So here we are between the Winter Holidays. Not much new that we have remaining at this point – but still lots and lots of gaming going on and tons of things to see and purchase in store!
Mongoose Publishing – Traveller The Order of Prometheus An epic adventure spanning several worlds, action, investigation and intrigue. This 130+ page book places the Travellers inside the Solomani Confederation uncovering secrets that the Order of Prometheus does not want anyone to know about… Will you stop a massacre, blow the whistle on immoral science and live to tell the tale?
Cubicle Seven – Doctor Who and the Daleks a 5e D&D system game with everything you need to generate characters, from Time Lords, to Agents and Companions. Play combat light adventures with a wide variety of setting, technology and adversaries as well as custom TARDIS. Also includes Aliens, Oddities, source material ideas and excitement. Available as a 3 book collector series or as Players Guide (for playing), Alien Archive (for reference) and Keys of Scaravore (adventure series)
Van Ryder Games – Final Girl : The North Pole Nightmare : Krampus the Horned Devil This scenario set is holiday themed, complete ith a mini, red foil logo and Epic Finale card.
Lucky Duck Games – Kiri-Ai : The Duel a 2 player samurai duel card game. Ages 13+. Plays in 5-10 minutes
Format Games – Christmas Karen A party game for 3 to 10 players – create your own 1 star reviews of items in this game.
Exalted Funeral – Elder Oak : An Old School Roleplaying Adventure
Jonny Bloozit – Folk Arcana : System independent RPG book of witchcraft magick items.
Rio Grande Games – Evacuation 1-4 player game. As solar radiation burns away civilization you need to take your economy and population, dismantle it and move to the New World to have a chance to save your people. Can you Can you succeed? Includes alternate play mode rules for three variations. Plays in as little as an hour to 3 hours depending on players and scenario.
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Rich here with a quick update of the items we have gotten in right before…. we take a day off on Monday!
Hero Games – Champions Complete – the full Champions rules, all in one book.
Hero Games – Champions Now -the core rules from the first release of Champions, redesigned to bring it to the vision of long time player and author of other games, Ron Edwards. A system to do what you want with no constraints. Not only rules but ideas on running a campaign, creating your own genre and many examples of how the system defines a number of heroes and villains from literature to help you create your own.
DMDave Publishing – Horror RPG Using the Year Zero Engine, this RPG puts the characters into a world of supernatural terrors and life threatening situations. Make the right choices and you just might manage to make it out alive in this immersive horror rpg.
DMDave Publishing – The Diner : Scenario book for Horror RPG a 1980s themed scenario set with a number of threats to provide an evenings entertainment.
Pazio – Pathfinder 2e Season of Ghosts : No Breath to Cry adventure 3 of 4 continuing the quest to lift the curse upon Willowshore. Can you help your hometown or will the winter stop you cold… levels 7- 9.
Frog God Games – The Orcus Hoilday Special three holiday themed adventures for 5e D&D featuring your most favorite demon lord… Orcus. How Orcus Stole Christmas, Orcus in a Winter Wonderland and Orcus on 34th Level
Ares Games – War of the Ring : Kings of Middle Earth two new types of Characters, Sovereigns of the Free Peoples and Dark Chieftains of the Shadow Hosts. 3 new Characters, 8 new miniatures, special action dice, counters, rules & more.
Ares Games – Sword & Sorcery Myths of the Arena includes 3 new game modes, including side quests, competitive multi-player and survival modes.New enemies, map tiles, items, story driven quest and much, much more.
Square root of 8 – Die of the Dead 2 to 5 players work to guide the souls of the Dead back to the Land of the Living. Unique game play combines dice, memory and tactics in a race. Ages 14 and up, plays in under an hour.
Rio Grande – Shipyard 1-4 players work to build fleets, hire crews and power commerce, industry and naval supremacy. Ages 14 and up, plays in between an hour or two depending on players.
Restoration Games – Unmatched Adventures : Heroes vs Villain Includes 4 heroes and 2 villains allowing cooperative play of any hero from the game (or others) to band together against a giant monster (Mothman) or alien invasion (Martian Invader). Included in this set are Anne Christmas, Jill Trent, Nikola Tesla and the Golden Bat.
GMT Games – new releases The Last Hundred Yards : Russian Front (volume 4) new map tiles, missions and mind set is required while fighting as the Soviets in the new expansion. Required all previous games to play all the missions.
