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Finspan (Available Now!)

You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aquatic life in the colorful Sunlight Zone, ghostly Twilight Zone, and pitch-black Midnight Zone of the world’s seas and oceans. In Finspan, the fish you discover over four weeks will generate a series of benefits as you dive deeper into the ocean.

Each dive site specializes in a key aspect of expanding your research:

The winner is the player with the most points gained from fish, eggs, young, schools, and achievements.

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era (Available Now!)

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a 1-4 player cooperative tabletop adventure set during Tamriel’s Second Era – specifically during the events of the Planemeld, as the Order of the Black Worm plots to secure the Amulet of Kings. As the dark cult schemes, however, one of its members is planning an even darker betrayal, one that will tie Tamriel in with Oblivion forever. Adventurers work to uncover her machinations and stop her plot amid a bevy of endlessly replayable content. As in The Elder Scrolls video games, players will travel on an epic journey, balancing exploration, character building, dungeon diving and close quarters combat.

Each adventure in the game takes place over the course of three gameplay sessions, with sessions being roughly two hours plus an additional half hour per player in length. Players customize and control a single hero throughout all three sessions of an adventure as they manage multiple skill lines, classes and experience the many regions of Tamriel, each with their own unique flavor and mechanics. Experience points are handed out generously, allowing players to build interesting and unique characters in the consolidated timespan required in a tabletop experience. Session to session progression is meaningful, but players are not required to remember complex narrative points or play with the same group forever.

Planet Unknown Supermoon Deluxe Bundle (Available Now!)

Our planet has run out of resources, and we are forced to move. We have discovered a series of planets and sent our rovers to test their environment with the hope of colonization. Our rovers have confirmed 1-6 viable colonization options.

Planet Unknown is a competitive game for 1-6 players in which players attempt to develop the best planet. Each round, each player places one polyomino-shaped, dual-resource tile on their planet. Each resource represents the infrastructure needed to support life on the planet. Every tile placement is important to cover your planet efficiently and also to build up your planet’s engine. After placing the tile, players do two actions associated with the two infrastructure types on the tile. Some tile placements trigger “meteors” that make all planets harder to develop and prevent them from scoring points in the meteor’s row and column.

Planet Unknown innovates on the popular polyomino trend by allowing simultaneous, yet strategic turn-based play via the Lazy S.U.S.A.N. space station in the center of the table.

Limited Deluxe Edition:

Planet Unknown: Supermoon Expansion

The meteor strikes have caused great damage. We’ve gathered as much wreckage as possible so please use the salvage carefully. Complete the primary objective and build the planet that will preserve humanity. Expand your developments onto the Supermoon in case the meteorite hazards get out of hand. Planet Unknown is a polyomino tile-laying game that mixes tile-placement, engine-building, simultaneous play, and resource and rover management for a unique and competitive gameplay experience. Supermoon is the first expansion.

SUPERMOON SUPERPUZZLE
A new decision point has been created. Place your tile on your moon or onto your planet. The moon comes equipped with a 3d satellite mini to help clear meteorites in a unique way. You could even choose to deploy a rover on your moon. Tile selection, tile placement, and meteorite cleanup will be the key to mastering this new puzzle.

EXTENDED GAMEPLAY
The net effect of the Supermoon expansion will be games that take roughly 5 simultaneous turns longer, extending your gameplay from ~65 minutes to ~80 minutes. This extension allows new strategies to emerge and players must challenge existing assumptions about Planet Unknown retain to their winning edge.

SALVAGE TILES
A supply of salvage tiles will be available to each player. Each salvage tile is a split polyomino, salvaged from the recent meteor showers, and always has one resource and one meteorite. Instead of drafting from the S.U.S.A.N., you may choose to place any two of your salvage tiles placing them together or apart.

NEW PLANET AND CORPORATION
With the recent meteor shower, a new corporation has assembled from the wreckage. Mix and match the new planet and corporation content to create even more asymmetric pairings in Planet Unknown.

Azul Duel (Available Now!)

