Get your team together and hit the pitch. The screaming fans won't wait. OverDrive's inaugural season has started now. This new sci-fi sports game is available from Mantic as well as down at your FLGS. Head on over and get your copies now.

From the announcement:

OverDrive is in stores now! In OverDrive you are a coach that’s in control of a team of three players, chosen from a cast of larger-than-life characters, including a teleporting space turtle, walking shark, mind-controlling jellyfish and more!

Before each game you must draft your Players from the line-up available, which means you may never play the same team twice. All future releases of new Players can be added to the line-up, giving you even more choices.

After choosing your Players it’s time to hit the arena in one of six different game modes inspired by classic videogame multiplayers:

• King of the Hill
• Capture the Flag
• Pass the Bomb
• Invade
• Kill Streak
• DodgeBrawl

The core game also includes rules for league play and a short story to introduce you to the world of OverDrive.

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I don't know. I have mild arachnophobia, but looking at a cyberachnid doesn't give me the same heeby-jeebies that a regular one would. Same goes if I were to spot one in a dark corner of my apartment. So, maybe I'd be qualified to be part of Van Saar as an Augment. We get a look at a new one coming and their Cyberachnid friends for Necromunda in this preview.

From the article:

Every season is spider season for the Van Saar. Last time, we showed you their terrifying new multi-limbed Servo-suit, but the House of Artifice is taking it one step further with an Augmek accompanied by three venomous Cyberachnids.

The Van Saar Augmeks, already on almost equal footing with their Prime leaders, are enough of a threat on their own due to their immense firepower. However, this new kit gives you the option to add one to your gang with a small entourage of eight-legged pals, which represent a twisted echo of their house sigil. 

Cyberachnids are bred from Necromunda’s mutated spider population, and they’re cybernetically modified into loyal killing machines. If they’re not poisoning or tearing apart their enemies, they’re scaring them straight into their masters’ crosshairs.

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Don't you just hate it when the multiverse goes kerplooey? I know I do. However, the rearranged, reconfigured, and mushed-together leftovers are great places to adventure around in. Such is the case in Demiverse, a new RPG campaign guide that's up on Kickstarter now.

From the campaign:

Everything was going more or less as it had for millions of millennia when suddenly the unthinkable happened. The multiverse, uh, kinda exploded. The fractured realities were sent hurtling (fifth-dimensionally) sometimes combining and reforming in a dizzying number of ways.

Once the dust settled, all that remained were demiplanes, strange fragments of reality the largest of which are only a few thousand square miles and the smallest of which is reported to be a five-foot dungeon tile, if you can believe it.

There's plenty to see and do on any one demiplane alone. And each would be completely isolated from the others if not for interplanar gates scattered among them. Those foolhardy enough to travel widely throughout the demiverse will find marvels and dangers in abundance, enough to rival your dreams and fuel your nightmares. One thing such intrepid people would never lack is adventure!

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The book will be anywhere between 20 and 200 pages, depending on the final funding count. If we hit the funding goal and nothing more, you will discover 4 gorgeously illustrated and fully realized demiplanes. If we hit all of the stretch goals, it'll be a tome of almost 50 demiplanes with the same high production standards throughout. So tell your friends! The more we fund, the more The Demiverse expands!

The book will be full-color and chock full of custom art. The sparse rules language will be compatible with 5e or Those Who Wander RPG.

The campaign is up and over its funding goal with 23 days left to go.

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Gaming is good. Giving to charity is good. Add the two together and you get something truly great. Days of Wonder has announced a special pink set of trains and property tokens to use in Ticket to Ride. Each purchase will give a donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

From the article:

Play Pink Kicks off Days of Wonder official partnership with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Days of Wonder, Asmodee and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) are proud to announce their world premiere partnership: the release of an exclusive train set in-theme with the classic pink coloring long associated with the breast cancer cause. $2/2€ per special edition pack sold will support breast cancer research through BCRF.

This new set of trains can be used across Ticket to Ride properties, with all trains and stations ready for use in both Ticket to Ride and Ticket to Ride Europe sporting the classic pink coloring.

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Tuesday. The work week is well underway. Let's hope it goes by quick and we can get back to the weekend ASAP. To help along with that, as usual, we've got some gaming podcasts to help fill up the time. This week on the dial we have:

The Secret Cabal Episode 239: Through the Ages and a Short Topic Extravaganza

Awww yeah, the gang is back in action for another bananas episode of The Secret Cabal! Don and Jamie dive into a feature review of the classic Vlaada Chvátil game, Through The Ages: A New Story of Civilization and the gang hosts another Short Topic Extravaganza with topics including is it okay to turn down designers when they ask you to playtest? Do you like long turns with few rounds or fast turns with tons of rounds? And do we believe in bigfoot and UFOs?

