So here we are – under a dust storm warning with flickering lights and some anxious folks…
But… assuming we survive the oncoming Armageddon of grime, pollen, wind and rain – we have a few new things to see…
Osprey Games – Hairfoot Jousting a quick and simple miniature game of Hairfoot Tournament Jousting. Lead your team to victory in this game of halfling jousting from the backs of hogs, pigs, turkeys, sheep and more. And keep you eye out for a secret hidden game that comes with it…
Evil Genius Games – Everyday Heroes RPG core rulebook This core rulebook uses the mechanics of 5e to bring the modern era gaming to life. Car chases, computer hacking, guns, explosions and more!
Atomic Mass Games – new Star Wars Legion miniature sets Stormtroopers – 11 miniatures, game cards, tokens and inserts Rebel Troopers – 11 miniatures, game cards, tokens and insert sheet Ashoka Tano – Commander and Padawan miniatures, cards, tokens and insert sheet
Space Cowboys – Splendor the Sun Never Sets this expansion adds strongholds, new powers and wonders of the Orient. Includes new rules, 30 new development cards, 3 strongholds per player and a noble tiles.
Kosmos – The Crew : Family Adventure Marooned in Paradise 3-5 player family adventure game for ages 8 and up. This cooperative game puts the players on a desert island and challenges them to complete 35 different missions to find their way home while not speaking with each other.. A two player variant is included. Missions play in around 15 minutes.
Keymaster Games – Parks 1-5 players move through the parks, discovering sights along the way. Stock up on supplies, take pictures and get to unique national parks. Plays in around 45 minutes to an hour and a half depending on players.
Brotherwise Games – Mistborn Deck Building Game 1-4 players (ages 13 and up) work to complete missions in this game. Decide powers to use, train and increase you abilities, use intrigue and combat to prevail over your foes. Includes a solo/co-op mode that allows you to take on the Lord Ruler as well.
Roxley Games – Santorini : Riddle of the Sphinx 22 cooperative maps adds to the classic Santorini game – includes new mechanisms, resource management, tower defense and boss battles. As you proceed through the scenarios you may gain new powers. Open the book to any page and play. Ages 8 and up. Plays in around half an hour.
WizKids – Underdark Expeditions – now featuring Dungeon Glo! this new pre-painted miniature set includes figures with glow in the dark paint for those luminous underdark encounters. 40 miniature set, available in 4 figure blind-buy boxes, ‘bricks’ of 8 blind boxes or even full cases.
Wizkids – Nolzurs Marvelous Minis new releases! GemStalker, Ogre Soldier, Draconian Mastermind, Mothman, Lion Drake, Bull Moose, Orthon, Star Spawn Larva Mage, Yuan-Ti Pit Master, Sahuagin Coral Smasher, Dragonborn of Bahamut, Dragonborn of Tiamat, Merfolk Scout, Swashbuckle, Flind Trapper and Blackguard.
Wizkids – Deep Cut Pathfinder Battles new miniatures Sunflower Leshy and Fruit Leshy, Lotus Leshy and Flytrap Leshy
Battlefront Miniatures – new Pacific Releases Pacific Setting book with history of the Pacific War 1942-43, US, Japanese, British, Indian and Australian forces, terrain rules, painting and basing guide… and more.
Pacific Beach Landing Pack – includes a Beach and Atoll mats, defense and landing craft counters, defense unit cards, mission and rules book
Pacific Unit Box Sets -US Marine Landing Party, British Far East Rifle Company and Japanese Rifle Company Each set is a starter force with a combination of infantry, armor and support to play Pacific War scenarios.
Level Up Miniatures – you heard about them prior, new shipment with new minis coming soon!
Catalyst Game Labs – new BattleTech miniature sets Inner Sphere Pursuit Lance (Dervish, Clint, Cicada and Hermes II) Inner Sphere Assault Lance (Pillager, Goliath, Shogun and Hoplite) Battlefield Support Heavy Battle and Sweep Lance (2 Patton Tanks, 2 Pike Support Vehicles, 2 J Edgar Hoover Hovertank, 2 Drillson Heavy hovertanks) Mechwarrior Legends III -Bounty Hunter and Posse – 6 Mechs total Each set with Alpha Strike cards, Mechwarrior cards or Battlefield support cards to provide Battletech & Alpha Strike games.
Enemy Spotted Studios – BLKOUT A near future skirmish game designed by veterans with some proceeds going to help veterans. Small figure count, small space, lots of action.
Black Site Studios – LUNAR Combat on the moon in an attempt to procure resources and dominance on the lunar surface. 3-6 figures per side but can play bigger with lunar buggies, robot rovers and more.
