I should have posted about this a couple of days ago, but I’ve been concentrating on getting ready for an interview. Which went well, and means I now have gainful employment.
However it really hit home that Nan is no longer with us when I couldn’t share the good news with her. She was the first person I wanted to tell.
I start this Saturday.
Now onto the reason for this post. Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games has announced the second expansion for Tapestry called Arts and Architecture.
Over the next 2 weeks Jamey will be revealing details about the new expansion. The review embargo lifts on the 16th November. Then on the 1st December preorders open up.
This new expansion has been designed by Mike Young and Jamey Stonemaier.
So what does this new expansion contain? On the official web page it lists “new capital city mats, a new advancement track featuring new types of cards and tiles, plus more civilizations, tapestry cards, tech cards, and landmark miniatures/cards”.
In a recent live cast on Facebook Jamey confirmed that you can play with the new stuff without the 5th advancement track if so inclined. Any new cards that refer to it can be ignored, discarded, and then just draw a new card.
There is a new 20 sided science die to cater for the additional advancement track. As you can see in the photos above the new landmark models look amazing.
Those small purple cards are masterpiece cards and associated with the new advancement track. Sadly they are not a regular card size (by that I mean 63.5mm by 88mm) so until we know the dimensions (we will find out in the next design diary) we won’t know if we can sleeve them. I hope we can. I have all the other cards in the game sleeved. And when I find a way to sleeve the cities, civilisations and player boards I will be doing those too.
In the same live cast as mentioned above Jamey did say that a third expansion for Tapestry is dependent on how well this second expansion does. Going by the excitement of the Tapestry Facebook group it will be popular with the existing fan base. But generally expansions tend to sell a fraction of the base games numbers. In the past I’ve seen figures between 10 to 20% of the original games sales. I’m also not sure how well Tapestry has sold. I don’t think it has hit Scythe numbers, and definitely hasn’t got close to the heights of Wingspan. Tapestry has been a very strong marmite game with players. I fall into the love it camp, as do the two new players I introduced to the game last weekend. So I’m hoping that we do see a third expansion. But if not I’m content with what we have already.
You can find links to design dairies (as they are released), reviews, etc on the Stonemaier website HERE.