Fire on the Lake : Sovereign of Discord new scenarios to extend play between 1 and 4 players taking the game back to 1961 or 1963 for a different start to Fire in the Lake after playing SoD. New events, new new rules and the ability to play the full war from 1961-1975 using Fire in the Lake, SoD and FitL : Fall of Saigon.
Prime Minister 1 to 4 players vie for political power in this card based game. Game play is partially cooperative with players working together to accomplish goals while competitively gaining as much personal power as they can to end the game in the Prime Ministers seat. Includes a clockwork system for solo play as well as dozens of other scenarios of varying length. Takes from 1 to 4 hours to play, dependent on players.
Osprey Publishing – More new books! Campaign #397 – Cape Matapan 1941 : Cunningham’s Mediterranean Triumph Campaign #396 – Japan’s Indian Ocean Raid 1942 New Vanguard # 325 – German Field Artillery of World War II
Combat Aircraft #151 – Harrier GR7/9 units in combat
Campaign # 395 – The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943 Orsogna, San Pietro & Ortona
Men at Arms # 552 – Medieval Indian Armies (2) Indo-Islamic Forces 7-16 Centuries
Fleet # 3 – British Pacific Fleet 1944-45 Royal Navy & downfall of Japan
Fleet # 4 – US 7th Fleet, Vietnam 1964-75 American naval power in Southeast Asia New Vanguard # 324 – Soviet Motor Gunboats of WW2 – Stalingrad to Berlin
Q Workshop – Harry Potter Dice 7 piece polyherdal set – each set with the house sigil and themed scrollwork decorating then dice. 5d6 set – with house sigil on the ‘6’ side and decorative scrollwork on the other faces. Includes a dice bag with house themed artwork as well.
Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : Journal of the Travellers Aid Society Vol 11 Includes articles on stateroom modifications, a new playable species (Aezorgh), musical instruments, new starships and more.
Mongoose Publishing – Traveller : Journal of the Travellers Aid Society Vol 12 Starports of the Imperium, the Wolf of the Marches, Games for Gamblers, Adrift and more.
Bright Eye Games – The Plot Thickens : Storytelling Card Games
Christmas-ey Games Steve Jackson Games – Munchkin Tales of the Season – Munchkin add-on Steve Jackson Games – the 12 Dice of Christmas – dice game Dolphin Hat Games – Santa, Cookie, Elf, Candy, Snowman card game 25th Century Games – Christmas Lights – card game Roxley Games – Dice Throne – Santa vs Krampus Stand alone or cross compatible add-on to Dice Throne
Gamewright Games – Block Party party block building game
Greater Than Games – Spirit Island : Nature Incarnate
Czech Game Editions – Kutna Hora : City of Silver (2-4 player mining & economy game)
Compass Games new releases Silent War 2.0 – Solitaire game of the submarine campaign against Japan 1941-45
Napoleon’s Eagles : The 100 Days (2 player or solitaire card game)
Arc Dream Publishing – Delta Green Adventure : Presence
Edge Games Star Wars Starter Sets Edge of the Empire Starter Set Force and Destiny Starter Set Age of Rebellion Starter Set -each with a complete learn as you go adventure, dice, pregenerated characters and rules to play.
Miniature Line Restocks!
We got a whole lot of the Ral Partha Legacy miniature unit and starter packs in store. Classics and new armies like the Dryads.
Red Box Games – we have uncovered a small stock of the Njorn (Viking) and Aeglish (English) miniatures cast in metal with 25mm round plastic bases. Get them while you can.
And there is a whole lot more than that. Sadly amidst the chaos, hub bub and hullabaloo there just isn’t the ability to jot it all down. But gander at the pictures and I’ll try to get them done later next week…
They are here! – The -new- Vallejo Game Air colors are in the house!
51 new colors (well, 50 – we got shorted on one) are here awaiting you. And new Vallejo natural hair brush sets as well. The Design Set with a #0, #1 and #2 round and the Definition Set with #2/0, #3/0 and #4/0 round bristles.
Not to be left out – AK Interactive has laser cut paint organizers – a 52 bottle organizer holding your bottles (about 52 of them) on an angle and having a bin for your brushes. Also an organizer for then larger jars – holding about 30 of them.
New items for the painters out there – come and get’em while we still got’em!
And we’ve got new miniatures in store as well! Song of Ice & Fire miniature game has the Darkstar Retinue – Ser Gerold Dayne’s personal guard. a bannerman, 11 retinue figures and the High Hermitage Sentinel as well as game cards and movement tray.
