Here we are with even more new items in store for your holiday weekend shopping pleasure.
Renegade Games – Heroscape Age of Annihilation : Well Spring of Valhalla 2 Player Starter Set this 2 player starter box has 2 forces to battle over the wellspring of Valhalla. Included are terrain tiles, rules, markers, dice, army cards, scenario guidelines and more. Everything you need to learn and play Heroscape.
Heroscape Master Set : Age of Annihilation This core set comes with 20 miniatures, 9 scenarios, bunches of terrain, tokens, rules and endless possibilities for playing Heroscape. Customize your armies, build the battlefield and defeat your foe.
Heroscape Terrain System – Grove at Laur’s Edge 6 underbrush and 3 tree pieces of various sizes add to your Heroscape game experience.
Dyskami Publishing – Retro Second Edition : BESM Big Eyes, Small Mouth RPG – out of print for over 20 years, the classic anime RPG is back. Includes all the old information as well as new character options, monsters, rules, examples and more.
Fantasy Flight Games – Arkham Horror Card Game Midwinter Gala Scenario Pack for 1-4 players.
Nord Games – new RPG Magic Item Generator decks 128 cards that help you determine the physical properties, magical effects, origin and location of magic items for your RPG. Tarot sized. Designed to create mystical sword, enchanted amulets, legendary armor and more. 2 different sets of cards.
DM Dave Publishing – Fifth Edition Gamemaster’s Survival Guide 300 pages of monster tactics to help keep the players on the edge of their seat. No more simple wade in and roll dice battles, this book helps to turn encounters into memorable experiences.
FFG – Star Wars Deck Building Game : Clone Wars Edition The Galactic Republic opposes the Separatist Confederacy in this deck building game. Clone Troopers, Jedi, Battle droids and Sith battle it out in this edition with over 50 unique cards.
Nerdvana Games – Bunkers & Badasses Adventure, Excitement, Loot… and Crumpets. How to build a character, run a campaign, improvise additional adventures and much more. A big hardbound sourcebook.
Folded Space Inserts – Wyrmspan this flatpack of 4 sheets assembles into a tray for cards and tokens to make set up and cleanup much faster and easier along with aiding gameplay.
Dragon Egg – City of Myrhesh 2-5 players try to defend a city from a giant monster while moving about the city and gaining coin and allies. Designed for ages 14 and up. Plays in around an hour to an hour and a half.
Arc Dream Publishing – Delta Green : God’s Teeth Agents are challenged by 20 years of dire history in the period of ‘The Spiral’. Adventures range from 2001 through 2020 taking the world from the founding of the new Delta Green through the Plague that encompasses the world, forcing Agents to confront impossible foes, appalling curses and hard choices. 250+ pages.
Historica Arcanum – Herald of Rain This module for 5e D&D is inspired by the Near Eastern cultures from one end of the Silk Road to the other. Explore Baghdad, Merv, and other cities in Samarkand. Stop the Hashashin Order from carrying out assassinations and explore the world of alternate histories.
Historica Arcanum – City of the Crescent a sourcebook of the City of the Crescent, tools and background for your Near Eastern campaign with new character options, ideas and more.
Historica Arcanum – Empires of the Silk Road This sourcebook has city maps, creatures, quest hooks, weapons and relics as well as rules for travel, expanded character generation and more.
So, as much as it’s an evening early, here is a quick rundown of items available right now. Might there be more available tomorrow? Yes, there might. But for now – here you go.
Chessex – new Mega-hedral dice are out! 23mm dice sets from Chessex in the following colors: Nocturnal (Translucent blue/purple ink) Marble Green/Dark green ink Circus (multicolors with black ink) Scarlet (red pearlescent/ gold ink) Vortex (bright green swirls/black ink numbers) Waterlily (blue/while/purple swirl with white ink)
Historical Miniature Gaming Magazines Wargames Illustrated #440 – Building Bag End, playing V for Victory, Hail Caesar Epic Battles, fantasy Never Mind the Billhooks Viet Nam gaming and more.
