Dice Rolling

In Blueprints, players are architects who must use different colored dice to build three different structures from blueprints, with the dice providing different advantages to you. In the game, each round progresses like this:

Discover your blueprint.
Each turn, choose a die and place it in your building.
Reveal your building, tally your points, then discover who wins the awards and prizes.

After three rounds, players tally their awards and prizes to see who wins. Who will be the best architect?

Early Italy, 600 BCE – Five city states are vying each other for superiority in the region: Roma with their Roman inhabitants, Velletri with the Volscian inhabitants, Reate with their Sabin inhabitants, Veii with their Etruscian inhabitants, and Alba Longa with their Latin inhabitans. Each player controls a city state and tries to be the first to have 16+ population and 10 monuments. This city state is destined to be a glorious power of the Ancient World!

A game of Alba Longa offers a fine combination of dice selection, city management, and worker assignment (inside your own city), and is spiced up with the ingredient of city combat (soldiers and heroes)! Inside the box are three big variants – Assisi, A Job Well Done, and Spoils of War – which can be added and combined at your will and which add even more longevity to this game!

In prototype form, under the name The Great Pyramid, this design was one of four winners of the 2009 Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société, a design competition run by Centre National du Jeu in France. Here's what the jury said about the game: The Great Pyramid is rich with an astonishing number of possible strategies but manages to convey the clarity of the whole mechanism. The choices offered to the players are numerous and present a contentious interaction too rare in this kind of game.

In the game of Dragon Caster, you take on the role of a powerful sorcerer who fights other Casters for glory and conquest. Your casting numbers represent either the dragons you can summon to battle, or the type of mana that your dragons may obtain. This mana can be used to grant your dragons a variety of special powers. In order to gain victory, you must destroy the area containing your opponent's Caster.

Neither human nor demon, the squamata Kartikeya haunts the corridors beneath New Jerusalem, like all lost souls a prisoner there. Marked by Hell, Kartikeya bears within it the bittersweet rage of those who have no side, no caste.

Claustrophobia: Furor Sanguinis is an expansion for Claustrophobia that introduces a three-player variant in which a player controls the squamata warrior Kartikeya. Components include one painted miniature, three new room tiles, a squamata board, one sheet of tokens, and five squamata dice as well as six new scenarios.

From the Asmodee webpage:

This Claustrophobia expansion offers you a new creature which will allow you to discover and play many new scenarios. In each of them, one player will take on the role of Kartikeya, a monstrous squamata opposed to both human and demonic forces.

Claustrophobia: Furor Sanguinis is an expansion for Claustrophobia that introduces 6 new scenarios in a player controls the squamata warrior Kartikeya. Components include one painted miniature, three new room tiles, a squamata board, one sheet of tokens, and five squamata dice as well as six new scenarios.

Please note that the Claustrophobia base game is required to play this game.

CONTENTS
1 Kartikeya painted miniature; 3 room tiles; 1 Squamata board; 1 sheet of tokens; 5 Squamata dice; 1 rulebook with 6 scenarios.

FEATURES
•6 new scenarios.
•1 finely sculpted and painted plastic figurine.
•2 player game with one scenario for 3 players.

SKU: CLAU03
MSRP: $ 34.99 USD
AVAIL: November 2014

Game description from the publisher:

Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2-5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins!

This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the feel of the original game.