Here we are at the end of January and now… a few more items have managed to come in…

Wiz Kids Games – new Heroclix & D&D minis
Dungeons & Dragons Icons of the Realms Return of the Dragons
44 different miniature ranging from young dragons to Oorgs, drakes, wizards, half dragons and more.

Heroclix – DC Mr. Freeze Snowglobe – Mr. Freeze in a snowglobe holding his wife… in a snow globe. The Inceptionablility of this is… eye opening.

Heroclix Marvel Collectors Trove
new equipment, one shots, characters and more.

Heroclix Marvel – Collectors Trove Play at Home Kit
Nebula, Gamora, a new map and more for your Heroclix game.

Arcane Wonders – Mezen
Create ornamental paintings, fulfil orders and earn the most points by the 10th round. 1-5 players, ages 12 and up. Plays in around 45 minutes

Monte Cooks – Land of the Diamond Throne
A new RPG setting with background, source material GM tips and much more. 2 hardbound volumes full of information and gameplay.

Bright Eye Games – Tokkuri Taing
a card game of sake loving dinosaurs. 2-4 players, 15 minutes. Ages 14 and up.

Arcane Wonders – Ito
a cooperative party game taking thoughts and ideas and ordering them through play.
ages 8 and up. 2 to 10 players. Plays in around 15 minutes

Good Games Publishing – Curses and Covens
a one vs all game of deception and magic as you conspire against the witch hunter. Ages 10 and up. 4 to 6 players, playing in about 20 minutes.

Bright Eye Games – Sumo
a 2 playr trick taking card game based on… Sumo. Each battle can be played quickly, use the Banzkue rules at play a tournament. Ages 10 and up. 2 players, about 5 minutes.

Maestro Media – The Smurfs : Hidden Village
1-5 players work to rebuild the village and foil Gargamel’s evil plans. Beware Azrael, gather resources, build inventions and keep the Smurfs safe.

Arkus Games – Storm Raiders
1-4 players, ages 14 and up. Become a Storm Raider, find wrecks, fulfil contracts, gain crew and upgrade your vehicles as you skirt the storms and try to keep ahead of the opposition. dice drafting, resource management, pick up and deliver and more make the game interesting. Includes a solo mode. Plays in an hour or more depending on players.

Dystopian Games – Dead Mall
a game of urban exploration gone wrong.

Carcass Crawler # 4 the Official Old-School Essentials zine
deities and cults, terrors of the dark, creating strange brews, the arcane bard and halfling classes new spells, grimoires and even more monsters are all featured in this issue.

Exalted Funeral – Settlers of the dead god
a setting where the world is set upon the body of the dead god. Sprung from it’s corpse are races of insectoids whose tribes have explored and mapped their world – discovering the truth of their lands… 80+ hardbound digest sized pages.

Exalted Funeral – Arkos – for Trokia
Arkos os the city founded by the five gods of Law. But now a rift has formed and the gods have turned upon each other for conspiring with chaos. Arkos is unsettled as goss are missing, neighbor looks upon neighbor unknowing of their intentions and Arkos is now rpie for the taking. A Setting, Campaign and Adventure.

Exalted Funeral – Intermediary Mund
a combined DCC/OSE adventure set in a weird universe. Each short encounter has a creature/NPC and background for you to use in your game

Dungeon Damsel Creations – Unnatural Selection for Shadowdark RPG
Unnatural Selection is 120+ pages with rules for all new elements, 6 New Ancestries, 4 New Classes, 70 familiar and brand new spells, 65+ New Monsters, Animals, and Underworld Oddities, Backgrounds from the Underworld and Nature, Nature Spirits & Death Pantheon, New Support Spell Type, New Carousing, New Mishaps, New Treasure and Magic Items
Zero Level Gauntlet and Campaign Setting and Incredible hand drawn black-and-white art.

Unnatural Selection Dice Bags – in black or limited edition burgundy.

Shadowdark dice – in black with silver ink and skulls – it’s very Shadow Darky.

Unsettled… we’ve got a restock of the game and tons of expansions. If you missed this before – we’ve got it back in.

It’s a warm, windy and wet Saturday and we’ve got another update.
It’s not quite as exacting as prior updates, but here is a little background and a few pictures to show you what has arrived… And we will have more about it – soon.

