Its an end of week roundup… a little closer to the weekend and a little less verbose.
But It’ll give you an idea of what else has hit the shelves until we get a chance to be more providing of the exposition.
Modiphius – Star Trek Adventures Role Playing Game 2nd edition a complete and updated version of the 2d20 system game. Guidelines for gamemasters, new and experienced, game statistics and graphics for 15 different starship classes, bunches of NPCs, 14 different player character species and bunches of background.
Modiphius – Star Trek Adventures RPG Toolkit a 4 panel full color screen, a map of the galaxy, 8 double sided reference sheets and a 40 page reference book with additional game master guidelines, advice and templates to build missions and ships from.
Stronghold Games – Terraforming Mars Automa a new solo game experience with other corporations run by algorithms. If you want additional challenges special cards can be added.
Stronghold Games – Terraforming Mars : Amazonis & Vastitas two new maps adding Amazonis Planitia and Vastitas Borealis. Includes extra tiles, new milestones and awards. Add to your Terraforming Mars today!
Renegade Games – My Little Pony Scholarly Shenanigans A new expansion for the MLP Deck Building game. Almanacs and Anthems add to the game while Twilight Sparkle’s School of Friendship adds even more to the game. 6 Character cards,Locations, character standees, The Principal’s Office, tokens, new Adventures, Situations, Classrooms and more. for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in around and hour to an hour and a half.
…and more items that just haven’t been explained… but they are in the picture!
It’s the Friday Night RoundUp! Normally rife with wit and exposition – not tonight. Too much to do and no time to do it in…
Modiphius – Five Parsecs Tactics A new hardbound book with new game modes, vehicles combat, troops, characters, creatures and much more. Includes solo game play, head to head battles, one off pick up battles, campaign game ideas and much more.
Game Force Nine – new Epic Scale Sci-Fi buildings 5 different building sets, all pre-painted and ready to go.
Cubicle Seven – Wrath & Glory : Aeldari – Inheritance of Embers History of the Aeldari, new Archtypes, Equipment, Armor and Weapons, NPCs and more. Includes ideas on running an Aeldari focused game too.
Cubicle Seven – Redacted Records Volume II Rules for creating ancient items of power, 8 new archetypes, sacred shrines across the Gilead System, patrons and expanded Ascension packages. All in a handy hardbound 90+ page book
Cubicle Seven – Tribes and Tribulations a tome detailing the Goblinoid races – from the Stone Snake savage orc boyz to the Broken Nose tribe of Goblins and Matthogg’s Paysword mercenary Ogres along with Trolls of all sort. Tribes, magic, NPCs and much more. 110 full color pages of information.
Arkus Games – Dreadful Meadows 1-4 player (ages 13 and up) boardgame taking about 45 minutes to play. Create your Candy Crop by sowing sweet seeds, creating various concoctions by mixing your ingredients and work to become the sensation of the season.
Arkus Games – Dreadful Meadows : Trick or Treats 3 expansions to add to your Dreadful Meadows game as well as a tile tower to keep and dispense tiles for the game.
Wizkids Games – Nolzurs miniatures – 25 new miniatures from D&D, Pathfinder & Critical Role Dungeons & Dragons : Sea Elf Leader, Dragon Army Soldier, Ansalon Human Bard, Ansalon Human Rouge, Tiefling Skeleton, Lizardfolk skeleton, Sea Lion (large), Crab Folk (large), Hippogriff (large), Marut (large) Giant Space Hamster, Giant FireGaunt, Giant Spectral Cloud.
Pathfinder : Male & Female Cutpurses, Male & Female Roadwardens, low-level halfling magus, high level dwarf champion
Critical Role : Ashton Greymoore, Chetney Pock O’Pea & Werewolf, Fearne Calloway & Mister, Dorian Storm, Imogen Temult,Orym of the Air Ashari & fresh cut grass
Pathfinder Battles Adult Underworld Dragon – both painted and ‘deep cuts’ unpainted available
Dungeons & Dragons Icon of the Realms : Gargantuan Bahamut and Red Ghost Dragon
Space Cowboys – Crossing the Woods Ages 5 a nd up. 2 to 5 players – draw a card, place it facedown in one section of the track and then, after all the sections are filled – move Squirrely to try to get home. Plays in about 20 minutes.
