Board and Card Games

Now players can explore from London to the Shetlands, across the islands that hold endless secrets, some mystical and some terrifying.

The true PAX East experience lives in the spaces between the booths. It’s in the rhythmic clicking of mechanical keyboards in the PC area, the clatter of dice in Tabletop, and the spontaneous cheers erupting from the Arcade or PAX Arena.

Between the tactical, dark fantasy of 'Valor Mortis' and the immense tabletop scale of 'Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game,' my Sunday was anchored by two very different, but equally ambitious, visions of what gaming can be.

Arcade freeplay, Voodoo Lounge...and scent-o-vision. All in a day's work at PAX East.

A truly great surprise was seeing the Cyberpunk TCG, a fast-paced, resource-heavy strategy game, currently destroying records on Kickstarter.

The game of Nordic horror heads south to new lands haunted by vampires, werewolves, and things far worse as Eastern Europe industrializes.

Winning is not always about “defeating” a monster; instead, it may be about finding a way for our world and that of the monsters to coexist.

Puppy Pile from University Games is a fast-paced collecting game with the most energetic thing to collect: puppies!

Organ Attack! from University Games brings life to the many body-part characters presented by The Awkward Yeti webcomic. It all began with “Heart and Brain” comics from The Awkward Yeti showing the comical differences in a passionate, nearly unpredictable character and an overly logical one, each illustrated by the classic …

While some TTRPGs have their game-worlds detailed down to individual streets and even the shops on them, 'Rapscallion' is intentionally player-created. Players' own campaigns will determine what lies in the unknown.