Pegasus Spiele – Mini Crimes
4 different cases which challenge you to solve a crime with the small stash of clues presented. Play alone or enlist the aid of others. Each set includes a crime scene card, cover card and 10 clue cards. Designed for age 14 and up. Plays in around half an hour. four different cases, The Drowned King, Game Over, Family Matters and Trick or Treat.

StillFleet Studio – The Danse Macabre
A medieval horror Old School Rules role playing game. In the twilight of the 14th Century death is not final. Those who die can be revived – but each time the spirit and the flesh are mutated. Uses the highly adaptable GRIT system to bring your gritty historical fantasy. Brutal combat, religion-political intrigue and more.

Catalyst Game Labs – Shadowrun Lethal Harvest
A Shadowrun, Sixth World adventure were metahuman and monster square off in a fight for the future of the Sixth World. Disians threaten to steal the life-giving energies and those who are in the know must fight to stop them. Explore a plotline in this endgame scenario.

Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Ilkhan’s Eyes Only
a sourcebook detailing the events around Terra, the former Fortress Republic and the coreward regions of the Capellan Confederation from 3151 to mid 3152. Includes a full summary of events, personalities and units of key players along with game information and a glossy campaign map.

Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech : Mercenaries
Includes a dozen fully assembled miniatures, Battlemechs and vehicles, rules, maps, dice and reference sheets. Also includes Alpha Strike cards, worksheets and lots of source material.

It’s a chilly Tuesday and even more items have made it into the store – so if you manage to get out this way…
DM Dave – Just Passing Through Temples & Religious Sites
Each of the 20 entires have detailed maps, NPCs, adventure hooks and a variety of services. 90+ pages of information.

Arcane Library – ShadowDark hard cover books are back in stock!

Exalted Funeral – Owlmanac
a guide to fur & feathers in the Shadowdark RPG. ShadOwl Dark, ShadowPork, ShadowBark and ShadowDuck. Anthropomorphic races and classes for Shadowdark RPG, magic, potions and much more.

Exalted Funeral – Old-School Essentials : Advanced Fantasy Treasures
150 different weird and wondrous items inspired by the 1970s Advanced Rules. Ioun stones, deck of many thinks, weapons, swords, rods, staves, wands, apparatus of the crab and more. Random tables, descriptions, illustrations and more.

Knave second edition is here as well as Rakehell, an ezine in print format for Knave with scads of information, a sandbox setting and scads of tables.

Draco Ideas – 2GM Tactics
2GM Tactics is a full-fledged strategy card war-game where units are represented by cards and you’ll be in command of your army. Lead Patton or Rommel to victory with 2 game modes, full color cards, scenario cards and more. 1 to 4 players, ages 12 and up. Plays in around half an hour.

Compass Games – Grant : The Western Campaign
This game puts you in charge of the Shiloh campaign using point to point movement and chit based sequence of play to keep the action fluid. Designed for 2 players but easily played solitaire, scenarios range from a couple to six hours, with historical and hypothetical scenarios as well as two introductory scenarios.

Compass Games – Dog Boats : Battle of the Narrow Seas
a solitaire, tactical narrative driven wargame leading a Royal Navy gun/torpedo boats on missions against the Kreigsmarine forces in and around the English Channel during 1943-44. Each mission plays in about half an hour. Campaigns duration can be chosen from a few months to a year. Can you make the difference in then war?

Exploding Kittens – Zombie Burrito
a dodgeball card game where survivors team up against zombies. 3-6 players (ages 7+) gather cards, throw foam burritos and try to win three battle to succeed in the game. Plays in around 15 minutes.

Rio Grande Games – Moon Colony Bloodbath
1-5 players (ages 14 and up) compete in this engine building card game where you work to keep your colony working, avoiding bad events and building up your settlement. Game goes until a player has lost all the colonists in his settlement. Plays in about 45 minutes.

Rio Grande Games – Aldebaran Duel
1-2 players lead fleets trying to conquer and dominate the planetary system. Discover planets, colonize, build ships and gain superiority within three epochs. Plays in 60 to 90 minutes. Ages 14+

Moon – Pick & Pass building game for 1-5 players.
Construct your lunar base and try to become the lunar capital. Ages 14+, plays in under an hour.

Rio Grande – Resafa
1-4 player game of trade and survival. Journey merchant routes, trade, build canals, workshops and gardens. Every choice balances gain and survival. 1-4 players, ages 14+. Plays in 1 to 2 hours.

APE Games – Chaos Cove
Barbarians and Pirates are attacking and you must work together to repulse them… but work for yourself to make the strongest during the fight and the best party giver after victory is won. Ages 14 and up. 2-4 players, game taking about 2 hours.