The tile-laying favorite is back in a duel version! Of all the tile-laying artists who have decorated the walls of King Manuel’s palace in Azul, two artists stood out. These two tile-laying masters have been chosen by his majesty to decorate the ceiling of Sintra’s palace. Players will have to show the king in a tile-laying duel, who is the best among the best artists of all Portugal !
Experience the famous tile-drafting mechanics with a new stacking twist. Now with pattern plates to choose from, which allow to build the iconic player board for a unique layout each game. Azul Duel focus on confrontation and provide the players with new choices that give a deeper Azul experience for a more tense gameplay!

A Message From the Stars (Available Now!)

In A Message From the Stars, a team of scientists seeks to decipher cryptic messages from an extraterrestrial civilization.

Set against a backdrop of cosmic mystery, players take on the roles of brilliant scientists tasked with decoding a series of perplexing satellite transmissions. These transmissions are believed to contain vital messages from an alien race that could hold the key to the destiny of Earth. The catch? The messages are incomprehensible, written in an entirely unknown alien language.

Using engrossing deduction mechanics, players will collaborate with their fellow scientists to send messages back to the extraterrestrial senders. By exchanging these messages, you hope to unravel the intricate linguistic code that conceals the true intentions of the alien entity. Each interaction yields a numerical value, a piece of the puzzle that you’ll need to solve the riddle of the alien language.

Players can engage in cooperative gameplay, where all scientists pool their collective intellect to crack the alien code and unveil the hidden message. Alternatively, delve into team play, with two alien players sending messages across the galaxy.

The future of interstellar relations lies in your hands!

Tiny Epic Game Of Thrones (Available Now!)

Prepare to navigate the perilous world of Westeros with Tiny Epic Game of Thrones, where alliances are fragile, betrayals are common, and the fate of your House hangs in the balance. Players will assume the roles of the mighty houses of the Seven Kingdoms, each vying for power, influence, and control of the Iron Throne.

As you step into the shoes of iconic characters, you’ll face challenging dilemmas, engage in intricate political maneuvering, and wage epic battles for supremacy. Will you forge powerful alliances with other noble houses, or will you plot their downfall to seize their lands and resources? The choices you make will have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only your House but the entire realm. Can you outwit your rivals and ensure the survival and prosperity of your House in the unforgiving Game of Thrones?

In Tiny Epic Game of Thrones, players utilize an innovative limited-action dice mechanism to strategically choose actions such as plot, whisper, event, march, and sail. With the option to follow other players’ actions, players will be engaged every turn.

Furthermore, players will wield the immense power of their respective Houses through a versatile hand of multi-use cards that allow players to plot against the influential houses of Westeros, orchestrate grandiose events, and partake in exhilarating battles. They will wage war across all of Westeros, sieging castles, taking lands, and forging crucial alliances, all for a chance to sit upon the Iron Throne. After six rounds of play, one player will emerge as the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and be crowned the winner!

Wraith & The Giants (Available Now!)

Every 23 years since time unknown, giants have risen from the lands beyond, marching towards the village to feed. Your grandmother fought and defeated these monsters while she was alive; the duty had fallen to her upon the death of her grandmother, and so forth back as far as legend records. Your grandmother is gone, so you now must take up her sword and bow as a living shadow. Can you continue the story and protect the village from a catastrophic end?

Wraith & The Giants is a solitaire game of epic battles against elemental giants. Progress through four unique boss fights at three different wraith ages. Chain your card combos to scar and defeat the giants.

Golden Age of Piracy: 1718 (Available Now!)

The Golden Age of Piracy – 1718 is an old-school style Tactical level Solitaire board-wargame of action and adventure, with a bit of wargame and RPG elements mixed in. An open-ended sandbox style game where the pirate captain may choose his own path.

Set in the Caribbean Islands during the year 1718, as a pirate captain, you will attempt to build your wealth by attacking merchant ships and selling their goods, by attacking and pillaging towns, kidnapping or assassinating a town governor or his daughter, gambling in a tavern, and by recovering buried treasure from acquired maps.

The player moves his pirate ship’s game counter across the Caribbean map, traveling around and searching for merchant ships to take attack, visiting the pirate town of Nassau to buy and sell goods, plus repair the ship. The player may also construct a hidden pirate haven where he may store stolen goods and booty, plus repair his ship at no cost.

