Here we are only a couple of weeks fro GenCon and on the Eve of DCC Day. Subsequently, we have a few new releases from all sorts of different aspects of our fine hobby…

Fantasy Flight Games – Marvel Champions : Jubilee
Includes a complete Hero deck (Jubilee), new cards that can be added to any Hero deck and an encounter set featuring Arcade.

rebel Studio – Klink
a 3-5 player fast playing card game for ages 7 and up. Takes about 20 minutes. Compare 2 cards, choose one to keep or pass, use strategy and superior game play to win.

Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Legion : Bad Batch unit pack
Includes 6 miniatures, unit and upgrade cards for the Star Wars Legion miniature game.

Deadpool Roleplays the Marvel Universe
a one shot adventure for the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game.

By Odin’s Beard RPG – Runecairn : Wardensaga
A hardbound version of Runecairn in a single volume. Core rules, introductory adventure, advanced rules and more in a colorful digest sized hardbound book.

Friendly Skeleton – Speed Colors
a fast’n’fun game for 2-6 players, ages 6 and up. Memorize the picture, color inside the lines and score points.

UVS Games – Godzilla Challenger series game.
Each deck includes 3 different Kaiju which you pit against other players in this battling game.
King Ghidorah, Rodan and Mechagodilla  are featured in the first deck
Godzilla, Mothra and Mechagodillza are featured in the second deck
Each deck also comes with a collector’s booster pack with random alt-art or foil cards to enhance your deck.

Compass Games – Burning Banners
2-6 players (ages 14 and up). This fantasy wargame has six unique factions : Orcs, Goblins, the army of the East  to dwarves, northmen and the Army of the Night. 29 different scenarios ranging from small brawls to a world spanning global conflict. Includes Basic rules, full color 1” counters, a lavish map, Advance rules, game cards and more.

Steve Jackson Games – Munchkin : Pony Excess
A new Munchkin 56 card expansion with a horse theme. Lucky horseshoes, Rocking Horses, the Centaur of Attention and much more!

Steve Jackson Games – We Love Cats
a 3 -8 player game of cat adoption. This game plays in about 15 minutes. Includes dice, cat token, carry bag and rules.

Gamers Grass – Tuft Starter Boxes
Each boxed set comes with 4 sheets of tufts, a bottle of PVA glue, a tuft tweezer and a basing guide.

Green Grass Boxed Set comes with Strong Green XL tufts, Dry Green 6mm tufts, green 4mm tufts and white flower tufts.

Dry Grass Boxed Set has Spikey Beige (12mm), Dry Tufts 6mm, Beige 4mm and tiny Beige (2mm) tufts

Alien Grass Tuft Set has Alien Blue, Tiny Alien Purple, Alien Purple and Alien Void tufts

Fireforge Games – Armies of Islam : Black Guard
30 plastic multipart miniatures armed with spears and shields along with command figures.

Modiphius – Five Parsecs from Home Companion
Includes Trailblazers Toolkit which adds a new campaign, pvp and cooperative scenarios, elite enemies and new deployment rules. The Freelancers handbook adds two new species, equipment and scenarios. The Fixer’s Guidebook includes new injury rules, terrain tables, stealth and streetfight scenarios and faction rules. Lastly Bug Hunt adds a military themed aspect to Five Parsecs which adds aliens, cooperative campaign and more.

Modiphius – Rangers of Shadowdeep : A Gathering of Heroes
a new hardbound volume with advanced character creation, new archetypes, enchanted weapons, a bestiary, new artwork and material from previous supplements – Blood Moon, Temple of Madness, Ghost Stone, Incinerator and Menagerie.

Osprey Games – three historical miniature games
The Men Who Would be Kings : Last Samurai Rebellion

Lion Rampant : The Crusader States

Lion Rampant : Viking in the Sun

Renegade Games – Alice is Missing : Silent Falls Expansion
This expansion adds new suspects, location and events to add new experiences to your game. And… ALice is missing is back in stock too!

Exalted Funeral – Old School Essentials Adventure Anthology 1
4 different short adventures for Old School Essentials in a single book.

Exalted Funeral – Old School Essentials Adventure Anthology 2
four more short adventures for Ood School Essentials in a single book.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners : Mission Kit
R Talsorian’s new boxed set with background book, rules, a full length adventure, seven premade adventures, dice, maps, standees and tokens.