Level Up Miniatures – A newer company making Sio-cast miniatures for all your fantasy needs. plastic-resin hybrid miniatures that are durable, light weight and ready to paint. They have boxed encounter sets, blister packs or the grab-and-go singles.
So there are a whole lot of things that have made it out this week. A very lot. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a whole lot of time to deal with explaining it all.
So – for the moment – here is a quick look at things. And maybe a longer explanation soon.
So it’s been a small bit of time since there has been a meaningful update. Subsequently… here we are.
Don’t forget the street closures because of the Cinco-de-Derby events on our block tomorrow… but just skirt the closures and stop on in.
Troll Lord Games – Game Masters Tricks of the Trade 120+ page book with a collection of over 400 tips covering from missing players, encounters, meta-gaming, settings and more.
Troll Lord Games – Castles & Crusades Monsters & Treasure 330+ pages of monsters, beasts of legend, full descriptions, habitat and more. Also covers bunches of unique magical items and game master advice.
Troll Lord Games – Amazing Adventures : Ruins of Ends Meet a full adventure set in the deep woods. Designed for Castles & Crusades.
Troll Lord Games – Gary Gygax : The Hermit a full length adventure for 3-5 players, 8th to 12th level. Includes multiple full color pull out maps in a hard bound book.
Lunch Break Heroes – Librus Nocturnum – for D&D 5e a horror adventure anthology. 350+ pages of hardbound horror.
Everything Epic Games – Dragon Thrones : Atlas and GM Guide to Kambria adventure hooks, encounters, a detailed atlas, regional maps, artifacts and more for the setting with high adventure.
Everything Epic Games – Dragon Thrones : Shadow of the Dragon King a 5e D&D adventure campaign taking you through Kambria and the Great Kingdom Houses. Designed for 4-6 3rd level characters. Shape the destiny of a world on the deg of revolution… or ruin. A narrative the thematic saga awaiting you.
Lookout Games – Great Western Trail : El Paso 1-4 player quick playing game based on Great Western Trail – play on it’s own or use it as an introduction to the full game trilogy.
Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Shatterpoint – All the Way Squad Pack : Cassian Andor/K-2SO/2 rebel pathfinders
Star Wars Shatterpoint – Deploy the Garrison Squad Pack : Director Krenic/Death Trooper Specialist/2 Shore troopers/2 Death troopers
Marvel Crisis Protocol – Dice Pack : 10 MCP dice available as a separate pack.
WizKids Games – Heroclix Smash & Destroy a random pack of 5 random miniatures from the Smash & Destroy set.
Fantasy Flight Games – Marvel Champions – Silk a prebuilt hero deck (Silk), new cards for any deck and a nemesis deck : Morlun
Marvel Champions – Black Panther a prebuilt hero deck, (Black Panther), new cards for any deck and a nemesis deck : Klaw
Eagle-Gryphon Games Sleuth : 3-7 player game of deduction
Baseball Highlights 2045 – 1-4 players, ages 14+. Plays as a series of quick games – each manager tries to manage players and strategy to win the most games.
Football Highlights- 1-4 players, ages 10+. a rough and tumble football/rugby mix boardgame that plays in under an hour.
House of Fado – 1-4 player game of Fado House management
Petite Pastiche – 2-4 player game of art, color recreation and commissions. Ages 9+. Plays in around 45 minutes.
Number Please ! – roll dice and create an equation that uses the two color dice to equal the black die. Includes 7 different games.
Thunderworks Games – Emerald Skulls a push your luck game for 1-6 players. Completes in under an hour.
Renegade Games – Unstoppable Solo or 2 player co-op rooguelike momentum deckbuilding game. Ages 14+. Plays in 45 minutes or so per player, depending on the scenario.
Magpie Games – Kitten Wizards 2-5 players (ages 7 and up) – a semi cooperative game of magic, monsters and kittens
Pinnacle Entertainment – Savage Worlds : Necessary Evil a new bunch of supers information and adventure for Savage Worlds. Adventures,
boardcubator – Square One Fast paced engine building game for 1-4 players. Ages 9+
Haunted Table – Triangle Agency RPG investigate the paranormal in this game of chilling horror, wacky comedy and emotional truth.
Wordmill Games – Mythic Game Master Emulator (2nd edition) A refined set of rules to play any game solo or sans game master.
Chaosium – Pendragon Game Master Handbook help with fine tuning your play style, how to run battles, Arthurian Acts, beasts, religion, magic, two full scenarios… and more.
DiagnosTHIS – an adult party game where players try to diagnose the illness to the amusement of the group.
