Magic The Gathering Innistrad Pre-Release

Rogues Gallery will hold a pre-release for the next Magic: The Gathering set, Innistrad, on Sunday, September 25th!

Pre-registration is available now by emailing or calling to get on the list (we have a limit of 16 seats available to play), registration will begin at noon on September 25th and the pre-release will run 3-4 round from 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM (at the latest), with free play/trading time available until 4 PM. Please note that if you pre-register, you must arrive by 12:15 to claim your spot or it will be opened up for walk-ins.

You will also receive an exclusive Mayor of Avabruck/Howlpack Alpha promo card. We will be playing a Sealed Deck format, each player will pay $25 to receive six Innistrad booster packs to use for building a deck. Prize support will include Innistrad and MTG 2012 boosters.

In addition to the main Prerelease Tournament event, if space allows, we will offer Open Dueling, allowing any player who wants to play to purchase 1 Innistrad Intro Pack to play against each other, as well as Prerelease tournament players who are between matches.

New Games for August 22 – September 5, 2011

BOARD & CARD GAMES

King of Tokyo

In King of Tokyo, players portray mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and other monstrous creatures, all of whom are happily whacking each other in a joyous atmosphere in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. Win destruction points, hoard energy, restore your health, or whack other players into understanding Tokyo is YOUR territory!

Munchkin Zombies 2 Armed & Dangerous

Return of the (un)Living Munchkins! Munchkin Zombies 2: Armed and Dangerous includes 112 new, delightfully twisted cards for Munchkin Zombies, rendered by John Kovalic!

Munchkin Conan/Barbarian

By Crom! At last, Munchkin meets the mightiest barbarian of all! In collaboration with Paradox Entertainment, producers of the new Conan the Barbarian movie, Steve Jackson Games brings Conan into the world of Munchkin!

Plus Six Bag o Munchkin Level Counters

The +6 Bag o’ Munchkin Level Counters gives players attractive, easy-to-read level counter dials themed to match six of the most popular Munchkin core sets.

DC Heroclix Green Lantern

In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, No Evil Shall Escape Their Sight! In the wake of the Summer’s most anticipated movie release comes the DC HeroClix: Green Lantern Gravity Feed! Each Gravity Feed contains 24 single figure boosters – collect all 10 intricately sculpted and painted figures taken straight from the Green Lantern movie!

Pokemon B&W Emerging Powers Boosters

Forces Unveiled! Strengths Revealed! Powers Emerged! The secrets of the Unova region are now yours to command! In the Pokemon TCG: Black & White – Emerging Powers expansion, 25 astonishing, new Pokemon are available for the very first time, including the rare and powerful Legendary Pokemon Cobalion, Virizion, Terrakion, Thundurus, and Tornadus! With brand-new Item cards to revitalize your deck, the Black & White – Emerging Powers expansion offers Trainers all of the amazing new strategies of Unova!

Dust Tactics Revised Core Set

The perfect introduction for new players or a great expansion for veterans, the Dust Tactics Revised Core Set includes all-new, never-before-released miniatures exclusive to this Core Set, an updated and comprehensive rulebook, the ñVictory Bridgeî scenario book, six custom dice, two double-sided terrain posters, 10 unit cards, nine double-sided hazard squares, two ammo-crates, and two antitank traps.

Dust Tactics Unit Card Upgrade Pack

With the intimidating forces of the rival bloc spread out on the battlefield before you, what kind of army will you build? Gather your forces with the Dust Tactics Unit Card Upgrade Pack, featuring unit cards for all the units released before Operation ñSeeLoweî, including preview miniatures available from Dust Tactics Game Night Kits, all updated to the new army point costs detailed in the Revised Core Set.

Gears of War: The Board Game

Based on the wildly popular third-person shooter by Epic Games, Gears of War: The Board Game allows one to four players to take on the roles of COG soldiers seeking to destroy the Locust horde who must cooperate to complete missions against an ingeniously challenging and varied game system.

LTR LCG Journey to Rhosgobel

There’s no time to lose in the Journey to Rhosgobel, the third Adventure Pack in the Shadows of Mirkwood Cycle containing 60 never-before-seen cards for use with The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.

COC Mansions/Madness Season/Witch Exp.

