Daniel (@dungeondive) evaluates six micro expansions from Flying Frog Productions — three for Fortune and Glory and three for Conquest of Planet Earth — each running about $12.50 and offering slim card supplements.
The Fortune and Glory packs are modest. Tools of the Trade adds four gear cards (soldier’s rifles, steel wrench, bounty hunter’s hat), pack mules for extra carrying capacity, and a handful of city encounters and events. Sands of Cairo brings cliffhanger cards, a scimitar, camels for desert traversal, and new enemy cards including desert swordsmen. Danger Pack #1 introduces the deadly test mechanic along with an expedition truck and a stack of danger/cliffhanger pairs featuring assassins, boat chases, cult rituals, and a volcano.
The Conquest of Planet Earth packs are more substantial, each adding an entirely new alien species. The Red Menace gains strength equal to the population of their location — thematically perfect paranoia. The Horrogoth play diplomatic politics with a hidden agenda. The Santory Mutant Men start weak but multiply exponentially, spending alien menace tokens to double their strength repeatedly in combat.
Daniel recommends waiting for Flying Frog’s periodic buy-two-get-one-free sales rather than paying full price, and takes the opportunity to remind Flying Frog that fans are still waiting for the long-promised major Fortune and Glory expansions.