It’s our second annual all-ages events, featuring a whole bunch of creators who will sketch, sign and talk with kids about making comics! And, for the first time this year, kids will participate in making a comic in the store!
Shane & Chris Houghton (http://chrishoughtonart.blogspot.com/) – Creators of Reed Gunther, Bear-Riding Cowboy, have also worked on Boom! Studios’ Peanuts and Adventure Time books!
Chad Thomas (http://chad-thomas.com/) – Worked on Archie’s Young Salem & Megaman, plus lots more!
Evan Bryce (http://evanbryce.blogspot.com/) – Wide variety of comics work, art teacher and some of the wildest, coolest color prints in the universe!
Yehudi Mercado (http://www.supermercadoent.com/) – Creator of Buffalo Speedway, promoting next year’s all-ages Archaia graphic novel Pantalones, TX!
The event will run from 10 AM – 6 PM!
We’ll have a special event, starting at 1 PM, where kids in attendance will help our creators build a comic book in the store!
Tell your friends!
Dark Knight Rises Day on Thursday, July 19th!
Rogues Gallery, along with DC Entertainment and comic book retailers across North America are declaring Thursday, July 19 “The Dark Knight Rises” Day to celebrate the arrival of this summer’s most anticipated film opening in theaters and IMAX ® on Friday, July 20.
Fans who visit Rogues Gallery on July 19 will receive a free, special edition comic book featuring several exclusive previews of current and upcoming Batman comic books and graphic novels, and while supplies last, Batman pins!
We’ll also be having a 15% off sale on all Batman-related graphic novels, and from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, Batman will be in the store, so bring your kids and your cameras!
Descent Journeys in the Dark Second Edition Demo on Saturday, July 7th!
Kevin Wilson’s Descent: Journeys in the Dark has been among FFG’s most popular titles for nearly ten years, redefining the dungeon-delving genre and setting the gold standard for engrossing gameplay and top-notch components. With the updated second edition, this tradition of excellence continues. While longtime Descent fans will find a new way to enjoy this classic favorite, a new generation of hobby games enthusiasts will be introduced to its engaging tactical gameplay and immersive narrative.
Rogues Gallery will be hosting a demo of the new Descent in early July, before the new game comes out! We’ll have more details as the event gets closer, but if you’d like to sign up to guarantee a spot, please call or email the store and ask to be put on the demo list.
But whether you’re a newcomers or a veteran, you’re sure to appreciate Second Edition’s new heroes and monsters, streamlined rules, class-based hero system, campaign play, and much more! Read on to learn about the specific enhancements Second Edition introduces, or skip ahead to find out how you can make your existing Descent: Journeys in the Dark components compatible with this exciting updated version.
You can find lots more information about Descent here!
New Games for June 11 – June 17, 2012
BOARD & CARD GAMES
Infernal Contraption 2nd Edition Infernal Contraption is a fun-fueled, stand-alone card game of mechanical mayhem where goblin bodgers race to assemble their nigh-uncontrollable machines of mass consumption! Newly revised and expanded, this 2nd Edition of Infernal Contraption includes cards from the Sabotage! expansion – so throw a wrench in your opponents’ plans and watch the resulting madness!
Monster Chase It’s your turn to scare those pesky Monsters! In the cooperative children’s board game Monster Chase, players use toys to scare all of the monsters back into the closet. But, they’re only spooked by one toy, so you’ll have to choose carefully. If you donÕt find the right toy, you will have to add another monster around the bed!
WOW CCG Aftermath Tomb Boosters Monsters, Monsters, and Still More Monsters! Aftermath – Tomb of the Forgotten introduces a new Monster race – Tol’vir – including three new Monster Heroes (Paladin, Priest, and Rogue), plus dual-class Monster Heroes, new Murloc, Ogre, and Demon allies, and plenty of Loot cards to World of Warcraft: The Card Game.
Samurai Battles Samurai Battles is the perfect blend of the beautiful and the historic, sure to please every breed of wargame fan – and the perfect way to explore the exciting battles of one of the most intriguing periods in the history of warfare. Whether you prefer the Art of Tactic or Commands & Colors style of play, Samurai Battles offers everything a wargamer could desire!
