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Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game: Expansions
Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels, with these additional characters and books! Each expansion includes two characters and two book decks. Pick up your favorites or buy them all!
Expansion 1 – Fan Favorites (EHP0023)
POLKA WILL NEVER DIE!
… and neither will you, with help from the new heroes in this expansion for the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game! Inside you’ll find two new character decks—Thomas Raith and Waldo Butters—and two new book decks—Blood Rites and Dead Beat.
Expansion 2 – Helping Hands (EHP0024)
NEED A HAND?
You’re in luck as more of Harry’s friends join you in this expansion for the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game! Inside you’ll find two new character decks—Sanya and Molly Carpenter—and two new book decks—Proven Guilty and White Night.
Expansion 3 – Wardens Attack (EHP0025)
WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK!
The White Council’s grey cloaks, the Wardens, join the fray in this expansion for the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game! Inside you’ll find two new character decks—Carlos Ramirez and Anastasia Luccio—and two new book decks—Small Favor and Turn Coat.
Coming later in 2018
Expansion 4: Dead Ends (EHP0037)
Dead on your feet?
Step lively as more of Harry’s friends join you in this expansion for the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game! Inside you’ll find two new character decks—Jared Kincaid and Mortimer Lindquist—and two new book decks—Changes and Ghost Story. (Release in Q3 2018)
Expansion 5: Winter Schemes (EHP0038)
Feeling Winter’s bite?
Warm up with this expansion for the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game! Inside you’ll find two alternative character decks—Winter Knight Harry and Winter Lady Molly—and two new book decks—Cold Days and Skin Game. (Release in Q3 2018)
Expansion Information
Requires the Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game to play.
Suggested Retail: $9.99 (USD) per expansion
Game Designers: Eric B. Vogel
Release date: Summer 2017
/drool
Wishing could get a Mouse hero deck 🙁
You can! We hit that stretch goal!
It won’t be as an official expansion but all KS backers will get one, and we’ll probably sell them for extra on the webstore too.
Maybe I’ve overlooked something between the comments and the kickstarter page, but I’m not finding anything that states whether or not the character variant cards will be made available to non-backers at some point. Could you please clarify? Thank you.
The Mouse deck + variant pack will be put up for sale on the Evil Hat webstore around about when the game goes into public (non-Kickstarter) preorder. It won’t be free and (in my experience) the shipping math doesn’t work out favorably for a single lightweight item due to the handling charges we have to pass along, but it’ll be a good thing to toss into the shopping cart when picking up other items from us as well.
Does using the expansion decks allow for more players? We have a quite large group of Dresden fans here…
Play caps at five players even with the expansion, but if you look at the card counts, I bet you could derive a way to play it with more 🙂
Anyone know who Hank Walker – Sun God For Hire is?
Ra, aka Hank Walker, is a character crossing over from Greater Than Games’ Sentinels of the Multiverse game. 🙂
You *can* play 6-player with only 3-card hands, but I wouldn’t recommend it, which is why we capped the player count at 5 players. That said if you’re up for an extra challenge (including the possibility that the board will be locked up & can’t be won) you could try seating a second table that plays without the Harry deck. Also not something I’d recommend, but it’s possible to do (if not always possible to win without Harry).
What about Bob? Will he be a playable character, or enter in as a Advantage card?
Will there be a Marcone deck?
Nope; makes no sense; he’s very rarely a “sidekick”/”ally” in terms of occupying a consistent role in the stories. His place is showing up in whatever relevant way he does in the design of various book decks.
any plans on additional expansions?
Yep, two more coming out next year!
Love that we’re getting the new expansions! Question about future though…since this will catch us up with all released books would future expansions wait for two books, or would we see some character-only expansions to keep interest high? Perhaps a 3-4 character expansion in lieu of 2 character and 2 books?
We haven’t started any sort of planning for a 6th expansion or beyond yet. A few potential paths have occurred to me personally, but since (as you note) we’re catching up with the novels with expansions 4 & 5, we’ve got some time to sort out what the best path is.
