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New Releases, News

New stuff for Friday, June 28th – We will be Closed July 4th!

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Good Evening Games Plus Fans, Followers and Passer-bys.
Here we are, just a few days from fireworks and fun and the manufacturers have decided they are still going to keep on bringing things out. So here are most of the items we’ve seen come out, or come back out, in the last week

Historical Wargaming Magazines:
Wargames Illustrated 438 (June 2024) – Ruckus Campaigns (2 scenarios and full rules), Dramatic OSL painting, D-Day Landing commemorative events, shield maidens, the Mosin-Nagant rifle, weapons in wargames and more.

Miniature Wargames #494 – Pulp Alley scenario Maori Wars in New Zealand game, reviews, painting Napoleon and more.

Osprey Historical Books
Air Campaign #45 – Operation Allied Force 1999 :
NATOs airpower victory in Kosovo
Campaign #401 – Jamestown 1622 : Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Combat #77 – US Marine vs Japanese Soldier : Saipan, Guam and Peleliu 1944
Dogfight #12 – Bf 109E : Battle of Britain
Duel #136 – Panzer III vs T-34 Eastern Front 1941
Elite #256 – The War Underground 1914-1918 : Tactics & Equipment
Men at Arms #555 – Union Army 1861-1865 (volume 2 Eastern & New England States)
Men at Arms #556 – Germany’s French Allies 1941-1945
New Vanguard #329 – Tanks on Iwo Jima 1945
New Vanguard #330 – Warships in then War of the Pacific 1879-1883 : Chile & Peru

Pazio – new Pathfinder Items
Pathfinder 2 : Monster Core Digest Size
a smaller paperback version of the Monster Core book with over 400 creatures to give the Game Master everything they need to set up their games.

Pathfinder Flip Mat Environments Multi-pack.
2 24 x 30 flip mats, each with 1” square grid for use with most popular rpgs. Desert, woodland, plains and arctic scenery ar featured in the different sides.

Wardens of Wildwood : Shepherds of Decay
The final adventure in the story arc. Work to oust the murderous despot, explore the Plane of Wood and stop the demigod of decay from destroying the Verduran Forest.

Core GM Screen – Second Edition Remastered Screen with 4 panels, striking artwork on the players side and bunches of reference material on the GM side. conditions, death and dying rules, how to set DCs, creature adjustment guidelines, action summaries and more.

Stronghold Games – Encore!
A fast paced Roll & Write game for 1 to 6 players. Plays great with 2 players and includes solo rules too. Roll, choose, mark & score. Originally published as Noch Mal! in Germany.

Don’t Panic Games – Cowboy BeBop RPG is back!
an original d6 RPG system, custom character creation, planets and environments of the Cowboy Bebop universe, buckets of source materials and Narrator guidelines and more.

Fantasy Flight Games – Arkham Horror Dream Eaters Campaign
Two different 4 part campaigns, The DreamQuest and Web of Dreams – or an epic 8 part campaign. New foes, the Dreamlands, the Underground and more.

The Lord of the Rings LCG Ered Mithrin Campaign Expansion
Team up with Woodsmen and the People of the Dale on a quest to fell a mighty Dragon. Discover powerful artifacts and incredible treasures in your journey. Gain strength over time and defeat the growing threats that oppose you making the Ered Mithrin campaign play differently each time you go through it.

Wizkids Games – new heroclix releases
Marvel Iconix : Wolverine First Appearance – Incredible Hulk, Wendigo and Wolverine

Deadpool & Weapon X – 75 figure set. Boosters, bricks and cases.

Deadpool & Weapon X Play at Home Kit (2 figures and map)

Cubicle Seven – A Life Well Lived setting for 5e D&D
A sourcebook to help you explore your character’s life before, during and after their 5e adventures. Discover why they started to adventure, find out what they do between delves into the unknown and things they may be planning in the future as a long term goal. Also includes ideas and material on creating your own bases as well as a system to create patrons with their benefits, connections and reputations. 130+ pages of information.

Amigo – Pick a Pen games
Crypt, Reefs and Gardens. Three different roll & write games designed for 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. 5 pencils, pad of play sheets with 3 different play modes and rules.

Shadowdark RPG
We have the core RPG book, PC cards, GM Screen and ‘Cursed Scroll’ fanzine expansions in stock for your OSR gaming experience.