CMON – Marvel Multiverse RPG Starter Set Starter rules, Escape Planet Hulk adventure, dice, map, tokens, character sheets and more.
Marvel Multiverse dice set – 12 MMRPG dice,
Wolley Games – Castle Up! a 2-4 player card game of city building and resource management
WWBG – Animals Gathering a 2-5 player card and dice game of magical efforts to return the animals long gone to the lands. Ages 8+. Plays in about 30 minutes
Free League – Lord of the Rings 5e : Keepers of the Elven Rings this supplement features information on the realms of Lorien, Rivendell and Lindon, plot hooks and ideas, a dozen sites, Sauron’s schemes with events and adversaries, rules to play High and Wood elves and epic play.
Free League – The One Ring : Realms of the Three Rings information on the Realms of Lorien, Rivendell and Lindon, rules to play the High Elves of Lindon and the Wood Elves of Lorien, guidelines to create Elf-Lords and information on the plans of Sauron against the Fair Folk and how the Loremaster can use that for events in game play. Designed for the One Ring system.
GMW – Worlds at a Glance : Towns and Villages Tools to aid your 5e game in describing, creating and running towns & villages, shops and NPCs. Instant immersion, no interruptions. Includes NPCs, greeting, town layouts, shops, mini quests, plot hooks, food, drink, magic items, weapons, curses and more.
Gale Force Nine – Epic Scale Gothic Sector terrain Road sections, Highway sections, damaged Manufactorium Depot and Damaged Civil Defense Bastion. All prepainted and ready to drop on the tabletop for your epic conflicts.
Game Force Nine – Hextech Battlemats Grasslands/Urban and Arid/Urban. Each is 36×22 neoprene with 30mm hexes, ready for HexTech conflicts with giant stompy robots, gritty infantry and wicked vehicles.
Compass Games – two new games Chaco – Bolivia vs Paraguay ‘32-35 an updated version of the classic game Chaco from Game Designers Workshop in 1973. This Strategic/Operational level game pits the forces of Paraguay and Bolivia against each other in the first war in the pre-WW2 era. Optional game information allows you to use new technologies like large scale aerial warfare, which played little part in the real war, in your own exploration of the conflict.
Burma – a remake of the 1976 GDW game Burma. a brigade/battalion scale game pit the Allied and Japanese forces against each other in a game of infiltration, battle and logistical security. Includes updated graphics and up to date errata.
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.
Hey everyone! It’s Little Wars 2025 at the Sheraton Naperville Lisle. Come on down, take a gander at a bunch of games, play some, look at the vendor room and stop by and say hi!
So it’s been a while since I was able to do an update – so here is the first of the week :
Cubicle 7 – Hammer & Anvil 5e D&D compatible sourcebook Create unique weapons & armor for D&D 5e and compatible games. Full color illustrated, 136+ pages of information, ideas and rules.
Cubicle 7 – Mortar & Pestle 5e compatible sourcebook Create positions, poisons and elixirs for D&D 5e and compatible games. Full color illustrated, 130+ pages of information, ideas and rules.
Dynamite – Monty Python Boardgame 2-5 players, ages 14 and up. Relive the adventure of King Arthur and his knights. Battle the Black Knight, catapult cows, hurl insults, complete quests and attempt to be the most valourous of Knights. Plays in around an hour.
Terrible Games – Valka designed for 1-5 players, ages 12 and up. Plays in around half an hour or so. This savage post apocalyptic fantasy card game of warband combat. Includes multi-player and lonequest rules and includes, dice, standees, tokens and more.
Tabletop Tycoon – Everdell Duo a stand alone 1 or 2 player game set in the Everdell universe. Includes a robust solo campaign and competitive head-to-head game play. Ages 10 and up. Plays in around half and hour.
Mariposa Games – Trailblazer : The Arizona Trail 1-4 players, ages 14 and up. Travel along the 800 mile long Arizona trail, taking in the sights and sounds of mountains, canyons, deserts and plateaus. Create your own mural of the trip and try to score the best after 8 rounds of play. Takes around 40 minutes per player.
Roxley Games – Santorini second edition. Learn it in 30 seconds, play it for life. Use the gods powers to build a village and rise to the top of the heap. 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in under half an hour.
Ares Games – Builders of Sylvan Dale a three dimensional tile placement game. Place dwellings in the treetops of Sylvan Dale, gain special actions to build bridges or adding to treetops and make your dwellings tower above those of your opponents. Become the greatest architect of the Dale. Ages 10+, 2-4 players. Takes around 45 minutes to play.
Darucat – Heredity ; The Book of Swan A cooperative and Narrative game of family in a post-apocalyptic world. Play through the 5 chapter campaign and see how well you and your family fares.
