Archive for October, 2010
|New Stuff: October 28th
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Hello all you happy ghouls and goblins out there in gameland. Corny, I know! So it’s another Thursday and we’ve got new stuff! Well, to be honest, not much new stuff. But lots of restocks. So let’s get on with it!
GTM
Game Trade Magazine #129 (This is a free magazine! Come check it out, put in a pre-order and you’ll get 10% off!)
Open Design
Kobold Quarterly #15
Yep, that’s it! Quiet week in the way of new stuff. But as I mentioned, we do have restocks!
Fantasy Flight Games
Talisman
Talisman Frostmarch Expansion
Talisman Highland Expansion
Talisman The Sacred Pool Expansion
Gary Games
Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer
Koplow
L-C-R
Rio Grande Games
Power Grid
Steve Jackson Games
Munchkin
Munchkin 2 Unnatural Axe
Munchkin 4 The Need for Steed
Munchkin Fu
Super Munchkin
Munchkin Cthulhu
Munchkin Cthulhu 2 Unspeakable Vault
Munchkin Booty
Wizards of the Coast
Gamma World (Yes, it’s finally back in! For those of you who were at the Rendezvous, this game was fun! Pick it up before we’re out again!)
Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Red Box
D&D Castle Ravenloft Boardgame (This is our third restock of these!)
Betrayal at House on the Hill (I can’t believe how fast we sold out of these the first time!)
So that’s it for what we got in this week! So on to our events!
This Friday we’ve got our usual Friday Night Magic! Come in with your standard deck and play! This event is growing and growing! See how other players are using the new Scars of Mirrodin in their decks. This month we’re giving out foil Rift Bolt cards. Entry is still only $5.00! We begin around 6:00 pm. As some of you know, both Tuan and myself will not be here this weekend due to a wedding (mine! J), so we have Staci Mitchell covering the store. Please go easy on her.
Of course, we still do have Saturday Booster Draft Tournaments. Come in and build your draft deck with Scars of Mirrodin! The entry fee is $15.00, but covers the three boosters you receive and prizes!
We have the Scars of Mirrodin Game Day this Sunday! That’s right, Halloween! Tuan will be back and running a standard format tournament! Main event participants each receive a full-art Memnite card. Top 8 finishers also receive an exclusive full-art Tempered Steel card!
The new session of Dungeons & Dragons Encounters has begun! This time we’ve got Keep on the Borderlands! Encounters is run every Wednesday night at 6:00 pm! Come on in and play!
In a small field, just outside of a sleepy town in 1940′s middle America, Martian Saucers hover in the night sky. Having chosen their first target, a large group of humans gathered around a traveling carnival on the outskirts of town, a legion of Martians march to war. But not all the Humans are defenseless. As the crowds flee in terror and are vaporized by the saucer’s death rays, one brave group of circus performers step forward to defend their planet – Earth’s first line of defense! This will be their greatest performance…and maybe their last. Invasion from Outer Space is a board game from the people who brought you Last Night on Earth. It uses the same mechanic as Last Night on Earth, so both games are compatible. Joe Sosta will be coming in to demo these games on November 14th! Come on in and join the fun. Learn to play. New players are welcome!
The Dead Gamers Society just held their famous Rendezvous last Sunday! Four games in the morning and five games in the afternoon and it was a full house! It was truly a great day for gaming. Thanks to Louis Garcia for organizing the event and special thanks to Joseph Goodman for coming up and playtesting his new RPG that will be out next year!
The Dead Gamers Society come in the first Sunday of the month (November 7th) to run their monthly Geist Game! Come in for a ghostly good time! They also come in the third Saturday of the month (November 20th) to run their monthly Vampire game! Become a blood-sucker in the city of angels. The 13th of November will also see the Dead Gamers Society come in and run their World of Darkness London Fog game!
So this week, Dicehouse Games was able to get in special orders for six people. That was nine items! Everyone who put in a special order receives a 10% discount. Looking for something we don’t have in stock? Special order it and you too can receive a 10% discount. If we haven’t been able to get your special order, chances are our distributor was out, but I guarantee that we are doing our best to find it from somewhere else!
