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Mount My Head on the Wall

Ignore the dragon. Focus on the heads.

Open Season takes place after the good stuff has happened. As one of the land’s evilest evil lords, you have defeated a bunch of plucky heroes. Defeated, past-tense. Now you’re mounting their taxidermied heads on your wall. Call me crazy, but I’d rather compare paint swatches.

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It’s Not a Lake

There's an airship on the full box cover. But there are no airships in the game. Which is fine. It doesn't need airships. But it does set a different vibe.

Every so often, a board game will produce a firecracker of an idea, even if its execution doesn’t fully make good on that promise. Maps of Misterra, designed by Mathieu Bossu, Timothée Decroix, and Thomas Cariate, is one such title. An untouched island has been discovered. Nice. Now it’s time to map the thing. The only trouble is that your patron has some rather harebrained ideas about what an untouched island will look like.

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