So... Fantasy Flight Guys Luke and Charlie stopped by our FLGS on their way to Kublacon. A nice demo night of AT-43 and Mutant Chronicles was set up and I had to take the opportunity to rub shoulders with these guys. While AT-43 and MC looked cool (OH MY GOSH COOL for the AT-43 miniatures!), my true interest was AGOT:LCG. We asked about the base/starter pack that would be coming out. Luke responded by showing me this:



This is a box right at the same size as the AGOT board game. Very cool box with the neat little title "A Game of Thrones: Card Game". While this is just a empty teaser display, I was able to glean a few points from Luke and the box that owe repeating here.

1) The format: The box is meant to be a stand-alone platform with four, 52-card decks comprising of Stark, Lannister, Baratheon, and Targaryan. Yup. Greyjoy and Martell are on the bench for this one. Players can choose which deck to go with and then go head to head. Nice thing is that the boxes looks plenty big enough to hold a couple of the LCG packs in it along with the base game components.

2) It has a board: Yes, it is a quasi-board game where there will be a board that has reference icons and power pool areas and what not. The board also has a score track incorpoarated in it and has the title roles from the CCG starters (with nifty little figurines!) built in to the board. This looks to give a nice feel and will definitely help show new people the game.

3) There be gold!: An interesting addition is the actual usage of Golden Dragons. This is a change in the game. Golden Dragons will be rewarded based on gold generating locations and plot cards. They will stay with you through the round and will not be discarded until the end of the turn. This allows Golden Dragons to be used in a similar way as Influence is now. In fact, the new Littlefoot that is shown on the back cover is quite the gold fiend. He is +1 power for each Golden Dragon you have in your bank. He who has the gold, makes the rules it seems!

Outside of that, the game will be played very similarly to what we now know. The new format is definitely set to encourage the melee style of play but that is one of the great things about A Game of Thrones. I'm excited about this new product and look forward to the many other advantages of the LCG vs. CCG format.

Hope you don't mind this mini or pre-review. Its all I could get out of them but I'm excited about what I saw. The word is to expect this product out as pre-market status at Gencon and hopefully in the open market soon after. I'd close with a picture of the back cover, but the mods don't want me to show that for some reason. I guess there was a glare in the picture like the front cover!


Oh well! Thanks again and keep on gaming!