That’s about it for this week! See you all in seven!
“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” – Dale Carnegie
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New Stuff: October 21st
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
It’s another overcast day here in the OC. But it’s Thursday, and that means new stuff here at Dicehouse! I know I’m a little late in posting this, but having to input close to a hundred dice sets takes a while! So let’s get right on with it! This is a big week!
Fantasy Flight
Cadwallon: City of Thieves Board Game
Osprey
Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide
Privateer Press
Forces of Hordes: Legion of Everblight HC
Forces of Hordes: Legion of Everblight SC
Reaper Miniatures
Masaki, Ronin
Tyree Spellsinger, Sorceress
Twilight Creations
Forever Young: A Vampire Game
That’s it for new stuff! Can you believe it? Another short week. But restocks, now that we have lots of.
Chessex
Poly Dice Sets! Lots of them. As I said, close to a hundred back in! And that’s good since it’s going to be a big RPG weekend! More on that to come!
Goodman Games
Almost everything that’s still in print! Why? More on that to come as well!
Evil Hat
The Dresden Files RPG V1 – Your Story
The Dresden Files RPG V2 – Our World
Wizards of the Coast
D&D Dark Sun Campaign Setting HC (This is now out of print!)
White Wolf
World of Darkness Rulebook
So events! What’s going on now?
This Friday we’ve got our usual Friday Night Magic! Come in with your standard deck and play! This event is growing and growing! See how other players are using the new Scars of Mirrodin in their decks. This month we’re giving out foil Rift Bolt cards. Entry is still only $5.00! We begin around 6:00 pm.
Of course, we still do have Saturday Booster Draft Tournaments. Come in and build your draft deck with Scars of Mirrodin! The entry fee is $15.00, but covers the three boosters you receive and prizes!
The new session of Dungeons & Dragons Encounters has begun! This time we’ve got Keep on the Borderlands! Encounters is run every Wednesday night at 6:00 pm! Come on in and play!
In a small field, just outside of a sleepy town in 1940′s middle America, Martian Saucers hover in the night sky. Having chosen their first target, a large group of humans gathered around a traveling carnival on the outskirts of town, a legion of Martians march to war. But not all the Humans are defenseless. As the crowds flee in terror and are vaporized by the saucer’s death rays, one brave group of circus performers step forward to defend their planet – Earth’s first line of defense! This will be their greatest performance…and maybe their last. Invasion from Outer Space is a board game from the people who brought you Last Night on Earth. It uses the same mechanic as Last Night on Earth, so both games are compatible. Joe Sosta will be coming in to demo these games on November 14th! Come on in and join the fun. Learn to play. New players are welcome!
So you know how I mentioned that we got in a huge restock of dice and Goodman Games books? Well, here’s why!
The Dead Gamers Society is coming in this Sunday, the 24th, for their famous Dicehouse Rendezvous! “What is that?” you may ask. The Rendezvous is a day where they take over Dicehouse Games and run a variety of different roleplaying games throughout the day! So what will they be running on the 24th? 9 different games to fit your fancy! Let me do a little cut and paste for you all!
Update to the Fall RPG Rendezvous at DiceHouse.
Added Games. I’m pleased to announce that Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games will be on hand to run playtests of his upcoming Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game. He’ll be running two sessions one in the morning and one in the afternoon and players are welcome to play in both of them.
Joe Goodman is one of the luminaries of the RPG business and Goodman Games is one of the most popular publishers of third party material for Dungeons and Dragons. You can learn more about Goodman Games at their site…
http://www.goodman-games.com/
Updates added to the schedule below
The Dead Gamers Society presents the Fall RPG Rendezvous. This is our quarterly micro RPG con at DiceHouse were we play some of todays most intriquing RPG’s, this is our chance to try some non-World of Darkness RPG’s. Think of it like an RPG wine tasting.
To RSVP for these fine games, visit the DGS website at
http://www.meetup.com/Dead-Gamers-Society/
The schedule is as follows.
