Interested in learning to play a new game? On January 31st from 6:00pm-9:30pm, we’ll have somebody onsite to run a few games of Scythe. Stop by and learn to play a new game!
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0 February Family Game Nights: Feast Mode
We’re excited to announce our game selections for February’s Family Game Nights (Thursdays from 5:00pm – 8:00pm). We’ll be running the same games all month, so if you miss your chance or really like the game there will be plenty of opportunities to play. After demoing the game with us, you’ll also have an opportunity to buy your own copy for 10% off.
For the month of February, all of our games will have a fun food related theme.
Pass the Sushi with Sushi Go!
Build the perfect plate of sushi! In Sushi Go, players take turns picking cards to build their perfect combo of sushi to score the most points. Pair your roll with wasabi for extra points and don’t forget dessert!
This game is quick and easy to learn. Suitable for groups of 2-5 players of all ages and a great addition to your family game night.
Square off one on one in Food Fighters
Two players square off, controling different facations of fighting foods. Each turn you have one of three choices. Move your food fighters, roll the dice to attack, or roll for beans (to buy powerups for your team). Knock out three of a kind and you’ve won! This game is perfect for all ages.
Feed your guests with Just Desserts
It’s time for dessert and your guests are hungry! 2-5 players start out with their hand of dessert cards and three hungry guests. When it’s your turn, serve a guest by playing dessert cards that match what they’d like (and avoid what they dislike). Or you can draw a single dessert card, or discard as many cards as you want to draw the same number of new cards.
This game is suitable for younger children as well and can help hone their matching skills. Stop by on Thursdays this month and give it a try!
0 Gloomhaven, Zany Penguins, Firefly RPG and more
We have some new games and restocks of popular favorites in store this week!
Gloomhaven
Description from Publisher:
Players will take on the role of a wandering mercenary with their own special set of skills and their own reasons for traveling to this remote corner of the world. Players must work together out of necessity to clear out menacing dungeons and forgotten ruins. In the process they will enhance their abilities with experience and loot, discover new locations to explore and plunder, and expand an ever-branching story fueled by the decisions they make. This is a persistent game that is intended to be played over many game sessions. After a scenario, players will make decisions on what to do, which will determine how the story continues, kind of like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book.
Playing through a scenario is a cooperative affair where players will fight against automated monsters using an innovative card system to determine the order of play and what a player does on their turn.
Essentially, every turn a player will play two cards out of their hand. Each card has a number in the center, and the number on the first card played will determine their initiative order. Each card also has a top and bottom power, and when it is a player’s turn in the initiative order, they determine whether to use the top power of one card and the bottom power of the other, or vice-versa. Players must be careful, though, because over time they will permanently lose cards from their hands. If they take too long to clear a dungeon, they may end up exhausted and be forced to retreat.
Zany Penguins
Description from Publisher:
The ice caps are melting and penguins are panicking! With no more room on the ice, a group of industrious penguins have turned to you to direct them to a new home. The only problem is that they’re not the only group branching out and you’ll have to compete with all of the other penguins to stake claim to new lands. Send your toughest troops to Strategic Zones far and wide or keep them close to help you become Master of the World – whatever you do, it’s sure to be a crazy time!
Zany Penguins is a quick card game in which two to five players compete to become Master of the World. Each player has a hand of cards from which they assign penguins to five Strategic Zones. Gaining control over the zones will determine who gets points from the cards left in their hand at the end of the game. The player with the most points wins the game and earns the title of Master of the World!
At the beginning of each turn, you will draw two cards to add to your hand. You must choose two cards to keep and two to pass along, one each to the players on your right and left. Because your opponents receive any cards you do not keep, you will want to pay attention to their troops when choosing which penguins to send their way. If they are amassing an army of penguins in one of the Strategic Zone, you may want to sabotage their plans by keeping any cards that will support their cause, and giving them unhelpful ones. You might even want to start a land war between the other players by passing cards to one opponent that would be more helpful to the other. Once you’ve chosen and passed your cards, you will receive two in return, which could be exactly what you’re looking for…or not.
Firefly Role-Playing Game
Description from Distributor:
The Firefly RPG puts you right in the middle of the action of the wildly popular television series. You and your Crew will trade bullets with fearsome bounty hunters, folk who want what you have, or varmints that try to put out the light of hope you represent. Keep your Browncoat banner flyin` high and dodge Alliance cruisers. Side with the Alliance and track down riff-raff to haul em in for justice. Explore your `Verse to find a crew, find a job, and keep flyin`! Using a freewheelin version of the award-winning Cortex Plus System, the Firefly RPG Core Book is packed with all the shiny goodness you need to bring the `Verse to life online or on your tabletop including character creation rules and Gamemaster NPC`s like Niska, Badger, and Patience, over 30 pre-generated player-characters including Mal and the Serenity crew or one of 24 archetypes, Serenity ship and engine schematics, and dozens of sample ships, plus tips for world building, system maps, and an Episode Guide to teach new players and provide in-depth analysis of Firefly TV show.
