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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Post-Auction week round-up
Yes indeed everyone – it’s the week after the auction and we are ready for you to come in, get your credit, buy some stuff and enjoy the weekend!
Hey everyone out there in Games Plus fan land… it’s Rich with a quick update.
The auction is done, the paperwork is pretty much finished and we’ve got more new items in store!
Dungeon Crawl Classics/Mutant Crawl Classic modules!
Prisoners of the Secret Overlord – a level 2 adventure for DCC
Published by Dragon Peak Publishing, but distributed by Goodman Games – this science-fantasy adventure sets the players on a path through the Darkmaw Mountains on a quest to find the last heir to Duke Raefinn. Are you up to the task?
Studio 9 – Cathedral of the Undying – level 5 adventure.
Can you overcome a festival which the Hidden Lord has tainted to curse friend and foe alike?
Studio 9 – Greenwood of the Fey Sovereign
a level 0 or 1 DCC adventure including the Wild Elf character class, a new character design sheet and a tense border conflict which draws the PCs into conflict with nameless forces.
Studio 9 – Strange Night at the Pint & Pony (A ‘short’ adventure)
Hobbits,Gnome, Dwarves, the occasional wild elf and even short humans take a break with a drink and friends at the Pint and Pony. Sinister forces have come alive this evening and those who thought to lose all their troubles over a flagon must now rouse themselves from Happy Hour to save the tavern they love.
Studio 9 – 101 City Encounters
rich encounters inside a city that player & GM can develop, rules for reputation tracking and long term effects of your actions in the city.
Studio 9 – Towers of Doctor Xill – DCC/MCC level 2 adventure
Dr. Xillgasor Xillgracone experimented with super-science to create hybrid elemental/organic beings. But something seems to have gone wrong and a millennia ago the elemental forces encased his lab and creations in ice. Debate rages as to why, how and if this was Dr. Xills plan all along as now his lab begins to thaw…
Cranio Creations – Rats of Wistar
1 to 4 players take on the role of rats who have engineered an escape for Wistar Institute. Now you try to lead your family on a quest to prove your worth to lead the entire colony. Explore, develop and invent to become the worthiest to lead. Ages 14 and up. Plays in about 90 minutes.
GMT Games – Vijayanagara : Deccan Empires of Medieval India 1290-1398
1 to 3 players (with full solitaire rules) lead medieval kingdoms in their rise and fall. The Delhi Sultanate, Bahmani Kingdom and Vijayanagara Empire deal with various events, Mongol invasions, building temples and gaining the support of local lords as they battle to control the Deccan Plateau.
Off the Page Games – Harrow County : Game of Gothic Conflict
1 to 3 players take on different roles as the town’s protectors, a sister wishing to rule the county or family of a hung witch coming to exact revenge. Plays in under an hour. For ages 14 and up.
Weird Works – Zero Level Rulebook
Complete rules for adventuring as zero level commoners in D&D 5e. tables and rules for character generation and guidelines for creating an adventure to allow the common folk to prove their mettle.
Ganesha Games – The Lantern Issue #3 : A 4 Against Darkness Zine from it’s creator
4 new adventures, rules expanding holy symbols, setting up camp and a new monster.
Dan Verssen Games – The Third Option
A new solitaire game of global clandestine operations. Take command of the Agency’s Special Operations Center, recruit operatives, arrange operations and attempt to complete the mission to your best ability. Can be played as one off games or as part of the whole campaign. Ages 14 and up.
Steve Jackson Games – Tabloids
Players make the headlines, get the Scoop and try to get the most scoops on their stories to win. Create the news and get the headlines! Requires three or more players.
Steve Jackson Games – Caligula
The Roman senate gets down to the business at hand… Drinking. Make the laws, try to keep your action within those laws and try to bankrupt your ‘friends’ while they try to do the same to you. 3 to 8 players ages 21 and up. Plays in 1 to 2 hours. Or so.
Bunches of little games are here too!
Magellan Glano and Lusitania – from Pythagoras Games
Designed for ages 8 and up playing under 30 minutes..
