New Releases 02 June 2008

Epic Battles is the fourth monthly installment of 40 fixed cards for the A Clash of Arms expansion to the A Game of Thrones collectible card game, based on George R.R. Martin's bestselling Song of Ice and Fire saga. It contains 20 different never-before-seen cards designed to augment existing decks and add variety to the A Game of Thrones metagame.

This is not a standalone deck; a A Game of Thrones CCG starter set is required to play.

Tell lies! Shift the blame! Save yourself from the Anger of the Evil Genius!

Aye, Dark Overlord! Is a party game with a fantasy setting and a humorous and easy-going tone. To play, you only need a bit of improvisation skill, some friends and a desire to have a lot of fun.

The game is simple to learn and easy to play: the evil and wicked Servants of Rigor Mortis, true and only Evil Genius, come back after their umpteenth failed mission and have to justify themselves in front of their Master, inventing stories and unlikely excuses and generally laying the blame as much as possibile on their fellow sufferers.

Timeo Iram Genii Malis! (Fear the Wrath of Evil Genius!) Together with your friends, you are once again back in dreaded Tower of Dark Sorcery, after the failed mission. His Excellence, the Lord of the Lost lands, will certainly not be happy! You will be so frightened you cannot breathe. Your forehead starts sweating. Panic wraps you in its freezing grip, what do you do to save your poor skin? Could you say you are not the one to blame, but your inept companions?

Yes, of course! Here’s the solution! There’s only one little problem: they’ve probably got exactly the same idea…

Cannonball Drop Giant Garden Game, based on the traditional game of KerPlunk this game stands 1.2m tall with 30 cannonballs and 24 coloured straws. The cannonballs are suspended in the air on the straws, remove the straws one by one without letting the cannonballs drop to the floor. The winner is the person with the least balls once all the straws have been removed.

This is a fabulous giant game suitable for use in the garden or indoors.

The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game has defined the medieval fantasy genre and the tabletop RPG industry for more than 30 years. In the D&D game, players create characters that band together to explore dungeons, slay monsters, and find treasure. The 4th Edition D&D rules offer the best possible play experience by presenting exciting character options, an elegant and robust rules system, and handy storytelling tools for the Dungeon Master.

This gift set features a handsome slipcase containing all three of the 4th Edition D&D Roleplaying Game core rulebooks: the Player’s Handbook rulebook (320 pages), the Monster Manual rulebook (288 pages), and the Dungeon Master’s Guide rulebook (224 pages).

Complete Set: This gift set provides all three 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks (Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide) in a handsome slipcase that looks great on any bookshelf.

The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game has defined the medieval fantasy genre and the tabletop RPG industry for more than 30 years. In the D&D game, players create characters that band together to explore dungeons, slay monsters, and find treasure. The 4th Edition D&D rules offer the best possible play experience by presenting exciting character options, an elegant and robust rules system, and handy storytelling tools for the Dungeon Master.

The Dungeon Master’s Guide gives the Dungeon Master helpful tools to build exciting encounters, adventures, and campaigns for the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game, as well as advice for running great game sessions, ready-to-use traps and non-player characters, and more. In addition, it presents a fully detailed town that can serve as a starting point for any D&D game.

Core Rulebook: The Dungeon Master’s Guide is the second of three core rulebooks required to play the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game.

Quick and easy play: The improved page layout and presentation enables novice and established players to learn and understand the new D&D rules quickly.

The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game has defined the medieval fantasy genre and the tabletop RPG industry for more than 30 years. In the D&D game, players create characters that band together to explore dungeons, slay monsters, and find treasure. The 4th Edition D&D rules offer the best possible play experience by presenting exciting character options, an elegant and robust rules system, and handy storytelling tools for the Dungeon Master.

The Monster Manual presents more than 300 official Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game monsters for all levels of play, from aboleth to zombie. Each monster is illustrated and comes with complete game statistics and tips for the Dungeon Master on how best to use the monster in D&D encounters.

Core Rulebook: The Monster Manual is the third of three core rulebooks required to play the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game.

Quick and easy play: The improved page layout and presentation enables novice and established players to learn and understand the new D&D rules quickly.

The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game has defined the medieval fantasy genre and the tabletop RPG industry for more than 30 years. In the D&D game, players create characters that band together to explore dungeons, slay monsters, and find treasure. The 4th Edition D&D rules offer the best possible play experience by presenting exciting character options, an elegant and robust rules system, and handy storytelling tools for the Dungeon Master.

The Player’s Handbook presents the official Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game rules as well as everything a player needs to create D&D characters worthy of song and legend: new character races, base classes, paragon paths, epic destinies, powers, magic items, weapons, armor, and much more.

Core Rulebook: The Player’s Handbook is the first of three core rulebooks required to play the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game.

