Hello everyone.
We will be CLOSED on Friday, July 4th.
Mount Prospect will be having it’s Downtown Parade and Celebration and the street is closed down for most of the day. So feel free to come on in, see the parade, enjoy the Carnival and see Mount Prospect.
We will be OPEN our Normal Hours on Saturday July 5th.
Have fun, enjoy the fireworks and see you all then.
The Friday Night Round Up.
It’s late Friday night and we’ve got a few more items to tell you about…
Wizards of the Coast – Dragon Delves Adventure Anthology
10 dragon centered adventures, 10 distinct dungeons, 10 unique art styles, designed for levels 1-12 with a quick start guide for DMs. 190+ pages of adventure, new magic, history of different dragon types and more.
Van Ryder Games – Dark Quarter
a cooperative digital hybrid game that tells a rich, dynamic story through a multi-scenario campaign. Players choices in the scenarios effect not only the characters, but the narrative itself. Set in New Orleans, the modern world clashes with the ancient as traditions, reality and the supernatural are woven together. Designed for 1-4 players, ages 18 and up. Plays in over 2 hours.
Sorry We are French – Shackleton Base
1-4 players attempt to create a base on the Shackleton crater on the moon. They work together to expand the base, but each try to forward the agenda of their corporate sponsors as well. Build structures, fund projects and appease the corporations to gain the most pints to win.
Enhance – Potion Light
A large potion bottle shaped light with swirling pearlescent liquid, under lit to provide a mystic atmosphere.
Lookout Games – Nusfjord Big Box
This Big Box variant comes with the basic Nusfjord game, two previously published expansion deck (Salmon and Plaice) and two brand new ones (Trout and Besokende). 1-5 players compete as fishing companies, expand your fleet, develop the village, influence the city council and be the most successful. Ages 12 and up. Plays in around 20 minutes per person.
Hey there everyone.
Rich here with an almost end-of-the-week week round up.
A few more items have snuck in and given we have a minute or two… here they are.
Steve Jackson Games – Munchkin BIG Box : Collector’s Edition
Over 700 different cards, 5 of them new, all illustrated by the talented John Kovalic. 100 cards new to Fantasy Munchkin, cards from Munchkin, Munchkin 2, Munchkin 3, Munchkin 6, Bosses, Side Quest, Sidequest 2, 20 promo cards, 45 blank cards, redesigned rulebook, dividers, custom dice, bookmarks, kill-o-meters, sticker sheet and more. Enough for 3-6 players to have a deluxe Munchkin experience.
25th Century Games – Wine Cellar
1-8 players (ages 10 and up) take on the role of sommeliers trying to collect and cellar wines. Take on a Client and attempt to create a cellar that ages well and is suited to the Client’s wishes.
Bezier Games – Rebel Princess Happily Never After Expansion
An enchanted encore for Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition. Includes 6 Tarot Round cards, 2 Princess tiles, score pag and rulebook.
Off the Page Games – Corps of Discovery
A game set in the world of manifest destiny. Take control of Lewis & Clark’s Discovery Expedition and lead them on a quest to explore the land… and kill demonic monsters. Forge an alliance with the indigenous people, Acquire resources you need and survive the harsh terrain you are traversing. Find and destroy the invasive plants that are corrupting the local fauna, deal with the buffalo-headed minotaurs and deploy Greek Fire to deal with them. Includes 10 maps with more you can download for further adventures. 1-4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in 45 minutes to two hours.
Bezier Games – Scream : Campers vs Creatures
Creepy creatures have invaded the campsite. Scare them off, chase them away – but whatever you do, don’t Scream! Designed for 2-5 players, ages 14 and up. Bluff our way to the lowest score in this card reduction game.
Bloat Games – Evolved
A super-hero time travel game influenced by many a comic creator. It uses the DCC chassis to build a stand alone RPGwith everything you need to play games in the time travelling adventures of the Dark Fracture.
Goodman Games – Dungeon Denizens Pawn Collection
560 different full color, thick card pawns representing the creatures from the Dungeon Denizens book. 38 Gargantuan, 64 Huge, 150 Large, 216 Medium and 102 Small/Tiny creatures are included.
Goodman Games – Tales from the Smoking Wyrm Vol. 1 & 2
2 different issues of a DCC/MCC specific magazine. Includes articles with new classes, magic, monsters and more. Digest sized and brimming with ideas.
Goodman Games – X-Crawl Insider Issue 1
A magazine centered on the events of the X-Crawl Universe. Material from XCC RPG backers, a recap of the GenCon 2024 Save Xcrawl Tourney, a new PC class, new monsters, divine tables and more.