Chomp, Sail, Big Top, and Couture – from allplay
The Spring Auction is Going on Now
As we speak the Spring 2024 Auction is happening as we speak.
Thursday Night – Historical and Conflict style games
Friday Night (6:30 pm) – Roleplaying Games and Accessories
Saturday (10:00 am) – Board games, expansions, accessories and more.
Sunday (first off) – it’s Daylight Savings Time. Don’t forget to set your clocks FORWARD.
and be ready to get up a bit earlier because…
Sunday March 10th – (9:30 am) Historical Miniatures, rules and accessories
going until we run out of historical items or it becomes…
Sunday March 10th (11:00 am) Miniatures, rules, accessories, magazines and what not.
Spring 2024 Auction is a GO!
So it’s Spring Auction Eve here at Games Plus.
Subsequently we will diligently be resetting the game room to house bunched of bidders, bales of boardgames, billets of books, mountains of miniatures and acrs of accessories.
So – for the rest of the week… the game room is now the Auction Room.
So what’s happening ?
Tuesday – Auction Setup
Wednesday Night – Tradable and Collectible Card & Miniature Games
Thursday Night – Conflict (map & chit usually) games & accessories
Friday Night – RolePlaying games & Accessories
Saturday (all day) – Euro, Family & Other Boardgames
Sunday (all day) – Miniatures, Miniature rules & Accessories
This week’s release wrap up March 1st
So another week goes by and we are right on top of the Spring 2024 Auction. But that is not slowing down the manufacturers who keep on coming out with new merchandise for you to add to your collections.
Fireforge Games – New Japanese Samurai and Ashigaru miniatures
Samurai Warriors, Samurai Shooters, Ashigaru shooters, Ashigaru warriors. Each box comes with parts for 24 different figures armed with your choice of weapons.
Atomic Mass Games – new Marvel Crisis Protocol Miniatures
Professor X and Shadow King
Bishop and Nightcrawler
Iceman and Shadowcat
– each set having miniatures, bases, statistic and tactics cards
Repos Production – 7 Wonders Architects
This 7 Wonders expansion is good for 2 to 7 players, ages 8 and up. new progress tokens, a new award medals mechanic, new wonders and hours more fun and challenge.
Game and a Curry Games – Deimos Academy
a collaborative role playing game about a reunion and a cursed boarding school. With the horrors of the childhood experience behind you, players try to unlock the mystery of what lurks under the school. Build the story together remembering things from the past – use coloring books, paper dolls, dice and cards to play. For 2-4 players, taking about an hour per player/session. Can be played as a one shot or an anthology.
Repos Productions – Little Tavern
3 to 5 players play as servers in the Little Tavern. Attempt to get the best customers to sit at your table and collect the tips while trying to convince the cheap ones to go to your opponent’s area. Earn the most tips to win. Ages 8 and up, plays in around half an hour.
Central Michigan University Press – Monumental Consequence
a single session live action game for classrooms, social gatherings or team building. Take on the role of villagers in a small town when an army takes the centuries old church full of priceless art. What do you do? For 9 to 38 payers, plays in 30 to 60 minutes (or so)
Rowan, Rook & Decard – One Page Games – by Grant Howitt
Back in 2016 Grant Howitt decided to write an RPG each month and release it to be played for free. Now, RR&D have decided to publish them for your amusement.
One-Page Games – Volume 2 (2017-2018) Adventure Skeletons, Last Christmas, Pride and Extreme Prejudice, Jason Statham’s Big Vacation and 9 others.
One-page Games – Volume 3 (2019-2020) Goat Crashers, Sean Bean in a Very Northern Christmas, Kobold Endeavor & 10 others.
One Page Games – Volume 4 (2020-2021) Kaiju Girls, Orc Ball, Once Upon a Crime, Nice Marines and 10 others
One Page Games – Volume 5 (2021-2022) This set includes a bunch of collaborations
Captain Swanhands, Wreck the Halls, Arlecchino’s Eleven, Big Bang Superstars, Uncanny Rally and 7 others.