The ultimate goal of the game is to save up enough booty in order to buy your pardon before the Royal Navy invades Nassau. Will you succeed, or be hanged for piracy?

Beyond the Horizon (Available Now!)

Beyond the Horizon is a civilization game in which players compete to become the most influential society in history through exploration and expansion, development and production, research and technological advancement.

The game is played over a variable number of rounds until enough goals have been achieved to signal the end of the game. Along the way, players will earn points for exploring new lands, settling and building new cities, advancing technologically, and increasing their cultural and economic development. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Switchbacks (Available Now!)

Players embark on an epic mountain-trekking expedition, blazing a trail through uncharted terrain. Your goal? Mark the path along the way and hike the most paths.

Each turn, you place one of your three tiles on the map and then either 1) place one of your hikers on that tile or 2) buddy up two of your hikers to save for a double move later.

The rules are simple, but the decisions are tough!

Hikers only score if they are on a path of 4 continuous numbers. Do you join an opponents’ trail to team up, or block their path with one of your own? Do you forgo a sure placement to buddy up your hikers for a perfect space next turn? Will that space even be available next turn?

We have fallen in love with these elegant dilemmas and you will too!

Through the Desert (Available Now!)

In Through the Desert, two to five players each control a tribe of nomads vying for control of the desert. By establishing caravans and taking over oases, the players gain points as their tribes increase in power.

Strategy is essential in deciding how and where to build your tribe’s caravans. There are multiple ways to gain points and several ways to win. Should you try to build the longest caravan? Or should you dominate the desert’s oases? Don’t forget to keep an eye on your opponents’ caravans, or you may find your own tribe cut off from valuable water holes.

Through the Desert: Bazaar Expansion (Available Now!)

Four modular expansions tweak the classic gameplay of Through The Desert with fun twists without diluting the elegant nature of the gameplay. Add one for a slight change, or bring out all four for experienced players looking for a challenge!

Paranoia The Uncooperative Board Game (Available Now!)

This is a competitive game for 2-6 players. Each player controls a Troubleshooter, tasked with carrying out the Computer’s orders in the hope of being promoted through the spectrum of Clearance Levels, and hopefully attaining the rank of Ultraviolet.

Alpha Complex is a dangerous place, full of mutants, secret societies, and other troublemakers. It’s quite likely that Troubleshooters will die. (It’s also quite likely that they will, in fact, be mutants, members of secret societies, and troublemakers.) When a Troubleshooter dies, high tech rapid cloning procedures ensure that they can get back to work almost instantly. Clones are limited though, so don’t be too frivolous…

Sometimes, the only way to get ahead (or, indeed, get anywhere at all) is to bend the strict rules of Alpha Complex… but watch your back. If anyone witnesses your (justifiable?) acts of despicable treason, and lets the Computer know… things might not go so well for you. Especially if the roving GuardBots have anything to do with it. Best of luck, and remember: the Computer is your friend! Trust the Computer!

Sally Face: Strange Nightmares (Available Now!)

Bring the world of Sally Face to the tabletop with Sally Face: Strange Nightmares. Strange occurrences are happening at Addison Apartments. Explore the apartments as Sal and his friends, and work together to investigate the surrounding mysteries.

Play through different episodes with events and characters that echo the video game. Players must solve mysteries, stop cultists and prevent the Red Eyed Demon from spreading corruption while advancing through the story.

Players roll custom dice and use the results to perform a variety of actions to solve mysteries but if they dabble too much the powers of evil may become too strong to stop. Unsolved mysteries allow the Red Eyed Demon to spread corruption and the heroes may lose their lives or sanity. However, death and insanity aren’t the end. Heroes may persevere while mad or as ghosts. Such a fate brings the Red Eyed Demon ever closer to his goal of total domination. Players who complete the story face a climax which is a different challenge in each chapter.

Shadowdark RPG (Available Now!)

What Is Shadowdark RPG?

In Shadowdark RPG, you and your group of crawlers use magic, steel, and wits to delve into mysterious ruins, lost cities, and monster-infested depths.