Starling Games – Everdell Far Shore : Wooden Lighthouse Replaces the cardboard lighthouse with painted wood. All sales benefit Toys for Tots.
Warlord Games – Bolt Action 3rd edition rulebooks are back in stock again! Stronghold Games – Terraforming Mars : Prelude 2 Stronghold Games – Terraforming Mars : Milestones & Awards punchboards
Modiphius – Fallout Miniatures : Survivors Foundation Authority
Renegade Games – Vampire the Masquerade : Discipline Deck 145 power cards, 38 sorcery ritual cards, 9 oblivion ceremony cards, 21 thin blood alchemy cards, 6 reference cards
Smirk & Dagger – Boop the Halls! It’s Boop! but with Christmas Trees, Ornaments and Booping chaos. 2 players and up to half an hour. Ages 10 and up.
Renegade Games – Vegas Showdown 3-5 players try to build and manage luxury hotel & casinos. Can you create the most popular and own the whole block? Ages 14 and up – plays in about an hour and a half.
Stonemaier Games – Stamp Swap 1-5 players try to create the best stamp display and try to gain the most renown in several shows. Plays in 20 minutes to an hour. Ages 14 and up.
Days of Wonder – Ticket to Ride Deluxe Train Set 5 different train color sets with extra details, 45 train cars, 3 standard stations and a scoring marker. Red, Yellow, Blue, Green and Black versions available.
The Last Caravan RPG – Cars & Aliens collide (har, har) in this RPG of a midwinter roadtrip in the wake of an alien invasion. out run aliens, search abandoned towns, discover technology and fight for your future. Cantrip – an RPG about young witches and their adventures.
Last Pine Press – Bump in the Dark Players are hunters in the dark – people who dedicated their lives to hunting and taking out monsters that threaten your little mining community in the world of 1944. A full RPG with setting guide, running full campaigns and more.
Black Armada – Last Fleet as the last of Humanity flee from the Corax players take on the role of Humanities warriors. Fight space battles, navigate your escape points, find infiltrators, keep everyone safe and sane. Full rules, setting a dozen character playbooks, 2 quick starter scenarios and more. Soulmuppet Publishing – Here There be Monsters. Hunt monsters, punch nazis, protect each other, fight back and be monsters.
Bite Marks – the RPG for 3-5 players of werewolf pack dynamics.
Monte Cook Games – Cypher System Old Gods of Appalachia RPG Player’s Guide.
Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : The Deep and the Dark Two sectors that interface Human and Aslan Space are detailed here. Reaver’s Deep lies on the edge of the Great Rift – the Third Imperium and Solomani space adjacent to Aslan space with lots of independent worlds between them. The Dark Nebula sector has the jumpspace phenomenon of the Celella Nebula and much of Aslan space as well as Kusyu, the homeworld of the Aslan. Aside from a hefty hardbound book, there is also a double sided poster map of both sectors.
We are finally done cleaning up the remains of the Fall Auction (from in the game room). Still finalizing some other Auction stuff – but we are working away at that.
Subsequently, for those who have an interest – the October post for Miniatures Monday is up too.
Friday Night Roundup! So as much as the Auction Weekend is upon us – we still are getting new items in.
Don’t Forget – Saturday (10/5) is the Board Game Auction Doors Open at 9am, Auction Starts at 10am
Sunday is the Miniatures Auction Doors Open at 8:30, Historical Items start at 9:30am, Everything remaining starts around 11:30 am Repos – The Lord of the Rings Duel 2 players, ages 10 and up. Play as Sauron or the Fellowship and determine the Fate of Middle Earth. There are three immediate ways to win, so pay attention to your foe and lead your side to victory.
Reaper USA Legends – ReaperCon 2024 Mouslings (2) – Skeleton Guardians II (4) and ReaperCon 2024 Sophie
Monolith – Tower Up! 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in 30 to 45 minutes. Players compete in urban construction and planning.