A bright, young, Miskatonic University student has disappeared, having checked into an infamous Arkham boarding house to study its reported supernatural properties. Now, as the celebration Walpurgis Eve approaches, you and your fellow investigators are tasked with venturing into the decaying Witch House and solving a mystery that has plagued Arkham for generations. But are you prepared to face the horrors that await you? Designed by Richard Launius (Arkham Horror, Elder Sign), Season of the Witch sends players on a tense and terrifying race against the clock. Can you solve the mysteries of the Witch House before they consume Arkham forever?

Space Hulk Mission Pack 1 Exp.

Failure is not an option! While you may have survived the harrowing challenges of Death Angel, the mission is far from over. The Mission Pack 1 expansion brings twelve new Location cards that provide alternate missions for players. Plus, new terrors emerge in the form of Adrenal Genestealers, and an all-new Terrain card will threaten to thrust unfortunate space marines out into the cold embrace of space!

Space Hulk Space Marine Pack 1 Exp

Rally your battle brothers with Space Marine Packs, introducing brand-new Combat Teams to your game, ready to blast their way into the carnage that is Death Angel. Space Marine Pack 1 comes complete with two new Combat Teams and their respective Action cards: the deadly Chaplain Raziel brings his ironclad faith to the fight while Brother Adron readies his Cyclone Missile Launcher for absolute devastation. Also included are eight Combat Team cards, which replace the original six Combat Team markers from the Death Angel game, making it easier to randomize and select your teams.

MTG Duel Decks Ajani VS Nicol Bolas

It’s vengeance versus guile to decide the fate of a shattered plane! The battle of Alara’s Maelstrom is in your hands! Determine the fate of an entire plane and the outcome of an epic conflict between two rival Planeswalkers in Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas, featuring two ready-to-play, 60-card decks showcasing some of the best cards in Magic history.

Dixit 3 Odyssey

The fantastic universe of Dixit, winner of the Spiel des Jahres 2010, returns to entrance you once more! With Dixit Odyssey you can continue the storytelling adventures in enchanting and dreamlike new worlds! Discover 84 new cards in this standalone game for up to 12 players containing a new, more practical scoreboard, voting pads, and new “rabbit” tokens.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Battletech War of Reaving

As the Word of Blake unleashed their Jihad, one enemy of the Inner Sphere remained in the shadows, riven by internal strife and dissent. As political and military alliances among the children of Nicholas Kerensky are broken and forged, the Clans turn inward as one Clan unleashes the unthinkable upon the rest! Wars of Reaving details the long-sought happenings of the Clans after the results of the Great Refusal through the end of the Jihad, compiled from detailed reports culled from each of the Clans and others. Included within are personalities, equipment, units, and factions that all had a hand in the upheaval that enveloped the Homeworlds, changing them forever.

Eclipse Phase Panopticon HC

This sourcebook details the inner workings of the different types of space habitats in Eclipse Phase, provides comprehensive information on surveillance and sousveillance technologies, and explores uplifts (animals raised to human-level sapience) and the sociopolitical challenges they face.

Exalted 2 Patchwork Scroll

The Patchwork Scroll gathers together four Exalted 2nd Edition sourcebooks into one tome: Debris from the Fallen Races, Splinters of the Wyld, Lost Arts of the Dead, and The Imperfect Lotus.

Labor Day Sale (New Comics *Not* Delayed)

We’re having a sale Labor Day itself, Monday September 5th. We’ll be offering 15% off on all role-playing game books, Games Workshop games, board and non-collectible card games and graphic novels (including manga) all day September 5th, so come in and pick up those games or graphic novels that have been tempting you for a while!

Also, there will be no delay in new comics this week! New comics, including the first 13 titles of DC’s New 52, will hit on Wednesday, September 7th as usual!

All-Ages Event on Saturday, September 3rd!

Rogues Gallery will be welcoming creator Mike Bullock to Austin with an all-ages signing on Saturday, September 3rd!

In attendance will be Mike Bullock (Lions, Tigers & Bears, Gimoles), Alan Porter Jr. (Cars) and Matthew Weldon (New Brighton Archaeological Society). Bullock and Porter will be here from 1-4 PM, and Weldon will be signing from 2-4 PM!