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
SOTC Dinocalypse Now When the Century Club is called in to prevent the assassination of FDR, it’s just another day on the job – but what they discover puts not just the President, but the entire world in jeopardy! With psychic dinosaurs taking over Manhattan and beyond, it’s up to Sally Slick, Jet Black, Mack Silver, and the other Centurions to save humanity – from extinction!
The Laundry Mythos Dassiers If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then a lot of knowledge is a critical mass! Deep beneath London, the Laundry archives occupy several miles of disused subway tunnel. The Dossiers contain extracts from the murkier reaches of the Laundry’s archives, a selection of unexplained encounters, unverified reports, uncorrelated data, loosely organized by whatever codeword seemed to fit. The Mythos Dossiers contain dozens of reports, handouts, eyewitness accounts, and deranged speculation about the horrors of the Mythos. Read them at your peril!
PF Advanced Race Guide HC This definitive sourcebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game provides tons of new character options for all seven core player character races. Additionally, the Advanced Race Guide offers meaty sections on a dozen spotlight races that make interesting and exciting player character options, and allows players to create and play characters like merfolk, grippli, duergar, stryx, and every other appropriate monster currently in the Pathfinder game.
GM Face Cards Rise/Runelords More than 50 key monsters and characters put their best face forward in this gorgeously illustrated deck designed for use with the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path. With space on the back to record key information and the work of Paizo’s finest illustrators on the front, these Face Cards bring the friends and foes of the original Adventure Path campaign to your tabletop, aiding immersion in the game and letting your players look directly into the face of the enemy.
GM Map Pack Marketplace This GameMastery Map Pack contains 18 full-color, 5 x 8-inch map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason A. Engle, that combine to form a variety of marketplace configurations fit for both shopping and chopping.
PF Adv Path Tempest Rising The adventurers have come a long way since the violent and desperate launch of their pirate career. Now, their ship’s hold full of loot and plunder, they make their triumphant return to Port Peril to present themselves to the Hurricane King. But with this recognition comes new opportunities, as other pirates take action to aid or hinder the heroes. Continuing the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path, Tempest Rising is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 7th-level characters.
PF Camp Setting Lost Kingdoms Six of the most mysterious and legendary ancient empires from Golarion’s past cast a long shadow into the present in this secret-packed Pathfinder sourcebook. Explore the monolithic, jungle-draped ziggurats of the ancient cyclops ruins of Ghol-Gan, walk among the towering, megalithic ruins of sin-shrouded Thassilon, or seek your fate among the trap-laden pyramid tombs of ancient Osirion, along with three other legendary realms. Each of the six lost kingdoms detailed in this book come rife with adventure hooks, details on ancient treasures, and statistics for the deadly guardians who lurk there still.
PF Camp Set Skull/Shackles Pstr Map Command the seas of the Pathfinder world with the Skull & Shackles Poster Map Folio! Chart your pirate empire on three huge, 8-panel poster maps – one of the pirate city of Port Peril, the unexplored Island of Empty Eyes, and the entire Shackles Isles region.
Cavemaster Demo on Saturday, June 23rd!
On Saturday, June 23rd, veteran game designer and artist Jeff Dee will be on hand to demo his new role-playing game, Cavemaster, from 1-3 PM. Come out and play, ask about the unique mechanics of this stone age themed RPG and talk to Jeff about his work on Villains & Vigilantes or his artwork for the original Deities & Demigods and other 1st edition Dungeons & Dragons material!
Check out more information about Cavemaster at the Kickstarter page!
New Games for May 26 – June 10, 2012
BOARD & CARD GAMES
Android Infiltration Designed by Donald X. Vaccarino (Dominion, Kingdom Builder), Infiltration is a tense card game of futuristic larceny in which players take the roles of thieves, competing to steal valuable secrets from a highly secured corporate facility. The best information lies deep within the complex, but each step inward takes you farther from escape. Worse yet, corporate mercenaries are closing in! How long will you push your luck as you avoid security patrols to download the most data?