Events, New Releases

Free RPG Day Eve (Friday June 21st)

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So here we are, hours away from Free RPG Day.
Seems a bit odd to be telling everyone about items -not- featured tomorrow, but hey, we need to let you know what you might not known about otherwise, right?

Loke Battle Maps – Deck of Many Insults
100b cards with 100 different insults to help ‘spice’ up your roleplaying game. System agnostic. Viciously mock & antagonize your way across the world.

iello – Flip Circus
2 players attempt to put their deduction and memory skills to the test in this game. Move, flip or use the abilities of tokens to group together 3 of the same to take a portion of the poster. Ages 10 and up. Plays in around 15 minutes. 

Roll & Play Press – One Shot Wonders
over 100 session ideas for Fantasy RPGs. An epic collection of one shot adventures, each including the plot points, characters and locations you need to make the session memorable. Each adventure takes up 2 pages or less. Hardbound, full color book.

Elestrals LLC – Elestrals the card game
A new collectible card game featuring elemental creatures, deck building, battling and fun. Starter decks include a 60 card deck and 3 boosters with 10 cards each.  

Booster packs of 10 cards available separately.

KOSMOS – EXIT the game
Each EXIT game is a one shot ‘escape room’ game pitting up to 4 players against time and the scenario to succeed in solving the puzzles. Each has different difficulties and play times.

EXIT : The Magical Academy – a medium level difficulty scenario, can you stop the other worldly polterbolds from tearing up the school before it’s too late?  1 to 2 hours, ages 10 and up.

EXIT : The Hunt through Amsterdam – medium to difficult  challenge level, can you find the missing artwork before other parties get to it and lose it is lost for good. Ages 10 and up. Takes 1 to 2 hours.

EXIT : Riddles in Monsterville – EXIT riddle for for kids.
Unlike the other EXIT games, this uses a helper app and can be played multiple times. Designed for ages 5 and up, each play through takes about 20 minutes. No reading skills are required for this cooperative game. Can you track 10 different cookie jars, stolen by cookie monsters back to their lair in monsterville? Each round has a combination of 6 different riddle tasks.      

The OP Games – 10 Days in the USA
This card game requires [players to plan a 10 day journey across the US matching destinations and travel modes to complete their journey. 2-4 [players,. 8 and up. Plays in around half an hour.

Wizards of the Coast – The Making of the Original Dungeons and Dragons 1970-1977
a 550+ page hardbound book all about the genesis of the Original Dungeons & Dragon game, it’s history as presented by John Peterson, acclaimed roleplaying and wargaming historian. Selections of original documents from Gygax’s Chainmail, Arenesons Blackmoor game, typewritten draft of the first D&D manuscript, content from the ‘brown box’ ODD, Greyhawk, Blackmoor and Eldritch Wizardy supplements, fan content from Strategic Review and the Dragon magazines and much more. A trove of trivia, history and never before seen material.

Red Mojo Games – Tindaya
1It’s the 15th Century and the Europeans are exploring the Canary Isles and threatening the lifestyles of the peoples there. Can you lead your tribe, with the help of the elemental spirits, in an attempt to send them away, leaving your lands unspoilt? Includes a solo mode for a single player, a cooperative mode and a competitive mode, each with differing difficulty levels. Each game is unique with the gameboard and play evolving from era to era. Includes an introductory starter campaign as well. Designed for ages 13 and up. Plays in about 30 minutes per player.

Roll and Play Press – Character and Game Master Tool Kits
The Sci-Fi Character Kit – a number of character archetypes and tables to help you generate backstories, traits, gear, allies, rivals and much more. 

The Sci-Fi Game Master’s Tool kit – ideas for missions, surprise encounters, alien leaders, space ship features, high tech weapons and lots more. Over 100 pages of resources.

The Fantasy Character Kit – over 200 tables to help you create a meaningful fantasy character. Backstory, appearance, trinkets, fighting styles, power manifestations and more. For players or NPCs alike. Over 170+ pages of information.

The Fantasy Game Master’s Toolkit – 90+ pages of encounters, tavern names, diseases, loot, potions and more. 