Goodman Games – DCC Classics Horror – Tome of Adventure Volume 5
Suitable for one shot Halloween adventures or a quick evening of Horror RPG games. 9 different adventures – 3 level 0 funnel adventures, level 1, three level 2, level3 and level 6 Adventures included in this hardbound book. Includes a hyperlinked pdf.
Goodman Games – DCC Holiday – Tome of Adventure Volume 6
Eight different adventuresset with a holiday theme. a level 1, four different level 2, two level 3 and a level 4 adventure. Seasonal themed for one shots, but easy to use in any campaign. Includes a hyperlinked pdf.
Goodman Games – DCC – Tome of Adventure Volume 7
Eight adventures set around, magic, gods and demons. Includes a level 0 funnel adventure, four level 1 adventures, a level 3, 4 and 5 adventure as well. Battle demons, gods, monsters and other foes across scarred alien worlds, gothic mansions, cursed caverns and other locales. And yes, it comes with a hyperlinked pdf as well.
Goodman Games – Compendium of Dungeon Crawls Volume Three
Through Caves and Forests, this 5e compendium has 8 world neutral, stand alone adventures. Includes a first and second level adventures, three third level, and one fifth, sixth and seventh level adventures.Includes a hyperlinked pdf.
Goodman Games – Compendium of Dungeon Crawls Volume Four
Dragons and Corruption. Includes four short stories, two 1st level adventures, a 3rd 7th and two 12th level adventures. All are world neutral and stand alone. Includes a hyper linked pdf as well.
Hello Games Plus fans, friends, followers and passer-bys.
A word of warning to everyone.
The Village of Mount Prospect has begun to resurface and rework the roads bordering the store. Willie Street (marked in Red on the map) has no street parking or access into the parking lot for what we expect to be somewhere around the next two weeks.
However you can still access the parking lot by going to Pine Street (marked in Yellow on the map) and following the alleyway to the lot.
Street parking on Pine is also prohibited, they are doing work there as well.
Watch for construction vehicles and see you soon!
Time for a Friday Night roundup!
Rich here with a bit of news and a bit of news (items)
So firstly – the News
Tomorrow is Free RPG Day
Doors open at 10am. Expect a whole lotta people here awaiting the chance to get some neat stuff.
And speaking of neat stuff here is the News Stuff for the day.
The OP – Flip 7
a family card game for 3 or more players. Press your luck, score points and try not to go bust. Special cards hurt others or help you while trying to succeed. Plays in about 20 minutes, ages 8 and up.
Renegade Games – The Anarchy
Players take on the role of English nobles , each trying to defend their castle,expand their domain while taking strongholds of the enemy. Earn the respect of the King to gain the largest Earldom while avoiding unrest in your realm. 1-4 players, ages 14+. Plays in about an hour and a half.
Renegade Games – Skara Brae
Players try to create a thriving community – feeding, sheltering and clothing their villagers. Cook, craft, clean and trade to keep things working and try to have the most prosperous town to be the winner. Ages 14 and up. 1-4 players, taking about an hour to play.
Renegade Games – Dry Erase Boards for Hadrians Wall & Anarchy.
4 double sided, dry erase boards for Hadrian’s Wall and The Anarchy – supports up to 2 players. Don’t worry about knocking tokens askew any longer – now just mark the board and wipe clean as you need.
Mantic Miniatures – The Master Chief miniature (for HALO Flashpoint)
1 Master Chief mini and 2 game cards
Slugfest Games – Positano
You take on the role of builders in Positano, Italy, Bid on tiles, build buildings and gain sea-side views and try to get the best developments to outscore your opponents. Includes a solo mode along with the competitive game. Plays with 1-4 players, ages 13 and up. A game takes around half an hour.
Edition Spielwiese – Micro Macro Kids : Crazy City Park
Designed for ages 6 and up. Plays with 1-4 players, taking about 15 minutes per player. This hidden picture detective game challenges you to find clues in the picture to solve the mystery. Work together to find the clues and figure out what happened.
Play Punk – Zenith
a 2 -or- 4 player game for ages 10 and up. Based on a tug-of-war sort of mechanic, Zenith challenges you to balance co-exist with various cultures to unite the planets and control the senate. Develop solar technology, influence the other planets and attempt to become the leader. Plays in around half an hour.
Eat the Reich RPG
The year is 1943. You are part of a unit of crack vampire commandos dropped into Paris. Your mission – get Hitler. Fast paced, short burn RPG set in a Weird WW2.