Happy Blue – Pentris play tiles, fill rows and score. Gain the best score in three rounds to win. 2-4 players, age and up. Plays in half and hour or so.
Fantasy Flight Games Living Card Game – Return of the King Saga Pack Includes new player packs, recreate the novel and conclude the classic trilogy.
Sorry We are French – In the Footsteps of Marie Curie 2-4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in around half an hour, forty five minutes. Play as young scientists assisting Madame Curie’s research. Discover radium, conduct experiments and try to win the Nobel Prize.
Alderac Entertainment – Under Grove 1 to 4 players try to create Symbiotic connections with the forest around them. Place seedlings, trade mushrooms and create a shared, diverse forest.
Mayfair Games – Celtae 1 to 4 players lead Celtic Tribes in an attempt to repel Roman invaders. Build Citadels, set traps and create Druids to help your people. Ages 14 and up.
Pinfinity – Dungeons & Dragons AR-Enhanced Pins Color enameled pins with an Augmented Reality compatible app. Each based on a different classic D&D character.
So, most importantly For those coming to the auction parking might be… tight. But you have some options :
In case you did not know, the parking lot directly behind the store is open for anyone to park after 6pm Monday to Friday and all day on Saturday and Sunday.
If you still have no luck finding somewhere to place your automobile, there is the WEST COMMUTER PARKING LOT on the other side (the north side for you compass direction folks) of the railroad tracks from Games Plus. Just keep in mind the West Lot has a Farmer’s Market going on Sunday morning and early afternoon.
Then, on to the Auction itself : Friday Night (10/4) – Role Playing Games Its all RPG related items. Rules, modules, magazines, accessories, sourcebooks and more. Doors open at 5:30pm to preview the items, the auction begins at 6:30pm and goes till, well, everything goes.
Saturday (10/5) – Boardgames The doors open at 9:00am to preview the vast horde of games and accessories – the auctioning begins at 10:00am. What’s going? Boardgames, expansions, supplements, accessories and magazines for everything Euro, Family or other table top boardgaming. Catan, Pandemic, Tsuro, Carcassonne, Scythe, Wingspan… If it’s a boardgame that isn’t specifically about military actions – it goes up today.
Sunday (10/6) – Miniatures Auction The final day of the auction week is devoted to miniatures, miniatures games, expansions, magazines, supplements, paints, tools, terrain and all those things you need to be part of the Miniature Gaming Hobby. This one works a little different than the rest. The doors open for previews at the crack of dawn (well, 8:30am, but it feels like it) and auction action begins at 9:30am.Historical items are the focus for the first two hours (until about 11:30) then we switch to a mix of all the different miniature gaming genre. Warhammer, Warmachine, Flames of War, Team Yankee, Reaper, GHQ, CinC, Ral Partha, Grenadier – all those and many more.
There you go! A quick recap of the rest of the Auction Weekend. See you there. -Rich
Hey there friends, fans and followers. It’s an early Auction, Mid-Week Round up.
The Historical / Conflict Games Auction is in full swing. The Role Playing Games Auction begins tomorrow at 6:30.
Otherwise, manufactures have released a number of new items that we have gotten in so far this week.
Atomic Mass Games – New Marvel Crisis Protocol Minis Apocalypse , Rejuvenation Chamber, Dark Future Scatter Terrain and Shrine to En Sabah Nur
Exalted Funeral Outcast Silver Raiders an occult medieval RPG with an old school feel and mechanics. Includes 64 page Players Guide, 144 page Referee Manual, 320 page setting book and 12 x 18 double sided hex map. Everything you need to start a new style of game.
Multiman Publishing : Thunder of the Mississippi : Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign April-July 1863. A new Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series game.
Road to Rangoon – ASL Action Pack 19
ASL Arnhem 2024 – 4 ASL Tourney scenarios
Battle Systems UK : Maladum – fantasy board/miniature game of dungeon delving and quests. Designed for 1-4 players it comes with high quality plastic miniatures, rules, mat and 3d card terrain, dice, bards, cards and more. Lead your band of adventurers in a dark dungeon, defeating enemies and getting back to safety after completing your objectives.