Roll and Play Press – Player Notebook
Designed for use with 5e D&D this notebook contains character sheets, Quest lists, Spell Trackers, lined paper and grid paper for note taking and mapping. A5 sized booklet, includes a rear pocket on the cover, elastic straps to hold it all closed  and 120 wirebound pages (so they lay flat) of various paper.Roll and Play Press – GM Notebook
System independent, this notebook has pages for worlds notes, NPC trackers, lined paper for notes, hex and grid ruled paper for various maps. 120 wirebound pages (so they lay flat), rear pocket in the cover and an elastic strap to hold it closed.

News

X-Wing and Armada are at End of Life

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Well, that’s that for X-Wing and Armada.
If there are any Armada or X-Wing items you are looking for – contact us as soon as you can.

We will be attempting to restock as best we can but once that stock is gone – we don’t expect to see anything more.

So email us, drop us a Facebook message or call the store. We will get you on the list in order we received your request.

New Releases

Thursday Update! Things are coming in Hot!

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Hello Games Plus followers and fans.
Another update coming to you – this time on Thursday!

Trick or Treat Studios – Texas Chainsaw Massacre miniature set
11 miniature versions of Leatherface and his opponents. Can be used to replace the standees in the boardgame, your favorite RPG or miniatures collection.

Reiner Kinzia – Huang
a competitive game for 2-4 players set in the Warring States tie of China. Use your 5 different leaders (Governer, Soldier, Farmer, Trader and Artisan) to build pagodas, trigger or avoid wars, instigate revolts and take your opponents down. Unite the country under your banner to win. Short teaching time and elegant game play make this games classic in the making. Ages 14 and up. Plays in around 90 minutes.

Cryptozoic Rivals – Black Adam vs Shazam
includes 99 game cards, 6 oversized character cards, rulebook and divider. Includes a first print Hoppy Promo Card. 2 players, ages 15 and up.

Smirk & Dagger Games – Adventure Party
3-8 players choose the way they choose to complete a challenge, roll in secret and describe the outcome. The GM tries to guess how well they rolled and scores are tallied. Ages 14 and up. Plays in around 20 minutes for a few players to an hour for a bunch.

Restoration Games – Unmatched : Slings & Arrows
This 2-4 player game pits Shakespeare and his creations against each other in tactical combat. The Bard himself, the Wayward Sisters, Hamlet and Titania are included with tokens for sidekicks. Any heroes and maps from the Unmatched set can be used to battle. Ages 9 and up. Plays in 15 minutes to an hour depending on players.

Fantasy Flight Games – Unfathomable : From the Abyss
this Unfathomable expansion adds new monsters, new playable characters, ally cards, new prelude cards,new skills and boons as well. Character standees, horror miniatures, overlay tiles and much more add endless variety to the game.

Nanox Games – Evenfall
at Evenfall the boundaries of reality collapse and portals open to unknown regions. Send members of your clan to attempt to take Places of Power, gain Powerstones and undertake Rituals. Designed for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in around 30 minutes per player.

New Releases

Wednesday’s Mid Week Update!

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It’s Wednesday. It’s hot. But you know what else is?
Rich’s Midweek Update!

That’s right. Even though the tires might melt off their trucks, the delivery services have gotten us a bunch of new material for you to enjoy.

Cubicle 7 – Warhammer fantasy Roleplay : Ubersriek Adventures III
four adventures for WFRPG set in the last days of the Enemy Within Campaign. Save a village from Orcs & Goblins, investigate illness around a mining town, get entangled with the affairs of nobility and help sort out a disaster in the woods around a hunting lodge. 100+ page hardbound book with handouts, maps and more.

Cubicle Seven – Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor Sourcebook
190+ page book chronicling the 13th doctors adventures, adversaries, allies and more. All in a full color hardbound book for ease of use. Tons of information for use in your game or just to bring you up to speed.

Chaosium Inc – Pendragon Core Book
a hardbound all in one book giving you the world of King Arthur, full rules on character creation, pre-generated characters, Pendragon rules that cover everything you need to play, additional rules beyond the core to add depth into the characters and NPCs. The Winter Phase is covered in detail giving the characters options for downtime, training, side quests and more. There is even a Coat of Arms generator to create unique heraldry for your Knight. Everything you need to play or run a game of Pendragon.

Pendragon : The Grey Knight Campaign
The Grey Knight accuses Arthur of Murdering children and Sir Gwain steps up to defend the King’s Honor. Merlin declares that Arthur’s champion will perish at the hands of the Grey Knight unless a treasure holding the key to defeating him is found. Can you locate this treasure, save the kingdom and Gwain’s life? Includes everything you need to run the campaign, includes two sequel scenarios that set the bridge to the Sword Campaign from the starter set, details the city of Carilon and involves the character in Arthurian History.

