One more update before GenCon

So indeed – one last quickey update before we go to GenCon.
The store will be open regular hours, there will still be gaming – but lots of our staff will be at GenCon running our booth so lots of effort will be making sure the store is open and staffed.

Gale Force Nine – Hextech buildings
Dropbase Personnel Buildings – 4 buildings and 6 conncters.
Dropbase Delta Maintenance Bays – 2 bays and 6 connectors
Dropbase Delta – Power Station – 2 buildings and 6 connectors
Dropbase Delta – Command Center – 2 buildings and 6 conncters

Avalon Hill – HeroQuest Hero Collection : Path of the Wandering Monk
2 miniatures, 7 game cards and a scroll along with a display scene for the minis.

Gigamic – Task Team
3 to 18 players (ages 7 and up) divide into teams and compete to be the fastest to complete seven tasks. Grab dice, counters, rulers, spinners, tops and other items to try to be the ones

Tuesday Knight Games – Thats Not Lemonade!
a quick playing 2-6 player game of press your luck local lemonade drinking. Be the one to guzzle the most lemonade. But beware, Johnny has been creeping around the local stands and messing with things. What your picking up may not be lemonade…

Escape Tabletop Games – What on Earth are you Talking About.
a party game for 2-10 (or more) players, ages 17 and up. Takes around half an hour (or maybe longer with more players) to play. Try to describe earth terms, but only using words that start wit the letter your universal translator allows you.

Spinmaster – Marvel United : Deadpool
This Marvel United box includes Hero Deadpool, Villiain Deadpool, Challenge Deadpool, Bob : Agent of Hydra along with rules, location and challenges.

GMT – I, Napoleon
this new solitaire card based game putting you in the boots of Le’ Emperor himself. Relive his career and see if you fare better than he did. Can you win enough support through military or political means to become greater? Will you manage to rule Europe?

GENCON!

We will be at GenCon 2024 in the following days.
Come see us at booth 1405. Say Hi to Rich, Jeff, Alli and the rest of the convention crew.

What will we have there? All sorts of different products… 3d printed buildings and portals, used boardgames, vintage historical games, RPG items from the 70s, 80s and 90s and beyond, mystery dice sets and a whole lot more!

Come on down and see us in the exhibitor hall at GenCon.
Booth 1405.

Or, if you aren’t able – please come to the store and enjoy some browsing, gaming and shopping while everyone else is in Indy!

Friday Night – New items keep on rolling in!

Here we are, only a few days away from GenCon and there are still new releases rolling out of manufacturers. As as you might expect – we’ve got’em in stock!

Stonemaier – Expeditions : Gears of Corruption
an expansion for Expeditions adds secret bonuses on map tokens, a corrupted mech, 2 new mechs, and 4 new character/companion pairs as well as components to add a 6th player. And to help get the game moving payers gain new sets of starting resources and a hero worker who can help as needed.

Exploding Kittens – Anarchy Pancakes
a 2-6 player party game of pancakes, mismatched toppings, matching and frenetic action. Designed for ages 7 and up. Plays in as little as 5 minutes. Game play happens all at once and chaos shall ensue.

Compass Games – Air & Armor : Wurzburg Designer Edition
a highly interactive game with asymmetric rules modeling the command & control systems of the different alliances. Multiple levels of hidden intelligence make for fog-of-war in the 1980’s showdown of superpowers across Germany. US, USSR and West German forces clash in this simulation. Designed for 2-7 players, but suitable for solitaire play. 3-12 hours depending on the scenario. Intended for ages 14 and up. Company to Regiment units, 1 mile hexes, each turn represents about 2 hours.

Next Move Games – Azul : Summer Pavilion Mini
Revisit the Great Summer Pavilion and attempt to create mosaics – but this time in a travel sized format. Designed for 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays half an hour to an hour, depending on players.

Avalon Hill – Heroquest : Against the Ogre Horde
Battle at the World’s End Tournament for Glory and Gold. This expansion includes 10 quests, 28 miniatures, cards, and tiles. Challenge Zargon’s Might using a specialized combat system.

