There is a new head-to-head skirmish game worth knowing about, and it comes from a British name that terrain hobbyists will recognise. Whispers of the Deep, from UK studio Black Site Studios, drops two players into Tolkas, a drowned city lost to time, where you lead a small band of adventurers hunting lost treasure and try to get out before the ruins' spirits drag you under.
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Find events near youYou play a Delver, a mystic soul bound to a physical vessel, and hire a handful of Fellows to do the dangerous work. Games are compact: a two-foot-square table, only two or three miniatures per side, and a friendly d8 system where each model's Move, Brawn, Brains and Armour tells you how many dice to roll. The hook is the danger track. The more chaos you cause mining for loot, the angrier the spirits of Tolkas become, throwing out random event cards and unpredictable threats, so greed comes at a price. OnTableTop's preview describes a core rules set plus miniature packs with ten Fellows and four Delver types.
Black Site is running Whispers of the Deep through Gamefound rather than a drawn-out crowdfunding wait, leaning on the "already made, ready to ship" approach that has been winning over backers tired of multi-year delays. The campaign is live now, and the game's small footprint and short warbands make it an easy one to get onto a club table, so if you fancy a two-player scrap that does not eat a whole afternoon, round up an opponent near you.
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Set up your group for freeSources: Gamefound | Black Site Studios | OnTableTop