Quick and easy play: The improved page layout and presentation enables new and established players to understand and learn the 4th Edition D&D rules quickly.

The Seltorians are here! DN, BCH, CA, CL, DD, FF..

Pewter, for gaming or display, includes stands.

Case with magnetic lock: wood covered with synthetic leather, green and beige. Game field 270 x 255 mm, field 14 x 12.5 mm; Playing pieces: plastic, diameter 13 mm, in velvet-bags.

In 1675, after a long career in piracy, Henry Morgan skillfully gets appointed Governor of Jamaica, with the explicit order to cleanse the Caribbean of pirates and buccaneers!

Instead, he invites all of his former "colleagues" and comrades-in-arms to join him in his retirement, so they can enjoy the fruits of their looting in all impunity.

Each year, in remembrance of the "good old days", Morgan organizes the Great Challenge, a race around the island, and at its end the Captain with the most gold in his holds is declared Grand Winner.

In the era of prohibition, ruthless men held the city of Chicago in an iron grip. Making millions of dollars on all sorts of illegal activities these men were the scum of the streets, showing absolutely no regard for ethics, common decency or other people’s feelings. They were engaged in anything from prostitution, rum running, bootlegging, tax evasion, theft, fencing, and extortion to downright murder. No scheme was too low and no act too vile if it meant an extra buck in the pockets of these evil, cunning men.

After 3 years in the making Tusbas proudly presents King of Chicago – an action-packed board game for 3-6 players that like spending an evening in the shoes of a gangster boss and talking trash, manipulating and beating some good friends. Playing time is from 1 to 3 hours.

Bullets rain in at driveby shootings, suffer raids from your rivals or corrupt police as you fight your way from being a small fish to becoming capo di tuti capi....

This is the first expansion for MiniMonfa.

Now it is possible to fill your dungeons with incredible new creatures like dryads, gnomes and ents. You also get 6 new heroes like an Warrior Elf and a Centaur.

With this expansion it is also possible to play the game with more than 2 players.

It’s a hard time for being a monster! In a place born from fantasy and powered by magic live the Minimonfa (Mini Monster Fantasy), an army of monsters just a little different from every kind of monster that everyone usually knows. Trapped by Dungeon Masters they have grown up to become more powerful in order to defend the Dark Dungeons and their treasures. Become a Master, build your Dungeon and send your heroes to kill your opponent’s monsters! But remember! The Minimonfa are not so mini and they can use terrible powers against you. Minimonfa is a 2-players, non-collectable card game that allows you to become an Archmage who must to set up his dungeon so to defend himself from the ongoing attacks of the local hordes always covetous of glory, treasure and experience points. You have to build your dungeon with great mastery and shrewd strategy to put the heroes off the track: to achieve such a result you can place insidious traps and unleash powerful and cunning creatures. Besides defending your underground dwelling, you will have to lead the fearless heroes you recruited to get rid of the other Archmage who is weakening your grip on the surrounding areas.

The second expansion for MiniMonfa brings a crowd of terrible monsters like zombies and a vampire. You also get a new set of heroes with unique special abilities.

Monastery is a tile laying game in which players construct different parts of a medieval monastery. The work is done by the monks of a player. The monks may move from tile to tile and in addition to building work they can also study, toil or pray. In the ‘icon’ game monks can also make use of the special properties of some of the tiles.

The tiles vary in value ranging from 1 point field and path tiles to 5 point Chapter House and Library. The higher the value of tile the more monks are needed to build it. Players can build independently, but often they are required to work collaboratively.

The game spreads over two days of monastic life, with turns being allocated as time for study and toil or for services in the abbey. At each service a new abbot is elected and apart from going first in the turn the abbot also has some significant powers.

In order to win the game players must collect the letters of the abbey’s motto ‘Libera Nos Quaesumus Ab Omnibus Malis Amen’. The letters become progressively more expensive and players must decide whether to buy letters or recruit extra monks.

Points at game end are also awarded for the ‘blessings’ which players can collect throughout the game.

Between 1918 and 1921, violent upheavals wracked the former Russian Empire. Communism, monarchism, nationalism, anarchism and many other -isms vied for control of the Tsar’s domains. When the war finally ended, the “Red” faction emerged victorious, but it was a hollow victory. Economic output had fallen by 96 percent compared to 1913’s figures, agriculture was down by 63 percent, and $35 billion worth of damage had been done. Millions had died; to this day no one is exactly sure how many.

The Konarmiya, or Red Cavalry Army, was one of the most effective formations in the Russian Civil War.

In Red Russia, designer William “Defiant Russia” Sariego takes the popular game system from Soldier Kings to this decisive moment in history. Players represent from two to five factions: the Reds (Communists), Allied Interventionists, Siberian Whites (monarchists), Southern Whites or Northern Whites. The game is played in turns representing a season of the year (three months). It begins with the summer turn of 1918, and ends with the conclusion of the spring 1921 turn. A full game without an Automatic Victory is thus 12 turns long.