MTG Planechase Magic: The Gathering Planechase 2012 Edition brings even more multiplayer fun with four all-new Planar Decks (Chaos Reigns, Night of the Ninja, Primordial Hunger, and Savage Auras) complete with a new kind of oversized card, and an assortment of new, Eternal-legal Magic cards. Each Planechase game pack contains a 10-card Planar Deck (8 all-new plane cards, two phenomenon cards), a ready-to-play 60-card deck, a six-sided planar die, and a Planechase strategy insert with multiplayer rules.
Quarriors! Quarmageddon It’s all-out Quarmageddon as the epic battles of Quarry dice continue with this brand-new expansion set to the popular Quarriors! dice-building game, featuring 40 new custom dice, 26 new cards powering six new Creatures and two new Spells, and Advanced rules for even more epic gameplay!
Survive Escape/Atlantis 30th Ann Ed Suspense! Adventure! Thrills! An underwater volcano has erupted, and the island of Atlantis is sinking into the sea! Unless the Explorers escape in time, all will be doomed! This 30th Anniversary Edition of Survive: Escape From Atlantis features upgraded components including slotted wood boats to carry the Explorer tokens and 3-D Land Tiles.
Cthulhu Dice Serving Cthulhu is fun – except for all those other cultists out to get you. So…get them first! Cthulhu Dice lets you drive your rivals mad – very, very quickly! Introduced in six new colors (Gold Pearl, Sparkly Green, Ice Blue, Ichor Green, Swirly Pink, and Copper), each Cthulhu Dice Set contains one large custom die, 18 glass marbles, a baggie, and complete rules.
+6 Bag o’Munchkin Level Counters Featuring John Kovalic’s great Munchkin art, with guest appearances by Greg Hyland’s Munchkin Fu and Ethan and Malachai Nicolle’s Axe Cop, Set 2 of the +6 Bag o’ Munchkin Level Counters game accessory is packed with another half-dozen level counter dials themed to match six of the most popular Munchkin core sets.
Uncharted the Board Game Dive into a world where mysteries are waiting to be solved, the past waiting to be uncovered, and the competition pursuing you at every turn. Should you push farther into the ruins to find the treasure, or should you deal with the pursuers at your back? Will you find the key to eternal life, endless riches, or will the pages of history close on you? The mysteries of the past unlock in Uncharted: The Board Game, where players compete to find treasure, defeat the competition, and ultimately succeed where others before you have failed. Will you fall victim to a trap set hundreds of years ago, or hold the power to shape the world itself? The choice is yours, but one misstep could spell the end of your adventuring career – permanently!
Marvel HC GSX Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces The X-Men are coming your way straight out of their hit comic! Marvel’s premiere mutant heroes are here and they’re ready for battle! Professor X joins Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Rogue, and Wolverine as they battle evil mutants while protecting a world that both hates and fears them! Featuring six figures with all-new dial designs, two exclusive maps, dice, and a great price point, The Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces pack is an excellent product for new and established players!
DC HC 75th Anv War of Light Fast Forces The War of Light is coming to your tabletop with this exciting new Fast Forces Pack! Join the fight and choose your Lantern Corps as Atrocitus, Larfleeze, Sinestro, Saint Walker, Indigo One, and Star Sapphire all return in this incredible 6-figure set! Featuring six figures with all-new dial designs, two exclusive maps, exclusive map tokens, and a great price point, the War of Light Fast Forces pack is an excellent product for new and established players!
Dixit 4 Journey Journey into a new and enriching environment where the sky is the limit for creating truly enchanting scenarios in Dixit 4: Journey, introducing a wonderful way to practice your skills at creating unique and subtle clues, while your friends test their abilities to bluff and mislead.
Fortress America Fortress America, a board game of strategy and survival, imagines a not-too-distant future in which war has once again encircled the globe. This updated version of the 1986 classic thrusts players into a frightening geopolitical scenario. Take on either the role of the United States, struggling to protect itself from foreign threats, or one or more of the invading armies, fighting battle after battle to acquire important territories.