Melsonian Art Council – Swyvers
You and your gang of criminal scarpers through heists and sewers, stalk the streets and try to get some shillings in your pocket. Includes everything you need to create a character, equip them, fight, sneak, thief, fence and all manor of adventure. Also has NPCs, background of the world, magic and intro adventure.
Kobold Press – More Prepared!
One shot adventures for 5e D&D – 30 low prep, one shot adventures for Tales of the Valiant and 5e D&D. Fully illustrated and ready to go.
Homie & The Dude – The Wandering Tavern
an expansive TTRPG setting inspired by Studio Ghibli’s works. At it’s core the book is system agnostic, but there are 5e D&D statistic included. You can incorporate the Floating Tavern into your campaign and also has a free month’s subscription to builder software, free NPC and Zephyr tokens, insignia and maps.
Christoph Sapinsky – Free Spacer
A sandbox Starship TTRPG taking real science into account – putting you into the role of starship crew. Explore new worlds, investigate dangers, negotiate contracts, operate your starship and do science. The GM has a wealth of tools at his disposal to build worlds, run the universe and provide an immersive game.
It’s time for a late-week round up for new (and old, but not yet dusty) releases. It’s been rather chaotic and a few things fell through the cracks.
That said, here is what has gotten in lately…
Victrix – we’ve got WW2 miniatures as well!
1/144 (12mm or so) scale WW2 plastic tanks, infantry, guns and more from Victrix. Right now we have German, American and Soviet miniatures in stock.
Wargamer Historical Miniatures – Fire & Sword 2nd edition
We now have a decent stock of the Fire & Sword II game books, starter sets and miniature army and unit sets in stock. 15mm historical skirmishes in Europe. User friendly rules, dynamic gameplay with alternating activation, match play and asymmetric play is supported along with historically accurate play.
FanRoll – Official D&D Fold-up Dice Trays & Dice Towers
Three different trays with icon art that lay flat and then snap corners to fold up to catch your dice. Three dice towers slip unto the trays to provide dice tumbling action and are adorned with great art as well.
Queen Games – Star Explorer
Take on the role of hobby astronomer and observe the night sky. Find 1 of the 41 constellations, mark them and score points. Designed for 1 to 4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in around half an hour.
WizKids DC Forever Deck Building Game
Build your team, develop your powers, choose a strategy and fight your foes. Clash with classic DC villains from Gothams shadowy alleys to the depths of Atlantis. Multiple ways to win, eighteen playable characters and hundreds of cards to choose from.
Wizkids Games – Book Tabs
pre-printed book tabs designed for use with specific books to help find information quickly. Also has blanks to help reference items specifically important to you.
Pathfinder 2e GM Core set (57 pre-printed, 35 blanks), Pathfinder 2e Player Core (74 pre-printed, 18 blanks, 5e 2024 DMG set (123 pre-printed, 66 blank and 5e 2024 PHB (136 pre-printed, 61 blank) Packaged in a clamshell pack to store the spares in until you need them.
Jason Tremblay’s Tacta : Connect, Cover, Conquer
a strategy game for ages 7 and up. Plays with 2 or more players. Each game takes varying amount of time to play based on scenario & number of players. Flip, twist and turn your cards to align and cover opponents shapes with matching squares, triangles and rectangles. With an ever growing board this game will light up the night.
Green Meadow Games – Druid – 2-5 player strategy game of questing across ancient Northern Europe in search of artifacts. 30 minutes or so to play, ages 10+
Tome of Summoning – Deck of Encounters – Rollabe tables of Engaging Adventures.
From Arctic to Urban, 5e encounters themed per environment. A handy addition to your game with ranges of difficulty and party size.
Post Curious – Ministry of Lost Things : Case 1 Lint Condition
explore a parallel world, discover secret messages, meet charming characters and solve tactile mysteries to reunite a lost item with its companion. 1+ players, ages 14+ Plays in a few hours.
Tin Robot Games – Planting Evidence
2-5 player game (ages 14+) of establishing alibis, planting evidence to get opponents grabbed and trying to have enough proof on others that they get nabbed instead of you. Plays in around 15 minutes per player.
Gameland Games – Maize Craze
a dice rolling, maze navigating game for 2-6 players ages 8 and up. Plays in around 20 minutes.
Mind Inventions – Wonderland Words
2-6 players, ages 8 and up compete in this game of words and imagination. Plays in around half an hour.
