Friday Night Round Up for July 28th

So last week it seems as though the flickering power and spotty internet stopped our posting.
Soooooo. Here is a double sized update mere days from GenCon!

WizKids Deep Cuts Pathfinder Battles miniature sets
Flame Drake box set (unpainted)

Miniature sets from Fists of the Ruby Phoenix adventure path
Syndara the Sculptor final form (prepainted)
Danger Island Denizens (6 prepainted miniatures)
Contenders & Champions (6 prepainted miniatures)
Tournament of Champions (7 prepainted miniature),

GMT Games – new titles
2219 – The Barracks Emperor
1 to 4 player card based game of the Roman Crisis of the Third Century.

2305-23 – Under the Southern Cross
1-4 player game set in South American seas during the Age of Sail (1811-1841 using the Flying Colors rules set.

2218 – Border Reivers
1-6 player card driven game of Marcher Lords, raiding and political power. Compete against up to 5 other players. Solo, 2 and 3 player scenarios are available as well. Plays in 2 to 4 hours.

2214 – People Power
Insurgency in the Philippines 1981-1986. 1 to 3 players compete as different factions in the events which brought the reign of the Marcos dictatorship to an end. Plays in 2-3 hours. Ages 14 and up.

2221 – Mr. President
This solo game puts you in the President’s chair dealing with hot button topics, crisis, allies, enemies and many other situations in an attempt to keep the country together and running smoothly. Plays in 8 to 12 hours. (out of stock at the moment, but back soon)

River Horse Games – Fraggle Rock Card Game
2 card games in a single box. Ages 5 and up, for 2-5 players,. Takes about half an hour to play.

Upper Deck – VS System : The Boys
This game pit the Seven (a super group treated as celebrities and revered as gods) against the Boys, a vigilante group that wishes to hold them to account for their actions against the citizens of New York City. 200 playable cards, token sheet and rulebook.

Restoration Games – Unmatched Brains vs Brawn : She-Hulk vs Doctor Strange vs Spiderman
Designed for 2 or 3 players, Plays in 20 – 40 minutes or so. Unmatched pits various personalities in conflict with each other. Pay them out of the box or use others from different sets to create new battles, original combos and more.

KOSMOS – Exit the Game : The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes
This medium difficulty escape room game challenges 1 to 4 players to help Dr. Watson unravel a case which seems to have framed Holmes for the murder of a famous journalist. Search for evidence, follow the clues, and solve the case… if you can. Plays in 1 to 2 hours.

Exalted Funeral Press – Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City (second edition)
This is the new edition of the role playing game where heroes trip through mythic steppes in search of Lost Time, Broken Space and Deep Rifts. A unique RPG set in a surrealistic science setting.

Exalted Funeral Press – The Grand Long Map (for Ultraviolet Grasslands 2e)
A campaign map for the RPG world setting

Exalted Funeral Press – Ultraviolet Grasslands Ref Screen
a 3 panel landscape screen of thick card with thematic color artwork

Renegade Games – Vampire the Masquerade Player’s Handbook
Includes profiles of the seven clans, expanded rules for playing cast-off characters, consolidated and new powers, disciplines and ceremonies, guidelines and advice for Chronicles, updated rules and much more.

Chaosium – Pendragon Starter Set
Everything you need to adventure in the world of Arthur and the Round Table. This starter set includes the rules you need, and adventure to teach you the mechanics, a book with the setting information, a beginner friendly campaign, pregenerated characters, Battle cards to help generate the encounters, dice and lots of additional information.

inPatience – Skoventyr
This 1 to 4 player card game challenges you to defeat all of Erik’s minions by recruiting allies while managing your power and resources. Keep Vogter from being caught while working together. Plays in 15 to 30 minutes.

And now up to this weeks stuff! As we get within a few days of GenCon and the manufacturers have stepped up the releases prior to the convention. So, here is what weve gotten in so far.