Kobold Press – Tales of the Valiant
Kobold Press’s new RPG for High Fantasy Role Playing setting.

The Player’s Guide gives you 5e compatible lineage and heritage systems, spellcasting and weapon options, downtime rules, talents & backgrounds and much more.

The Monster Vault adds 400 monsters and the Game Master Screen a 4 panel landscape screen/reference source.

Osprey – The Silver Bayonet : Egypt
Bring your Silver Bayonet game into the shifting sands. As Bonaparte rampages through Europe after conquering Egypt, special units are sent to find the ancient secrets that help his army. Venture through cities, ruins and the Pyramids themselves in a pair of campaigns – one cooperative and one competitive. New soldier types, new foes and more await you.

It’s time for a Mid-Week Update!
Been a bit since I’ve been able to do so – so here we are.

Third Kingdom Games – Into the Wild Omnibus Edition
380+ page hardbound book combining A Guide to Thieves’s Guilds, Filling in the Blanks and Int the Wild. Guide to Thieves Guilds explores forming and running guilds as well as ideas GMs can use to make Guilds meaningful in their games. Filling in the Blanks add tables and charts to help GMs fill in the details for sandbox and hexcrawls. Into the Wild gives guides to help run hexcrawls, domain rules,alternate classes for BX style character classes and extra flair ro help with your games.

Osprey – The Silver Bayonet : Egypt
Bring your Silver Bayonet game into the shifting sands. As Bonaparte rampages through Europe after conquering Egypt, special units are sent to find the ancient secrets that help his army. Venture through cities, ruins and the Pyramids themselves in a pair of campaigns – one cooperative and one competitive. New soldier types, new foes and more await you.

Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech Recognition Guide volume 2 : Ilclan
new Inner Sphere and Clan Mechs and vehicles with new technologies, ready to take over the battlefield. Each entry has full game statistics, histories, illustration and notable pilots.

Modiphius – Solo Game Master’s Guide
a book on the ideas behind creating an immersive solo RPG experience. Includes system-neutral tips and tricks, tables and lists to help create scenarios, tips on avoiding common mistakes, examples of play to help show resolution and more.

Gray to Play brushes and accessories
A new range of synthetic brushes from the #6 round to 3/0, flat brushes, stippling brushes and more. Ergonomic wood handles, aluminum ferrules and premium nylon bristles. Also anti-spill brush wash containers, aluminum brush washers, dry palettes and individual brushes are all available right now.

Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : Adventure Class Ships
160 page, full color, hardbound book with Exploration, Merchant, Military, Passenger and Working ships as well as Aslan, Sword World and Vargr ships, and custom ships. All are 2000 tons or less, include 60 new ships and each have deck plans, full statistics as well as brief background information. From the basic Scout and Free Trader to mining ships, luxury starliners, bounty hunters, specialized traders, military ships and more.

Wizards of the Coast – Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Six classic adventures, revised for 5e D&D. Includes Beyond the Crystal Cave, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, Pharaoh, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, The Lost City and When a Star Falls. Adventures can be run individually or together as a campaign to take characters from 1st to 13th level.

Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Shatterpoint : Make the Impossible Possible Squad Pack
Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren and Chopper. 3 models, unit stat cards, stance & orders

Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Shatterpoint : Stronger than Fear Squad Pack
Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger & Garazeb ‘Zeb’ Orrelios, unit stat, stance & order cards

Gigamic – Garden Getaway – 2 or 4 players, ages 4 to 7
Be the animal to escape the farmers wrath to win this race game.
TheZoneRPG.com – The Zone : Surreal play to lose horror RPG
This card based storytelling game is designed to play without a gamemaster. Zero preparation and easy to play card based storytelling. 24 characters ready to go.

Gamewright – Qwixx
a frantic dice rolling game for 2 to 5 players (ages 8 and up) which has all the players going at once. Roll, cross off totals and score.

MultiMan Publishing – ASL Action Pack #18 – Oktoberfest #18
2 maps, 14 scenarios ranging from Russian & German skirmishes in 1941 to Allies vs the Japanese, European battles through 1945 as well as American vs North Korean battle in Korea.

Multiman Publishing – Operational Matters #2 – OCS Guide Volume 2 with the game Luzon.

Gigamic – Pac Man Quoridor
The classic game of Quoridor with themed pieces allowing you to play in the classic manner or play a variant that captures the spirit of the famous Pac-Man game.