Wargames Soldiers & Strategy # 131 – Summer Storm in Normandy July/August ‘44 in Normandy, Medieval Welsh vs Mercians, New Zealand WW2 forces, Hail Caesar Epic, ancient naval gaming and more.
Miniature Wargames #497 – Tiger Tunisia Valentines vs Pz 4s, Table-Hammer simple tabletop rules, tribute collection of the Roman frontier, Egyptian riverside Colonial fun & more.
Osprey Publishing books : Fleet #7 – US Navy, Pacific Fleet 1941 – the last mighty battleship fleet Duel #136 – Panzer III vs T34 Duel #137 – Crusader vs M13/40 Combat #78 – German Soldier vs British Soldier Spring Offensive 1918 Campaign #403 – Gettysburg 1863 : Third Day New Vanguard #330 – British Lend Lease Warships 1940-45 New Vanguard #331 – Midway Class Aircraft CArriers 1945-92 Air Campaign #43 – Yom Kippur War 1973 Air Campaign #46 – Chrome Dome 1960-68 : B-52s in High Stakes Cold War nuke operations Air Campaign #47 – Operation Barbarossa 1941 : Luftwaffe opens the East Front Campaign
Fanroll – Dice Advent Calendar a handy 25 door countdown calendar featuring a holiday theme bag, one exclusive holiday themed polyhedral set, 2 full sets of assorted polyhedral dice, an exclusive mini-set and an exclusive metal d20 on the final day.
Wizkids – new DC Heroclix Set : Masters of Time Play at Home : Masters of Time Set – Batman as a Noir Detective Heroclix Hereos of Time set – 79 new figures, each booster with 5 prepainted figures. this set features time shifted heroes and villains, Batman in many forms and more.
Kosmos – Venetta 1-6 players participate in this immersive crime solving game. Look at realistic evidence, investigate locations, people and document while trying to deduce the truth. Designed for ages 16 and up (there is mature content) and plays in 2 to 4 hours.
Greater than Games – Compile 2 players work as novel AI to work out the order and understanding of 12 different Protocols. Plays in about 20 minutes.
City of Games – Vadoran Gardens (5th anniversary edition) 1-4 players place tiles expanding their gardens to create pathways and try to fulfill objectives. Includes a new solo mode. Ages 8 and up. Plays in about 30 minutes.
Libellud – Harmonies Create miniature world where animals live in Harmony. Place tokens to create your world, choose animals and combine the landscape and animals to score. Ages 10 and up. Plays in about half an hour. 1 to 4 players.
Fantasy Flight Games – The Darkness Over Arkham a solo adventure Arkham Horror game book for a single player.
Green Ronin Games – Sol System sourcebook the The Expanse Information on the governments, corporations and organizations reaching for power in humanity’s cradle. Trade through the system is explored, planetside stories are explained as prequel or full campaigns as well as rules for running corporations, media outlets, security firms, religious groups and other organizations. Lots of material to run your game, your way.
Pazio – new Pathfinder 2e material Pathfinder 2e – Howl of the Wild Pocket Book Howl of the Wild, but in the pocket sized format. All the original material, but a smaller format.
Pathfinder 2e – Singer, Stalker, Skinsaw Man (Curtain Call story arc, book 2 of 3) Now that the party has come to terms with an old foe, it’s time to put pen to paper and create the opera. But of course you can’t keep a good villain down. More disruptive presences have appeared and production can’t start till all the kinks are worked out. An adventure for 14-17th level characters
Pathfinder 2e – Lost Omens Tian Xia Character Guide new heritages for use with characters, new character options exploring dance, martial arts, alchemy and other aspects. 130+ pages of resources.
Pathfinder Flip Mat – Marsh laminated 24×30 double sided, full color mat with a large marshy area on one side and a boardwalk settlement on the other.
It’s Friday Night and time for ‘What Else was New this Week?’
Wanderlust Playing cards & Oracle deck 54 different cards with unique watercolor illustrations inspired by many different locales. A standard 2 joker playing card deck and a sheet to use them as an oracle deck to create prompts and thoughtful answers.
Kosmos – Belratti : Is this Art or can it Go? 3-7 players work to go through paintings and uncover Belratti’s forgeries. Designed for ages 8 and up. Plays in half an hour or so. Includes the ‘Masterpieces’ game variant.