Wondrous treasures and long-forgotten secrets await you! But don’t let your last torch burn out, or you could be swallowed by the Shadowdark…

5E players will find what they’ve been waiting for: an intuitive and complete TTRPG that serves as a seamless bridge into the heart of the Old School Renaissance.  

Old-school gamers will find a system that is familiar and nostalgic, but with major quality-of-life upgrades that modernize the old-school experience. 

Your legend awaits, crawler. 

Lift your blade, light your torch, and plunge into the unknown depths of the Shadowdark!

Star Trek Adv 2E: Starter Set (Available Now!)

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE!

The Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game takes you to the final frontier! You may travel to the edges of known space, to colonies in need, to the borders of neighbouring galactic powers, or into the eye of interstellar phenomena. Explore strange new worlds, encounter fantastical alien life forms, and engage in dramatic adventures in a detailed and immersive Galaxy.

This Starter Set contains everything you need to begin your journey into the final frontier, including an epic campaign of three linked missions designed to challenge a brave crew of 3–7 player characters.

Wyrmlings: An All-Ages TTRPG (Available Now!)

In the great green vale of Dragonsdale, we’re gonna tell a wyrmling tale – the tale of the Wyrmling Brigade!

Tell your own stories with Wyrmlings: a cute, wholesome, all-ages TTRPG about young dragons going on adventures and overcoming challenges with friends. Designed to capture the feeling of cartoons like Steven Universe and My Little Pony, the adventures you go on will vary from facing down an evil wizard to simply trying to find the best birthday present for a friend. It’s all up to you and the stories you want to tell!

With emerging complexity built into the system, the game is perfect for everyone from long-time roleplayers to newcomers. Its narrative focus makes it excellent for episodic series and one-shots alike, and a pair of intro adventures will get you playing in minutes. Beyond the core rules, Wyrmlings contains 15 adventures – including two tutorial-style adventures that teach the rules during play so players can open the book and jump right in! Basic and Advanced rules allow groups to choose the level of complexity that makes the most sense for their players. Wyrmlings is a 2d6 system that emphasizes improvisation and role-play without a lot of preparation from the GM.  

BattleTech: Mercenaries Force Pack: Inner Sphere Security Lance (Available Now!)

The Inner Sphere Security Lance is a collection of four plastic miniatures for use in the classic BattleTech tabletop and Alpha Strike games. The box also provides four dry-erase cards, which are intended to directly support Alpha Strike gameplay, and four new Pilot Cards.

BattleTech: House Davion Heavy Battle Lance Force Pack (Available Now!)

Unleash the House Davion Heavy Battle Lance! Includes the Templar, Falconer, Thanatos, and new Federated Suns variant of the Thunderbolt – no assembly required – along with four MechWarrior pilot cards and four Alpha Strike cards. Perfect for BattleTech and Alpha Strike!

BattleTech: The Art of War (Available Now!)

Translated and annotated by Jaime Wolf of Wolf’s Dragoons. An updated version of Sun Tzu’s classic treatise on the conduct of warfare.

MonsDRAWsity: My Lil’ Monsters (Available Now!)

Lookout for lil’ monsters and prepare for lots of laughs! Players take turns being either a witness who just had a monster encounter or an agent trying to draw the best likeness using only the witness’ description. You don’t have to be the best artist, but you do have to ask the right questions and get the details correct. A great game for teaching communication loaded with amazing art.

MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects (Available Now!)

MonsDRAWsity is back with MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects, a brand new, stand-alone edition to one of 2020 and 2021’s best party games!

So when Deep Water Games decided to make another version, it made perfect sense to collaborate with the brilliant weirdos at Shut Up and Sit Down, a group of people known for being hilarious, energetic, wonderfully bizarre, and original. MonsDRAWsity: Unusual Suspects features over 100 new monsters conjured up by Shut Up and Sit Down and illustrated by some of your favorite (or soon to be favorite) artists.

Phantom Ink: Arcana (Available Now!)

Phantom Ink: Arcana is a 30-minute party game about renowned mediums competing to prove who has the best connection with the World Beyond. To do this, mediums must correctly identify a secret object that the spirits are trying to communicate to them.