Prolific Games – Squatch & Seek
2-4 players – be a hard working logger, dodge Sasquatch and try to stay alive till morning. Ages 8 and up. Plays in around 10 minutes.

Bananagram – Worlds Smallest Bananagrams
a pocket sized game of bananagrams ready for travel and fun!
Pinnacle Entertainment – Savage Worlds : Legend of Ghost Mountain
A new setting where the dead have rebelled against living. Take on the role of Ghost Wardens, uncover the mysteries to help deal with the dead and save the empire.

Upper Deck – Legendary 2099
The world of 2099 is a different place than today. Corporate corruption rules, the old heroes are gone and the Sinister Six remain to spread their evil. Can new heroes stop them? 5 new heroes include Spiderman 2099, Ghost Rider 2099 and Doctor Doom. This expansion also adds 2 Adapting Masterminds, 2 new villain groups, 4 new schemes and rules. 100 playable cards.

Steve Jackson Games – Express : The Railroad Card Game
This card game challenges 2-6 players to create trains, disrupt rivals and work to use up all their cards. Cards are color coded so the whole family can play. Originally designed by train game aficionado Darwin Bromley the ‘Darwin’s Toys’ trademark honors his legacy of design and promotion of these games. Plays in half an hour or more depending on players.

Imagining Games – Rest in Pieces
a dark comedy roleplaying game about being roommates in a downtrodden studio apartment with… the grim reaper himself. Misadventures, cartoon logic and over the top comedy abound. Designed for ages 17 and up due to situations, it’s meant for 3 to 6 players. Includes 14 different scenarios and game cards to set up characters, scenarios and game play.

Imagining Games – Rest in Pieces Rick Fury, Game Master Deck, Great Cthuhlu decks
are you bored with hanging out with Death? Change the Grim Reaper to a Mad Scientist, Cthuhlu himself or Game Master and move in with a new roommate creating all new situations. Three new decks to pick and choose from.

Imagining Games – Instigator Deck
50 new pesky problems and exciting events to mess with your roommates.

TTRPGkids – Making a Tabletop RPG for your Particular Kid
A guide for families, friends and facilitators. A book on how to create unique settings, characters, mechanics and guidelines on adjusting your game to fit the player’s needs. Also idas on involving them in the planning, how to make a safe game environment and what to do if the kids go ‘villian mode’.

By Odin Beard – Runecairn RPG
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn Core Rules
a Norse Fantasy RPG that is rules light and designed for one player and one Warden to run the game.
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn Advanced Rules
includes two new classes, Oracle for solo play, a Delve generator along with Allies and Invasions to add to the game.
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn : Into the Nine Realms
16 self contained maps and encounters to play as one shot or add to your campaign. Suitable for standard or solo play.
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn : Beneath the Broken Sword
an introductory adventure for th Norse RPG. Designed for two, Adventurer and Warden (GM)
By Odin’s Beard RPGs – Runecairn Bestiary
60 monsters, rules for creating your own creatures and for converting them from other systems.

Hit Point Press – Helianna’s Guide to Monster Hunting
a 5e Compatible sourcebook giving you 10 unique monster hunt scenarios, rules for tracking, harvesting and crafting. Eighty monsters are introduced as well as new subclasses, new races, spells, and a collection of magic items. Become a Monster Tamer. Defeat monsters and ready the grill for meals as well.

Hello Games Plus followers and fans.
Another update coming to you – this time on Thursday!

Trick or Treat Studios – Texas Chainsaw Massacre miniature set
11 miniature versions of Leatherface and his opponents. Can be used to replace the standees in the boardgame, your favorite RPG or miniatures collection.

Reiner Kinzia – Huang
a competitive game for 2-4 players set in the Warring States tie of China. Use your 5 different leaders (Governer, Soldier, Farmer, Trader and Artisan) to build pagodas, trigger or avoid wars, instigate revolts and take your opponents down. Unite the country under your banner to win. Short teaching time and elegant game play make this games classic in the making. Ages 14 and up. Plays in around 90 minutes.

Cryptozoic Rivals – Black Adam vs Shazam
includes 99 game cards, 6 oversized character cards, rulebook and divider. Includes a first print Hoppy Promo Card. 2 players, ages 15 and up.

Smirk & Dagger Games – Adventure Party
3-8 players choose the way they choose to complete a challenge, roll in secret and describe the outcome. The GM tries to guess how well they rolled and scores are tallied. Ages 14 and up. Plays in around 20 minutes for a few players to an hour for a bunch.