Joye – Kilim (2-5 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in about 30 minutes) a card/tile game of buying and creating kilims.

25th Century Games – Prehistories (ages 8 and up, 2-5 players. Plays in about 30 minutes) get hunters assembled and into the valley, celebrate your achievements on the caves.

University Games – Dog Man Attack of the Fleas (ages 6 and up. 2-6 players) It’s up to you and your buddies to save the world from the villainous fleas.

Grail Games – The Gardens (1-4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 30/45 minutes) draft cards, build a botanical garden and score based on the visitors’ walks.

Joye – Kingo (2-6 players, ages 7 and up. Plays in around 10 minutes) roll dice, catch fish and put them in your bowl to score.

Renegade Games – GI Joe Roleplaying Game Villain miniature set 1
12 different cobra figures. Cobra commander, Baroness, Destro, Dr. Mindender, Major Bludd, Road Pig, Serpentor, Storm Shadow, Tomax, Xamot, Zarana and Zartan.

Renegade Games – GI Joe Mission Critical Vanguard Strike Expansion
3 Hero figures, 3 vehicle cards, lieutenant and nemesis figures, game cards, combat cards, enemy cards, rules and more.

Renegade Games – GI Joe Mission Critical Midnight Storm Expansion Ninjas, Cobra, vehicles, and more fill this expansion.

Hans Im Gluck – Mists Over Carcassonne
the first cooperative game where players work to restore peace to Carcassonne. Ghosts, cemeteries and castles dot the lands, filled with the souls of Cathars killed during the Crusades. Can you calm them? Play through 6 different levels. Includes 3 modules you can add to your standard Carcassonne game as well

Revolution Games – Eagles in the Sky
a 2 player card based game of plane to plane warfare set in the last year and a half of the First World War. Command a flight of 1 to 6 aircraft and play individual fights or a 5 day campaign tracking losses, pilot fatigue and playing with full squadrons.

3WS Games – The Stuff of Legends
a cooperative game for 3 to 6 players where you search the Dark for the Boogeyman and try to save your Boy. Butg look out, it’s possible that one of your group may switch allegiance and begin to work for the Darkness.

Lucky Duck Games – Kids Chronicles : Quest for the Moon Stones
a cooperative family game of adventure and mystery. This combination of app and board game challenges the players to solve the mysteries of Two Kingdoms. Look for clues, choose a path and explore the kingdoms with many locations being depicted with interactive 3d scenes.

Renegade Games – Rivals Card Game : The Hunters & Hunted
for 2 to 4 players where each player controls a group of Hunters or Vampires, each trying to dominate their opponents. Includes two Vampire and two Hunter decks, rules and tokens. For ages 14 and up. plays in around 15-20 minutes per player.

Catalyst Game Labs – Two new Shadowrun sourcebooks
Shoot Straight – runner to runner advice on a wealth of topics from covert ops to con games. Designed for Shadowrun, Sixth World.

Astral Ways – Descriptions and details on the metaplanes, advice on exploring them, and more. This sourcebook is a multiplanar setting book for Shadowrun, Sixth World.

Modiphius – Winter of Atom
A quest book for the Fallout Roleplaying Game. A Whiteout nuclear winter in the Commonwealth Wasteland, The Children of the Atom sect, beatniks, big tops, traveling casinos and weaponsmiths aren’t the only thing you will encounter. This quest will take characters from 1st to 7th level and includes new rules for winter survival and reputation with settlements.

Cubicle Seven – Salzenmund : City of Salt & Silver for Warhammer Fantasy Role playing Game
In the Empire’s north sits the city of Salzenmund. This book includes a look at the city, landmarks and locations. It’s government is is detailed, rules for smuggling and mining are included as well as player options, new intrigues and more.