Rebirth Games – Chemical Overload
a deck building, tableau building game for 1 to 4 players. Time to put your potion crafting skills to the test as you vie for the title of master alchemist. Ages 13 and up. Plays in around an hour, depending on the number of players.
Magnetic Press Play – Klaw Were Wars
a combat card & dice game for 2-4 players. Animal totem square off in a conflict as old as time. See who will be the most powerful Dizhi in the world. Ages 14 and up. Plays in 30 to 60 minutes depending on players.
Magnetic Press Play – Klaw Were Wars Forgotten Expansion Deck
12 new ancient spirits, twenty new hosts as well as new items, actions, powers and talents.
TNT Laser Works – Sage Stones
2-6 players compete in this game where the die dictates columns, you choose rows and try to encircle foes while protecting yourself. Designed for ages 15+, plays in 15 to 45 minutes depending on number of players.
Wargames Atlantic – The Baron’s War rulebook
Hardbound 150 page book with rules and scenarios, personality generation, special characters, terrain rules, commanders and more.
Wargames Atlantic – Baron’s War Decal Sets – 36 waterslide heraldry decals.
Grey for Now – Guards of Traitor’s Toll
A Skirmish Adventure game for 2 players. includes 36 figures, cards, dice, rulebook and hours of adventure. Game is semi-cooperative with players patrolling the streets and keeping the peace – earn the most gold without causing a riot to win.
Grey for Now – Guards of Traitor’s Toll : Busy Streets
Adds miniatures and components to play up to 4 players at a time. Includes magic, sergeants, patrons as well as new plots, secrets and recruitment cards.
Wargames Atlantic – Weird War Conversions
3 sprues with parts to convert your World War 1 models with tentacles, animal heads, gas masks, trench clubs, trench maggots and large mutant rodents.
Wargames Atlantic – Death Field Upgrades
parts to upgrade your minis with laser rifles, heavy snub guns, gas mask helmets and cyber arms. 4 sprues of stuff.
Green Stuff World – Modular Movement Trays, Textured Plasticard and Silicone ‘pop’ palettes are here.
It’s a Friday Night Round-up – brought to you by Rich at Games Plus.
It hasn’t been a huge release week, but at some point there is a bit of slow that happens…
As a note to those coming by the store in the next week or two. Don’t forget that you can park in the lot behind the building (but not in the spots specifically allocated to Prospect Place) and all the way down Prospect Ave to Central. The city is doing work on curbs and (maybe) pipes so there are areas of no parking dotting the neighborhood in our area.
Warlord Games – Achtung Panzer! Iron Coffins
a new Achtung Panzer expansion adding rules for the early war years, expanded terrain rules, new tank aces, new missions, new campaign rules, over 150 new tanks, new event cards, asset cards and more. Lots of new material for your AP! game.
Osprey Publishing – Hairfoot Jousting
a contest of Courage, Skill and Whimsy. Compete as Halflings with Hairy Feet in a grand joust on the back of whatever you can manage to rustle up. Win stuff and be the hero of the jousts. As an added bonus, there is even a hidden Goblin ‘Wartnose’ Jousting game too.
Roxley Games – new Santorini expansions
Hiding in the Underworld – more god cards, 2 new pieces and 2 new game modes. Creep through the Underworld with this new expansion. Includes tokens, punchboard and more components. You will need a d4 to use this expansion.
Soaring over Olympus – more god cards, 2 new modes to play and 2 new pieces. Take to the sky and fly. Includes tokens, punchboard and more components. You will need a d4 to use this expansion.
Tales of Poseidon – more god cards, 2 new modes (including the Trojan War) to play and 2 new pieces. Take to the sky and fly. Includes tokens, punchboard and more components. You will need a d4 to use this expansion.
Season of Chaos – more god cards, 2 new modes to play and 2 new pieces. Take the Golden Fleece or deal with Chaos. Includes tokens, punchboard and more components. You will need a d4 to use this expansion.
Matagot – Kyoto no Neko
You play this game as a kitten growing up wandering Kyoto. Make friends, climb trees, dodge dangers and pull out your claws if need be. 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in around half an hour.
Black Site Studios – This is Not a Test
a new Post Apocalyptic miniature game set in the Tri-State Wastleland after the nukes have fallen. Look out for Mutants, search for Lost Technology, deal with Rival Gangs and make your own destiny. Most scenarios play in under an hour. Choose a faction and create a warband, load up on Mutations, Skills and Abilities, gear up and grab equipment and weapons and beware the treacherous environment as well as the other warbands looking to make their name on your downfall.
