Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game developer based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, card, and dice games. In 2014, it became a division of Asmodee North America.

History

Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product (Twilight Imperium) in 1997, the company has been doing business as Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). Since that time, FFG has become one of the biggest names in the hobby games industry, being a marketplace leader in board games and maintaining strong businesses in the card game, roleplaying game, and miniature game categories.[1]

From 2000 through 2008, FFG produced a series of supplements and adventures for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition under the Open Gaming License. This series was collectively known as Legends & Lairs. These books included supplements for classes, expanded magic, and environments, as well as a series of Instant Adventure booklets.[2]

Games

Living Card Games

Living Card Game is a term trademarked by Fantasy Flight Games for expandable card games. FFG defines a "Living Card Game" as a variant of collectible card games.[13] LCGs have regular expansions and deck construction like CCGs, but do not have the "blind buy purchase model" of CCGs. Instead of randomized starter decks and booster packs, LCGs have starter sets and expansion packs with fixed non-randomized distribution of cards. Their starter sets come with pre-constructed starter decks, and are designed to be self-contained; they can be played by themselves or expanded for constructed play with expansions.[14] Expansion packs are released on a monthly or near-monthly basis, each containing 60 cards, with a number of copies of each unique card equal to the limit of the number of copies a player is allowed in their deck (e.g. three copies of each card in an Android: Netrunner pack). Larger "deluxe" expansions are released less frequently, and typically contain many more cards and sometimes introduce new game mechanisms.

Many games from other companies use a similar distribution model, but because "Living Card Game" and its initials "LCG" are registered trademarks of Fantasy Flight Games, other publishers do not use this term.[15] For example, Upper Deck Entertainment relaunched VS System in 2015 as an LCG-style game but markets it as a "Two-Player Card Game" or "2PCG"[16] and similar Doomtown: Reloaded was called an "expandable card game".[17]

Fantasy Flight Games currently prints the following LCGs:

Fantasy Flight Games has previously printed the following LCGs:

Fantasy Flight has also printed Blue Moon Legends, which is a comprehensive collection of Blue Moon and its expansions. Although it has similar gameplay and a fixed card set like a Living Card Game, it was not released in the Living Card Game line.

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (2011)
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)
Marvel Champions: The Card Game (2019)

Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (2008–2015)
A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (first edition) (2008–2015)
A Game of Thrones: The Card Game Second Edition (2015–2020)
Warhammer: Invasion (2009–2013)
Android: Netrunner (2012–2018)
Star Wars: The Card Game (2012–2018)
Warhammer 40,000: Conquest (2014–2017)
Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game (2017–2021)

KeyForge

Fantasy Flight Games published the card game KeyForge in 2018. Created by Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield, KeyForge differs from other collectible card games (CCGs) in that the game uses procedural generation to create unique decks. Commonly, CCGs are sold in pre-built decks or boosters packs. Fantasy Flight Games calls KeyForge a "unique deck game" because each deck contains a procedurally designed character unique to that deck called an Archon.[18] IGN described the game as "a bold new idea and a vastly different kind of game format", but questioned the randomization model, speculating that "people won't be spending tons of money on single rare cards, but that may have been replaced with spending tons of money on random deck boxes in the hopes of getting lucky with a great card combination.[19] On June 22, 2022, it was announced that Ghost Galaxy had acquired KeyForge from Fantasy Flight Games.[20]

type	Division
industry	Tabletop games
founded	1995
founder	Christian T. Petersen
key people	Chris Gerber (CEO)
products	Role-playing games, board games, card games, dice games
website	fantasyflightgames.com
location	Roseville, Minnesota, United States
parent	Asmodee North America (2014–present)

Fantasy Flight Games

History

Games

Living Card Games

KeyForge

Awards

2016 Origins Awards

External links

References