Deep Nerd Media – Old Gods of Appalachia
ThisRPG puts you in the mountains of Central Appalachia of the 20s and 30s, a world of hardship, horror and hope. Can you scrape out a living while dealing with not only poverty but the Hollow Men, beasts of the deep, and worse? Includes 2 complete adventures, a bestiary, lore and concept driven character generation, among other things.

Stonemaier Games – Wyrmspan Upgrade Pack
wood and metal tokens – meat, gold, crystal and milk wood tokens and 45 metal coins

Warlord Games – Epic Battles Punic Wars
Warlord Games newest mass battle game – Epic Hail Caesar puts you in command of Roman or Carthaginian armies in battle during the Punic War. Range from a starter set with 2 massive armies, to single army and unit sets to just the rules.

Neoprene Road and River Sets
3 different sets designed for 28mm miniatures. Modular river sets, Paved Roads or Dirt roads. Each in full color and made of thin flexible material to work on almost any surface.

Catalyst Game Labs – Urban Mech LAM salvage box
The airborne Urbbie box is back!

Lots and Lots of new Products!

So we’ve seen a whole truckload of new items in the run up to GenCon. And because you may want them before you get up there, or you want to make sure you get them before the rest of your group… here you go!

Renegade Games – GI Joe RPG Beginner Box : Boot Camp
Includes a ‘playing the game’ booklet, first and second adventure books, 8 pregenerated characters, dice and a GM screen. All designed to be an entry into the GI Joe RPG universe.

Renegade Games – Transformers RPG Beginner Box : Roll Out
Includes a playing the game booklet, first and second adventure books, 8 pregenerated characters, dice and a GM screen. All designed to introduce you to the Transformers RPG universe.

Marz Press – Blood and Thunder : Ultimate Book of Mighty Deeds
This DCC compatible book gives you 150 Mighty Deeds of Arms taken from the pages of the Appendix N literature. Deeds that allow you to sever limbs, crack skulls and perform awesome strikes. Tandem Deeds allow you to work with a partner to emulate deeds from sword & sorcery fiction. There are also Mighty Peasant Deeds which can help your Zero become conquering Heroes. This book brings the kind of combat the infamous Appendix N intended.100+ pages of information at your fingertips.

Breaker Press – The Protectorate of Jenulane (for DCC)
a one-on-one adventure for characters levels 0-2. includes detailed NPCs, new monsters, rumors, a sandbox location and variable encounters along with 8 story hooks to introduce the adventure. The Tower of house Jenulane was once a bastion of protection for the surrounding countryside, home of the order of Gorhan the Helmed Vengeance. Now it lies, corrupted and no longer serving it’s purpose. But those who dare venture inside can still find the chivalric teachings in it’s library. Can you find these tomes or will you fall, being another victim of its foul occupants?

Modiphius Entertainment – Fallout Factions : Nuka-World
a new miniatures skirmish game set in the Wasteland universe. Lead your crew of raiders to control the territory and make your Scavvers, Psychos and more grow and change. Includes rulebook, tokens, dice, rosters, The Operators and The Pack crews, tape measure, dice, battle map and everything else you need to play.

8 bit Zombie – Neon Lord : Riders of the Burpwarp
13 new classes for Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastleand. 90+ pages of information, tables and more.

Swordfish Islands – Maze Rats
a RPG of dungeon exploration and survival.

DIY RPG – ORCS! : High Octane adventure
for 4 to 6 3rd level characters using the DCC ruleset. Inspired by Mad Max and Snowpiercer the party must make their way through a train battling to the engine and taking control. Includes a new Gunslinger class as well.

Catalyst Game Labs – Shadowrun Final Bets
a new campaign book for Shadowrun, Sixth World set in Paris. A hotbed of Shadow action, the runners must show they have what it takes – and in the process may well shape the fate of the world.

Grand Gamers Club – Tir Na Nog
1-5 players (ages 14 and up) work to create a story from the Otherworld in this card based competition. Plays in about half an our to an hour depending on players.