0 Talisman, Star Wars Rebellion, Learn to Paint Kit: Core Skills
We have some new games and restocks of popular favorites in store this week!
Talisman
Description from Distributor:
Enter a mythic world of dragons and sorcery! In Talisman, you’ll embark on a perilous quest for the ultimate treasure, the legendary Crown of Command. You’ll choose the warrior, priest, wizard, or one of eleven other heroes with powers bothmagical and mighty.
This revised version of Talisman Fourth Edition includes plastic figures for each of the heroes, and even plastic figures for the toads! Strength and Craft additions are even easier to track with the new stackablemarkers. But the path to the crown is treacherous. Legends say that onlya fabled Talisman can safeguard you in the lands past the Portal of Power. Yet, finding such an artifact is no small feat: monsters, traps, and evil magic wait to defeat you at every turn. So summon your courage! You will need it to best your opponents, to secure the crown, and to seize your destiny!
Star Wars Rebellion
Description from Publisher:
The Galactic Empire’s Death Star™ sets a deadly course toward Alderaan™ while Star Destroyers deploy probe droids throughout the Outer Rim. Meanwhile, a young woman risks her life to smuggle invaluable technical data to the Rebel Alliance, and a young farm boy dreams of adventure in the stars, little aware of the role he may someday play in deciding the course of the Galactic Civil War and the fates of countless lives…
The actions of a handful of men and women shape the course of the Galactic Civil War in Star Wars™: Rebellion, a board game of epic conflict between the Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance for two to four players.
In Star Wars™: Rebellion, you control the entire Galactic Empire or the fledgling Rebel Alliance. You must command starships, account for troop movements, and rally systems to your cause. Featuring more than 150 plastic miniatures and two game boards that account for thirty-two of the Star Wars™ galaxy’s most notable star systems, Star Wars™: Rebellion aspires to be as large and sweeping as the Star Wars™ universe itself.
Learn to Paint Kit: Core Skills
Perfect paint kit that includes everything you need to start painting your Bones Minatures. This kit includes:
- 11 Bottles of MSP Core Colors, MSP HD, and MSP Bones Paints (9030-Leather Brown, 9037-Pure Black, 9429-Dragon White, 9452-Blade Steel, 9054-Polished Silver, 9433-Mountain Stone, 9200-Harvest Brown, 9413-Naga Green, 9432-Desert Sand, 9408-Candlelight Yellow, 29815-Dragon Blue)
- 2 MSP Paint Brushes (#2 Flat, #0 Round)
- 3 Bones Miniatures (77018 – Skeletal Archer, 77042 – Orc Marauder, 77148 – Mangu, Evil Warrior)
- Easy to follow instruction guide
0 Learn to Play – Flash Point: Fire Rescue
Interested in learning to play a new game? We’ll have somebody onsite to run a few games of Flash Point: Fire Rescue, one of our new arrivals in the store. Stop by and learn to play a new game!
0 Tyrants of the Underdark, Flast Point: Fire Rescue, Bones Minatures and More!
We have several new and exciting games on our shelves to start the New Year!
Tyrants of the Underdark
Description from Publisher:
Tyrants of the Underdark pits 2 to 4 players against each other to take over territory in the tumultuous Underdark, mashing up deck-building mechanics with board control.
Designed by Peter Lee, Rodney Thompson, and Andrew Veen, and produced by Gale Force Nine, Tyrants of the Underdark is a competitive board game in which you play as a drow house recruiting monsters, cultists and demons to aid you in controlling locations such as Menzoberranzan and Blingdenstone. Using power and influence as resources, Tyrants of the Underdark features multiple strategies you can use in crafting your deck of minions. Be the spymaster infiltrating your enemy’s strongholds or the deadly war-leader concentrating on assassinating enemy troops. No matter how you decide to play, whoever controls most of the Underdark at the end of the game wins, unless there’s some hidden strategy in play.
Flash Point: Fire Rescue
Description from Publisher:
Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a thrilling ride for friends and family, whether they are gamers or just looking for a good, fun time. Games are about 45 minutes, 2-6 players (solo options), 10+ years – suitable for kids of all ages with appropriate supervision and involvement.
Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a fully cooperative game, everyone plays on the same firefighting team – win or lose together! Every turn is filled with the tension of having to fight the fire back, rescuing victims or investigating points of interest. Players can ride the ambulance to safety or fire the engine’s deck gun in a desperate attempt to control the blaze. No two games are ever the same – and with two rulesets (family, & experienced) and 3 different difficulty levels there is a challenge to be had for all.
Bones Minatures
Ready to help your tabletop campaign look awesome? We now carry amazingly detailed minatures from Reaper Minatures Bones line. These minatutes come with plenty of detail and are ready to paint right out of the box! No priming necessary. We also have a selection of paints and brushes.
