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Sirius Dice has released a new Dungeons & Dragons dice set designed for accessibility. The Dungeons & Dragons Accessible Adventures: Disability Pride Dice Set is available now exclusively through the Sirius Dice online store for $19.99. A portion of each sale will be donated to the American Association of People with Disabilities, or AAPD. The seven-piece polyhedral set includes a d4, d6, d8, d10, percentile die, d12, and d20.

Vaesen continues to expand beyond the mythic North, which rules. Mythic Carpathia goes to Central and Eastern Europe, bringing players to Prague, Transylvania, and Ukraine while introducing a new branch of the Society, new folklore, and three complete mysteries. This is still Vaesen, but the change in scenery gives the game another deep well of history and mythology to pull from. Mythic Carpathia is 136 pages and packs quite a bit into that space.

Gudnak is heading back to crowdfunding with a new faction and new mechanics. Chaotic Great Games will launch the Gudnak: Reprint & Guilds of Zarruhk Expansion campaign on Gamefound on September 22. The centerpiece of the campaign is the Guilds of Zarruhk, the eighth faction to join Gudnak. The new faction introduces the Mehkaniks of Zarruhk, who spend each year producing Al-Flux, a fuel created using the dwindling light of the dying sun.

Is it really a party game if there isn’t a chance of taking a cork directly to the face? One player begins as the Cupper while everyone else becomes a Qorker. Each Qorker places their cork in the center of the table and holds onto the bead at the end of its attached string. The Cupper rolls two oversized dice beneath a cup and reveals the result. If the dice show doubles or add up to seven, everybody moves.

Wingspan has become a household name in board games, but it isn’t necessarily something most would immediately pull off the shelf to play with a six-year-old. Wingspan Pocket, on the other hand, is much more promising. This smaller version distills Wingspan down to a single row of six birds and a handful of straightforward actions. It is quicker, easier to teach, and designed as a much lighter entry point. So I wanted to see what would happen when I put it in front of my six-year-old.

The end of the world does not have to be all fire, screaming, and people fighting over toilet paper. Sometimes the apocalypse is colorful, round, and adorable. In Doomlings, each player develops a species by playing Trait cards into a personal tableau. On your turn, you play one card, resolve any ability it provides, and then draw back up to your current Gene Pool. Your Gene Pool determines your hand size and may increase or decrease as cards and global events affect your developing species.

What suit is that card? Is it all of the suits or a specific suit? We won’t know until you open the box. Every numbered card exists in a strange state of uncertainty until someone plays it and declares its color. That sounds like a gimmick, but this is one of the thinkiest trick-taking games around. Your cards are open-ended, yet the research board and your previous declarations slowly tighten the possibilities until the experiment goes wrong.

I love a slow-burn RPG that delivers in excellent writing before anything else. Before you ever raise a skeleton or cast a forbidden ritual in The Necromancer’s Tale, you’re just a minor noble. For some, this kind of thing requires patience, but it’s so satisfying once you are no longer just a dude. The Necromancer’s Tale is set in 18th-century Europe, and focuses on conversations, investigations, and exploration.

Developer: MINTROCKET Publisher: MINTROCKET Genre: Adventure / Management / DLC Reviewed On: Nintendo Switch 2 Also Available On: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, PC Dave the Diver: In the Jungle could have been a simple side trip. It could have been a light DLC for an already great game packed with content. That clearly was not enough for MINTROCKET. The expansion leaves the Blue Hole behind, gives players a new village and grill, and adds enough new ideas that it almost feels like a sequel.

It feels like there are dozens of games like this now, but after looking it up, I guess there really aren’t. We’ve had two Tavern Talk games, a couple of Coffee Talk titles, and the excellent VA-11 Hall-A. That’s a surprisingly small list for a genre with such wide appeal to cozy gamers. If future games are this enjoyable, I wouldn’t mind seeing twice as many. Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker returns to its D&D-inspired world, this time as a prequel to the original game.