Archon Studios Dungeons & Lasers miniatures have released :
Demonic Tree complete with a scenic base and captured human minis to adorn it.
Wyvern – over 5″ tall and with a 75mm round scenic base, this beast is ready to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting.
Ancient Ruins – box of scatter terrain has 43 pieces with bushes, mushrooms, signs, plants, tents, obelisk, monoliths, pillars, huts and more.
Woodland Dwellers – a box of 30 models ranging from wolves to giant centipedes, giant spiders, centaurs, stags and others as well as a few monsters.
Village Pack – Includes a Mushroom hut, swamp hut, watch tower, Highlander hut and a cage to add a bit of flavor to your games.
Swamps of Doom – this set comes with a 28″ playmat (gridded in 1″ squares) as well as trees, boats, carrion, piers and more plastic terrain to provide a dank, swampy place for adventure.
Sorcerer’s Spire – this modular building kit has over 350 pieces which provide enough pieces to create a tower over 20″ tall and 12″ wide with myriad stairways, roof, balconies, doorways and more. Tiles have a 1″ grid engraved on them and are double sided to detail the spire the way you want.
It’s late Saturday and the sale (and the day) is slipping away. But, just because the sale might be coming to an end, there is no reason to panic. There are whole bunches of new items that have made their appearance in the store. Check out the pictures – here are a few things detailed outfor you as well…
Pegasus Speil – Djinn 1 to 4 players (ages 12 and up) work to protect the Magical Source that powers the community and capture the troublesome Djinns that are attempting to capture it for themselves. PLays in around an hour to an hour and a half depending on the players.
Lookout Games – Forest Shuffle 2 to 5 players (ages 10 +) try to balance different segments of the habitat to provide a welcoming space for different flora and fauna. Plant trees, add different animals, mushrooms and plants and try to make a balanced ecosystem. Plays in around an hour.
Exalted Funeral – Duck Quest : The Banshee of Billfort. Explore the wetlands of the Quaking Quag in this Adventurezine for AquaLoonia (or other RPGs)
Fantasy Flight Games – Marvel Champions expansions X-23 Hero Pack – X-23 deck, Lady Deathstrike nemesis deck and new cards that can add to any Marvel Champions Hero Deck.
Deadpool Hero Pack – Deadpool Hero Deck (including the new ‘pool aspect), 47 ‘pool aspect cards that can make any character a ‘pool, and Evil Deadpool Encounter Set.
Wizkids Games – Heroclix Iconix Hall of Armor 5 Iron Man Suits, display stands and Heroclix cards
Direwolf Games – Dune Imperium Uprising A standalone Expansion to Dune Imperium adding a 6 player mode, new mechanics and more.
We’ve got the Pathfinder Remastered books in stock, the new Vallejo Game Color boxed sets (4 related shades to paint a given color) new Vallejo brush sets, Heroclix new starter set, Wheels of Vengeance set and play at home set, Centurion (The Duke engine tile game) new RPG items, new Nolzurs D&D miniatures… and more!
And we’ve got a restock of Vallejo paints (new Game Air color expected in a few weeks), the Marching Order game (with new quick & dirty modules) and expect more tomorrow.
After a Chaotic and overwhelming week – here is a quick round down of items that made it into the store.
Atomic Mass Games -Star Wars Shatterpoint : Sabotage Showdown a new mission set for Shatterpoint. Mission card, 9 struggle cards, punch set.
UltraPro – Tarot sized Deck Protector – D&D Deck of Many Things artwork 70 card sleeves 73x124mm – with artwork from the Deck of Many Things card backs
Ultrapro – Dungeons & Dragons Figurines of Adorable Power : Lolth the Spider Queen
Scorpion Masque – Turbo Kidz 2 to 6 racers (ages 6+) try to navigate a race course as fast as they can… without looking. The copilot guides the driver with voice instructions and moving the drivers other thumb like a joystick. Plays in around 15 minutes..
Pegasus Spiel – Memo Mission 2 to 4 players, ages 6 and up. PLays in 15 to 30 minutes depending on players. Collect crystals and adventure with dragons and vacuum cleaners…
Capstone Games – Marine Worlds : Ark Nova Expansion sea animals and aquariums get added to your Ark Nova game. alternate zoo cards, new zoo cards, bonus tiles, scoring cards and more.
