In Evoke, players are members of different warring guild factions and were thrown into a dungeon for illegal use of magic. Someone cast a spell which erased everyone's memories and now players can't remember which guild everyone is a member of! Use your time and resources wisely to try to learn about the other players and yourself... and escape with who...
The game of first lines and last words. Ex Libris has been a firm favourite with book lovers, and readers and writers, since Oxford Games first devised and published the game in 1991. Ex Libris is a subtle, yet highly entertaining game of bluff that will challenge your literary acumen and test your writing skills as you attempt to compose fake, but...
It’s the end of the year and with it comes the inevitable finals. You want to succeed. Did you study enough? Are you ready to do anything to do well? Really? Be careful though, the teacher is roaming the class and his pet are telling him everything that happens. Players are students secretly choosing an action, which will allow them to draw, exchange or...
Excalibur, a Diplomacy variant, was written and illustrated (map) by Kenneth Clark and published in War Bulletin (Issue 51 - Nov 1973), a "DipZine". Excalibur relies on the normal 1971 rules for most aspects of play. Specific differences include an established order of precedence for retreat order (for units without a valid retreat order); off-board supply...
GAME SYSTEM This entry is to allow for discussion/rating of the game system as a whole. It is not for a specific product or release. Versions will appear on the individual item pages. Bring the fast-paced action of head-to-head arcade fighting games to your tabletop with the Exceed Fighting System, which features fast-paced, intuitive mechanisms and...
Exceed Skytear brings the acclaimed Exceed Fighting System to Olan Taa, the fantasy world where all Skytear games take place. Exceed is a head-to-head card game for 1 or 2 players: pick one of 16 heroes, grab their ready-to-play deck of signature moves (no deck construction), and fight. Most matches take about 15 minutes. The duel plays out on an arena of...
Exchange Poker is a 2–4 player drafting and hand-building game using a standard 54-card deck, including 2 Jokers. Over a series of drafting phases, players exchange cards from their hand with cards in a shared face-up market, gradually assembling multiple poker hands from an expanding pool of drafted cards. At the start of each phase, each player receives...
The Executives is a competitive trick-taking game where players assume the roles of C-Suite executives vying to wrest control of the company from the legacy CEO. The game unfolds over several turns. The first four turns involve influence bidding followed by trick-taking, while the final turn centers on a pivotal vote. By the end, either a player or the...
An old, eccentric archeologist has died and his private collection, rich with a variety of artifacts of various types from various Cultures and Eras, is being auctioned off. These artifacts have not yet been assessed, but as a museum curator, you don't want to wait for that - you do your own research and armed with partial information, you bid based on...
One night at sea, in the galley of a run-down pirate vessel, a group of grizzled sailors huddles around a mysterious sheet of parchment: the only known map to the lost treasure of legendary pirate captain Broadsides Bullion. Captain Bullion made the map in a near-incomprehensible cipher, but whoever can piece the clues together stands to gain his vast...
In 1884, the major European imperialist powers – Great Britain, France, Germany and Belgium – were busy struggling to get a piece of the cake that was colonial Africa. At first they sent missions dedicated to exploration, but this quickly changed to vying for favorable concessions, treaties, and even settlements. This race for supremacy and the desire to...