Today, I’m delighted to introduce you to a long-time writing friend of mine: Robert Garbin. He’s working on a board game. Yes! A board game! He’s designing and inventing it himself.

It’s rather exciting, but I’ll get out the way and let him tell you about his project–that you can help with!

Hello, I am Robert Garbin and I am creating a board game: The Blind Lands.

It will be a simple one, possibly a two player co-operative with a monster battling board game set in the wild and wooly world of my mind. The artwork is hand drawn by me with color added digitally like an inked comic page.

This is a dream project that allows me to create to my hearts content, injecting my sense of art, humor, and writing into one project. I am hoping to create a game that feels like D&D without the need for a DM or extensive stat sheets. A game that is fun and short like a phone game, never being the same. Monsters will be generated by a shuffled monster deck depending on your location in the world. Battles will be determined by six-sided die for turn based hits and blocks. Damage is based on the number of the same six-sided die that you and your opponent can wield. Monsters always drop a treasure that is handled by other card decks. My goal it to make enough interesting monster and treasure designs to keep the play fresh and entertaining.

I could use the help of some adventurous souls to see this through. The game is designed for those of us who feel like we never fit in; maybe the sort of person with a monster or two sitting on our shoulders.

Let your inner monster out and join me.

There you have it from the creator himself. If you’re into board games and monsters, check out Robert’s Patreon page where you can support him at several levels.

Until next time, let your inner monster loose.