Tournay Built by the Romans during the first century in Belgian Gaul, Tournay experienced most of its growth along the Scheldt river. Unfortunately, the river also contributed to its troubles, because in 881, the Normans traversed its watery path, easily capturing the city and stunting Tournay’s prosperity. Tournay invites you to participate in the reconstruction of the city and help your district flourish by cleverly coordinating the work of the city’s three domains – military, religious, and civil – in order to establish a glorious era that will last for centuries!
Dominion Base Card This set of 250 cards features all of the basic Victory, Treasure, and Curse cards from the Dominion games and its expansions, excluding cards that are Kingdom cards. All cards bear new graphics and are compatible with Dominion and all its extensions. The set also includes a new Trash card, also with new graphics.
WOW CCG Aftermath Tomb Boosters Monsters, Monsters, and Still More Monsters! Aftermath – Tomb of the Forgotten introduces a new Monster race – Tol’vir – including three new Monster Heroes (Paladin, Priest, and Rogue), plus dual-class Monster Heroes, new Murloc, Ogre, and Demon allies, and plenty of Loot cards to World of Warcraft: The Card Game.
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
DRYH Don’t Read This Book Exp Down a lonely alleyway, under a starless sky, lies a city that never was, yet is: the Mad City, where nightmares walk the streets, and a good nightÕs sleep can get you killed! Here, then, is a book from that place. Within these recovered pages are the tales of the Awake, insomniacs who’ve walked those perilous streets, bringing a bit of the power of dream with them to fight back the night – always at a terrible cost! Don’t Read This Book introduces 13 forbidden tales from the Mad City and the world of the Don’t Rest Your Head RPG.
D&D Urban Underdark Dungeon Tiles Create a network of underground cities and caves with this pack of customizable terrain tiles designed to add new dimension to your Dungeons & Dragons adventures. Thematically tied to the Web of the Spider Queen season of the D&D Encounters in-store play program, this accessory contains six durable, double-sided card stock sheets of illustrated terrain, with die-cut tiles you can use to build dwarven ruins, drow cities, and other deadly underground locations.
New Games for May 14 – May 25, 2012
BOARD & CARD GAMES
Talisman Blood Moon Expansion Can you survive until daybreak? Once in a generation, the Blood Moon begins its fell cycle, bathing the realm in a pallid light. Worse yet, the horrifying Werewolf prowls the night, seeking heroes with whom to share his curse. A terrifying expansion for Talisman, The Blood Moon adds a gripping layer of gothic horror to your quest for the Crown of Command with over 100 Adventure Cards, plus new spells, characters, and alternative endings.
COC MOM House of Fears Expansion An influential film director is holding a screening of his latest production in the abandoned estate Whale Manor, and you’ve been asked to attend. There’s just one catch: Whale Manor is haunted by the spirits of dead actors, all of whom are cursed to relive the drama of their films again and again! A cinematic adventure by acclaimed novelist Tracy Hickman, House of Fears thrusts players into a living 1920’s movie. But can they escape the horror before the film’s tragic ending? This “Print-On-Demand” expansion for Mansions of Madness contains three double-sided reference sheets, plus new Exploration, Lock, Obstacle, Event, Objective, and Keeper Action Cards.
Munchkin Guild Munchkin is the classic card game of killing monsters and taking their stuff! The Guild is the hot Web series about a gaming group that puts the FUN in dysFUNctional! Now theyÕve come together in a glorious spew of AWESOME!
Big Bang Theory Party Game Based on the hit TV series, the Big Bang Theory Party Game will appeal to fans of the show and party game players alike. Players take it in turns to be the judge, and the others put together pop-culture phrases portraying situations on the show.
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
DCC RPG HC -Limited Ed Gold Foil (GSL) Glory & Gold Won by Sorcery & Sword! You’re no hero. You’re a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock guarding long-dead secrets. You seek gold and glory, winning it with sword and spell, caked in the blood and filth of the weak, the dark, the demons, and the vanquished. There are treasures to be won deep underneath, and you shall have them! Return to the glory days of fantasy with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game! Fast play, cryptic secrets, and a mysterious past await you: turn the page! This limited-edition print run of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG includes a special gold-foil cover, and includes Dungeon Crawl Classics #66.5: Doom of the Savage Kings.
