 One local creator in Floyd County is working on an epic fantasy adventure board game under the name Omens of Destiny. Joe Mead is using his experience as a tabletop game player and writer to bring this project to life for others to enjoy. Mountaintop News spoke with me to get a better understanding of his latest entry. Well it's my first I guess you would say board game or project outside of the book genre so I do have a role-playing game Mystic Forces and it's all in book format of course I can do print on demand with that so it's a it's a different world when you go into board games versus what you can release in book form so it is my second full product if you will Mystic Forces my RPG is the first but all those are in book format this is my first delve into anything outside of just books so my first board game for sure and definitely a strong role-playing element in it for sure but this is for the people that by and large are a little more invested like games that take a little longer on average three hours for a session of this that do like to be able to advance their characters and really work toward the right strategies of you know gear composition as well as the right character composition to be able to work together because you do have to work as a team and if you don't use the right strategies it's real easy to lose. Hillbilly Hammock weekend of destruction demolition derbies are coming to Pikeville Friday Saturday March 29th and 30th at 7 each night Appalachian Wireless Arena Pikeville it's going to be a crashing good time be there. Meade says he is inspired by many works of fantasy as well as other similar board games for those who wish to support the game's full release check out the project on kickstarter.com Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series was a huge inspiration of course I've played a lot of role-playing games played Dungeons and Dragons back in the day and Earth Dawn and and lots of others and and that kind of got me into the whole RPG genre to begin with yeah I was heavily influenced by I would say Dungeons and Dragons as well as some fantasy novels Robert Jordan or a Salvatore some of those folks if you want to direct people that to support this you know you can go to kickstarter.com and look it up it's Omens of Destiny you'll see the Kickstarter and it'll be actually running until the end of this month we'll actually a few days into April so it's got some time left on it give you plenty of opportunity to get in there and make a pledge multiple reward tiers most of which do include discounted copies of the game be cheaper than what it'll be once it hits shelves and retailers so you can get discounted copies of the game and some extra perks as well multiple reward tiers to choose from. Reporting for mountaintop news I'm Nick Column