Bag-building has quietly become one of tabletop's most moreish mechanics, all the push-your-luck thrill of plunging your hand into a sack of tokens and praying you pull the right ones. Brave & Bold straps that idea to a superhero scrap, letting you send Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman into a head-to-head fight decided entirely by what you draw.
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Find events near youComing from Resurrection Games under a Warner Bros. licence, Brave & Bold is a competitive combat game for two to six players, designed by the studio's Brad Zander and built on what the publisher calls a first-of-its-kind bag-building combat system. Each turn you pull tokens from your personal bag and spend them across three phases, Watchtower, Preparation and Combat, to fire off abilities and land hits. Between rounds you resupply and rebalance, so the bag you started with gradually becomes a custom loadout built around your fighter. Every character plays differently, which is where the DC roster earns its place: the launch line-up sets the likes of Superman, Batman, The Flash and Wonder Woman against villains Lex Luthor and Cheetah.
Matches run about 30 minutes and the box is rated 8 and up, so this is aimed at quick, punchy duels rather than an all-night miniatures campaign. Resurrection is selling it in two formats from launch: smaller two-character sets, and an eight-character Combat Vault for groups who want a full bench of fighters straight away.
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Set up your group for freeBrave & Bold gets its first public release at Gen Con 2026 (30 July to 2 August), with the complete character roster revealed at the show, before reaching shops on 4 September. If your group has a soft spot for comic-book punch-ups and you have wanted something lighter than a skirmish wargame to settle who really is the world's greatest detective, line up a game night and give it a look.
Sources: Resurrection Games | The Toy Book | ICv2