10:00 am to 2:00pm
-Dungeon Crawl Classics Session 1
Joe Goodman of Goodman Games will be on hand playtesting Dungeon Crawl Classics the Roleplaying Game. Dungeon Crawl Classics brings back the feel and ease of Dungeon and Dragons as it was conceived in it’s early days, inspired by Robert E Howard’s Conan, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and the classics of sword and sorcery.
-A Song of Fire and Ice Roleplaying
Presenting Green Ronin’s Song of Fire and Ice Roleplaying. For years, readers have thrilled to the saga of Westeros as told in George R.R. Martin’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series. Now you can tell your own tales of the Seven Kingdoms and play the game of thrones in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying. This is GM’d by Chris Czerniak.
-World of Darkness: Haus of Mirrors
Like Alice through the looking glass, this game takes you a trip through the World of Darkness like you never seen it before. With the recent publication of World of Darkness Mirrors, the window in which we see the World of Darkness has shattered and we now see a world twisted, frayed and mutated, but no less scary and mysterious. The Haus of Mirrors beckons you, come…enter. This is GM’d by Geist GM, Julie Scott.
-All Flesh Must Be Eaten
All Flesh Must Be Eaten is a roleplaying game set in a world of survival horror. A world where the dead have come back from their graves. You have no clue as to why they have returned but one thing is certain… They crave living flesh! Zombie games never get old and this is one of the best. This game is GM’d by Joe Sosta
3:00pm to 7:00pm
-Dungeon Crawl Classics Session 2
Joe Goodman brings more classic adventuring where stalwart heroes braved dark dungeons in search of treasure and glory.
-Gamma World 4th Edition
The D&D Gamma World Roleplaying Game offers hours of rollicking entertainment in a savage land of adventure, where the survivors of some mythical future disaster must contend with radioactive wastes, ravaged cities, and rampant lawlessness. Against a nuclear backdrop, heroic scavengers search crumbled ruins for lost artifacts while battling mutants and other perils. This is DM’d by Joel Arellano
-Leverage the Roleplaying Game
Based on the popluar TV Shoe, the Leverage Role Playing Game puts you in the middle of a dysfunctional but highly-specialized group of con-artists, criminals, and crooks who are trying to turn over a new leaf. You protect the victims of corporations, mobsters, and corrupt politicians by using your expert skills to outwit and overcome the real bad guys. Using the award-winning Cortex System as its foundation, the Leverage RPG includes all the rules you need to create a team of rogues, plan a job, and get it done… even if it means going to Plan B. This game is GM’d by Tim James
-Savage Worlds: Weird War II
In the horror of war, dark things rise, and World War II is history’s greatest conflict. The Japanese stalk the jungles of Southeast Asia. Carriers battle in the South Pacific. Tanks trundle across North Africa. Planes duel over England. The Nazi blitzkrieg conquers most of Europe with a genocidal madman at the controls. Prepare to battle the evil of the Axis powers and the hideous things that rise in their wake. This isn’t just war-this is Weird War! This game is GM’d by Mike Cantin
-Unknown Armies
In Unknown Armies, players take the roles of movers and shakers in the occult underground, fighting a battle for the ultimate prize: ascension to a higher plane and a hand in creating the next incarnation of reality. Loathsome monsters, bizarre supernatural forces, mind-bending magic, warring cults, and ten thousand bullets — it’s a pulp apocalypse, and the players have front-row seats for the steel-cage death match of all eternity. GM Steve Ramirez will bring his twisted mind for the forey into Unknown Armies
Yes, you read that right. Joseph Goodman will be at Dicehouse Games play testing his new RPG. This is a day you will not want to miss! No, really. You don’t want to miss it at all!
Don’t forget, the Dead Gamers Society comes in every first Sunday of the month to run Geist! And they come back in every third Saturday of the month to run Vampire the Requiem!
So this week, Dicehouse Games was able to get in special orders for seven people. That was nine items! Everyone who put in a special order receives a 10% discount. Looking for something we don’t have in stock? Special order it and you too can receive a 10% discount. If we haven’t been able to get your special order, chances are our distributor was out, but I guarantee that we are doing our best to find it from somewhere else!
