Renegade Game Studios has announced their first official Power Rangers project since obtaining the license!
Power Rangers: Heroes Of The Grid will be a 2-5 player tabletop board game where players can work together to save Angel Grove from Rita Repulsa and her army of monsters.
Artwork for this game has been provided by Dan Mora, already famous for his work on the BOOM! Studios Power Rangers comic books.
And the first EXPANSION for Heroes Of The Grid has already been announced: The Shattered Grid Expansion will feature locations & characters from BOOM!’s comic series run- PLUS characters from the Power Rangers HyperForce RPG!
The KickStarter for Heroes Of The Grid will be opened on August 14. Fans of tabletop gaming will get to try out Heroes Of The Grid in-person at Power Morphicon, August 17-19!
Renegade Games announces their first Power Rangers tabletop project:
https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/...id-coming-soon
Hopefully this has some rules for creating your own Power Rangers team, and you aren’t just stuck playing as the originals.
It looks more like one of Renegade's straight board games than one of their RPG-veined products. If it is, I wouldn't expect a custom character system. I guess the details will come out when the Kickstarter launches.
Interesting!
Don't now how they picked some of the Monsters, like Madame Woe!
There has been some talk about issuing a Hyperforce Board Game, but they could just use this as the basis, if it is something that can be switched-up with Accessory Packs or a "Sequel" Game!
Use of "Grid" in the name and the fact that Beast Morphers is using the Morphing Grid as a defining theme gives a hint at the direction Hasbro is looking to explore!
Perhaps now I can have an RPG of Power Rangers: Farm Force/Ushikai Sentai Nokaman.
Though likely Hasbro will want to explore the Legacy.
Beast Morphers as a concept was a Saban era thing. Whatever Hasbro full plans to do, we won't see effects of until after it, or after the series after it, outside of toys. Assuming the next two series use archived footage and sentai series that have been made until now, any real original impact Hasbro would have on the show won't surface until whatever comes after Lupin X Pat from Toei, and depending on development cycles of when they started planning that series, maybe not until the one after it.
So likely the next one after Beast Morphers will be the Kyu footage using one(unless they use Toq or another skipped series). Then after those 4 years(beast morphers and that), we'll finally start seeing whatever Hasbro has planned and has been working with Toei & Bandai of Japan on.
This is why so much of the Saban teams came to hasbro to 'help in the transition'. As in, keep the current Saban era plans until Hasbro is fully situated to take over by working with Toei for original footage. Now that does mean the creative teams may have wider reach though and better company relations and budgets to get footage as well as will have different bosses now that'll sign off on ideas instead of sending whatever back to the drawing board. But don't expect massive sweeping changes fully yet. Go-Buster itself was built on a more grounded approach in general with teleporting weapons, and mechanic bays, so that does bode well overall.
I do expect a Kyu adaptation would have heavy Legacy nods though and likely have strong ties to the grid too. Too much referential footage for it to not.
Though likely Hasbro will want to explore the Legacy.
Beast Morphers as a concept was a Saban era thing. Whatever Hasbro full plans to do, we won't see effects of until after it, or after the series after it, outside of toys. Assuming the next two series use archived footage and sentai series that have been made until now, any real original impact Hasbro would have on the show won't surface until whatever comes after Lupin X Pat from Toei, and depending on development cycles of when they started planning that series, maybe not until the one after it.
So likely the next one after Beast Morphers will be the Kyu footage using one(unless they use Toq or another skipped series). Then after those 4 years(beast morphers and that), we'll finally start seeing whatever Hasbro has planned and has been working with Toei & Bandai of Japan on.
This is why so much of the Saban teams came to hasbro to 'help in the transition'. As in, keep the current Saban era plans until Hasbro is fully situated to take over by working with Toei for original footage. Now that does mean the creative teams may have wider reach though and better company relations and budgets to get footage as well as will have different bosses now that'll sign off on ideas instead of sending whatever back to the drawing board. But don't expect massive sweeping changes fully yet. Go-Buster itself was built on a more grounded approach in general with teleporting weapons, and mechanic bays, so that does bode well overall.
I do expect a Kyu adaptation would have heavy Legacy nods though and likely have strong ties to the grid too. Too much referential footage for it to not.
You are right that "Heroes Of The Grid" is following "Shattered Grid" and what follows! I missed that detail! However, all the references to the Grid will serve as a warm-up to whatever Beast Morphers offers!
For those curious, the Kickstarter for this project officially launched today, and has already secured over $70K of it's $100K goal.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...rid-board-game
I really, really want those HyperForce miniatures
I've gotta say, I really don't like kickstarters for something when they already have the official licensing of an extremely wealthy franchise. How on earth can't they afford to make one tabletop?
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