called this planet home? Why do only remnants of their lives remain?During this casual worldbuilding game, players draw symbols on playing cards to create a planet, populate it with traits, and uncover the mystery of the species that left this world behind. Tell a story of wonder, companionship, and legacy in the midst of a lonely planet.The World We Left Behind is GMless and designed for 1-5 players. The game is 44 pages long (including covers), there is zero prep needed to play, and a full game lasts 2-4 sessions. Alternate rules for one-shots are found in the back of the book.Instructions and templates for online, one-shot play are included in the digital bundle.To play The World We Left Behind, you will need the following:A standard deck of playing cards (these cards will be written on during play)At least one fine-tipped permanent markerA six-sided die (d6)A flat surfaceA few hours of time per sessionThe World We Left Behind was originally commissioned by BalletCollective to be used as Source Art in their 2023 season, THE MOMENT IS IMMINENT. Composer Phong Tran and choreographer Troy Schumacher played The World We Left Behind and used it as inspiration for the music and choreography of the ballet.

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2019 Silver ENnie for Best Game2019 ENnie nominee for Product of the Year2018 Indie Groundbreaker Award Game of the Year2019 IndieCade Europe Tabletop award Dialect is a game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost. Dialect is a GM-less game for 3-5 players where you’ll tell the story of the Isolation by building their language. New words will come from the fundamental aspects of the community: who they are, what they believe in, and how they respond to a changing world. Players take away both the story they’ve told and the dialect they’ve built together. Includes hardcover book, deck of language generating cards used to play the game, and a free digital copy delivered immediately. "Dialect is fascinating and fun and innovative" -- Jason Morningstar (Fiasco, Night Witches) "A language-building story-telling thing of beauty" -- Jay Treat (Legacy of the Slayer, Strange Gravity) "This is a game about how culture, language and thought interact... and that is amazing!" -- Alex Roberts (Backstory Podcast)   What's Included 150 page hardcover and language generating deck, both gorgeously printed with professional layout and beautiful art. Playsets contributed by eleven world-class game designers, linguists, language creators, and generally-formidable humans Contributed chapter on language invention by David Peterson (author of The Art of Language Invention and language creator for HBO's Game of Thrones) A chapter on sustaining the world's language by Steven Bird, linguist, community organizer and champion for language vitality. Free printable play references availabe here. For some examples of play and more about Dialect, check out the podcast episode One Shot plays Dialect or the Waypoint by Vice article Playing the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect'.

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Purple Haze is an immersive story-creation game for 1 to 4 players that drops you into the heart of darkness: Vietnam, 1967. You lead a squad of U.S. Marines through the dense jungles, flooded rice paddies, and straw-thatched villages of a war-torn country. Gut-wrenching choices will determine the fate of you and your mission. Your men will suffer. Some won’t make it home. Those that do will get wiser, get tougher. The goal: complete the mission, get out alive.★ multiple-choice narrative story★ extremely immersive historical theme★ narrative-based tactical combatContents• 63 poker-sized cards• 87 tarot-sized cards• 1 rulebook• 9 mission booklets• 1 playbook• 1 large double-sided mapboard• 1 small double-sided mapboard• 1 combat board• 1 tracker board• 4 countersheets• 5 player Aids• 22 standard six-sided dice• 12 small six-sided dice• 2 custom six-sided dice• 24 wooden cubes• 1 LoS ruler• 1 pencil• 1 logbook• 15 zipper bags    

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