That’s about it for this week! See you all in seven!
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
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New Stuff: October 14th
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Hello all you happy gamers out there! It is another Thursday and we’ve got new stuff! And great restocks as well!
Eden Studios (Yep, they’re back! And with new stuff too!)
Arrgh! Thar Be Zombies (for All Flesh Must Be Eaten)
Cubicle Seven
Sundered Skies Compendium 1
A Dirty World: One-Roll Engine
And that’s it for new stuff this week. “What? That’s it?” Yes, it’s true. Only three new items this week. But we’ve got a few restocks as well.
Flying Frog Productions
Invasion From Outer Space (This sold out quick last week! So pick this up before we sell out again!)
Looney Labs
Back to the Future: The Card Game
Wizards of the Coast
D&D Castle Ravenloft Boardgame (This sold out quick as well! I mean, before the weekend was out when it was new, we were out.)
Wyrd
Malifaux Rulebook
Malifaux Rising Powers
So we’ve got events! Lots of them!
This Friday we’ve got our usual Friday Night Magic! Come in with your standard deck and play! This event is growing and growing! See how other players are using the new Scars of Mirrodin in their decks. This month we’re giving out foil Rift Bolt cards. Entry is still only $5.00! We begin around 6:00 pm.
Of course, we still do have Saturday Booster Draft Tournaments. Come in and build your draft deck with Scars of Mirrodin! The entry fee is $15.00, but covers the three boosters you receive and prizes!
The new session of Dungeons & Dragons Encounters has begun! This time we’ve got Keep on the Borderlands! Encounters is run every Wednesday night at 6:00 pm! Come on in and play!
In a small field, just outside of a sleepy town in 1940′s middle America, Martian Saucers hover in the night sky. Having chosen their first target, a large group of humans gathered around a traveling carnival on the outskirts of town, a legion of Martians march to war. But not all the Humans are defenseless. As the crowds flee in terror and are vaporized by the saucer’s death rays, one brave group of circus performers step forward to defend their planet – Earth’s first line of defense! This will be their greatest performance…and maybe their last. Invasion from Outer Space is a board game from the people who brought you Last Night on Earth. It uses the same mechanic as Last Night on Earth, so both games are compatible. Joe Sosta will be coming in to demo these games on November 14th! Come on in and join the fun. Learn to play. New players are welcome!
The Dead Gamers Society will be here in full swing in October!
On the 16th, the DGS will be coming in again to start their new fall season of Vampire the Requiem! Be a vampire in the heart of Los Angeles!
And if that wasn’t enough, the Dead Gamers Society will be coming in on the 24th for their famous Dicehouse Rendezvous! “What is that?” you may ask. The Rendezvous is a day where they take over Dicehouse Games and run a variety of different roleplaying games throughout the day! So what will they be running on the 24th? 9 different games to fit your fancy! Let me do a little cut and paste for you all!
Update to the Fall RPG Rendezvous at DiceHouse.
Added Games. I’m pleased to announce that Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games will be on hand to run playtests of his upcoming Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game. He’ll be running two sessions one in the morning and one in the afternoon and players are welcome to play in both of them.
Joe Goodman is one of the luminaries of the RPG business and Goodman Games is one of the most popular publishers of third party material for Dungeons and Dragons. You can learn more about Goodman Games at their site…
http://www.goodman-games.com/
Updates added to the schedule below
The Dead Gamers Society presents the Fall RPG Rendezvous. This is our quarterly micro RPG con at DiceHouse were we play some of todays most intriquing RPG’s, this is our chance to try some non-World of Darkness RPG’s. Think of it like an RPG wine tasting.
To RSVP for these fine games, visit the DGS website at
http://www.meetup.com/Dead-Gamers-Society/
The schedule is as follows.
10:00 am to 2:00pm
-Dungeon Crawl Classics Session 1
Joe Goodman of Goodman Games will be on hand playtesting Dungeon Crawl Classics the Roleplaying Game. Dungeon Crawl Classics brings back the feel and ease of Dungeon and Dragons as it was conceived in it’s early days, inspired by Robert E Howard’s Conan, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and the classics of sword and sorcery.
