Polish game publisher NSKN will premier its new dice drafting game Dragonsgate College at the Spiel fair in Essen, Germany later this month.  The game will release in the U.S. next February.

Dragonsgate College is a school for would-be dungeon-delvers, with a staff of veteran adventurers to teach the essential skills one needs to survive even the deadliest dungeons.  Competition between the various schools of the college can be fierce, as students seek to earn achievements in stealth, sorcery, and other dungeoneering skills.

Created by Thomas Vande Ginste and Wolf Plancke (the duo behind Yedo), Dragonsgate College puts the players in charge of the various schools of the college.  Each turn, a pool of dice is rolled, which players then select or “draft” to perform various actions on their individual school board.  Actions are used to recruit new apprentices and professors, earn coins or prestige, add buildings to the school grounds, or send students through the training dungeon.  After five turns, the most prestigious school will be crowned the victor.

The game comes with 1 main board, 4 player boards, 164 tiles, 52 tokens, 54 cards, 34 wooden markers, and 21 dice.  Dragonsgate College can be played by 2 to 4 players, and takes between an hour and an hour-and-a-half.  MSRP has not yet been announced.

Earlier this year, NSKN entered an exclusive distribution deal with PSI (see “NSKN Games Joins PSI”).  This summer, the company released Shadowscape, a cooperative game set in the same fantasy world as its hit game Mistfall (see “‘Shadowscape – A Mistfall Game’”).