Game of Thrones (season 5) (episodes 9 and 10). Nutter is the only returning director with the rest being first-time "Game of Thrones" directors. This season features more original material than previous seasons. The deviations from Martin's novels are in part attributable to the way the television series has covered most of the novel series' published material and in part to the directors' opinions of the actors' abilities. For example, Sansa Stark arrives at Winterfell to marry Ramsay Bolton in "High Sparrow," a plotline that had been given to a minor character in the novels. In an interview, show writer David Benioff explains that Sophie
A Game of Thrones (board game) Houses with a wider variety of effects, and new unique special orders for each House. This expansion was integrated into the base game with the release of the second edition. The expansion "A Storm of Swords" was released in 2006, and adds more variant rules to be used with the original "A Game of Thrones", either with or without "A Clash of Kings". Additions include Tactics cards, Ally cards, new sets of House character cards, new Westeros cards, new units, and a new gameboard for a standalone game, representing a focused view of the Trident region of Westeros. In October