Eclipse Editorial – Nexum Galaxy 1-4 player game putting the players in command of galactic fleets attempting to dominate the galaxy. Play is scaleable between quick casual games and serious conflicts with events and the unknown. Play solitaire, coop against game AI or competitively against other players and game AI. Plays in about 15 minutes per player in casual mod, up to half an hour per player with options.
Cordilhera – Sea of Lies 3-7 player game for ages 14 and up. The Captain has disappeared and now players compete to take command. Boast as you need to get the required support, telling tales based on different criteria. Beware how much you exaggerate, if you get called out and found to be fibbing and you lose the support you’ve gained. Some crew many have special abilities to help you out, so plan wisely.
Kosmos – Exit : Prison Break This new Team Xtreme scenario breaks the player into two different teams working individually to cooperatively escape. Designed for 2-4 players, ages 12 and up. Plays in 1-2 hours. medium-high complexity.
Snowbright Studio – Ink In this RPG you level up when you die. Come back from mortal defeat to gain new abilities, powers, memories and more. Includes all the rules you need, fast and furious combat system, Fiends, monsters, nautical combat, dungeon crawl generation and much more.
Snowbright Studio – Tea Time Adventures a non-violent RPG about baked goods, tea, magic and solving mysteries. The game uses a simple d20 system understandable by beginner and veteran alike. Includes over 200 pages of game material, real life recipes, NPCs, shops and locations.
Snowbright Studio – Cozy Companion a series of magazines with crafting ideas (props for RPGs and such), fiction, adventures, real life recipes and more.
Kobold Press – Campaign Builder Castles & Crowns a homebrew toolkit for your TTRPG. Create legendary rulers, mythic kingdoms, palaces, fortresses and more with the ideas in this book. Includes new player options magic items, and spells. Create detailed NPCs, add more detail to your kingdom level campaign and more. 260+ pages of information.
Kobold Press – Castles and Crowns Map Folio 12 full color battle mats, each overlaid with a 1” grid for popular TTRPG use. Specially coated to allow wet or dry erase markers to come off again as needed. Includes a monastery, hunting lodge, dwarven fortress, prison and more.
Treasure Falls Games – The Quest Kids a family friendly 2-4 player game game (for ages 5 and up) allowing players to explore a magical cave, find treasure and complete quests together. Plays in about half an hour.
Battlefront Miniatures – new Team Yankee sets Team Yankee – new plastic Soviet Motor Rifle Company Team Yankee – new plastic Soviet Motor Rifle Platoon Team Yankee – new US plastic Rifle Platoon Team Yankee – new plastic US Mech Platoon
World of Tanks – new vehicle releases Jagdpanzer E-100, UK Conqueror, US M48A5 Patton and USSR T-10
WizKids Games – Icons of the Realm 50th Anniversary miniature set 50 different miniatures, 1st and 5th edition versions of different creatures and personalities, prepainted and ready to collect or play. Each booster box has 4 randomly selected miniatures.
Corvus Belli – Warcrow Warcrow boxed set starter – includes 14 miniatures from 2 factions, the Northern Tribes and the nation of Lindwurm. Includes game cards, templates, token, terrain, rules and dice as well as a game mat. Everything you need to start into the world of Warcrow.
Warcrow rulebook – hardbound rules with world source material, rules and more.
Warcrow – Northern Tribes Ahlwardt Ice Bear – miniature and game cards
Warcrow Frost Dice Set – 18 dice with ‘frost’ effects
Kobold Press – Deep Magic Volume 1 and Deep Magic Volume 2 Pocket Edition softbound books. New spells, classes and more.
ArcKnight – Object Doodads Sets A number of different sets with tiles to enhance your TTRPG games. Each full color object is depicted on clear material to overlay your battlemaps without obscuring other detail. Set range from rivers to dungeons, wizards’ libraries to caravans and wilderness to town shops.