Jester Games – Barbarian Kingdoms
2-6 players vie for control of 5th Century Western Europe. Intuitive rules make jumping in easy. Strategy and resource management will help determine the winner. Battle, bribe and use your circular economy mechanics to bring victory

Tim Roberts – Be Like a Crow Solo RPG
the player takes on the role of a Corvid – exploring the world, completing objectives and meeting other creatures as you collect weird and wonderful objects.

Dungeons & Lasers (Archon Studios) – City Bits Bundle
furniture, refuse piles, thrones, bells, stoves, banners and more. 93 different pieces in a single boxed set.

Dungeons & Lasers (Archon Studios) – Flying Pirates Airship
a flying boat with a large gas bag, cannons, blades and more. Includes modular segments and optional props to create the airship of your pirating dreams.

Dungeons & Lasers (Archon Studios) Undercity Hideout –
a 206 piece underground lair with walls, doors, pools, pillars and more. Create a hideout, dungeon, lair and other underground fantasy areas.

Dungeons & Lasers (Archo Studios) – Deuslair Core Set
99 different models ranging from unique personalities like Esme the Vampire to multiples of common creatures like Chaos Orc Slave with multipose possibilities.

Gnarledmonster – Beyond the Borderlands issues 1-3
Three different issues, each creates an OSR hexcrawl in the area around the keep (issue 1), underground in the areas around the keep (issue 2) and in a shifting ruin atop an ancient elven city (issue 3). All in full color with all the information you need to use them in an OSR RPG game.

Contention Games – Slay the Spire : The Board Game
1-4 players, ages 12 and up. Plays in around an hour, up to 2 depending on the players. The cooperative deck building adventure challenges you to craft a deck, deal with bizarre creatures, discover relics and finally defeat the Spire. Includes miniatures, game cards, cards, tokens and everything you need to play.

Nord Games – The Oracle Story Generator
Events based story generation system. Five uniquely themed 60 card decks to help create a prompt with actor, action, subject, intent and development. Contracts, Bounties, Epic Adventures, Political Intrigue, Relics & Artifacts and SImple Side Quests. Over 250 million possible combinations.

Renegade Games – Hunter the Reckoning : Alma Maters
Over 50 concise ready to use academic-themed locations, four institutions, two antagonist groups, new player options, rules to expand research and investigation along with even more source material.

The Gauntlet – Brindlewood Bay
a RPG combining cozy murder mystery and cosmic horror elements. Play a group of elderly women and help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England town. Reveal twisted cults and dark conspiracies and save your community from things that lurk in the shadows.

Hurst & Alvarado – The Frost Spire
a Winter themed old school 3rd level adventure dedicated to fathers with disobedient children.
The Elf king hungers for the young and on cold nights, his wives move to the mortal world to steal away the bad children. This OSR adventure is designed for multiple possibilities.

Osprey Publishing – Stargrave : Dead or Alive
This new supplement helps you generate solo bounty hunting scenarios. Includes different settings and locations, complications and includes a host of outlaws. Hundreds of different scenarios to play… all without another player required.

Tuesday Knight Games – World Championship Russian Roulette
2-6 players compete in this press-your-luck bluffing game. Earn points bidding on the number of pulls you can survive. Fast play, intense bluffing and much more.

Sit Down! Games – Open Season
Decorate your lair with trophies from the things who have ransacked your dungeon. Use synergistic abilities to generate points and actions to have the best parlor ever. 2 to 4 players, games lasting about 15 minutes per player. Designed for ages 10 and up.

Tuesday Night Games – Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG
You and your crew explore space, derelict spacecraft and deal with alien life forms. Includes players guide, Warden’s manual, scenarios, Warden screen, maps, pawns and more.

Tuesday Night Games – Mothership Deluxe
everything the basic box has as well as a 64 page, 52 page and 48 page adventure and a whole lot more source material.

