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New Stuff: November 24th

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

Welcome to a wild Wednesday! Wednesday? We usually send out our newsletters on Thursday! What’s going on? I’m sure you all figured out that tomorrow is Thanksgiving! And of course, Dicehouse Games will be closed. But have no fear, we got in our shipment in early! Just in time for Thanksgiving! So as you’re sitting there after dinner full of turkey and other goodness, you can peruse your new stuff! So on with the list!

Privateer Press
Forces of Hordes: Circle Orboros HC
Forces of Hordes: Circle Orboros SC

Cubicle 7
Daring Tales of the Space Lanes Compendium 1
Interface Zero (Savage Worlds)
Cthulhutech GM Reference Screen

Mongoose Press
RuneQuest II: Pavis Rises

Steve Jackson Games
Munchkin Booty: Fish & Ships Pack

Yes, it’s a light week, but it’s a short week as well! But we do have some cool restocks!

Fantasy Flight Games
Lord of the Rings Silver Edition Board Game
World of Warcraft Board Game
World of Warcraft: Shadow of War Expansion
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion

Out of the Box
Pirate vs Pirate
Ninja vs Ninja
(You can combine the two for an epic Pirate vs Ninja game!)

Cubicle 7
Doctor Who: Aliens and Creatures

Paizo
Pathfinder Advanced Players Guide HC (These always go fast!)

Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons & Dragons Essentials: Dungeon Masters Kit Box
Dungeons & Dragons Essentials: Monster Vault Box

And of course, we have 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 Gatekeeper of Malakir cards. Entry is still only $5.00! We begin around 6:00 pm. Yes, we will still be having FNM on Black Friday!

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!

This past Sunday, Joe Sosta came in and ran Invasion From Outer Space. He and the group got in two games and it looks like they had a ton of fun! Special thanks to you, Joe, for coming in and running this demo! We look forward to more in the future!

The 11th of December will see the Dead Gamers Society come in and run their World of Darkness London Fog game! New and experienced players are welcome. Use one of the pre-generated characters available or bring your own Victorian-era beginning level character.

The first Sunday of the month, the Dead Gamers Society comes in and run a Geist game and a Haus of Mirrors game! New players are welcome! And of course, the third Saturday of the month, they come in for their famous Vampire: The Requiem game! Come in and be a blood sucker in the City of Angels!

As we get closer to the holidays, Dicehouse Games usually has a charity event, consisting of games to be played with an entry fee plus an auction. Of course, all proceeds will be going to a certain charity. So we’ve made the decision to go with Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) for this year’s charity. Tuan will be running a Magic the Gathering Standard Tournament on Saturday at 1:00 pm. I will be running some sort of a Savage Worlds RPG adventure on Sunday, probably at 1:00 pm. We are looking for other volunteers to run games as well. If you would like to run a game, we ask that you be able to collect a $5.00 entry fee from all of the players. Also, if you would like to add any in-game bonuses, that would be great. For example, in the Savage Worlds game I will be running, if anyone wants to make a re-roll of the dice, they can do so for a dollar! We will also be having our usual auction at the end of the event on Sunday. So far, we’ve got Privateer Press sending us a signed copy of the Hordes MKII rulebook and signed posters! Chaosium has sent us several RPG books: Call of Cthulhu, Basic Roleplaying, Masks of Nyarlathotep, and The Yith Cycle! Fantasy Flight Games has sent us Warhammer Invasion and Android! Some of the other game companies who have said they will contribute to us is Mayfair Games, ToyVault, Goodman Games, and Cubicle Seven. Possibly even Wizards of the Coast will be sending some stuff our way. So when is this shindig going to happen? December 18th and 19th! I know it’s the weekend before Christmas, but do you really want to be out there shopping? And maybe you can win a game at the auction and give that as a gift? Either way, that weekend will be loads of fun!

So this week, Dicehouse Games was able to get in special orders for five 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!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

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New Stuff: November 4th

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Hello all of you happy dice rollers and card flippers out there! It’s another Thursday so we’ve got another New Stuff newsletter for you! So let’s get right on into the new stuff for this week!

Days of Wonder
Small World Be Not Afraid Expansion
Small World Necromancer Island Expansion (This is free to anyone who buys the Small World Board Game or any of the expansions for it!)

Fantasy Flight Games
Rogue Trader: Edge of the Abyss

Green Ronin
Freeport Companion: Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Edition

Cubicle Seven
De Profundis 2nd Edition
RQII Clockwork & Chivalry: Thou Shall Not Suffer

Reaper Miniatures
Dorly Luckrock, Halfling Scout
Scourge Devil
Shalelu, Elf Ranger (Pathfinder)

Steve Jackson Games
Munchkin Quest: Portal Kombat Expansion

White Wolf
Exalted 2: Glories of the Most High

And of course, we have restocks as well!

Days of Wonder
Small World Board Game
Small World: Grand Dames Expansion
Small World: Curses! Expansion

Da Vinci Games
Bang!

Rio Grande Games
Carcassonne

Mayfair Games
Family Business

Steve Jackson Games
Munchkin Card Game (Revised Edition)
Ninja Burger (Revised Edition)

Twilight Creations
Zombies!!! (2nd Edition)
Humans!!!

Wizards of the Coast
Guillotine
Dungeons & Dragons Eberron Campaign Guide Hardcover

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 Gatekeeper of Malakir cards. Entry is still only $5.00! We begin around 6:00 pm. Special thanks to Staci Mitchell for running last week’s FNM!

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!

This Saturday, we’ll be having another one of our Magic the Gathering Peasant Tournaments. We start at 1:00 pm and the entry is only $3.00 instead of $5.00. What can we say, it’s cheaper because it’s a Peasant Tourney!

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 21st! Come on in and join the fun. Learn to play. New players are welcome! **Please note, the date has changed from the 14th to the 21st.

The Dead Gamers Society come in the second Sunday of the month (November 14th) to run their monthly Geist Game! Come in for a ghostly good time! They will also be running a World of Darkness Haus of Mirrors this day as well! This is the same game Julie Scott ran at the Rendezvous, but will be ongoing! Woot!

The DGS 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!

As we get closer to the holidays, Dicehouse Games usually has a charity event, consisting of games to be played with an entry fee plus an auction. Of course, all proceeds will be going to a certain charity. This year, we are either going to be donating to Children’s Hospital of Orange County or Make a Wish Foundation. We will keep you posted on this. We already have a signed copy of Hordes MKII and posters coming in from Privateer Press.

So this week, Dicehouse Games was able to get in special orders for five people. That was six 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 does not come to those who wait . . . and it does not wait for anyone to come to it.” – Anonymous

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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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