Players command infantry and cavalry armies, and for some factions fleets and aircraft. The Allied Interventionists also have a tank unit. Leaders assist these units in movement and combat, ranging in quality from Wrangel of the Whites and Trotsky of the Reds on down to the hapless Sergei Kamenev of the Reds.

On September 14th, 1862, the rebel division of D.H. Hill was surprised and attacked by Ambrose Burnside's Wing of the Army of the Potomac. Hill's men held out all day against a rising tide of Federal troops from both the 1st and 9th Corps and were saved only by the late arrival of D.R. Jones and Hood's divisions. Despite the fact that it was a rather sharp defeat for the rebels, Hill remained justifiably proud of the fight his men managed for 12 long hours atop South Mountain. They had given Lee the time he needed to concentrate his army in the face of a suddenly aggressive Federal force.

South Mountain is the fourth game in the Civil War, Regimental Series. With one map and a manageable number of counters, it is the first game in the series to offer a full, intense, battle that is playable in an evening. And re-playability is very high, given the variable arrival of some key Rebel forces and the application of Confederate and Union Random Events.

South Mountain Contents:

A guide to Count Brass’ domain, the Kamarg, Castle Brass is an essential sourcebook for all Hawkmoon Players, an in-depth guide to the successful navigation of this potentially treacherous landscape.

Not only will you learn the secrets of the Kamarg itself, you will learn the deep, dark secrets that fester in each of its towns. You will gain an understanding of its residents, along with their own eccentric secrets, intricate enterprises and convenient friendships. Unlock the doors of Castle Brass and familiarise yourself with its twists and turns, its hidden rooms and forgotten laboratories.

Castle Brass is an excellent source of knowledge about the Kamarg, but is also an essential tool for Games Masters wishing to create their own scenarios. So enter this distant marshland and search out the veritable treasures it holds.

The first release in the Treefrog Line. Tinners' Trail is set in nineteenth century Cornwall. You play the part of a mining venturer attempting to make the most money from mining tin and copper.

The map starts with tin, copper, and water cubes placed on it. Special dice are used to determine how many of each start in each area. You have ten time points to spend on actions. The most important action is building a mine. However, you can only suggest an area for a mine to be built in. The player who bids the most in an auction gains the right to build there. The cost to mine ore depends on the amount of water in the area. You can remove water by building ports, improving steam pumps, and building trains. You can also build underground drainage tunnels, called adits. When you build an adit you will also discover new lodes of tin and copper. Additional miners can be employed to improve the capacity of your mine, (how much ore you can take out in a single action). If you are short of money you can also sell pasties.

The price for tin and copper is set randomly at the beginning of each turn. It can vary a lot and you really want to sell when the prices are high. However, you cannot hold ore back, you must sell everything you mine.

Once you have sold your ore you decide how much money you wish to invest outside of Cornwall. This is how you convert money to victory points. The earlier you invest the better the return.

With True20 Adventure Roleplaying you embark on journeys of the imagination, with heroes and stories you and your friends create. This book tells you everything you need to know to play an exciting adventure roleplaying game: how to create your own heroes, how to handle action and conflict, how to narrate adventures, and how to keep it all fair and fun.

True20 simplifies and streamlines the adventure roleplaying experience: everything is resolved using the same core system and all you need is a single 20-sided die to play! There's no bookkeeping of points, whether hit points, power points, or experience points. Game play is fast and furious thanks to innovations like the Toughness save damage system, based on the award-winning Mutants & Masterminds RPG. You can use True20 to model nearly any genre, from fantasy and horror to modern action and science fiction.

This Revised Edition of True20 Adventure Roleplaying includes the entire contents of the True20 Companion. That means you get the following great resources right in the core rulebook for the first time.

One thousand years have passed since The Fallen retreated from Hyrathia during the final days of the War of Legends. From where they came and to where they fled no one knows, and ‘why?’ remains the greatest mystery. It has been many years since the Convocation of Wizards convened; the petty wars of the kingdoms not warranting the interference of the wizard council. Many years since greater peace ended the need for a war mage – a Grand Siege Magus – to lead the wizards of Hyrathia into battle.

But now the ancient enemy has returned, bringing war back to all of the kingdoms. Wizards from across the land have been summoned to the Convocation, held at High Emerath, stronghold of the mages. There they gather to take part in an ancient rite, known as the Gambit, where the victor becomes the next war mage. Only those wizards with the highest skill in Spells, Incantations, and knowledge of the rare Magical Components can hope to claim the honor of being the war mage. Only one can win the title of Grand Siege Magus!