There are expansions with new missions, new terrain, more foes and lots more action.
25th Century Games – Hamster Roll a dexterity and a balance game for 2-4 players.
Monte Cook – Adventures in the Cypher System 6 different adventures set in different time periods for the base system, The Strange and Numenera. 125+ pages.
Monte Cook – Cypher System Starter Set Introductory Base set with 10 pregenerated characters, 2 adventures, full Cypher system rules, cards & props to help and character generation rules if you want to do your own.
Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Universe 250+ pages giving you a ‘readers digest’ version of the history of Battletech. From the Inner Sphere to the Periphery and the Clans – it’s all here. From cloak & dagger actions to battlefield clashes – the lore is all here.
Legion Wargames – A Glorious Chance Naval Struggle for Lake Ontario in the War of 1812. A solitaire wargame places you in the role of a Naval Commander, either for the US or Great Britain trying to control Lake Ontario for your country. For ages 14 and up.
Indie RPGs – We have a whole bunch. Border Riding, Dungeon Malarky, Knives Out, Forsaken and more.
Roguse Khan – 30 Days of Mork Borg 5 different adventure chapbooks, each a setting and information to entertain.
Osprey Games – Flip 7 3 or more players (ages 8 and up) compete in this press your luck card game. Plays in around 20 minutes. flip cards and try not to duplicate numbers. Use special cards to gain reprives and stop others from playing further.
25th Century Dracula vs Van Helsing 2 players (one as Dracula, one as Van Helsing) take to the streets of Whitby England. One tries to save the population, the other tries to create vampire to do his bidding,
25th Century – Tasso Banana 2-6 players take turns stacking their bananas trying not to stack on leaves but yet being the fist to lose all their bananas. Ages 8 and up. Plays in around 15 minutes.
Crosscut Games – Transmissions 1 to 4 players – ages 10 and up. Players share robot workers collecting engrams and electricity. Collect items, build pipes, gather birds and butterflies to create a better world. Plays in about an hour.
Warlord Games – Bolt Action 3rd edition rulebook is in. Bolt Action Battle of the Bulge starter (2 armies and a rulebook) and the US and German winter Infantry boxes are in too.
Reaper Miniatures – new Pokey Tools are here! Cat Dragon pewter topped pokey tool, ReaperCon 23 curled dragon pewter top pokey tool, Halloween (Ghoulish pumpkin) resin top pokey tool, mini Owlbear pewter top pokey tool as well as the Skull & Crossbones pokey tool are here.
New Dungeon Dweller miniature – 7137 Baldon, Dwarf Hero
The Game Room will be CLOSED until next week, probably Tuesday.
There is NO gaming until late Monday at the earliest – as the room will be hosting the Auction. It’s being set up now, will be hosting the Auction through the rest of the week and then Monday we will be trying to get all the returns sorted and accounted for… So it’s gonna be in a state of flux till then.
That said the Auction dates & times : Tradable/Collectible Items Auction Wednesday Night (doors open at 6pm, Auction at 7pm) Magic the Gathering, Pokemin, Legend of the Five Rings, Lord of the Rings, Pirates Constructable Card Game and many others along with Accessories
Historical & Conflict Game Auction Thursday Night (doors open at 6pm, Auction starts at 7pm) Historical Games from Avalon Hill, SPI, GMT, Compass and many other manufacturers, Conflict based games from varying manufacturers, magazines, expansion modues and more.
Role Playing Game Night Friday Night (doors open at 5:30, Auction starts at 6:30pm) All sorts of Role playing Games, modules, sourcebooks and accessories from a myriad of manufacturers
Boardgame Auction Day Saturday doors open at 9am – Auction starts at 10am Euro and Family style boardgames from a wide variety of manufacturers, expansions, accessories and more.
Miniatures Day Action Sunday doors open at 8:30am Historical Miniatures items begin at 9:30am Variety of items (including any remaining historicals) begins at 11am
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