AAW Games – Rultmoork Boxed Set.
A solitary spire of stone juts from the barren wastelands near the rugged mountains. Once water sprung from the spire supporting life in the area. Now, it is dry and desolate. Strange cultists prowl the surrounding areas and ancient evils have appeared. Can you and your companions defeat them and restore life and health to the area? a 5e setting and adventure for characters 5th to 7th level to begin. introduces new mechanics for flow and stagnation. This boxed set includes not only the hardbound sourcebook, player hand outs, unique monsters and magic but also two sets of themed dice, tokens, color coded bags and a pawn set as well.

The Moongrel – Dungeons of Draggmar
This 1 to 4 player game has player hiring heroes, sending them on quests in to the dungeon and almost certain death. What does that get you? Fame as the one organizing the expedition! This fast paced and dynamic card game is full of monsters, dungeons, items, curses and fame. Designed for ages 14 and up. Plays in around half and hour or so. This initial release set lso includes the Undead Crusade Expansion.

Repos Productions – Champions!
a party game with voting and improbable predictions. Contestants face 7 crazy duels to earn the title of Champion. create pairings, predict the winner, reveal the challenge and see who advances. Ages 10 and up. Plays in around half an hour. Designed for 3 to 8 players.

Catalyst Game Labs – Shadowrun Card Decks
Rogues Lineup – 40 Shadowrun character cards spanning many archetypes, metatypes and abilities. Need a NPC or a pre-generated character on the fly? This deck is ready.

Program Deck – more than 40 different programs for Deckers, basic programs, hacking programs and commlink apps on cards and ready to go.

Cubicle Seven – Uncharted Journeys
a 5e D&D sourcebook that provides rules for journeys, exploration, preparation, supplying and and making your journey. This 280+ page hardbound book has rules for encounters, ruins, new roles and much, much more. Want to make the wilderness much more interesting in your 5e game? Here is the book for you.

Board Games we didn’t get a chance to explain. But hopefully next week will bring us a bit of a breather to get you information on these.
Very Pretty Paleozoic Pals
Fronds of Benevolence
Acid Death Fantasy
Troika! RPG
Troika! softcover RPG
Delve solo mapping RPG
Academies of the ArcaneRPG
Dog Man : The Hot Dog card game

Friday Night 7/21

Hey there Games Plus fans.
It’s a nice summer evening and we’ve got a number of new items in store now…
Evil Genius Games – Pacific Rim Cinematic Adventure 
Compatible with the Everyday Heroes System. Everything you need to build your heroes, tools for game play, lore on the setting and the adventure – all in a single product.

Game Machinery – Defiant RPG
An Urban Fantasy game about mighty, modern day supernatural beings who have rebelled against their destiny and have created safe haven in a world ravaged by the Apocalypse. Become a fallen angel, demon, dragon or ancient god ruling your own holdings and followers. A complete RPG and setting.

Green Ronin Publishing – Fantasy Age Core Rule Book
280+ page, full color, hardcover book with character creation, magic, stunts, GM guidance, a campaign setting (Stranger Shores) and an introductory adventure (Breakwater Bay) as well as monsters, magic items, chase rules, exciting combat and much more.

AAW Games – Rultmoork
A solitary spire of stone juts from the barren wastelands near the rugged mountains. Once water sprung from the spire supporting life in the area. Now, it is dry and desolate. Strange cultists prowl the surrounding areas and ancient evils have appeared. Can you and your companions defeat them and restore life and health to the area? a 5e setting and adventure for characters 5th to 7th level to begin. Includes new mechanics, player hand outs, unique monsters and magic and more.

Rowan, Rook and Decard – DIE the RPG
a treacherous fantasy world made from your own fears, desires and doubts. Play flawed folk from the real world trapped in a fantastical world. What are you willing to sacrifice to escape? All you need to play is the book, dice and some players. 390+ page hardbound book.

Chaosium – Cults of Runequest : The Prosopaedia
A hardbound, full color reference book to the many gods, goddesses, monsters, locations and artifacts that are part of Gloranthan mythology. Hundreds of entries defining beings in a system neutral manner, reference as to events that have shaped the world as well as full color illustrations which help bring the lore to life. 