Catalyst Game Labs – Star League Command Lance
4 Mech miniatures, 7 mechwarrior cards, 4 Alpha Strike cars, Atlas II, Thunderhawk, a Phoenix Hawk variant and a reposed and fully painted Orion are included.

Renegade Games – Rivals : Martial Law
new vampires for the six latest clans (Banu Haqim, Catiff, Ministry, Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce), a preconstructed Hunter deck with all the state of the art Hunting equipment they might need and a Crypt Pack to customize decks. 120 new cards.

Scorpion Masque – Monster Chase
a memory based cooperative game for ages 3 and up. Ready for 1-6 players, it should play in around 10 minutes.

iello Games – Clash of Magic Schools
2 players square off in an attempt to win the competition between the two Magical Houses. Assign students to tasks and try to excel at the different trails. Beware the Forbidden Spells, even if using them might give you victory. Ages 12 and up. Plays in around 45 minutes.

Renegade Games – Robo Rally : Transformers
Play legendary Transformers as you navigate the dangerous race course. Use your ability to transform to dart in and out of buildings, jump across obstacles and attack your opponents. Designed for 2-6 players. Plays in 45 minutes to 90 minutes depending on the number of players. Includes robot miniatures, special upgrade cards, 4 double sided map boards, double sided starting tile, tokens, play aids, rules, cards and more.

Cryptozoic Entertainment – DC Justice League Dark DBG
Based on the comic this game comes with 8 oversized character cards, 215 game cards, special first printing promo cards, and rules. Deal with threats from magical Super-Villains as you deal with threats too magical to be handled by the regular heroes. Designed for ages 15 and up. 2-4 players.

Cryptozoic Entertainment – DC Justice League Dark Expansion
Join the Injustice League Dark! These new cards allowing you to play villains, gain nemesis rewards, cursed weakness cards, 6 oversize character cards, 53 game cards and a rulebook.

New Releases

Friday night update for June 7th.

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Another Friday night and another little update of new items that have made it into the store.

Wargames Atlantic – Gangs of Rome : Citizens of Rome
30 multipart plastic  miniatures which allow you to create gang memes, armed mob participants and even gladiators. Also handy for making members of Spartacus Revolt.

Atomic Mass Games – new Star Wars Shatterpoint items:

Never Tell Me The Odds Mission Pack:
mission card, 9 Struggle Cards, 1 token sheet

Real Quiet Like Squad Pack
Includes Han Solo, Chewbacca and 2 Rebel Commandos as well as Stat, Order and Unit cards

Today the Rebellion Dies Squad Pack
Includes Iden Versio, Gideon Hask and 3 Inferno Squad members and Cards

Free League Games – Mutant Year Zero Zone Wars : Skirmish Mayhem in the Mutant Year Zero Universe
Includes 10 miniatures, game cards, tokens, custom dice, 36×36 game mat, cardboard terrain, ruler and rulebook.

Free League Games – Mutant Year Zero Zone Wars : Robots & Psionics
This expansion adds 2 factions, and new rules, five new scenarios as well as 10 new miniatures, cards, tokens, custom dice, cardboard terrain, ruler and booklet.

Sound of Drums Games – History of the Ancient Seas game series
Players control different factions in the ancient world attempting to dominate the seas around them, their influence in the lands, build  fleets, explore lands, conquer islands and build a great empire. 

Hellas – this volume pits Athens and Sparta against each other in the Hellenistic world, from Persia to Sicily. Move fleets and armies to create trade networks, influence or outright capture neighbors who are not aligning themselves with your country and become dominant Hellenistic power. 2 players, about 3 hour play time. Ages 14 and up.

Irae – sets the Egypt, the Greek City STates and Perisa against each other in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Move fleets and armies to create trade networks, influence or outright capture neighbors who are not aligning themselves with your country and become dominant Hellenistic power. 1-3  players, about 2 hours of play time. Ages 14 and up.    

Mare Nostrum – Volume 3 puts the Roman Empire, Carthage, Greek City States, Egypt and Persia at odds with each other. Move fleets and armies to create trade networks, influence or outright capture neighbors who are not aligning themselves with your country and become dominant Hellenistic power. 1-5  players, about 3 hours of play time. Ages 14 and up.   