The Story Engine – new RPG Decks The Story Engine Deck gives you endless prompts for writers, GMs and story tellers. A simple open ended system of 180 cards and a guidebook.
The Deck of Worlds is a 240 card set for helping to create lands, local lore and story driven world maps you can explore through writing or role play. Six card types that combine to create settings that are linked in past, present and future.
Magpie Games – Avatar Legends RPG Starter Set a condensed rulebook, introductory adventure, dice, combat action cards, pre-illustrated character sheets, reference sheets, poster map and a code to unlock the digital version of the starter set.
Ares Games – new Wings of Glory (WW1) planes Nieuport 16 – Lafayette Escadrille, Navarre and De Guibert. each with it’s own unique paint scheme, stand and cards.
Cubicle 7 – Imperium Maledictum Collector’s Edition This new 40K RPG book comes in it’s own magnetically sealed, foil trimmed breathtakingly amazing well appointed book. Create characters and play in the Imperiums Macharian Sector, moving through society and intrigues as opposed to battlefields and death. Take care, there are still deadly missteps you can take and where combat is not the centerpiece of the game – it still can happen.
Double Combo Games – Mage Noir Discover the world of the Circle, learn magic, use mana and attempt to become the Mage Noir, one of the most powerful beings to existUses a shared mana pool, a spell crafting system, deck building freedom and is easy to learn… but hard to master. 2 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in around half an hour.
Bezier Games – Castles of Mad King Ludwig 1 to 4 players act as contractors building a castle for the King. Add rooms, sell services to other players, score points based on meeting the Kings ever changing requirements and try to build the best castle you can.
Bezier Games – Castles of Mad King Ludwig expansion This box includes 7 mini expansions, each adding a new facet to the game. Renovations add the ability to rework your castle. Towers add special game end scoring rooms. Moats surround your castle to add extra VPs. Swan Tokens and convert to money or end game VPs. Secret Passages add connection bonuses and help fit rooms into odd spaces. Royal Decrees gain unique, asymmetrical powers and New Favors and Bonus Cards increase the end game goals.
Castles of Burgundy Special Edition Castles of Burgundy with premium components like cloth bags, wooden tokens and more. For 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in a hour and a half to two hours… or so.
Legion Wargames – Aces of Valor a solo game of squadron management on the Western Front of WW1. Medium complexity, plays in about 30 minutes per mission. Campaign game lasts for 8, 12 or 16 missions.
Osprey Games – A War Transformed As the Great War drags into 1916 the Moon falls from its orbit, the seas shift, ancient things stir in hidden groves and magic awakens in the world. 1918 sees battles taking place on Doggerland – a land bridge linking Britain and Europe. Now Magic and machine guns, rifles and relics, tanks, totems and ancient things fight to turn the tide of war. a new platoon sized skirmish game set in a world of lost wonders. Includes rules, backgrounds, scenarios, army lists and all the information you need to play.
Ares Games – War of the Ring Card Game : Against the Shadow (Solo/Co-op) You play as the Free Peoples against an automated opponent controlled by a simple flowchart and new deck of Shadow Cards. You still require War of the Ring Card Game to play. For 1 or 2 players, ages 13+ Plays in around an hour.
Metallic Dice Company – Dice Advent Calendar Includes a holiday theme bag, holiday theme polyhedral set, 2 sets of assorted polyhedral holiday dice, an exclusive mini-dice set and an exclusive metal d20 for the last day.
Bright Eye Games – The Plot Thickens Craft a story from the 5 cards in your deck and try to weave together the most creative and immersive tale you can. You can mix cards from different genre sets for even more interesting options and to add more players to the mix. Designed for 3-4 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in around 10-15 minutes per player.
That Sound Game – a noisy game for weird people a party game for 4 or more players. Use sound and movement (but not your hands) to get your teammates to guess as many answers as they can. Plays in around an hour.
Lookout Games – Patterns (a Mandala game for 2 players) create patterns and claim them for yourself. 2 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in about 20 minutes. Includes a real cloth playmat!
BFF Games – Hidden Leaders The emperor is dead and the land of Oshra is in turmoil. This deduction game challenges you to influence different characters to aid in your quest to take the crown. 2 to 6 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in around half an hour or so.
Tea Leaf Games – Witch Way 2-5 players (ages 8 and up). Race around the twisting paths and overcome challenges to be the first to get your potion brewed. Plays in 20 minutes to an hour depending on players.