Friday Night 7/19

Here we are only a couple of weeks fro GenCon and on the Eve of DCC Day. Subsequently, we have a few new releases from all sorts of different aspects of our fine hobby…

Fantasy Flight Games – Marvel Champions : Jubilee
Includes a complete Hero deck (Jubilee), new cards that can be added to any Hero deck and an encounter set featuring Arcade.

rebel Studio – Klink
a 3-5 player fast playing card game for ages 7 and up. Takes about 20 minutes. Compare 2 cards, choose one to keep or pass, use strategy and superior game play to win.

Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Legion : Bad Batch unit pack
Includes 6 miniatures, unit and upgrade cards for the Star Wars Legion miniature game.

Deadpool Roleplays the Marvel Universe
a one shot adventure for the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game.

By Odin’s Beard RPG – Runecairn : Wardensaga
A hardbound version of Runecairn in a single volume. Core rules, introductory adventure, advanced rules and more in a colorful digest sized hardbound book.

Friendly Skeleton – Speed Colors
a fast’n’fun game for 2-6 players, ages 6 and up. Memorize the picture, color inside the lines and score points.

UVS Games – Godzilla Challenger series game.
Each deck includes 3 different Kaiju which you pit against other players in this battling game.
King Ghidorah, Rodan and Mechagodilla  are featured in the first deck
Godzilla, Mothra and Mechagodillza are featured in the second deck
Each deck also comes with a collector’s booster pack with random alt-art or foil cards to enhance your deck.

Compass Games – Burning Banners
2-6 players (ages 14 and up). This fantasy wargame has six unique factions : Orcs, Goblins, the army of the East  to dwarves, northmen and the Army of the Night. 29 different scenarios ranging from small brawls to a world spanning global conflict. Includes Basic rules, full color 1” counters, a lavish map, Advance rules, game cards and more.

Steve Jackson Games – Munchkin : Pony Excess
A new Munchkin 56 card expansion with a horse theme. Lucky horseshoes, Rocking Horses, the Centaur of Attention and much more!

Steve Jackson Games – We Love Cats
a 3 -8 player game of cat adoption. This game plays in about 15 minutes. Includes dice, cat token, carry bag and rules.

Gamers Grass – Tuft Starter Boxes
Each boxed set comes with 4 sheets of tufts, a bottle of PVA glue, a tuft tweezer and a basing guide.

Green Grass Boxed Set comes with Strong Green XL tufts, Dry Green 6mm tufts, green 4mm tufts and white flower tufts.

Dry Grass Boxed Set has Spikey Beige (12mm), Dry Tufts 6mm, Beige 4mm and tiny Beige (2mm) tufts

Alien Grass Tuft Set has Alien Blue, Tiny Alien Purple, Alien Purple and Alien Void tufts

An update before the weekend…

Fireforge Games – Armies of Islam : Black Guard
30 plastic multipart miniatures armed with spears and shields along with command figures.

Modiphius – Five Parsecs from Home Companion
Includes Trailblazers Toolkit which adds a new campaign, pvp and cooperative scenarios, elite enemies and new deployment rules. The Freelancers handbook adds two new species, equipment and scenarios. The Fixer’s Guidebook includes new injury rules, terrain tables, stealth and streetfight scenarios and faction rules. Lastly Bug Hunt adds a military themed aspect to Five Parsecs which adds aliens, cooperative campaign and more.

Modiphius – Rangers of Shadowdeep : A Gathering of Heroes
a new hardbound volume with advanced character creation, new archetypes, enchanted weapons, a bestiary, new artwork and material from previous supplements – Blood Moon, Temple of Madness, Ghost Stone, Incinerator and Menagerie.

Osprey Games – three historical miniature games
The Men Who Would be Kings : Last Samurai Rebellion

Lion Rampant : The Crusader States

Lion Rampant : Viking in the Sun

Renegade Games – Alice is Missing : Silent Falls Expansion
This expansion adds new suspects, location and events to add new experiences to your game. And… ALice is missing is back in stock too!

Exalted Funeral – Old School Essentials Adventure Anthology 1
4 different short adventures for Old School Essentials in a single book.