A standalone expansion to the award-winning party game Phantom Ink, Phantom Ink: Arcana adds 75 brand new question cards, over 200 new secret objects, a cooperative 2-3 player gameplay mode, and 22 fully-illustrated tarot-themed Arcana cards with unique special abilities to spice up gameplay.

New players can play Phantom Ink: Arcana by itself, and experienced fans can combine it with the Phantom Ink original game to have 175 unique question cards and vary up their game!

My First Adventure: Discovering Atlantis (Available Now!)

Venture deep underwater in search of the lost city of Atlantis and an incredible treasure!

Start on the shore and progress through various marine ecosystems. Along the way you will encounter aquatic flora and fauna, face a fearsome sea monster, and find a long-lost treasure

Children will choose one of three submarines to pilot, each with different specialties. As they play through the adventure, they will collect new technologies to upgrade their submarines. But beware! Too many poor decisions will lead to the accumulation of leaks and returning to shore.

There are multiple endings with different levels of success. Through the process of making choices and learning from outcomes, children will grow in experience and be encouraged to use critical-thinking and deduction to overcome challenges

Selecting different characters, or choosing different paths, means that they will return to this book for a new adventure, time and time again!

D&D 5E RPG: The Game Master’s Book of More Random Encounters (Available Now!)

As most TTRPG fans know, one of the most exciting elements of any roleplaying game is that the story can go anywhere at any time. Unfortunately, Game Masters can’t possibly prepare for every unpredictable request, unfortunate die roll or unbelievably bad player decision that might unfold at their table. That’s where this book comes in: Featuring more than 500 more maps, roll tables and story hooks, The Game Master’s Book of More Random Encounters will save readers hours of planning by providing all new enchanting adventure maps, perilous plot twists and unexpected NPCs that they’ve come to expect from the Game Master series in an easy-to-follow format that’s compatible with all their 5e adventures.

Featuring plenty of practical places like taverns, inns and alchemist’s labs as well as unexpected locations in far-off realms, farther-off planes and even the farthest reaches of the galaxy, The Game Master’s Book of More Random Encounters is everything readers loved about the first book in the series―but EVEN MORE. Whether they’re assigning a destination following a teleportation mishap, wondering what it would be like to dine at chain restaurant in the Abyss or looking for a simple spot for their players to kick their feet up for a few hours (careful, that coffee table is a realm unto itself), this action-packed tome is the remedy for maladies Game Masters didn’t even know they had.

Level Up Advanced 5E RPG: Starter Box (Available Now!)

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) was launched by EN Publishing in 2021 and is a standalone game which enhances the 5E ruleset which you know and love. If you love 5E but would like a little more depth to the rules, Level Up is the new game for you!

After two years of extensive public playtests and surveys involving thousands of players, and input from their active community, EN Publishing completely overhauled the 5E game system. From redesigned classes to a full exploration pillar, they have revisited every aspect of the game to present this new standalone game, backwards compatible with the 5th Edition core rules.

This Starter Box upgrades your 5E games to Level Up, the deeper, more flexible enhancement of the DnD ruleset which you know and love.

Photobomb (Available Now!)

Photobomb is a board game nobody knows the secret image except for the dealer with the picture card, who is trying to pretend they don’t know. You’re objective is to catch the photobomber + earn points doing so. First to 30 points wins!

Wizards Cup (Available Now!)

Tonight starts the Wizards’ Cup, a magical dueling tournament held once every century. As the king of a country, you will select the six best wizards from your kingdom and decide the order in which they will compete. Yes, your role ends there, and all that remains is to watch your trusted wizards battle it out.

In Wizards Cup, you want to build the best team you can, anticipating how your opponent might attack, and ideally show off your country’s strength in the magical world.

The Architects of Amytis (Available Now!)

The King of Babylon wants to offer a marvelous present to his wife, Queen Amytis: The most beautiful city ever created. He asks two of the best Architects in the world to design the city, and only the very best one will be built. It’s now up to you to create the best design.

