At Gen Con, Fireside Games was showing off its new board game, The Village Crone, designed by Anne-Marie De Witt (Bears!, Munchkin Panic), for demos and presales.  The new witch-themed worker placement game will release on  September 16.

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In The Village Crone, players use their “familiars” to gather the ingredients they need to concoct a variety of spells to cast upon the villagers of Wickersby—from love potions to frog transformations.  The ultimate goal is to complete 13 points worth of “Witch’s Schemes” and assume the title of “Village Crone”.  Mechanically, the game combines elements of worker placement and resource management games.

The Village Crone includes 6 modular board tiles, 6 villagers, 144 ingredient cards, 6 “spell book” player screens, 50 Witch’s Scheme cards, and 50 cardboard tokens including 30 familiars, 6 frogs, 6 binding rings, 3 love tokens, and 1 broom token.  The game is for 1 - 6 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in about 90 minutes.  MSRP is $49.95.