Restoration Games – Unmatched : Slings & Arrows
This 2-4 player game pits Shakespeare and his creations against each other in tactical combat. The Bard himself, the Wayward Sisters, Hamlet and Titania are included with tokens for sidekicks. Any heroes and maps from the Unmatched set can be used to battle. Ages 9 and up. Plays in 15 minutes to an hour depending on players.

Fantasy Flight Games – Unfathomable : From the Abyss
this Unfathomable expansion adds new monsters, new playable characters, ally cards, new prelude cards,new skills and boons as well. Character standees, horror miniatures, overlay tiles and much more add endless variety to the game.

Nanox Games – Evenfall
at Evenfall the boundaries of reality collapse and portals open to unknown regions. Send members of your clan to attempt to take Places of Power, gain Powerstones and undertake Rituals. Designed for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in around 30 minutes per player.

It’s Wednesday. It’s hot. But you know what else is?
Rich’s Midweek Update!

That’s right. Even though the tires might melt off their trucks, the delivery services have gotten us a bunch of new material for you to enjoy.

Cubicle 7 – Warhammer fantasy Roleplay : Ubersriek Adventures III
four adventures for WFRPG set in the last days of the Enemy Within Campaign. Save a village from Orcs & Goblins, investigate illness around a mining town, get entangled with the affairs of nobility and help sort out a disaster in the woods around a hunting lodge. 100+ page hardbound book with handouts, maps and more.

Cubicle Seven – Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor Sourcebook
190+ page book chronicling the 13th doctors adventures, adversaries, allies and more. All in a full color hardbound book for ease of use. Tons of information for use in your game or just to bring you up to speed.

Chaosium Inc – Pendragon Core Book
a hardbound all in one book giving you the world of King Arthur, full rules on character creation, pre-generated characters, Pendragon rules that cover everything you need to play, additional rules beyond the core to add depth into the characters and NPCs. The Winter Phase is covered in detail giving the characters options for downtime, training, side quests and more. There is even a Coat of Arms generator to create unique heraldry for your Knight. Everything you need to play or run a game of Pendragon.

Pendragon : The Grey Knight Campaign
The Grey Knight accuses Arthur of Murdering children and Sir Gwain steps up to defend the King’s Honor. Merlin declares that Arthur’s champion will perish at the hands of the Grey Knight unless a treasure holding the key to defeating him is found. Can you locate this treasure, save the kingdom and Gwain’s life? Includes everything you need to run the campaign, includes two sequel scenarios that set the bridge to the Sword Campaign from the starter set, details the city of Carilon and involves the character in Arthurian History.

Catalyst Game Labs – Star League Command Lance
4 Mech miniatures, 7 mechwarrior cards, 4 Alpha Strike cars, Atlas II, Thunderhawk, a Phoenix Hawk variant and a reposed and fully painted Orion are included.

Renegade Games – Rivals : Martial Law
new vampires for the six latest clans (Banu Haqim, Catiff, Ministry, Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce), a preconstructed Hunter deck with all the state of the art Hunting equipment they might need and a Crypt Pack to customize decks. 120 new cards.

Scorpion Masque – Monster Chase
a memory based cooperative game for ages 3 and up. Ready for 1-6 players, it should play in around 10 minutes.

iello Games – Clash of Magic Schools
2 players square off in an attempt to win the competition between the two Magical Houses. Assign students to tasks and try to excel at the different trails. Beware the Forbidden Spells, even if using them might give you victory. Ages 12 and up. Plays in around 45 minutes.

Renegade Games – Robo Rally : Transformers
Play legendary Transformers as you navigate the dangerous race course. Use your ability to transform to dart in and out of buildings, jump across obstacles and attack your opponents. Designed for 2-6 players. Plays in 45 minutes to 90 minutes depending on the number of players. Includes robot miniatures, special upgrade cards, 4 double sided map boards, double sided starting tile, tokens, play aids, rules, cards and more.

Cryptozoic Entertainment – DC Justice League Dark DBG
Based on the comic this game comes with 8 oversized character cards, 215 game cards, special first printing promo cards, and rules. Deal with threats from magical Super-Villains as you deal with threats too magical to be handled by the regular heroes. Designed for ages 15 and up. 2-4 players.

