Tiny Tina’s Robot Tea Party Brings Borderlands To The Tabletop
October 29, 2019 by brennon
Borderlands has landed on consoles and PC recently with the third iteration in the series and of course, we're now seeing tie-in games for fans to pick up. XYZ Game Labs has been showing off Tiny Tina's Robot Tea Party which is a quick and dirty card game which plays in fifteen minutes.
The game is based in the world of Borderlands and 'designed' by Tiny Tina herself. She was playing around with breaking apart Claptrap units and then putting them back together but she was getting tired of the screams so decided to try her hand at a card game instead.
Now, you'll be mixing together a bit of set collecting and take that in order to try and build the right kind of Claptrap robot which will allow you to snaffle up the most points.
As mentioned above, the game plays in fifteen minutes so it is a quick and easy game to pick up and play. Maybe if you're banding together with your friends to play a bigger game, this could be one that you slip out beforehand as you're waiting for folks to show up.
The game also features new artwork and character designs from the Borderlands universe so it might be a nice option for big fans of the series.
Are you tempted to give this a go?
"The game also features new artwork and character designs from the Borderlands universe so it might be a nice option for big fans of the series..."
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I know that hex-based arena games are kind of all over the place, but I feel that something like that would be more fitting for Borderlands than a card game. Just imagine controlling your favorite vault hunter with a fancy mini, running around a big game board, blasting bandits and grabbing loot.
I’m not against a Borderlands skirmish game in any way. Borderlands would need a big Kickstarter project to really make that work, with all of the characters, baddies and environments in the videogame.
There’d be a pretty decent chance it would totally suck, but at least you’d get to have Borderlands minis, right?
We’d probably get half of what is actually available in the game, but I’d be okay with minis for the Vault Hunters, a couple of generic bandit, psycho, and big models that came with different stat cards to reflect the variants, and some big bosses (Handsome Jack is a must). Then you could introduce expansion packs with more Hunters, more baddies, more worlds, and more bosses. But yeah, just having minis of all the characters would be awesome!
I’m wondering what the best way to do the rules set would be.
I mean, I think a dungeon crawler would probably work nicely. You really need to be able to gear up your character (like in Middara) and probably account for loot drops and gearing up as you go (like with Super Dungeon or maybe Zombicide).
And have a between missions shop that gives you 4 random weapon cards to possibly buy.
I want a Tiny Tina RPG! That expansion was so good!
Bunkers and Badasses all the way!
Sign me up!
And don’t forget the crumpets.