Rich here with another new release update! Compass Games – Schutztruppe Heia Safari 1914-1918 a look at WW1 in East Africa, inspired from the original ‘Schutzruppe’ game from Jim Bumpas. Includes 9/16” counters and a mounted game map. Company/Battalion game scale, 30 mile hexes and month long turns. Plays in 3-4 hours. Ages 14 and up recommended. Medium complexity
Nuts Wargames – Stalingrad Roads : Battle on the edge of the Abyss 2 player game covering the winter campaign of 1942/43 Operation Uranus and Von Manstein’s counterattack. Four different scenarios are provided, Wintergewitter, Operation Uranus, Von Manstien’s Backhand Blow, Star & Gallop. Soviet planning and support of offensives are important. The German player will have to balance performance, expectations and the ability to supply Stalingrad to keep the Fuhrer happy. Designed for 2 players, ages 14 and up. Scenarios play between 1 and 5 hours.
Tompet Games – Halls of Hegra This solo game puts the payer in charge of Norwegian forces trying to hold out against German forces in the early days of WW2. Combines worker placement, bag building and area control/tower defense mechanics. Plays in about an hour to hour and a half. Ages 14 and up.
Battlefront Miniatures – Team Yankee new Starter Set US vs Soviets in 15mm with new plastic infantry, T-80s, M1A1s, Bradleys and more. everything you need to get started in one box
CMON/Spinmaster – Marvel United 4 different sets Maximum Carnage : Morbius, Scorpion, Shriek, Scream, Doppleganger, Demogoblin and Dark Carnage. Civil War : Goliath, Iron Man, Tigra, Wonder Man, Yellowjacket, Kate Bishop, Spectrum and Captain America World War Hulk : Hulkbuster Iron Man, Hercules, Gladiator Hulk, Sentry and Ares Multiverse : Captain Carter, Loki, Ironheart, Spiderman 2099, Mighty Thor, Shuri as Black Panther, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Maestro, Emperor Doom and Immortus
Legendary Marvel 2099 – 5 new heroes, 2 new adapting Masterminds, 2 new villain groups, 4 new schemes and rules
DC Deck Building Game – Crisis Collection 2 (Expansion Pack 3 and 4 together) which adds cooperative play, new mechanics, 28 oversized foil character cards, 28 impossible mode villains Red X promo card & more
DC Deck Building Game Crossover Collection 2 (Crossover collection 1,2 redux and 3), with Green Arrow, Justice Society and Legion of SuperHeroes characters, new mechanics and main deck cards, Foil oversized cards, Cyclone and Shadow Lass promo cards and more.
Wizards of the Coast – Mimic Chest Notebook set 5 different notebooks, 2 lined, 2 gridded and 1 with grid dots along with a box for tokens, cards dice and what not – all in a neat looking Mimic chest.
Fanroll – Tales of the Valiant – Giant d20 and fold up snap dice rolling tray.
Free League – Twilight 2000 Hostile Waters Twilight 2000 on the waves. New rules to deal with maritime action, new encounter cards, modular marine themed battlemats, tokens, Northern Poland and Southern Sweden travel maps and lots of new material.
Critical Kit Ltd – White Sands : RPG about the fight for clean air in a dystopian future. Complet with a starter adventure.
Beach House RPG – Start Here RPG – Introductory RPG This introductory system is designed for new players and GMs to get them up and running with an easy enough system to be fun, but complex enough to be interesting. Once you’ve played you can graduate t the experienced player rules and the Campaign Sampler to keep it all going.
Rye Alboa – Riddle Register : The Ultimate Book of Riddles 300 riddles indexed by class, type, element, race, magic school and other. Includes three different difficulty levels, visual hints and is suitable for all TTRPGs. Rye Alboa – Locked Lairs and the Puzzles that keep them that way. 160 puzzles to challenge all sorts of different players. Difficulty varies and the puzzles are designed to be usable with any TTRPGs Rye Alboa – Your Monsters And Creatures Compendium a unique toe with sheets and spaces to create your own foe. Enemies with unique powers, strengths and weakness. Includes many pages with structured cells to record your ideas and turn them into enemies, creatures and monsters for your own use. Designs for 5e D&D mechanics.
