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PAX Aus Online begins TODAY, and it's a jam-packed schedule full of everything you'd expect at a normal PAX (from both the video game and tabletop worlds)!

PAX Aus Online is everything you love about PAX, including thought-provoking panels, exciting livestreams, new game demos, tournaments, and a community experience unlike any other. PAX Aus Online will bring a distinctly Aussie flavour to your computer screens this 8-10 October. It is free to attend and will be held... honestly everywhere!



The really unique tabletop event that PAX Aus runs for tabletop gamers is the Collaboratory! This is where you try out prototypes, half-baked ideas, and in-development games before they go further - PAX Collaboratory is made possible by the Tabletop Game Designers of Australia!

All participants in PAX Aus Online will get access to 7 days of Tabletopia Gold Premium - lucky you! Just keep your eyes peeled in the newsletter and the Discord to score it 👀

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🤖 Discord: https://aus.paxsite.com/en-us/discord.html
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3 Whole Days of Juicy, Paxy content, delivered fresh to your home begins NOW! 🍑🍑🍑

Glory is an accessible RPG-style dry-erase game about bravery, goals, and fate. 20 points of glory win you the game, earned by defeating monsters and completing quests. But: the more glory you gain, the harder the game becomes. You have to gear up, be smart... and work with the vicissitudes of chance.

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You'll start near the central castle where you can buy goods and heal up. But those outer towns aren't going to save themselves, to say nothing of the lairs hiding dangerous monsters. Each turn you'll roll & move, add modifiers from cards, choose direction, and maybe expend health to march a little further. Turns are short, until someone takes a battle.



Character sheets are a major play area unto themselves, with dry-erase tracking, notes, and lots of cards (Ability, Goods, Fate). The hero you choose will determine your playing experience, whether you want to never roll a "1" (choose the Sprite) or like to have some extra punch for those critical moments (choose the Warlock). There are 9 heroes all told.



This is the second edition, with roughly 60% extra content compared to the first edition. The new material benefits from community feedback from the original game.

Welcome to the toy spring car rally! No more dust rising or motors roaring. Instead, you'll see sweet little cars run squeaking along the racing track. You must use the rally cards to move forward or wind up your spring. The more you wind it up, the more you will travel — but never wind more than needed, or things can go wrong. It's time to begin the race! The first person to finish two laps will win. Let's start the engines...I mean...wind your springs and let it roll!

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In Spring Rally, players control their toy car based on trick-taking mechanisms. The game lasts three rounds, and in each round, players play a card from their hand to advance their car on the track. If the player wins the trick, they move their car as much as the lowest number on the card played in the round. Other players wind up their spring, which can help to boost them along when they win a trick. As long as a player avoids winning a trick, they gain the chance to advance much more later — but too much winding makes your spring stop working!



The player who first circles the track two times wins the game.

Finally! After a long trip, your adventurers have reached the island of Karuba and hunt for hidden treasures. Who will lead their expedition team along the smartest route through the jungle, all while keeping an eye out for gold and crystals along the way? Hurry up and be the first to reach the temples to collect the most valuable treasures. But be careful! Many paths have dead ends- you need to be patient and mindful to find the best way through the jungle. The adventurer team with the most valuable treasures at the end wins the game.

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This is a tile-laying race game with players starting with boards that are identical, and one player drawing tiles that they all will use. They race to get their explorers to temples first and earn points. Along the way they can collect additional points by collecting items off the paths they create. The game ends when one player gets all of their explorers to their corresponding temples or whenever the last tile is drawn and placed.

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Karuba was nominated for a 2016 Spiel des Jahres award.

Keep The Heroes Out! is an asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard-earned treasures against invading hordes of looters (so-called heroes) trying to steal it.

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On their turn, players draw 5 cards and play - these cards allow them to move, activate the tiles they are to perform the tiles actions, attack heroes, and move their units around. After each player, draw and perform cards from the heroes deck.

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Your goal as a team in every scenario is to survive the 3 levels of threat from the invading heroes by protecting the treasures in each room. If the main treasure is taken, the game ends and you lose, but if you manage to protect the treasures for long enough, you all win.