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Digital Eel Sets Loose The Goblin Slayer!
Free Fantasy Board Game Available For Download At Shrapnel Games!
Hampstead, NC, 08 May 2008
As everyone is well aware dwarves and goblins hate each other. This deep rooted hatred
is believed to have begun when the dwarf Karl Bergerkingstein and the goblin
Smellslikeoldpeople were roommates, and Smellslikeoldpeople washed Karl's favorite
white tunic with the goblin's beloved red smock with predictable results. From that time
forward dwarf and goblin have been mortal enemies.
While there have been plenty of role-playing games to acknowledge the enmity between
the races board games on the subject have been few and far between. But no longer will
gamers have to go without thanks to Digital Eel's latest FREE offering, Goblin Slayer!
Deep in Snarlsbad Cavern lurk an endless legion of terrible goblins. Also someplace
down there, amidst the darkness and stench, resides a magical object beloved by dwarves:
the Shimmering Widget. Once thought safe from the envy of the world it has been taken
by the goblin hordes. One dwarf, Stormbeard, armed with his axe, "Death's Whisper",
must now descend into the depths, slay many goblins, and find the Shimmering Widget.
This is Goblin Slayer.
Goblin Slayer (which could also double as the name of a German power metal band) is a
fantasy board game for two players. One player controls Stormbeard the dwarf on his
quest for the Shimmering Widget, while the other leads the throngs of goblins in hopes of
striking the dwarf down and then possibly eating him; dwarf kidneys are sometimes
considered a delicacy in the underdark and their skulls make great hats.
The Snarlsbad Cavern complex consists of a series of geomorphic tiles that are used to
create the gameboard, allowing for a different combination of tiles each play. Gameplay
is easy to learn, with a heavy focus on killing things! It is called Goblin Slayer and not
Goblin Let's Meet For Tea And Discuss Long Term Mutual Growth Plans after all!
As mentioned earlier this is a totally FREE complete board game offered up as a digital
print and play file. In order to make use of Goblin Slayer you will need access to a
printer and some sort of device to cut out the map sections once printed. While a
battleaxe may be in the spirit of the game we recommend scissors. Please note that the
game does not come with any counters, you will have to provide the playing pieces
yourself. If you're a fantasy gamer chances are you have plenty of miniatures laying
around that could be used, otherwise any number of objects may be used to represent
Stormbeard and the goblins. Pennies, beads, dice. Come on, ya gotta at least have some
dice laying around!
Follow the link to download Goblin Slayer today! Learn the game, print it out, and be
playing within minutes!
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/freegames2.htm
Goblin Slayer also makes the perfect game to play while waiting for the release of Digital
Eel's upcoming tactical space combat board game, Eat Electric Death!. Available
soon(ish) from Shrapnel Games, Eat Electric Death! is a gorgeous fast playing game of
stellar battles set in the Infinite Space universe. Featuring seven races, all with unique
ships, and over twenty-five scenarios (and it's easy enough to create your own), secret
weapons, and more, Eat Electric Death! packs a lot of gameplay in one box.
For more information on Eat Electric Death! or to pre-order please visit:
www.shrapnelgames.com/digital_eel/eed/1.htm
Be sure to check out
www.shrapnelgames.com for more FREE games. There you'll find
plenty of FREE computer games for your entertainment: winSPWW2, winSPMBT,
Conquest of Elysium II, Plasmaworm, Big Box of Blox, and Dr. Blob's Organism. And
of course we also have our complete catalog of award-winning titles to peruse while
there, along with demos for each game. Our most recent release is Scallywag: In the Lair
of the Medusa, a single player dungeonhack toolkit.
To visit our company blog go to
www.shrapnelcommunity.com/blog/
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