Cool, sounds great! Thank you souch for your continued awesomeness with this project, Fred!
Any plans on releasing Brief Cases as an expansion or including parts of it in the side jobs deck?
Seeing as that book came out, what, three minutes or so ago, and that we are just this coming week releasing two new expansions bringing us up to Skin Game, feels a bit early to be talking about Brief Cases at all. 🙂
One can hope 🙂 thank you for update on release btw. In the words of a great philosopher, yoink!!
Is the winter knight expansion able to replace Harry in game play? Since Harry is supposed to be in every game.
Hi Sara! That’s exactly the intent. The deck divider insert for each of the characters in expansion 5 should make it clear that those two character decks are intended as swap-ins for the “originals”.
I bought every expansion, really love the game and the books. i have three questions i hope i can write them down with few spoilers as i can.
1. I really love playing the scenarios with the same characters as the one who are active in the books. can someone recommend which character to take in ghost story?
2. Following the last question, when exactly, the winter knight comes in and replace the “original”?
3. Most of the sidejobs have elements from different books, is there a way to sort them up by that beside build a deck at random?
Omer:
1) Fitting characters would be Winter Knight Harry, Molly (either version, she’s “transitional” here), Mortimer Lindquist at the core.
2) During or after Changes.
3) Not really. The deck’s elements are largely taken from short stories, often accounting for only a couple cards per story.
Will there be an expansion for Peace Talks and Battleground?
Too early to say.
How do play the expansions with just the basic case and character cards?
I don’t understand the question. To play the expansions, you must have the expansions. Each expansion contains two character decks and two scenario decks. You can take on any scenario deck with any combination of character decks.
Will we see a Peace Talks and Battleground deck some time soon?
If “soon” can be seen as the reasonable-for-games-development timeframe of a few years, then it’s possible. We may try running a Kickstarter to fund its existence tho; few games successfully support the release of a 6th expansion without some kind of a boost.
Can we get Elaine Mallory and Shiro Yoshimo as character decks?
Given minimal detail and a general absence from the recent books, that is not terribly likely, but, taken under advisement.
Fred: If your timeframe for expansion is going to be a few years anyway, would it make more sense to do a big-box expansion of the remaining books once the series is done (+ necessary development time after) as opposed to the smaller expansions you’ve been doing so far? Love the game, and would love to see more of it, however you might make that work.
Trent: if the continued plan is two books + two characters per expansion, my guess for next character decks are River Shoulders and KotC Butters.
Not really; since those other expansions are already made and packaged, doing a compiled big box one with the same content only makes sense once we’ve sold through most of the supply of the existing expansions. Allowing folks to buy in incrementally also lets the expense of the game get spread out over time.
I would gladly participate in a kickstarter for the next two books myself. I’d hate to see the series go unfinished in the board game, but I also understand that it has to be profitable.
I agree. I’d happily back a Kickstarter or two for more expansions to this game. This household is a bit Dresden Files obsessed. We have all the books in hard copy, kindle and Audible plus the rpg and the card game (even the tv series that didn’t exist and that we don’t talk about ). Please keep creating the content!!
We will, but we also need to take care in terms of timing a kickstarter and manufacture. In 2021, manufacture isn’t the problem, it’s getting the manufactured stuff over from China at a shipping rate that’s not impossibly expensive, when shipping is possible at all (which, right now, it often isn’t).
There’s a new expansion for the Dresden Coop Card Game on Steam (Winter’s Bargain). Will we see this expansion in physical form at some point?
That’s not a new expansion, it’s a bundle deal composed of already-available content: “Make a bargain with Winter for a discount on the base Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game and all of the expansions. The full set of expansions adds ten new character decks, ten new book decks, 26 new cards for Side Jobs (5 new Showdown cards and 21 additional cards for the Side Jobs deck), variant cards for Harry Dresden and Susan Rodriguez, and full-deck variants for Harry Dresden and Molly Carpenter in their Winter roles.”
Ah! Of course! Makes sense. Thanks for the clarifiation.