News from the forge

Heroes are the true stars of the battlefield, and every one of them comes with a Hero Card packed with rules, abilities, equipment, and strategic choices. In this post, we break down how Hero Cards work, from Characteristics and Keywords to Active Abilities, Optional Equipment, and Familiars, using the upcoming Iron Crow Warriors as our guide. Learn how to shape your Heroes and turn strategy into victory.

A Zorn Uzul mighty patrol! What you see in the photo is a fully playable Company of Heroes , meeting all the recruitment requirements I’ve designed for my game. To get closer to the debut of this new (and dare I say crunchy ) chapter of DPF, I decided to start right from the basics: who are the protagonists of this game, and how will you recruit your own Company , a handful of heroes thrown headfirst into the belly of legend?! Let’s take it step by step. PURE COMPANIES AND MI

Last summer, at the tender age of thirty-seven and at what was arguably the most depressing point of my career, I had a slightly unhinged idea. Not unhinged in itself.Unhinged for me , and for the carefully constructed mental scaffolding that usually governs my decision-making. I decided to activate the Gimli Protocol . “Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?” That, right there, is the Gimli Protocol . So I opened the drawer where I had been qui

WHO'S ORI GRIMGAZE? Every company needs that one person — the one who says little, does much, and picks up the slack when the talkers run out of excuses. In the gloriously ramshackle fellowship of the Offcuts, that person is Ori Grimgaze, the dwarf who makes sure order and discipline don’t leap overboard at the first sign of adventure. Here’s a fun fact: the name Offcuts itself was Ori’s idea. It was he who, setting sail for Moss Island beside his mismatched band of misfits,

WHO IS BARDIN? Some dwarves run toward danger. Some dwarves sing songs about danger. And then there’s Bardin, who prefers to spot danger from a safe distance, chart it meticulously on a map, label it with three different warning runes, and then go the other way (or give it a taste of good old-fashioned arrow therapy!). As a seasoned Iron Crow Sentinel, Bardin is not just cautious: he is a professionally trained catastrophe anticipator. With the eyesight of a falcon and the ca

Welcome back to the blog, my friends! Yes, I know—it’s been a while since I updated the site. These past few months have been absolutely...