Exalted Funeral – Old School Essentials Adventure Anthology 2
four more short adventures for Ood School Essentials in a single book.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners : Mission Kit
R Talsorian’s new boxed set with background book, rules, a full length adventure, seven premade adventures, dice, maps, standees and tokens.

Kobold Press – Tales of the Valiant
Kobold Press’s new RPG for High Fantasy Role Playing setting.

The Player’s Guide gives you 5e compatible lineage and heritage systems, spellcasting and weapon options, downtime rules, talents & backgrounds and much more.

The Monster Vault adds 400 monsters and the Game Master Screen a 4 panel landscape screen/reference source.

Osprey – The Silver Bayonet : Egypt
Bring your Silver Bayonet game into the shifting sands. As Bonaparte rampages through Europe after conquering Egypt, special units are sent to find the ancient secrets that help his army. Venture through cities, ruins and the Pyramids themselves in a pair of campaigns – one cooperative and one competitive. New soldier types, new foes and more await you.

an overdue Midweek update

It’s time for a Mid-Week Update!
Been a bit since I’ve been able to do so – so here we are.

Third Kingdom Games – Into the Wild Omnibus Edition
380+ page hardbound book combining A Guide to Thieves’s Guilds, Filling in the Blanks and Int the Wild. Guide to Thieves Guilds explores forming and running guilds as well as ideas GMs can use to make Guilds meaningful in their games. Filling in the Blanks add tables and charts to help GMs fill in the details for sandbox and hexcrawls. Into the Wild gives guides to help run hexcrawls, domain rules,alternate classes for BX style character classes and extra flair ro help with your games.

Osprey – The Silver Bayonet : Egypt
Bring your Silver Bayonet game into the shifting sands. As Bonaparte rampages through Europe after conquering Egypt, special units are sent to find the ancient secrets that help his army. Venture through cities, ruins and the Pyramids themselves in a pair of campaigns – one cooperative and one competitive. New soldier types, new foes and more await you.

Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Recognition Guide volume 2 : Ilclan
new Inner Sphere and Clan Mechs and vehicles with new technologies, ready to take over the battlefield. Each entry has full game statistics, histories, illustration and notable pilots.

Modiphius – Solo Game Master’s Guide
a book on the ideas behind creating an immersive solo RPG experience. Includes system-neutral tips and tricks, tables and lists to help create scenarios, tips on avoiding common mistakes, examples of play to help show resolution and more.

Gray to Play brushes and accessories
A new range of synthetic brushes from the #6 round to 3/0, flat brushes, stippling brushes and more. Ergonomic wood handles, aluminum ferrules and premium nylon bristles. Also anti-spill brush wash containers, aluminum brush washers, dry palettes and individual brushes are all available right now.

Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : Adventure Class Ships
160 page, full color, hardbound book with Exploration, Merchant, Military, Passenger and Working ships as well as Aslan, Sword World and Vargr ships, and custom ships. All are 2000 tons or less, include 60 new ships and each have deck plans, full statistics as well as brief background information. From the basic Scout and Free Trader to mining ships, luxury starliners, bounty hunters, specialized traders, military ships and more.

Wizards of the Coast – Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Six classic adventures, revised for 5e D&D. Includes Beyond the Crystal Cave, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Pharaoh, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, The Lost City and When a Star Falls. Adventures can be run individually or together as a campaign to take characters from 1st to 13th level.

Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Shatterpoint : Make the Impossible Possible Squad Pack
Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren and Chopper. 3 models, unit stat cards, stance & orders

Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Shatterpoint : Stronger than Fear Squad Pack
Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger & Garazeb ‘Zeb’ Orrelios, unit stat, stance & order cards

Gigamic – Garden Getaway – 2 or 4 players, ages 4 to 7
Be the animal to escape the farmers wrath to win this race game.
TheZoneRPG.com – The Zone : Surreal play to lose horror RPG
This card based storytelling game is designed to play without a gamemaster. Zero preparation and easy to play card based storytelling. 24 characters ready to go.