Deluxe  History of the Ancient Seas – includes all three volumes (Hellas, Irae and Mare Nostrum) in a single box. 

Longpack Games – World Breakers : Advent of the Khante
This two player card game is set in an alternate 13th century Asia. Players are Worldbreakers with mysterious powers. Recruit followers, develop locations and attempt to gain power to reshape history. Designed for 1-2 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in about half an hour. Features multiple game modes to play alone, competitively and with preconstructed, drafted or constructed decks.

Long Pack Games – Worldbreakers The Indigo Sisterhood
This expansion adds additional game cards, guild dice for tracking standing and a new solo campaign taking a journey to the Indigo Grotto.

New Reaper Miniatures :
Spiders of Emrith Kul boxed set
2 Large, 2 Medium Spiders, 2 cocooned victims, 2 husks, halfling hero and ruined shrine

The Bridge Troll’s Toll box set
Bridge, Farmer, 3 goats, Troll, Swimming Troll and Troll Nest

Arakoth the Ancient box set
Colossal Spider, roughly 7” in diameter to its outer legs, about 2” to the top of its thorax. Includes a scenic base. Fully assembled and ready to paint or game with..

Wall of Thorns (1 ½” x ¾” base with bunched of thorned vines) 

new Bones USA miniatures:
Dungeon Dwellers RPG: Adept
Dungeon Dwellers RPG: Aristocrat
Isabeau Lorouche, Female Paladin
Maeve Greysky, Female Barbarian
Anya, Half Orc Arm Wrestler

new Base Boss plastic bases:
60mm Round lip display base (no slot – 10 bases)
40mm Round Gaming Base (no slot, raised lip, 10 bases)
28mm Round Gaming Base (no slot, raised lip, 20 bases)
30mm Round Gaming Base (no slot, round lipped, 20 bases)
40mm Round Display Base (no slot, round lipped, 10 bases)

New Releases, News

Mid-Week Update – and some News you can Use!

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It’s Wednesday night and time for a Mid Week Update!
Rich here with a bit of news and a few new products.

First the news :
As some seen on Steamforged Games (and Privateer Press) blog/pages Steamforged Games has purchased Warmahordes, the Iron Kingdoms and darn well everything else except for Monsterpocalypse and a couple of the small board games.
We will be continuing to Privateer items as long as they are available to us and will happily order in whatever you need for your PP gaming needs. More news as we find out about it.

And there were a few new items that have come out so far this week as well…
Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Game of Armored Combat 40th anniversary edition
now with ILClan Primer, 8 plastic Mechs, rules, record sheets, pilot card, fiction novella, Universe Primer, dice and hours of fun!

Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Beginner Box (40th Ann Ed)
Includes 2 models, dice, rules, tokens, universe booklet, novella, record sheets and more.

Free League – Twilight 2000 Players Manual

Cubicle Seven – Doctor Who RPG 2e A Stitch in Time
10 episode adventure with a ‘series finale’ which winds up the story arc. From an alien incursion to a secret after-hours sale at the galaxy’s biggest department store… the adventure takes the Doctor where she needs to be.

Renegade Games – My Little Pony RPG : Story of the Seasons
Four seasonal adventures, rules for downtime between episodes, details on all the festivals in Equestria , Gazetteer of Ponyville’s exciting locations and the Griffon Origin. All in a 130+ hardbound book.

Chaosium Inc – Cults of Runequest : The Lunar Way
a guide to the deities of the Red Moon. 15 new cults, expanded treatment of the Cult of the Seven Mothers, rules to create adventurers belonging to that cult. Also Lunar magic, Lunar Sorcery and Rune magic as well as the rules to advance your character to God-talker, Rune Priestess and even and even Rune Lord. The history of the Lunar gods, Lunar Empire, the Red Emperor and details of adventuring on the Red Moon itself.

Darrington Press – For the Queen Game
A storytelling card game for 2-6 players ages 13+. Plays in half an hour to 120 minutes.

Media Lab Books – Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying
a 5e D&D book on how to create a player driven narrative in order to help make the burden of the world running a shared experience. Designed to make the game more immersive, this help make sure no one is stuck on the sidelines.

And we are carrying VMS glues, strippers and debonders as well. Some of the CA glues are ‘designed for certain materials’. So if you want special resin CA glue, 3d print glue, plastic glue and more – here you go!