Unexpected Games – Mandalorian Adventures 1-4 player boardgame allowing you to play as the Mandalorian or one of his allies, working to defeat enemies and solving dilemmas enroute to completing the mission objectives. There are additional rules you can add, more mission types and possibly even a hidden traitor. For ages 12 and up, plays in 30 minutes to an hour depending on players.
Ravensburger – Horrified : World of Monsters When horrors pour forth from a portal between worlds your job is to defeat them. Can you, working with others defeat Cthuhlu, Yeti, Sphinx and Jiangshi? 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up can play. Includes 4 monsters and a multi-stage Cthulhu Challenge.
Hey everyone. Rich here with an early week release update. Things were waaaaaaayyyyyy chaotic last week so I’m a bit behind. So, here is a list of some of what came in. Tomorrow… more stuff!
Ravensburger – Horrified : World of Monsters When horrors pour forth from a portal between worlds your job is to defeat them. Can you, working with others defeat Cthuhlu, Yeti, Sphinx and Jiangshi? 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up can play. Includes 4 monsters and a multi-stage Cthulhu Challenge. Pazio – Starfinder Playtest This book presents the playtest rules for Starfinder Second Edition, brining it’s mechanics to the same engine Pathfinder 2e uses. Six new base classes,ten new species, new skills & feats, tons of equipment and much more. Pazio – Pathfinder 2e Curtain Call adventure path #1 ‘Stage Fright’ An adventure for characters 11th to 13th level. Your adventures are legendary. Now a famous director wants to make a stage play depicting your career. But before the show goes on you must put to rest rumors your old foe has returned. Will you succeed? Pathfinder 2e – Prey for Death Players take on the role of Red Mantis assassins sent to deal with an upstart ruler whose warmongering ways must be stopped. This adventure is designed for characters 14-17th level. Office Dog – Legend of the Five Rings : River of Gold This 2-4 player game of trading empires in Rokugan. Build commerce, gain influence and move cargo. Includes a free mini-expansion with legendary patrons and abilities. Nightfall Games – T2 RPG This sourcebook adds player terminators, Tech-Con forces, agents of John Connor as well as source materials for a 1990’s , Skynet’s 2020 and Survivors in the Ruins. Includes new archetypes, NPCs, technology and more. Space Penguin Ink – The Cobra Express (for DCC RPG) In the land of Esper, deep in the jungles of Kazar a heavily fortified pleasure train runs between a pair of cities. On board is wealth, well to do passengers and more. It’s got to be an easy target. Can you take it down? Avalon Hill/Hasbro/Games Workshop – Talisman 5th edition Newest release of the classic boardgame. Move around the mortal realm, find Talismans, defeat the guardian and take the Crown of Command. Guide the realm through the next era. Includes a dozen detailed plastic miniatures to represent the questers, tokens, dice, cards, rules and a full color board. Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : Reach Adventure 8 : Makergod In the Outrim Void the raiders of Oghma have preyed upon systems around them, reducing them to pre-starflight technology. When the Travellers are caught in a raid they find themselves hauled off to the raiders homeworld and a surreal mix of technology and barbarism. Can you discover the driving force behind these raiders? Modiphius Entertainment – Battlespace : Solo tabletop military combat game 48 page rulebook, 10 missions, fluid enemy AI, soldier & gear cards, enemy and sitrep cards – all ready to go. You can also create your own soldiers, if you choose. Nightfall Games – Terminator Resist! A sourcebook for Terminator and the global situation, the results of World War Three, Post Apocalyptic North America, new locations in the rest of the world, global forces and advanced rules. All in one handy book. Helvetiq – Ballot Battle a 2 player game of campaigning. Using the mechanics of Blackjack you bid to ‘win’ campaign issues while trying not to accumulate too many controversy tokens. Gain the most victory points and move into the Oval Office. Plays in around half an hour. Helvetiq – Strato a single player logic based card game where you try to manipulate the weather to meet the challenge presented. Each of the 10 Challenges last around 15 minutes. Aporta Games – House of Cats This puzzle game of cats and mice is a roll and write game of house creation, special abilities and point scoring. Designed for 1 to 6 players, each level playing in about 15 minutes. Imagining Games – Broken Tales Once upon a