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.
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 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.
Hey there Games Plus followers, fans and browsers.
Hi Games Plus Fans, Friends and Followers!
Rich here with a special announcement about traffic and parking this upcoming Saturday (and beyond).
Saturday, May 3rd, Mount Prospect is having a Derby Day/Cinco deMayo celebration downtown.
What does that mean to you?
It means that Prospect Ave will be closed between 83 (Main St) and Willie Street from 9am on. (see the red box east of us on the map)
How will you get to the store you ask?
Follow the green line and turn West onto West Evergreen Ave, head North up Willie and then either swing into the parking lot behind the store, or up to Prospect, turn back West and find a spot on Prospect Ave.
The Alfresco dining will have started so the area in front of Lady Delhia will not have parking, but Prospect will still be open both East and Westbound between Willie and Central.
Coming North up 83, you can turn onto Willie and go through a bit of the neighborhood to reach us that way.
And for those planning trips in the future, the Alfresco dining will be taking up the 6 parking spaces in from of Patina Wine bar, Lady Delhia, Splendid Day Spa, Synergy Fitness and Vision Center for the summer, into the Fall and until October 6th.
So plan ahead for Saturday’s shindig and for the summer and Fall dining season.
They say knowing is half the battle…
So by now you have probably heard about the tariffs which are being levied on imported goods. This will not just affect the raw materials, but the finished products like board games as well. As a manufacturer the cost of my components dictate the final price of my game. Usual the retail price of a game is around five to six times the component cost to account for shipping, advertising, distribution and other miscellaneous expenses. Subsequently the cost of my game components going for 4 dollars to 5, a 25% tariff, the cost of the game would increase not from 20 to 24 but to 25 or 30 dollars.
There are several game manufacturers who have published information about this, like Steve Jackson Games (https://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/April_03_2025/Tariffs_Are_Driving_Up_Game_Prices_Now)
StoneMairer Games (https://stonemaiergames.com/the-math-of-tariffs/)
and others have as well.
That said – we here at Games Plus will do the best we can to stock the shelves and get you the products you want. Prices on older games shouldn’t fluctuate too much right off, but new production games may well sooner than later. And it might well spell the
By the same token, the cost of tin, photo reactive resins and other raw materials may well affect the cost of miniatures in due time.
Just a little information for everyone out there
Hello Games Plus fans, friends and customers. Rich here with a not unexpected announcement. – We are now FULL – for the Saturday Board game Auction only.
We are still accepting Role playing games, military/historical/conflict games, miniatures and CCG/TCG/LCG/TMG items – so bring them on in.
Auction intake will continue into Monday March 3rd. You’ve still got time… but don’t delay too long.
It’s that time of year again where people bring their old, unwanted items in and we run a big, long auction to let everyone else buy them!
Today (Saturday the 15th) is the first day of Auction Intake!
If you are bringing items in – here are a few important notes –
* Make sure your tags show the correct information in the given format.
* Be certain you’ve left a good inch (or two) at the bottom of the tag so we can record the sale information and you will get credit for it.
* If you have items in a bag (like miniatures) make sure you have the tag on the -outside- of the bag.
* If you’ve created a multi-piece item (like a game and it’s expansions as a single item – make sure that bundle is somehow secured together.
* Be patient. The first few days of intake is a busy time for us all, so please be polite and understanding.
Otherwise – we look forward to seeing you at the Auction!