Artipia Games – Ceres
A worker placement game taking place on the dwarf planet of Ceres 1-4 players try to establish the most prosperous corporation within the three years given. This worker placement game takes about 90 m minutes to 2 hours.

Phase Shift Games – Obelus
2 players (ages 8 and up) face off in this abstract strategy game. Plays in about 15 minutes.

Looney Labs – Jinxx
2 players (ages 8 and up) jockey for position in a small grid. Work to get three in a row on the topmost pieces to win. Plays in about 15 minutes. Includes a second game (Hijinks) and acts as an expansion for Pyramid.

Archduke – 2-6 players (ages 12 and up) challenges players to travel the day through distant sand dunes and uncharted seas. Use quick thinking, memory and sabotage to be the first to finish their journey to the Archduke. Plays in 15 to 30 minutes depending on players.

Repos Productions – For a Crown
This game combines trickery, betrayal and good timing. At war for as long as you can remember, the families have decided to unite under a single leader. Who will it be? Work through the competitions to claim the throne. 3-5 pliers, ages 8 and up. Plays in about 30 minutes. Recruit mercenaries, reveal ards and apply effects and try to keep hold of your rubies.

2 Tomatoes – Gold Nugget
a unique twist in the bluffing genre where 2-5 players compete to find, secure and even steal the gold nugget from the Raven’s Nest. Each creature has a unique power, as well of a time of day they sleep, making it harder to keep track of the Nugget. Plays in about 20 minutes.Ages 10 and up.

Rich here on a dark and snowy Friday night showing off the new stuff for this week…

GMT Games – Wargames According to Mark
An Historians view of game design. A no holds barred dive into the mind of the game designer Mark Hermann. It’s looking at the situation as a historian, designer and game player and making all those different aspects and making them work together. 350+ pages with lots of information, ideas and background.

Multiman Publishing – ASL Journal #15
ASL Journal 15 is a 36-page magazine for Advanced Squad Leader and features articles, the latest errata and scenario updates in the Debriefing, 11 new scenarios printed on cardstock, and three overlay sheets (to replace the versions with no center dots that came in DOOMED BATTALIONS 4th edition) as well as 9 different articles on a number of topics.

Horrible Guild – Wilderfeast : You are What You Eat
(Collector’s Edition)
Includes the core rulebook, Collector’s Box, Wilderfeast core book, Adventurer’s Cookbook, The One Land map, Journal pack, Custom Dice Set (5xd6, 1xd8, 1xd20), Dice Bag, Combat Tracker, Event Timer, The Hunt – Monster Reference deck, The Trail – Area Reference deck, Technique and Condition, Reference deck, Guide screen

Horrible Guild – Wilderfeast : You are what You Eat (hardbound book)
a post apocalyptic supercontinent where food is magic. A vast world populated by kaiju like monsters inspired by paleontology & cryptozoology. You play as a Wilder – an outcast ranger who eats these beasts and gains powers. Part chef, part monster hunter they seek to be the force that keeps these monsters from destroying civilization. Includes the rules you need to create characters and play, monsters, encounters, an in game travel guide, GM notes and a four chapter adventure to use as a campaign start or stand alone mini adventure.

Gigamic – Zoomino
2/4 players (ages 4-7) work to create animals, take photos of real world animals you assemble. Plays in under 15 minutes.
Ares Games – War of the Ring Card Game Expansion – Fire and Swords
This expansion adds new battlegrounds, new factions and characters as well as a new location type to add new challenges and up to 6 total players in the game.

Archon Games – Small Samurai Empires
Players take on the role of Daimyo and attempt to capture as many provinces as possible to become Emperor of Japan. 2-4 players, Ages 13 and up. Plays in around 45 minutes. Give or take based on players.

Archon Games – Small Samurai Empires : Rise of Tokugawa
Add a fifth player to the action – or play solo with the mechanics in the new expansion.

AK Interactive – Starship (Scifi Vehicles) Techniques
Tips and Tricks on painting, weathering, masking, airbrushing, patterns and more.

CMON – Metal Gear Solid the Board Game
1-4 players work to infiltrate Shadow Moses, take down the terrorists and stop the nuclear launch. Includes a 14 mission campaign, each mission taking an hour to hour and a half to play. Includes figures, cardboard boxes, terrain tiles, cards, tokens, rules and more.

