By searching "fantasy" with Google, you can find almost 350 millions of pages - many of them are related to videogames, RPGs, wargames and board games: I can’t think of any theme as popular as fantasy for adventure games... because fantasy works!
From MAGIC to MAGE KNIGHT, from ELFENLAND to HEROSCAPE, from WIZARD to WAR OF THE RING - just to mention some recent hits - monsters and dungeons are the stars of our playing tables: so, I think that it is really necessary that someone reprints the masterpiece (IMHO) of the fantasy games - sadly OOP since many years ago: ELEMENTAL WARS, (see its description on BoardGameGeek) the first completely pre-collected CCG (!!!) - possibly the first game to make a bridge between the traditional card games and the "new wave" of the MAGIC-ish products, the kind of experiment that today produces bestsellers like CLOUT FANTASY, another mix of tradition and MAGIC...
So, why fantasy pogs are in, and fantasy Trump is out?
(DDG)

GiocAreA OnLine #19 - April 2006
next issue: 1 June 2006

 

Chief Troll:
Domenico Di Giorgio
Dungeon Master:
Silvano Sorrentino
Watching Eye:
Annalisa Sciarra
Dark Lord:
Roberto Corbelli
Goblin Redactors:
Anna Grifoni,
April F. Poisson,
Luigi Saggese,
Silvano Sorrentino.
Gnome illustrator:
Benny Gemma.
Human Translator:
Simone Maurilli.
Many thanks to:
BoardGameGeek.