Mongoose Publishing – 2300AD : Tools for Frontier Living
All sorts of equipment for survival away from Earth. Goods and services, deep space suits, the ‘Foot Long Egg’ robots, drones, exploration and survival gear, medical equipment, weapons, armor and more. 160 full color hard bound pages of stuff.

Deck of Many Quests and Deck of Many Quests Gothic Horrors
system agnostic cards to create quests, adventures, mysteries and more. Battle fearsome beasts, parlay with prates, solve mysteries, push back the apocalypse.

Wizkids – new Frameworks miniatures
these new miniatures come with multiple character options and accessories to help create the figures you want. Included in the release are:
D&D Halfling Rogue (2 miniatures)
D&D Medusa (1 mini)
D&D Gargoyle (2 miniatures)
D&D Troll (1 mini)
D&D Half Elf Ranger (2 miniatures)
D&D Goliath Barbarian (1 mini)
D&D Vrock (1) and 2 Dretches (3 miniatures total)
D&D Fire Giant (Giant and hell hound) 
Pathfinder Female Elf Rogue (2 miniatures)
Pathfinder Male Human Wizard (2 miniatures)
Pathfinder Goblins (18 miniatures)

Evil Genius Games – Everyday Heroes : Kong Skull Island
Adventure setting and adventure set for the Everyday Heroes RPG

Star Wars Shatterpoint – Appetite for Destruction Squad Pack
General Grievous and his battle droid force with miniatures and game cards

Star Wars Legion – Ewok Warriors unit set, AT-ST Walker unit, Logray and Wicket commanders.

CMON -Zombicide expansions
The Boyz Pack #1 : The Seven (7 miniatures and 14 cards)
The Boyz Pack #2 : The Boys (6 survivors, 1 dog companion and 10 cards)
Supernatural Pack #1 – Sam & Dean Winchester, Alpha Vampire and Wendigo miniatures and Zombicide game cards
Supernatural Pack #2 – John Winchester, Bobby Singer, Jack Kline and Leviathan miniatures and game cards

Sharkbomb – Goblin Errands
a zany no-prep rpg for 2 to 4 players and a GM. Take the role of a happy little Goblin and go about with a few goblin friends to take care of everyday tasks and try not to mess it up too badly… Everything you need in a single book.

Wizkids – Blob Party
a cooperative word party game where players try to answer questions and move toward getting all the players to answer the same way.Ages 8 and up. Plays in around 15 m minutes. 4 to 8 players.

Gamegenic – Holder Cave
a storage box for your smaller boxes. Takes different combinations of token holders, side holder deck boxes and cube pocket deck boxes to transport and store them together.

Catalyst Game Labs – Shadowrun Edgezone card game
This rerelease brings back the Shadowrun Card Game with some new cards, revised rules and hours of fun. Two different sets. ‘Mayhem’ focuses on the Matrix, Augmentation, and physical combat where ‘Magic’ zeroes in on summoning, spellcasting and magic. Each set has 348 cards, tokens, dice and a rulebook.

Flying Frog Games – Shadows & Brimstone : Gates of Valhalla
Newest of the Shadows & Brimstone line, Gates of Valhalla is set in the Viking Age where plates battle against Unspeakable Horrors as Norse warriors and personalities. Tis fast paced dungeon crawler includes a narrative campaign system, mission spanning Heroes, savage creatures and hours of adventure. Includes finely detailed miniatures, map tiles, tokens, game cards, rules and narrative booklet. For 1 to 4 players, ages 15 and up. Plays in around a hour to 3 depending on players and mission.

Flying Frog Games – Shadows of Brimstone : Gates of Valhalla – Map Tile Pack
5 double sided room tiles, 3 double sided passage tiles, new missions, 16 map cards, 10 encounter cards, 4 darkness cards and more.