Gamewright – Qwixx
a frantic dice rolling game for 2 to 5 players (ages 8 and up) which has all the players going at once. Roll, cross off totals and score.

MultiMan Publishing – ASL Action Pack #18 – Oktoberfest #18
2 maps, 14 scenarios ranging from Russian & German skirmishes in 1941 to Allies vs the Japanese, European battles through 1945 as well as American vs North Korean battle in Korea.

Multiman Publishing – Operational Matters #2 – OCS Guide Volume 2 with the game Luzon.

Gigamic – Pac Man Quoridor
The classic game of Quoridor with themed pieces allowing you to play in the classic manner or play a variant that captures the spirit of the famous Pac-Man game.

Prolific Games – Squatch & Seek
2-4 players – be a hard working logger, dodge Sasquatch and try to stay alive till morning. Ages 8 and up. Plays in around 10 minutes.

Bananagram – Worlds Smallest Bananagrams
a pocket sized game of bananagrams ready for travel and fun!
Pinnacle Entertainment – Savage Worlds : Legend of Ghost Mountain
A new setting where the dead have rebelled against living. Take on the role of Ghost Wardens, uncover the mysteries to help deal with the dead and save the empire.

Upper Deck – Legendary 2099
The world of 2099 is a different place than today. Corporate corruption rules, the old heroes are gone and the Sinister Six remain to spread their evil. Can new heroes stop them? 5 new heroes include Spiderman 2099, Ghost Rider 2099 and Doctor Doom. This expansion also adds 2 Adapting Masterminds, 2 new villain groups, 4 new schemes and rules. 100 playable cards.

Steve Jackson Games – Express : The Railroad Card Game
This card game challenges 2-6 players to create trains, disrupt rivals and work to use up all their cards. Cards are color coded so the whole family can play. Originally designed by train game aficionado Darwin Bromley the ‘Darwin’s Toys’ trademark honors his legacy of design and promotion of these games. Plays in half an hour or more depending on players.

Imagining Games – Rest in Pieces
a dark comedy roleplaying game about being roommates in a downtrodden studio apartment with… the grim reaper himself. Misadventures, cartoon logic and over the top comedy abound. Designed for ages 17 and up due to situations, it’s meant for 3 to 6 players. Includes 14 different scenarios and game cards to set up characters, scenarios and game play.

Imagining Games – Rest in Pieces Rick Fury, Game Master Deck, Great Cthuhlu decks
are you bored with hanging out with Death? Change the Grim Reaper to a Mad Scientist, Cthuhlu himself or Game Master and move in with a new roommate creating all new situations. Three new decks to pick and choose from.

Imagining Games – Instigator Deck
50 new pesky problems and exciting events to mess with your roommates.

TTRPGkids – Making a Tabletop RPG for your Particular Kid
A guide for families, friends and facilitators. A book on how to create unique settings, characters, mechanics and guidelines on adjusting your game to fit the player’s needs. Also idas on involving them in the planning, how to make a safe game environment and what to do if the kids go ‘villian mode’.

By Odin Beard – Runecairn RPG
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn Core Rules
a Norse Fantasy RPG that is rules light and designed for one player and one Warden to run the game.
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn Advanced Rules
includes two new classes, Oracle for solo play, a Delve generator along with Allies and Invasions to add to the game.
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn : Into the Nine Realms
16 self contained maps and encounters to play as one shot or add to your campaign. Suitable for standard or solo play.
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn : Beneath the Broken Sword
an introductory adventure for th Norse RPG. Designed for two, Adventurer and Warden (GM)
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn Bestiary
60 monsters, rules for creating your own creatures and for converting them from other systems.

Hit Point Press – Helianna’s Guide to Monster Hunting
a 5e Compatible sourcebook giving you 10 unique monster hunt scenarios, rules for tracking, harvesting and crafting. Eighty monsters are introduced as well as new subclasses, new races, spells, and a collection of magic items. Become a Monster Tamer. Defeat monsters and ready the grill for meals as well.