Cryptozoic Entertainment – DC Justice League Dark Expansion
Join the Injustice League Dark! These new cards allowing you to play villains, gain nemesis rewards, cursed weakness cards, 6 oversize character cards, 53 game cards and a rulebook.

Another Friday night and another little update of new items that have made it into the store.

Wargames Atlantic – Gangs of Rome : Citizens of Rome
30 multipart plastic  miniatures which allow you to create gang memes, armed mob participants and even gladiators. Also handy for making members of Spartacus Revolt.

Atomic Mass Games – new Star Wars Shatterpoint items:

Never Tell Me The Odds Mission Pack:
mission card, 9 Struggle Cards, 1 token sheet

Real Quiet Like Squad Pack
Includes Han Solo, Chewbacca and 2 Rebel Commandos as well as Stat, Order and Unit cards

Today the Rebellion Dies Squad Pack
Includes Iden Versio, Gideon Hask and 3 Inferno Squad members and Cards

Free League Games – Mutant Year Zero Zone Wars : Skirmish Mayhem in the Mutant Year Zero Universe
Includes 10 miniatures, game cards, tokens, custom dice, 36×36 game mat, cardboard terrain, ruler and rulebook.

Free League Games – Mutant Year Zero Zone Wars : Robots & Psionics
This expansion adds 2 factions, and new rules, five new scenarios as well as 10 new miniatures, cards, tokens, custom dice, cardboard terrain, ruler and booklet.

Sound of Drums Games – History of the Ancient Seas game series
Players control different factions in the ancient world attempting to dominate the seas around them, their influence in the lands, build  fleets, explore lands, conquer islands and build a great empire. 

Hellas – this volume pits Athens and Sparta against each other in the Hellenistic world, from Persia to Sicily. Move fleets and armies to create trade networks, influence or outright capture neighbors who are not aligning themselves with your country and become dominant Hellenistic power. 2 players, about 3 hour play time. Ages 14 and up.

Irae – sets the Egypt, the Greek City STates and Perisa against each other in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Move fleets and armies to create trade networks, influence or outright capture neighbors who are not aligning themselves with your country and become dominant Hellenistic power. 1-3  players, about 2 hours of play time. Ages 14 and up.    

Mare Nostrum – Volume 3 puts the Roman Empire, Carthage, Greek City States, Egypt and Persia at odds with each other. Move fleets and armies to create trade networks, influence or outright capture neighbors who are not aligning themselves with your country and become dominant Hellenistic power. 1-5  players, about 3 hours of play time. Ages 14 and up.   

Deluxe  History of the Ancient Seas – includes all three volumes (Hellas, Irae and Mare Nostrum) in a single box. 

Longpack Games – World Breakers : Advent of the Khante
This two player card game is set in an alternate 13th century Asia. Players are Worldbreakers with mysterious powers. Recruit followers, develop locations and attempt to gain power to reshape history. Designed for 1-2 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in about half an hour. Features multiple game modes to play alone, competitively and with preconstructed, drafted or constructed decks.

Long Pack Games – Worldbreakers The Indigo Sisterhood
This expansion adds additional game cards, guild dice for tracking standing and a new solo campaign taking a journey to the Indigo Grotto.

New Reaper Miniatures :
Spiders of Emrith Kul boxed set
2 Large, 2 Medium Spiders, 2 cocooned victims, 2 husks, halfling hero and ruined shrine

The Bridge Troll’s Toll box set
Bridge, Farmer, 3 goats, Troll, Swimming Troll and Troll Nest

Arakoth the Ancient box set
Colossal Spider, roughly 7” in diameter to its outer legs, about 2” to the top of its thorax. Includes a scenic base. Fully assembled and ready to paint or game with..

Wall of Thorns (1 ½” x ¾” base with bunched of thorned vines) 

new Bones USA miniatures:
Dungeon Dwellers RPG: Adept
Dungeon Dwellers RPG: Aristocrat
Isabeau Lorouche, Female Paladin
Maeve Greysky, Female Barbarian
Anya, Half Orc Arm Wrestler

new Base Boss plastic bases:
60mm Round lip display base (no slot – 10 bases)
40mm Round Gaming Base (no slot, raised lip, 10 bases)
28mm Round Gaming Base (no slot, raised lip, 20 bases)
30mm Round Gaming Base (no slot, round lipped, 20 bases)
40mm Round Display Base (no slot, round lipped, 10 bases)