Worldspanner Games – Worldspanner : Duel of Ages a game for 2-8 players where teams of players compete to gain glory and loot and attempt to gi favor of the Houses and the Queen Mother. Designed for ages 14 and up. Plays in 2 to 4 hours depending on players and scenario.
Compass Games – Roma Victrix : Campaigns of the Roman World a grand strategic, scenario based game recreating several historical conflicts as well as hypothetical engagements that could have occurred during Rome’s history from 218BC to 533AD. Twenty different scenarios. Designed for 2-6 players – although it’s best with 6. Plays in 3 to 8 hours depending on the scenario. Many scenarios are suitable for solitaire play. Ages 14 and up.
GMT Games – Fighting Formations : US 29th Infantry Division 14 scenarios pitting the 29th Infantry against German forces in France, Holland and Germany from June to November in 1944. Designed for 2 players, ages 14 and up. Scenarios play in 2-3 hours.
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.
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.
April Releases are here – Feel free to dodge the raindrops, brave the breezes and come in to take a gander at the newest items to take a visit on!
Atomic Mass Games – Marvel Crisis Protocol items Guardians of the Galaxy Affiliation Pack -Rocket Racoon, Groot, Cosmic Ghost Rider and Starlord – with cards & tokens and cards
Inhuman Royal Court Affiliation Pack -Black Bolt, Gorgon, Karnak and Maximus the Mad – with cards and bases
OddGob Games – Blister Creatures This TTRPG puts you in a world of radioactive mutant creatures, eco-apocalyptic saturday morning cartoons and mayhem. Includes rules, dice, stickers, ad-libs and more!
Critical Role – Der Katzenprinz and other Zemnian Tals an illustrated story book
Mini Games Club – a dozen (or so) mini-sized games Phrase Daze (pictogram guessing game), Fact or Fiction (Tiny test of truth), Date It! (Tiny game of timelines), Big Screen LIttle Sentences (Big Blockbusters summed up in small sentences), Where in the World? (Global trivia game) and many more.
Fantasy Flight Games – Arkham Horror RPG : Arkham Mysteries three adventures for the Arkham Horror EDGE RPG
Simon and Schuster – The Dungeonmeister RPG Sticker Book 500+ stickers to level up your campaign. character images, status effects, inspiration tokens and more.
Asmodee – R.A.V.E.L. (Rare Artefact Vertiginous Enigmatic Logical) an ultimately resettable solo puzzle game.
Lookout Games – Sir Ocelot’s Cave a 2 player game explore a cave system, find gemstones and try to get the most value by games end to win. 2 players, ages 8 and up. PLays in around 20 minutes.
Luck Duck Games – Critter Kitchen
Lucky Duck Games – Critter Kitchen A La Cart Expansion 24 new Zous-chefs with new abilities and add more players with 6-7 player mode.
Devir Games – Quorum 2-4 players, ages 14 and up, plays in 45 minutes. Gather influence in trade, art and the military to extend the empire into new territory.
West Paw – The Dogs Best Friend Game a family game night that includes the dog. Ages 8+, 1 to 8 humans and 1-2 dogs. Plays within half an hour.
Alion – Gardlings a fun and clever bag-building game with weird creatures and scary gnomes. 1-4 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in around half an hour.
Alderac Entertainment – Cascadia Junior Choose habitats, populate them with wildlife, build the perfect wilderness scene and score points to win. 2 to 4 players, ages 6 and up. Plays within 15 minutes for 2, half an hour for up to 4.
Friendly Skeleton Games – MonsDRAWsity A drawing party game. Create a monster sketch based on the description given to you. Compare them with other players sketches and see who got closest. Designed for 3-8 players, ages 8 and up. Plays in 20 minutes (or so).
Friendly Skeleton Games – MonsDRAWsity My Lil’ Monsters Designed for cute lil monsters. Ages 8 and up. 3-6 players. About 20 minutes time.
Friendly Skeleton Games – MonsDRAWsity Cute Creatures includes 40 new monsters, an additional player sheet and it’s 100% cuter too!
So, it’s been a bit since we’ve updated here. Auction chaos, renewal issues, family crisis… well, we’ve been busy. The important part is – the website is back to working. There might well be a lull next week as Adepticon and a few other issues is going to keep us quite busy. So… The Spring Auction is done. Unsold item returns and Auction Credit are available to pick up. GaryCon is going on through this weekend and Adepticon happening next week – so this is the time to see all sorts of new stuff, new people and new towns.
Subsequently – don’t have time for the usual verbose marketing tonite, so here is a whole lotta pictures of things that are here awaiting your attention.
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