Game Classy Podcast Episode 242: Big City Paladin

Joe has a new character and some Underworlds stuff

Rolling Dice & Taking Names Episode 239: WoW-Wrath of the Lich King, Origins-First Builders, Luna Capital, Paint the Roses, Lost Cities R&W

Sometimes you get to experience one of your favorite video games in a Board Game. We got that with Starcraft awhile ago. Well, we got to experience that euphoria again with World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. Unfortunately, we lost control of the discussion and it went a little long.

But sometimes we have a little disagreement and you get to listen to us squawk like hens over a game. Not going to tell you which one, this way you can be surprised.

Thanks for listening to the show and appreciate all the support

The D6 Generation Pip Episode 86: D&D Live Session 34: An Awkward Dinner

In which the party is seated at a table for 8 near the water.

Nooooobody expects the Black Templar inquisition! Actually, we all do expect it. Games Workshop has been telling us about it for a while. And today's no different as we get a look at some of the special characters that'll be hitting tabletops soon.

From the preview:

Of the many heroes forged in the fires of the Third War of Armageddon, few command such reverence as High Chaplain Grimaldus, ‘Hero of Helsreach’.

Both High Marshal Helbrecht and the Emperor’s Champion have crossed the Rubicon Primaris, so it was only a matter of time before the Black Templars’ firebrand High Chaplain followed suit.

He may be clad in a shiny new suit of Mk X Tacitus Armour, but the detailing is full of callbacks to his classic miniature. From the bonding studs in his greaves to the candles on his backpack, Grimaldus is dripping in nostalgia and looking sharper than ever before.

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Yarr arr yarr! I loddie the hotpants! 'tis time to set sail for the high seas and find treasure and adventure among the waves. That's where you find yourself in Quests & Cannons: The Risen Islands, a new high fantasy board game of swashbuckling action up on Kickstarter.

From the campaign:

The campaign's a bit more than 2x funded with 17 days left to go.

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With the ongoing pandemic, shipping is still a bit of a mess. As such, knowing when figures and games will be released is a bit of a guessing game. At the moment, WizKids and Paizo are looking at October 6th for the upcoming Pathfinder Battles: Bestiary Unleashed set.

From the announcement:

We have a new release date from WizKids for their Pathfinder Battles: Bestiary Unleashed pre-painted plastic miniatures—October 6. You can find them at your favorite local game store and the Paizo Store soon!

We haven’t received them in our warehouse quite yet, so look to our Customer Service Forum for subscriber guidance and timing.

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Games Workshop has spread their games all across the world. So much so that they've now served over 1 million customers. To celebrate this in their online shop, they've got a commemorative figure that you can get with qualifying orders.

From the website:

One million is a big number – a million points is enough for 181 Warlord Titans or 200,000 Gretchin* – and since we’ve now served one million online customers, we’re celebrating this momentous milestone with an exclusive Commemorative Series Citadel miniature. Say hello to Sergeant Castus.

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And no, I don't mean they have new office pets. Two Little Mice is an award-winning RPG studio and they're now in with CMON to help them create story-driven games and RPGs.

From the announcement:

CMON Limited is pleased to announce the acquisition of Two Little Mice, the tabletop RPG studio founded by Riccardo ‘Rico’ Sirignano and Simone Formicola, and later strengthened by the addition of illustrator Daniela Giubellini. The award-winning label will serve as the publisher of CMON's growing lines of RPG and story-focused gaming products.The deal also includes the acquisition of all games and intellectual properties developed by Two Little Mice, including the ENNIE-winning Broken Compass line of games, and the Household roleplaying game. CMON and Two Little Mice will continue the development and support of both titles, expanding their original scope and bringing them to a wider audience.

Rico, Simone and Daniela join CMON's roleplaying games and narrative board games division, headed by designers Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi who spearheaded the creation of the Zombicide: Chronicles roleplaying game, the design of the Trudvang Legends board game, and are busy developing several other top-secret narrative-oriented projects.

“I am very proud to welcome Two Little Mice to CMON, as I personally sponsored their addition to the team. Their dedication to their projects and the quality of their output make them stand out in a gaming scene that is filled with talent. Their addition will allow us to be even more ambitious with our current and future plans, as we expand our RPG and story-based product lines" said Francesco Nepitello, Senior Game Designer with CMON, and head of the roleplaying games development team.

The acquisition of Two Little Mice allows CMON to strengthen its position as a developer and publisher of story-driven games and other content, based on original intellectual properties and licensed franchises. “We are thrilled to join CMON and work with CMON, Francesco Nepitello, and his team on the development of new projects as well as their current slate. To have the opportunity to work with such talented and experienced people is just amazing,” said Rico Sirignano, co-founder of Two Little Mice.

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