Wizkids Games – Onslaught Expansion : Nightmare of the Frogmire Coven 8 painted minis, double sided game board, cards, terrain elements, 8 scenarios and more game options.
Media Lab Books – Game Master’s Book of Villains, Minions and their Tactics Epic antagonists, battle strategies, step by step guidelines for creating the Big Bad for your adventure and more.
Kenzer and Company – Knights of the Dinner Table Issues 308 & 309 are here!
Arc Dream Publishing – new Delta Green releases Convergence – a scenario for Delta Green RPG – From the Dust – a scenario for Delta Green RPG – The Conspiracy – core rulebook for Delta Green
Board & Dice – Nucleum 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up. A tile placement and network building game.
Brexwerx Games – Holotype Mesozoic North America Teams of paleontologists discover specimens, publish your findings and score to win. 2 to 5 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in 1 to 2 hours.
New Chessex Lab Dice – Brilliant Translucent colors
Vallejo Synthetic Brush Sets – Includes a basic set with #1, #4 flat and #3/0 brush, a detail set with short bristle 2/0, 3/0 and 4/0 and a general set with a #0, #1 and #2 round brushes. More sets and individuals will be coming out in the future with further brush sizes as well as sable bristles and specialty sizes & shapes.
Wizkids Games – Icons of the Realms : Legend of Drizzt Tabletop Companions – Drizzt, Wulgfar, Catti-Brie, Bruenor, Artemis and Guehwyvar as pre painted miniatures Family & Foes – Drizzt, Gromph, Zaknafein, Malice, Jarlaxe, Trail and Guehwyvar prepainted miniatures ready for tabletop use.
Steamforged Games – Dark Souls miniatures Bonfires – pack of 4 bonfire markers Barrels – 8 barrels (4 each of 2 different miniatures) Hungry Mimics – closed mimic and open mimic (humanoid/treasure chest hybrid) Dark Knights – 2 silver knight lancers, 2 fire bomb hollows (skeletons)
Osprey Games – General Orders World War II 2 player game mixing worker placement and dynamic tactics. Balance the need to seize crucial assets and protect your own supplies in this unique 2 player game. Ages 14 and up. Plays in half an hour or so.
Frattspiel Games – PanzerFratt A easy to learn, fun to play set of WW2 miniature rules.
GMT/Traxx – 18 India 18XX in India – with some pre-game variability which gives each play through a unique character. 2-5 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in 2 to 4 hours depending on players.
Lucky Duck Games – Senjutsu 1-4 players take on the role of Samurai locked in deadly conflict. Beautiful miniatures, customized deck crafting and thematic duels make this game swift playing and cinematic. Ages 14 and up, plays in half an hour or so.
Sinister Fish Games – Moon a pick & pass tableau building game of lunar base building. 1 to 5 players, ages 14 and up. Plays in 30 to 60 minutes.
Starling Games – Everdell : Mistwood expansion to Everdell adding new player powers, more legends, 8 unique farms, the Nightweaver, solo and 2 player scenarios against an automated opponent and more.
Arc Dream Publishing – Delta Green : From the Dust the Gerritsen Mansion was built long ago and now is in the midst of renovation to condos. But in the night children disappear, whispers are heard, weird footprints are found. Now Delta Green must discover what roams in the night and deal with it before it’s too late.
23rd Century Productions – BattleLords of the 23rd Century : Savage Worlds Edition A Savage Worlds setting with new edges, hindrances, weapons, armor, sci-fi equipment, powers and more all in the Core Rules. Also available is the Carnage Companion with ready to play characters, new edges and hindrances, vehicles and new combat rules as well as drones and more. Lastly the Alliance Setting Guide adds the Arachnids The Alliance, Mega-Corps, dueling, Bounty hunters, GM tips, campaign tips, tech levels and Meta Plots. More BattleLords than you can shake a stick at all at one time.
Pazio Pathfinder 2e – Season of Ghosts Adventure Path : The Summer that Never Was. Adventure book 1 of 4 taking characters from 1st to 3rd level.
Renegade Games – Chicago by Night A World of Darkness setting with the history of Chicago from multiple perspectives, over 50 NPCs , multiple Chronicle hooks, exploration of the different factions strewn across Chicago and more.
Savage Worlds Fantasy Companion is here !
Tenfold Dungeon – new Scifi sets. Each set is made of nesting boxes, in full color with a 1” grid superimposed for use with your favorite games.
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