PF Buff Deck Track your hero’s bonuses and important status effects with the GameMastery: Buff Deck! This beautifully designed accessory speeds up play and cuts down on rulebook consultation during battles by laying out your character’s relevant bonuses in an easy-to-add format. From spells like bless, haste, and prayer to class features like a bard’s ability to inspire courage, the Buff Deck puts all the details at your fingertips, leaving you to concentrate on smiting your enemies!
GM Map Pack Lost Island GameMastery Map Pack: Lost Island contains 18 full-color, 5 x 8-inch map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason Engle, that combine to form a variety of tropical locales fit for both burying and discovering lost treasure! Locations include: a Pirate’s Cove, a Shipwreck, a Castaway’s Lean-to, an Idol, a Treasure Trove, a Waterfall, Rapids, and Jungle Paths.
PF Adv Path Raiders of the Fever Sea Now masters of their own ship, the adventurers can become pirates in their own right, but they must first rename and refit their stolen ship. But to be considered equals by the pirates of the Shackles, they have to prove themselves worthy of the name! A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 4th-level characters, Raiders of the Fever Sea continues the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path.
PF Camp Setting Giants Revisited This Pathfinder sourcebook explores the societies, ecologies, mythologies, and secrets of ten of the most memorable races of giant-kind, including hill giants, stone giants, frost giants, fire giants, cloud giants, storm giants, rune giants, marsh giants, taiga giants, and cyclopes. Each chapter includes full statistics for a sample leader or jarl, as well as new rules like feats, spells, and magical items crafted not just by these towering monsters, but by those who seek to fight against them.
PF Module No Response From Deepmar The island penal mining colony of Deepmar off the north coast of Cheliax has provided the infernal House of Thrune with a steady supply of valuable crystals for decades – but all contact with the island has ceased! Now, the heroes must discover what sinister threat has silenced the settlement. No Response From Deepmar is a dungeon and wilderness exploration Pathfinder Module designed for 8th-level characters.
GM Flip Mat Town Square Fend off an invasion or throw a festival upon this sweeping tactical map depicting the central square of a fantasy town! Designed specifically for use with the opening encounter of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game’s Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path but suitable for any urban engagement, this durable accessory sets a central scene for any tabletop fantasy campaign.
Free RPG Day on Saturday, June 16th
On Saturday, June 16th, starting when we open at 10 AM and running until supplies last, we will be hosting Free RPG Day.
Available games include A Time of War: BattleTech RPG/Shadowrun Quickstart flipbook, Cosmic Patrol RPG Quickstart, Harn setting material with world map, Conspiracy X Quickstart & Adventure, Warhammer 40K Roleplay Only War Adventure, “Eleventh Hour”, Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Quickstart & Adventure, Pathfinder, “Shadowsfall: Temple of Orcus”, Pathfinder Adventure, Dawn of the Scarlet Sun and the D&D 4E Adventure, “Dead in the Eye.”
As always, the supplies they send us are very limited, so we will only be able to give 2 items per person, and we expect to run out relatively quickly, so we recommend coming in early in the day for the best selection.
On Saturday, June 23rd, veteran game designer and artist Jeff Dee will be on hand to demo his new role-playing game, Cavemaster, from 1-3 PM. Come out and play, ask about the unique mechanics of this stone age themed RPG and talk to Jeff about his work on Villains & Vigilantes or his artwork for the original Deities & Demigods and other 1st edition Dungeons & Dragons material!
Memorial Day Sale on Monday, May 28th!
Rogues Gallery will be open normal hours on Monday, May 28th for Memorial Day and we’ll be having a sale! All graphic novels, boardgames, role-playing games and Warhammer/Warhammer 40K will be on sale at 15% off! In addition, all action figures will be 50% off!
We do not expect a new comics delay. we will have new comics on Wednesday, May 30th as normal.
Magic The Gathering Game Day Sunday, May 27th!
We will be hosting an Avacyn Restored Game Day on Sunday, May 27th starting at noon! The event is standard constructed, and every participant will get a Latch Seeker card. The top 8 winners will also get a Killing Wave card, and first place gets a playmat trophy!
Sign up now by sending us an email, we will have 16 slots available and will run 4 rounds.