Chaosium Inc – Call of Cthulhu : Arkham
A quiet town in New England, Arkham is home to Miskatonic University. But also criminals, speakeasies, witch covens and a cursed history. This sandbox campaign setting gives you details on the history, nine different neighborhoods, 209 different locations, rules and skills, over 80 detailed NPCs, gossip, rumors, maps and more. Everything you need to create the setting you want.
APE Games – Duck! Duck! Go!
The classic game of Bathtub Ducky Racing is back! Choose a card from your hand, follow the directions to move your ducky, try to be the first to touch all the buoys and get back to the drain first to win. Ages 8 and up. 2 to 4 players taking about half an hour to play.
Osprey Games – Tomorrow City : Dieselpunk RolePlaying
a game of action, mystery and mad science. Fight crime, hunt spies, sell tech, be a sky ranger and more. Be the one who makes sure tomorrow does come. 200+ page hardbound book.
Renegade Games – The Vale of Eternity
2-4 players (ages 14 and up) attempt to hunt and tame mystical creatures – the ultimate goal of which is to tame a Dragon. With 70 creatures from myths all over the world, each game is unique. Tame the most outstanding creatures to be the best. This card game plays in around 45 minutes.
Kobold Press – Kobold Guide to Roleplaying
over 100 pages of ideas – playing high and low scores, using roleplaying as storytelling, how to get into the villains mindset and ever so much more. 100+ pages of material.
Steamforged Games – Runescape Kingdoms
This Runescape (and Old School Runescape) product give you the comprehensive guide to Gielinor, how to generate characters, magic, piety powers, crafting, summoning, GM advice a bestiary and ever so much more. 200+ full color pages of game.
Pazio Pathfinder items
Pathfinder 2e GM Guide and Player Core pocket books
OK, they are a bit bigger than might fit in your pocket, but they are digest sized paperback versions with all the information of the hardbound versions.
Flip Mat : Temples Multipack
4 different full color temples, each with a 1” grid and laminated for use with almost any markers. a seaside temple, a tranquil healing sanctuary, a dilapidated graveyard and a hellish temple of horrors. Al ready to go at a moments notice.
Stat Tracker – Hit Point Tracker Sheet Pad
50 five by seven inch sheets with groupings to help track hit points (or spell points, psionic points or what have you) for a number of characters or creatures.
Mongoose Publishing – Paranoia the Roleplaying Game
This is the latest edition of the classic RPG of inter party squabbles, diplomacy, espionage, insane computer overseers, and bunches of fun.
Includes a Players Handbook, GM screen, Accomplice Book (for the GM) and even Computer Dice.
Goodman Games – DCC Return to the Starless Sea
A new level 0 adventure taking the players back to where it started. Go from level 0 to level 1 while exploring the Screaming Keep – working to finish the job left undone by prior groups. Stop the Chaos Lord, defeat terrible creatures and become heroes!
The Gamers – Valley of Tears
This Battalion level game allows you to refight the Entire Yom Kippur War from Oct 6, 1973 to the end of the war as enforced by the superpowers and UN. Using extensive research and actual Israeli tactical maps from the time period this game allows you to experience the largest tank battles since world war 2, the rise of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, an extensive air war and the challenges each side faced. Includes 8 different scenarios 4 using 1 map or less and a full campaign as well. Medium complexity for 2 players.
The Gamers – Crimea : Conquest & Liberation
Latest in the OCS game line, Crimea covers several different campaigns through World War 2. September 1941-42 with Axis conquest and September 43-44 with Soviet reconquest. Map covers all of Crimea and can not only be played on it’s own but also as an add-on to The Third Winter. 7 scenarios, 1 map, 840 counters, player aid cards, rules and more.
MultiMan Publishing – Twilight of the Reich : Endgame in the European Theater 1944-45
Includes 4 new mapboards with urban areas, expanded late war TO&E, overlays with debris, rail cars, graveyards, large factories and other urban sites, scenario special rules, 17 scenarios, customizable OBs and more.