Pazio new items :
Pathfinder Flipmat : Fungal Forest
double sided, full color laminated 24×30 swamp and fungal forest maps

Starfinder Flipmat : Space Station
Double sided full color interior map for a couple of different Space Station areas. Docking bay, mess hall, cargo hold, etc. All laminated and ready to go.

Pathfinder2e – Spore War : Whispers in the Dirt
This new adventure path is designed for 11th-13th level characters, ready to opposed the demon Treerazor in his conquest of the Elven realm of Kyonin. Can you stand against the demon armies and foil his plan?

Pathfinder 2e – War of the Immortals (Pocket Book)
new classes, rules, abilities and more for characters who have reached mythic proportions of power.

Renegade Games – Geologist Primer
A guide to real world metals, magical properties. Mythology, folklore and crystal magic meet science and the occult. A guide for miners, collectors, alchemists, magicians, as well as s system agnostic toolkit for game masters with tips for including gems in your game worlds

CMON – Nyakuza
2-4 players (ages 10 and up) where you attempt to establish a fishing empire, open seafood stalls, get the ships to sea and be the top cat of Oki-Yo Bay . Plays in about 45 minutes.

CMON – Ethnos 2nd edition
1-6 players compete to become the next Emperor of Ethons. Recruit Allies, send out parties, gain prestige and become Emperor.

CMON – Nova Era
Become a Ruler and develop your Civilization dodging disasters, dark ages, other civilizations attempts to thwart your growth, civil unrest and other hazards. Expand your territories, enlist the help of famous personalities, research new technologies and rise up from your barbarous roots. Ages 12 and up. 2-4 players, plays in around an hour.

Atlas Games – Guide to Dream Travel
This bed time story generator can help parents craft a story worthy of fantastic dreams. Prompts, random tables and full color illustrations.

Come Here! – City Explorer Kyoto
a card game taking you around the city of Kyoto in Japan. Plan your vacation, decide if you want to visit locations in depth and score points based on your trip. Includes 35 location cards, starting player card and rule book.

Come Here! – City Explorer Tainan
a card game taking you around the city of Tainan in Japan. Plan your vacation, decide if you want to visit locations in depth and score points based on your trip. Includes 35 location cards, starting player card and rule book.

Well, it happens to be Wednesday and we happened to get our UK miniature magazines. So… here we are.

Miniature Gaming Magazines :
Wargames Illustrated #445 – Boats, Building and Bases. Painting and Modeling Projects. Features Age of Chivalry for SAGA (a new universe), Carlist War action, Airfix highland Infantry models, Bronze Age scenery, new releases, Silver Bayonet in Canada, Never Mind the Matchlocks, Beorn’s House, making Galleys and more.

Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy #133 – Death or Glory : Charging into Combat.
Seleucids stomp Ptolemics, Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Bouvines, Panzers at Prokhorovka, playing Midgard, painting Epic Hail Caesar Romans, reviews, how to use Warlord Games ruins to create awesome scenery, battle reports, game ideas and more.

Miniature Wargames #501 – A Jumble of features in this issue.
How to scratch build Star War terrain with found items, three Wild West scenarios, a First Age battle using the new Midgard rules, how to paint Wargames Atlantic Sneakfeet miniatures (and a sprue of them too), figure and rules reviews and more.

Miniature Wargames #500 – Werwolves!
there is a lot more to the magazine than that, but more importantly, if you picked up a copy from us, come back in and ask us for your Werewolf sprue. The issue shipped without, but we have them now.

Squidmar Paint Sets :
Squidmar Miniatures and Vallejo paints – could there be a better combination? We don’t think there is and are very pleased to announce that Emil and Lukas have carefully curated three paint sets from the new Vallejo range.

These sets include paints that Squidmar studio frequently uses in their videos, helping hobbyists replicate techniques, styles, and color schemes. Ideal for both beginners and experienced painters!

Fantasy Paint Set has a dozen colors and an Orc/Goblin witch miniature.

Essential Set has a dozen colors and a Dwarf character

Dark Future Set comes with a dozen paints and a female elven spear armed warrior

It’s Rich with our first Weekly Round Up of 2025!

Shipping has finally caught up (mostly) with our orders – so here is a quick update with a number of the fine bits of merchandise that has come in.

