Queen by Midnight is a deck-building card game developed by Darrington Press LLC and created/designed by Kyle Shire, where the most powerful princess still standing at midnight becomes the Midnight Queen.
Publisher's summary[]
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The Midnight Queen is dead… As her kingdom weeps, the Queen’s dying command was to invoke the Rule By Midnight: a trial of combat and guile, where the Princesses of the Twelve Lands meet in secret to battle and scheme against one another. At the stroke of midnight, the most powerful Princess left standing will be crowned the new Midnight Queen! Queen By Midnight is a battle-royale deck-building card game of guile, deception, and brawn! Six Princesses each feature unique tactics to battle for the right of the Midnight Court, but only one (and maybe their inner circle) will be the winner. This game features a table presence you won’t see anywhere else, with its intricate Dice Clock Tower that spins to face each player on their turn, keeps track of the round, presents new cards to buy, and even acts as a dice roller!
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Publisher's summary[1]
Gameplay[]
Contents[]
- Clock Dice Tower that spins, tracks turns, offers cards to buy, and rolls dice
- 200 princess-themed cards
- 75 Bazaar cards available for customization
- Tokens, trackers, boards, and other cards
The Thumbnail for the "Let's Play"
Let's Play...[]
On September 12, 2023, Taliesin Jaffe, Laura Bailey, Aimee Carrero, Aabria Iyengar, and Kyle Shire (the game's creator and designer) demonstrated the game in "Let’s Play Queen by Midnight!" on Twitch and YouTube.
Expansion pack[]
A standalone expansion pack, Queen by Midnight: Quarter Past was released 13 November 2024, featuring "new 2-player rules, 4 new Princesses with unique playstyles, and lots of new Bazaar cards, all in a lighter travel friendly box!"[2]
Creative team[]
- Creation and Design: Kyle Shire
- Additional Design: Alex Uboldi
- Graphic Design: Matt Paquette & Co.
- Art: Ameera Sheikh, Michal Ivan and Mike Pape
- Editing: Travis D. Hill, Donald Behne, Darcy Ross and Kaitlyn Money
- Playtest Coordinating: Hank Finnin
- Cultural Consultation: Christine Sandquist and James Mendez Hodes
External links[]
- Critical Role's "State of the Press" interview with Kyle Shire, featuring Matthew Mercer and Mica Burton
Big News: Queen by Midnight and Two New RPGs on CritRole.com - Board Game Geek
- Queen by Midnight: Meet Hephesta and Doctor Lux! on the Darrington Press official website
- Queen by Midnight Let’s Play Tonight & Meet Rosaline and Boss No! on the Darrington Press official website
- Queen by Midnight: Let's Build the Clocktower & Rebox the Game! on the Critical Role YouTube channel
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
Queen by Midnight on the Darrington Press official website
- ↑ See Queen by Midnight: Quarter Past on the Darrington Press official website .
Art:
- ↑ Box cover for the game "Queen by Midnight", by Darrington Press (source). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
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