-A Song of Fire and Ice Roleplaying
Presenting Green Ronin’s Song of Fire and Ice Roleplaying. For years, readers have thrilled to the saga of Westeros as told in George R.R. Martin’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series. Now you can tell your own tales of the Seven Kingdoms and play the game of thrones in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying. This is GM’d by Chris Czerniak.
-World of Darkness: Haus of Mirrors
Like Alice through the looking glass, this game takes you a trip through the World of Darkness like you never seen it before. With the recent publication of World of Darkness Mirrors, the window in which we see the World of Darkness has shattered and we now see a world twisted, frayed and mutated, but no less scary and mysterious. The Haus of Mirrors beckons you, come…enter. This is GM’d by Geist GM, Julie Scott.
-All Flesh Must Be Eaten
All Flesh Must Be Eaten is a roleplaying game set in a world of survival horror. A world where the dead have come back from their graves. You have no clue as to why they have returned but one thing is certain… They crave living flesh! Zombie games never get old and this is one of the best. This game is GM’d by Joe Sosta
3:00pm to 7:00pm
-Dungeon Crawl Classics Session 2
Joe Goodman brings more classic adventuring where stalwart heroes braved dark dungeons in search of treasure and glory.
-Gamma World 4th Edition
The D&D Gamma World Roleplaying Game offers hours of rollicking entertainment in a savage land of adventure, where the survivors of some mythical future disaster must contend with radioactive wastes, ravaged cities, and rampant lawlessness. Against a nuclear backdrop, heroic scavengers search crumbled ruins for lost artifacts while battling mutants and other perils. This is DM’d by Joel Arellano
-Leverage the Roleplaying Game
Based on the popluar TV Shoe, the Leverage Role Playing Game puts you in the middle of a dysfunctional but highly-specialized group of con-artists, criminals, and crooks who are trying to turn over a new leaf. You protect the victims of corporations, mobsters, and corrupt politicians by using your expert skills to outwit and overcome the real bad guys. Using the award-winning Cortex System as its foundation, the Leverage RPG includes all the rules you need to create a team of rogues, plan a job, and get it done… even if it means going to Plan B. This game is GM’d by Tim James
-Savage Worlds: Weird War II
In the horror of war, dark things rise, and World War II is history’s greatest conflict. The Japanese stalk the jungles of Southeast Asia. Carriers battle in the South Pacific. Tanks trundle across North Africa. Planes duel over England. The Nazi blitzkrieg conquers most of Europe with a genocidal madman at the controls. Prepare to battle the evil of the Axis powers and the hideous things that rise in their wake. This isn’t just war-this is Weird War! This game is GM’d by Mike Cantin
-Unknown Armies
In Unknown Armies, players take the roles of movers and shakers in the occult underground, fighting a battle for the ultimate prize: ascension to a higher plane and a hand in creating the next incarnation of reality. Loathsome monsters, bizarre supernatural forces, mind-bending magic, warring cults, and ten thousand bullets — it’s a pulp apocalypse, and the players have front-row seats for the steel-cage death match of all eternity. GM Steve Ramirez will bring his twisted mind for the forey into Unknown Armies
Yes, you read that right. Joseph Goodman will be at Dicehouse Games play testing his new RPG. This is a day you will not want to miss! No, really. You don’t want to miss it at all!
So this week, Dicehouse Games was able to get in special orders for eleven people. That was thirteen items! Everyone who put in a special order receives a 10% discount. Looking for something we don’t have in stock? Special order it and you too can receive a 10% discount. If we haven’t been able to get your special order, chances are our distributor was out, but I guarantee that we are doing our best to find it from somewhere else!
That’s about it for this week! See you all in seven!
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George Edward Woodbury
Tags: all flesh must be eaten, arrgh thar be zombies, cubicle seven, eden studios, ravenloft, Savage Worlds, sundered skies, Wizards of the Coast
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