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Luck vs Skill (Or why I like Ashes but not Destiny)

28 May 2018 FoxTaleGames Ashes, By Order of the Queen, Design, Destiny, dice, Egyptian, Japanese, Lucidity, playtest, Tiger Crab Studios, X-Com

Luck vs skill is at the core of every board game. Purely skill-based games are often described as abstracts. You

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Lucidity around the world

2 November 2017 FoxTaleGames Derruba Peças Jogos, Lucidity, Renegade Game Studios

I am thrilled to announce two partnerships for Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares. In the United States, Renegade Game Studios, the makers of

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Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares is funded!

9 October 2017 FoxTaleGames dice, Kickstarter, Kicktraq, Lucidity, playtest, Pledge Manager, print-and-play, Tabletopia, William Webb

The campaign for Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares has now drawn to a close. In the end, we blew right through our target in

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Lucidity Previews

Lucidity is live on Kickstarter now!

21 June 2017 FoxTaleGames dice, Kickstarter, Lucidity, playtest, Tabletopia

Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares is a press-your-luck dice game of nightmares for 2 to 4 players that plays in around 20 minutes. If you

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Good Habits for Game Designing

16 April 201719 May 2017 FoxTaleGames Design, Designer, dice, Gameplay, Instagram, Lucidity, playtest

As designers, we can look beyond analogue board game design for lessons and inspiration. One of the nice side-effects of video

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Designer Diary Lucidity Previews

Making Custom Dice

8 March 20178 March 2017 FoxTaleGames Design, dice, Facebook, Icons, Lucidity, Photograph, playtest, Tabletopia

Yesterday, we received our first look at the custom dice that we are having made for Lucidity later this year. We

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Designer Diary Lucidity

Nightmares and Control: Design Diary

8 March 2017 FoxTaleGames Design, dice, Gameplay, Lucidity

In Lucidity, players draw dice each turn from a bag, put two back, then roll and apply the rest. Bad things

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Designer Diary Uncategorized

Prototyping 101

23 January 20175 February 2017 FoxTaleGames Convention, Design, Designer, dice, Lucidity, playtest, print-and-play, Tabletopia

We go through a lot of game ideas here, which means we do a lot of prototyping. One of the

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Designer Diary Lucidity Tempest

Bright Dreams for 2017

16 January 201716 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Convention, Designer, dice, Facebook, India-Lee Crews, Instagram, Kickstarter, Lucidity, Tabletopia

Happy New Years, and thank you once again for everything last year! I hope that 2016 brought you fewer struggles

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Play Darkly Dreaming Free!

14 December 201614 December 2016 FoxTaleGames dice, Facebook, Gameplay, Lucidity, print-and-play, Tabletopia

Good news! We just added Darkly Dreaming to Tabletopia (an online virtual tabletop program). What does that mean for you?

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