Fantasy Flight Games will expand its board game Descent: Journeys in the Dark Second Edition with the Stewards of the Secret Hero and Monster Collection in January.

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The new expansion will include fourteen new figures, updating rules, artwork, and figure sculpts for heroes and monsters from the first edition for second edition play. For the overlord player, the monsters will be three blood apes, three nagas, and four ferrox, including a master ferrox with even more dangerous abilities. For the heroes, included are Seer Kel, Okaluk and Rakash, Tatianna, and Nanok of the Blade. Also included are all of the tokens and game cards required to use these monsters and heroes.

Two new campaign side quests, Stewards of the Secret and Bloodspire of Devis, focus on the experiments and forbidden rites of the mad sorcerer Devis.

As an expansion, Stewards of the Secret requires a copy of the base Descent game. MSRP is $34.95.

The seventh Hero and Monster Collection, called Treaty of Champions, will release later this year (see "An Ancient Demon Returns in 'Descent: Treaty of Champions'").