time, a child saved the world of Fairytales. As a reward he was given a wish. Now Heroes are villains, villains are heroes and the world has a new perspective. The dark story of fairytales is now turned upside down. Included in the rulebook are 10 scenarios ranging fro the Three Little Pigs to the Wizard of Oz, each with it’s own top down look at the . Reaper new Bones Boxed Sets – Demonic Lasher, Sea Giant, Fathom Tyrant and Crocosaurus. Studio Canal – Escape from New York board game 1 to 4 players (ages 13 and up) play as Snake, Maggie, Brain or Cabbie in an attempt to locate the President, government tape, diagram of the bridges and attempt to escape. Work together or betray the other players to complete your own personal objective. Look out for the Duke of New York, Romero, Slagg, the gangs and even land mines. Plays in 40 minutes to an hour and a half or so.. Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Shatterpoint – Maintenance Bay Terrain piece Includes a Maintenance Bay terrain piece and a Womp Rat. Looney Labs – Looney Oracle This deck has all the answers you need. Cryptic Advice or Yes or No, all you need to do is choose an answer to the Orcales’ question. Includes 172 cards and instructions. Sound Game Pty Ltd – That Sound Game a party game for 2 or more players, ages 10 and up. Get others to guess as many category cards they can in a minute. Use any sounds and movements you like, but your hands have to stay behind your back. …and go! Matagot Original – 6 Suspects 2 to 8 players (ages 8 and up) try to figure out who the culprit for a murder is in this micro game.
Hey there everyone. Rich back from GenCon and the fun illness after. It’s been a good long time since I’ve had the chance to do an update and the releases have just kept on. So, here we go for this installment. There most certainly more items to cover. Expect another couple of updates in the coming days.
Funforge/Ubisoft – FarCry : Escape from Rook Island 1-04 player game of action, escape, survival. Your Southeast Asian vacation lands you on Vaas Montengregro’s turf, and he’s not happy about it. Can you manage to avoid his wrath and get out? The story driven missions and open world exploration allows your character to improve and complete more and more goals. For ages 14 and up. Plays in around an hour to hour and a half per scenario.Includes character standees, trackers, player and enemy boards, rules, maps and a whole lot more.
Northstar Game Studio – Sacred Valley This 3-5 player game puts players in the shoes of Incan farmers on the plateaus of the Sacred Valley. Grow new crops, explore new ideas and be the most successful farming family. Ages 8 and up, taking about 60 minutes to play.
DINOGOD – Age of Angra a strategic tag-team fighting game between opposing Shepards and their unique teams of Asura. Magical attacks, tandem maneuvers, spell casting, magical interia and more all take part in victory. Designed for 2 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in around 30 to 60 minutes.
Sirius Dice – 54mm Black Lotus Spindown Die. Would you like the mythical Black Lotus, trapped in a large spindown d20 to use for your gaming needs? We’ve got one for you!
Decision Games – World at War magazine #95 and #96 Two issues at one time! Issue #95 features Khalkin Gol War : Struggle for Mongolia along with articles on Soviet airpower, Germany’s missiles, Falaise Halt order and more. Issue #96 has the game Germany’s Warplan Z and articles on the invasion of Tulagi, the Soviet Baltic offensive of 1944, Logistics in North Africa and other topics.
Strategy & Tactics Quarterly explores Alternate strategies for World War I – This Quarterly looks at the pre-war situation, plans the nations had in place and the situation yar to year until the end. 100+ pages of information.
Atomic Mass Games – Marvel Crisi Protocol Asgardian Character Pack This box contains Jane Foster : The Mighty Thor, Lady Sif, Loki : Prince of Lies and Thor : Hero of Midgard along with game cards and bases.
Chaosium Inc – 7th Sea RPG books We’ve got a whole haul of 7th Sea books! Cities of Faith & Wonder – a robust city building system and six different environments with their cities to use in your own campaigns. Vaticine City, Iskandar, Carleon, Port Cendres, Nieuwehoop and Paix.
Left Justified Studios – Jewels for the Emperor Penguin
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?
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!
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!
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 charactersusing 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.
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