Osprey Publishing – new books :
Air Campaign #51 – South Atlantic 1982 (Carrier campaign in the Falklands War)

Campaign #411 – Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket 1944 (Encirclement of Hube’s 1st Panzer)

Combat Aircraft #155 – Me262 Units in Combat

Elite #258 – Gladiators 1st-5th Centuries AD

Elite #259 – The Athenian Army 507-322 BC

New Vanguard #335 – Soviet Tanks at Kursk 1943

The Men at Arms #560 – Ground Forces in the Korean War North Korean & Chinese Volunteers.

Osprey Games – Silver Bayonet : Italy Shades of Calabria expansion (back in stock)

Wizards with Laser Rifles – The Spike of Dosku (for DCC)
This setting is DCC compatible and includes three unique classes, a 0 level funnel adventure, an introduction to a campaign adventure arc and original monsters as well. Designed as a 0 level funnel adventure the characters are set in Silam, a nation wacked by civil war. A brief history of the world is provided along with an overland map and enough information to run your own campaign.

Mongoose Press – ‘This is the Free Trader Beowulf’ A System history of Traveller …and more. From Travellers release in the 70s to its first fall, rebirth and current status..Learn about all the third party supplements, GDW, Megatraveller, Traveller the New Era, T4, T5 and much, much more.

Goodman Games – How to write adventure modules that don’t suck
The title says it all. Drawing on 15+ years of adventure design, this book provides advice, tips and ideas on how to go about putting together good adventures.150+ pages of material.

Metis Creative – Historica Arcanum (back in stock!)
Era of the Crusades – a setting guide for 5e recreating the Crusades in a fantasy bend. Includes Cario and Jeruseleum in all it’s glory, unique subclasses, Deck of the Damned artifact, Knightly Orders, a Grand Bestiary and more.

The Sigil of Jerusalem – a stand alone adventure module set in the Crusades Era with branching narrative paths, massive dungeons, in depth character creation and more.

Rock Manor Games – Set a Watch : Forsaken Isles – Set a Watch expansion set and

Rock Manor Games – Set a Watch : Doomed Run
an expansion for Set a Watch wi=hich takes the game in it’s entirety and creates a replayable campaign.

Goodman Games – DCC The Purple Planet : Tome of Adventure #4
includes 7 adventures, new monsters, relics, tombs, magic, NPCs and more.

Goodman Games – Tome of Adventure Volume 3 – Lankhmar
seven different adventures, a Dozen Lankhmar Locations supplement, Patron information and more in a single hardbound volume.

Space Cowboys – Inori
Villages are built under the Sacred Tree, coexisting with the benevolent (yet jealous) Spirits. Make offering to the Spirits, try to gain favor and make your village thrive and attempt to become the Keeper of the Sacred Tree. 2-4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in under and hour.

Tin Robot Games – Bunny Drops
A Fliperoo & Bunny Poo game. Players race to feed their furry friends while trying to avoid leftover food and unswept droppings. Try to satisfy your furry friends unique dietary needs, keep the playfield clean and be the ultimate bunny caretaker.2-6 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in as little as 15 minutes to a hour depending on players.

Pill Box Games – Side Effects – 2-8 players, ages 14 and up.

Critical Kit – two 5e one shot adventures
High Stakes (an airborne heist) and City of a Hundred Ships (seafaring political intrigue)

each adventure provides adventure ideas and everything you need to run them. Background, adventure hooks, NPCs and more – in a concise format.

Swordfish Islands – Knave 2nd edition
A comprehensive toolkit for GMs with a flexible classless ruleset, a game that allows schemes, strategies and adventure seeking as well as OSR adventure gaming.

Melsonian Arts Council – Whalgr Avaak’s Warehouse : an adventure for Troika!
The cruel Logistics Wizard is dead. But his warehouse holds many secrets, oozing with adventure and soaked in danger, this book brings you to the rotten roots of British Fantasy Gaming.

Exalted Funeral – Owlmanac
a guide to fur & feathers in the Shadowdark RPG. ShadOwl Dark, ShadowPork, ShadowBark and ShadowDuck. Anthropomorphic races and classes for Shadowdark RPG, magic, potions and much more.

Exalted Funeral – Ballad of Oraed
a fantasy world for Old School Essentials with over 230 pages of information and tons of art. Nine different chapters allow you to explore Oraed, a bestiary provides bunches of foes, a detailed atlas provides information about the geography, detailed illustrations help visualize the denizens. Travel to visit the ever elusive Snake Elves, track down the Wish Wyrm to gain a boon, beware the lands vampires rule, giants and dragons run rampant and gaze in awe at fossils the size of mountains.