Flying Frog Games – Shadows of Brimstone : Gates of Valhalla – Frozen Gates
15 card mini-expansion, rules & painting guide, 4 Norse land Doors and 4 Targa otherworld Gates miniatures.

Friday night new items review

It’s late Friday night and we’ve got a bunch of new items to show off.
This update isn’t as verbose as we’d like – but it’s just this side of Saturday, so in the interest of a Friday update… here goes.

Compass Games – 2040 An American Insurgency
It’s America in 2040. In her third term, the president orders a crack down on ‘trouble in the countryside’. As a Federal Security Agency convoy nears Lexington it’s met by armed civilians and a roadblock. Both side deploy and take cover and shouts and insults are hurled.Then, a shot is fired and the Second American Civil War begins. This card driven ‘COIN’ style game explores a hypothetical Rebel/Federal conflict with the additional challenges and opportunities that modern communication and social media provides. Plays in an hour and a half to 3 hours. 

New Indie RPG (Trokia!) and some supplements
Trokia! (a complete science fantasy RPG), Very Pretty Paleozoic Pals : Permian Nations (a setting for Trokia!), Fronds of Benevolence (an adventure of Trokia!), The Big Squirm(a sourcebook/adventure for Trokia) and Slow Sleigh to Plankton Downs (adventure )

Renegade Games – Hunter the Reckoning Storyteller’s Screen
four panel ‘portrait’ style screen and 40 page toolkit booklet.

Wizkids – Heroclix Iconix – Thanos Snap
Snapping Thanos and Game card in a collector box

Dolphinhat Games – Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza
Special Halloween edition of this party game of word matching. 3 to 8 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in around 10 minutes. Can you slap down a card that is a match with a spoken word and a card? Look out – your mind may play tricks on you.

Fantasy Flight Games – Marvel D.A.G.G.E.R.
1 to 5 players try to defend the globe from the forces of evil. Work together to thwart Thanos, Ultron, Red Skull or Loki. Time is running out – teamwork carries the day. Are you and your group up for it? Ages 12 and up. Plays in around 3-4 hours. 1 to 5 players.

Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : Robot Handbook
a staple of science fiction for over 100 years, robots have come from a stationary, single arm doing repetitive labor to super intelligent creatures far surpassing the abilities of their creators. a quick and easy to use book allows you to simply create a robot in a few minutes. Want nano-bots, androids, cybernetics and artificial brains? The book can do that too. Don’t want to work to make your own? Easy enough – there is a huge catalog of pregenerated designs within these pages as well.

Kits World – Eye decals.
Yes, Eye decals. From Manga Eyes to Fantasy eyes and regular human eyes, these decals have various color options and sizes from 3mm to 1.3mm (Manga), 3mm to 1.3mm (Fantasy), to 1.92 mm to .72mm for the regular ones. The decals are waterslide and are the colored iris and pupil. Fantasy have both round and slit pupils and exotic colored iris. Manga eyes have exotic colors and larger iris areas.     

Hatchling Games – Inspirisles
an RPG that puts you in a Celtic fantasy world learning to shape the elements using sign language in the court of Arthur and Guinevere. Suitable for all ages, but designed for 13 and up. Easy character creation and simple mechanics. It stresses the idea of teamwork and cooperation and has tutorials on British & American sign language.

Happy 4th everyone!

We will be CLOSED on Tuesday July 4th for the Independence Day Holiday.
Enjoy your celebration and try not to lose any extremities.

We will be open Wednesday July 5th at 10am but closing at 8pm and the Game Room will be closing at 9pm so we can get the rugs deep cleaned by some pros. Between a year of use, a couple of auctions, a whole boat load of events a-n-d the construction next to us it’s taken a beating, So we are going to try to spiffy them up again.

The store -and- game room will be open the regular hours starting again on Thursday, July 6th

Thanks!