Les Architectes d’Amytis (“Architects of Amytis”) is a Tile placement game, containing some worker placement and even some “Tic Tac Toe” mechanisms.
During your turn, you’ll have to select a tile among the available ones on the main board, and place one of your Architect Pawn on the corresponding pile.
Then, you’ll place the tile on your board wherever you want (on a free spot, or covering another tile to make your city grow higher). Each tile is colored (4 colors) and represents a building (6 different types). Each building type will score directly when you place the tile. And the colors will allow you to reproduce some of the King’s projects (a colored pattern inside your city) that will grant you points at the end of the game.

Furthermore, while placing your architects on the main board, if you manage to create a line, row or diagonal of 3, you’ll be granted a King’s favor: another type of score,triggered at the end of the game.

Buildings all have 2 types of scoring, so you can play different kind of games one after the other.

Which strategy will you choose to create the most marvelous city of the World?

Tabriz Premiere Edition (Available Now!)

Weave and sell luxurious carpets in the bustling Persian market city of Tabriz. Fill commissions for the commoners and before long the merchants and royals will take notice as well. Earn the most prestige from completed commissions to win the game and become known as the undisputed master of your craft.

On your turn, you move one of 3 assistant meeples through the Grand Bazaar and take the action where it lands. Actions include buying, trading, and rolling dice for wool, camel hair, silk, plant dye, and carmine dye. Each assistant has limited range, but with careful planning you can set up a quick and efficient series of actions to net you all the materials you need for your commissions before another player completes theirs.

At the end of each turn, if you have the necessary materials, you may complete 1 commission you have in hand.

Resources are limited and the market fluctuates every round. Watch for opportunities to grab more for less, and be careful to avoid moments when the resource you need is out of stock everywhere. Gain skill to attract better commissions, move your assistants further in each round, claim and complete multiple commissions at once, and earn bonus prestige. Optionally, play with the Advanced Workshop Mode so every weaver has their own unique ability taken at the start of the game and at the end of every round.

When any player completes 9 or more commissions, or gains the maximum of 14 skill, the current round is finished and the player with the most prestige wins!

Includes a robust solo mode with multiple AI opponents.

Scoville 2E (Available Now!)

New addition to the classics line from Trick or Treat Studios. An updated printing of a modern classic! 1 to 6 players will plant peppers, harvest them, cross-breed them, sell them, and make delicious chili to score points!

This edition includes colorblind-friendly plastic peppers, new art, a new solo mode and the previously released Labs Expansion!

1-6 players
60-90 minute play time

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza Poolside (Available Now!)

Bring the fun wherever you go with the best-selling card game, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, now featuring waterproof cards!

This addictive game is as unique as its name. It’s a power packed quick and simple party game. Race against each other to SLAP a match between a card and spoken word. But – watch out! – your mind will play tricks on you. This game was engineered for maximum fun.

Mori (Available Now!)

Mori is the Latin word for death and the Japanese word for forest. Both of these interpretations are represented in this artwork of this card game.

Mori is a quick-playing trick-taking game that asks players to carefully manipulate their hand of cards by playing tricks and using dice to find their way to the best possible score.

Abyss (Available Now!)

The Abyss power is once again vacant…
 
Which means the time has come to get your hands on the throne and its privileges! Try to gain influence over the various kingdoms of the ocean by gaining support from the council of Lords, affiliating with the right Allies, and controlling key locations. Only the one with the most influence is able to rule the Abyssal people!

Abyss is a game of development, combination and collection in which players try to take control of strategic locations in an underwater city. To achieve this, players must develop on three levels: first they must win allies in an auction. Second, they must recruit Lords by turning in their required sets of these allies. And third, they must use these Lords to gain control of locations, sacrificing their Lords’ powers in the process.
 
The game ends either once a player recruits their 7th Lord or once the Court needs to be refilled and it can’t be. Points are earned from locations controlled, Lords recruited, and other incidentals and the player with the most wins!

Lunar (Available Now!)

Lunar is a quick-playing, trick-taking game for two or four players in which players combine the phases of the moon and nocturnal animals to form cards played into tricks, which are combined to determine their value within each trick.

Each round consists of twelve tricks played, and at the end of each round, a score is awarded based on the number of tricks and cards acquired. Once one player (or team) reaches 30 points, the game ends, and the side with the most points wins!

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