Absurdist Productions – Winter Rabbit
As winter descends, the villagers decide to see who can provide the most for the season’s preparations. But trickster Rabbit has schemed to steal resources and confuse others. Can you work together to keep Rabbits efforts at bay and still be the one who best helps the village? Build the village, manage the land, complete communal tasks, tell helpful stories and avoid Rabbit. 2-6 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in about 90 minutes.
Trick or Treat Studios – Halloween II (a hidden movement game)
In this one versus many game you work to get Laurie to safety – or stalk the players as Michael. Michael moves on a separate board, only to be revealed when an attack occurs or a player sees him. Can you succeed before time runs out? 2-4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in around an hour.
Wizkids – Pathfinder Adult Adamantine Dragon
This prepainted monstrosity is ready to be pulled out of the box to ravage those pesky adventurers, join your council of wyrms or simply adorn your shelf to be admired by yourself and others.
Saturday – July 5th
Renegade Games – Diplomacy: Era of Empire Demo/Teaching Game
Have you ever wanted to learn the game Diplomacy? Interested in seeing the new version created by Renegade Games that is set in the 19th Century and puts you in charge of one of seven great empires: Britain, France, Russia, Turkey, China, Japan, and the Netherlands? Here is your chance. This new version maintains the core game mechanics that long-time fans know and love with some added twists for a fun, unique experience.
We will be hosting a pair of Demo/Teaching games brought to you by Renegade Games and local gamer Tony Prokes.
There will be two different games one starting soon after 10am and going till 2 pm and another starting not long after 2pm and going till about 7pm. Room for seven people in each game.
All you need to bring is you and a sense of adventure.
Friday Night Round up – post Pokemon & Final Fantasy meets MTG
Well, we are still standing. Not very straight, but round one of insane collectible card sales is at an end.
That said – there is a bunch to be had outside those two games.
Stargrave – Death Vector
a new supplement for Stargrave with 8 new scenarios set in the Outlaw Technology Sector. The rules also add cyberpunk-style hacking, new space encounters, technology and even more entries into the bestiary.
Cairn 2nd edition boxed set
new expanded RPG of fantasy exploration, adventure and combat. Includes a Players Guide, Warden (Game Master) Guide, Trouble in Twin Lakes adventure & setting and Adventure Anthology 1 – with three more adventures.
Multiman Publishing – Slaughter at Ponyri
ASL Historical module of the battles in Northern Kursk July 7-9 1943
Keymaster Games – Parks
1-5 player game of exploring the National Parks. Ages 10+ Plays in around an hour.
Unexpected Games – Mandalorian Adventures : Clan of Two expansion
adds to the Mandalorian Adventures game with new Heroes, challenges and missions.
Helvetiq – Bugs Buddy
2-4 player game – ages 8 and up. Plays in around 20 minutes. Can you protect the good bugs while being careful of the others?
Pazio – New Pathfinder items:
Treasure Vault – Second Edition Remastered
new gear, new magic items, signature weapons, customizable relics, wonderous items and more. As presented by the kobold overseeing a terrifying dragon’s hoard. Potions, elixirs, wands and much more.
Comes in a standard art cover, sketch art cover and special foil cover.
Lost Omens : Shining Kingdoms
The history, culture and current game world events of the kingdoms of Andoran, Druma, the Five Kings Mountains, Galt, Kyonin and Taldor with character details and options as well as the history of these fractured lands.
Pathfinder Flip Mat – Remote Villas
one side of this full color map has a keep perched high atop a mountain, the other a lodge set deep in a wintry valley. Map is laminated and ready to go.
NPC Core Pawn Box
A box of over 350 different pawns representing goblins, men at arms, lizardfolk, bandits, hellknights, dock hands and more.
Shades of Blood adventure To Blot Out the Sun (book 3 of 3)
Designed for characters of 7-10 level the party must content with a vampire lord, his plot to shroud the world in darkness and the horrors who are aiding him.
Osprey Publishing
Campaign 416 – Cynoscephalae 197BC Rome Humbles Macedon
Campaign 415 – The Jugurthine War 112-106 BC – Rome’s war in North Africa
Campaign 413 – Mukden 1905 – Russian & Japan’s Battle for Manchuria
Men at Arms 563 – Central European Powers 1918-1921
Vanguard 339 – German Tanks in Barbarossa 1941
Duel 143 – Jagdpanther vs 17 pdr Achilles NW Europe 1944-45
Elite 262 – American Civil War Amphibious Tactics
Dogfight 13 – Spitfire I – Phoney War & Battle of France
Air Campaign 54 – Normandy 1944 – cutting D-Day Communications