We’ll be having a coloring contest for kids as a lead-up to the event, with our creators judging the entries on the day! There will be prizes for different age groups, including Lions, Tigers & Bears t-shirts, comics grab bags and more! If your child would like to color an entry for the contest, you can print the page at this link. We’ll also have copies of the page printed out at the store next week for anyone who would like to take one.

The New DC 52 Fantasy Draft starts this Wednesday!

To celebrate the new DC relaunch, Rogues Gallery will be trying out a new game based very loosely on fantasy football, the New 52 Fantasy Draft.

We’ve got room for 19 players, who will draft a team of A-list, B-list and C-list characters from the cast of the new 52 books.

Over the course of the two-month “season” the teams will gain points based on the managers’ panel reading and rating the comics they star in and other readers voting on “who would win” style battles of teams randomly pitted against each other each week.

The game is mostly for fun, but there will be some prizes for the top winners.

If you’re interested in signing up, drafting will begin on Wednesday, August 24th (this week) and the game begins with our midnight release on Tuesday, August 30th! Drop us an email if you’d like to participate!

Magic The Gathering Celebration on Saturday, September 10th!

Rogues Gallery will be participating in the Magic Celebration on Saturday, September 10th! The event will start at 12:30, and we’ll begin registering at noon.

Players will play in the new “Mini Master” format (details here.)

In addition, the first four players to purchase a Deckbuilder’s Toolkit during the event get a T-Shirt. And when players register for the Mini Master event, they’ll get a Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 digital item code card for the platform of their choice.

We will be hosting our Innistrad Pre-Release on Sunday, September 25th and the Innistrad Launch Party on Friday, September 30th. More details on all of these events will be coming later!

New Games for August 8 – August 21, 2011

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Quarriors! Dice Building Game

In this game of “Uber Strategic Hexahedron Monster Combat Mayhem,” players compete to capture the most powerful Spells and Creatures (in the form of dice!) from the Wilds and add them to their collection. Players then roll their powerful cubes and summon them into play to battle each of their opponent’s forces.

MTG 2012 Event Decks

Gather Your Allies! New decks, new opponents, and the ability to gather your allies for new head-to-head multiplayer action highlight the 249-cards featured in the Magic: The Gathering 2012 Core Set release! MTG 2012 is offered in five, themed Intro Packs containing a 60-card deck, one fixed foil rare, one random non-foil rare, a Magic 2012 booster pack, and a mechanics/rules insert, as well as Fat Packs containing eight Magic 2012 boosters, The Magic 2012 Player’s Guide, a learn-to-play insert, one pack of 40 Magic 2012 basic land, and a Magic 2012 Spindown Life Counter.

Gubs

Behold this clever card game that casts you in an epic contest to build the mightiest Gub colony. Seek wisdom from The Esteemed Elder or protection from a Toad Rider as you fend off a myriad of traps, lures, and other surprising events. Victory lies down an ever-changing path and no one is safe until the final card falls!

Gears of War 3 Heroclix Boosters

Lock & Load as Gears of War enters the frontlines of the HeroClix battlefield! Join your favorite heroes from Gears of War 3 as you battle infamous Locust villains from across the franchise! This 10-sculpt set – five unique sculpts for the Gears of War 3 Delta Squad and five sinister villains – boasts customized Gears of War-themed powers and abilities, offering the same intense game-play experience that the video game provides! Completely compatible with all other HeroClix figures, Gears of War 3 is introduced in individual blind boosters offered in 24-count Gravity Feeds.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

When you have a big problem, call the experts! Or call the pilgrims – they mean well! Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple is a storytelling game about helping people and getting into trouble. Work together, make trouble, and have fun!

No Quarter 10-Year Anniversary SE

This super-sized edition of No Quarter Magazine celebrates ten years of Privateer Press! Loaded with content, this anniversary issue features epic versions of fan-favorite articles. Guts & Gears focuses on the mighty dire troll Mulg the Ancient and the murderous Berserker warjack Drago; the Gavyn Kyle Files reveal ancient secrets about the Witchfire and its current wielder, Alexia Ciannor; and lead staff writer Douglas Seacat spins a historical tale of Asheth Magnus and his role in the Scharde Invasions.

Battletech Historical Reunification War RPG

One Species, One Realm! In 2570, the six Great Houses of the Inner Sphere united to create the Star League, promising to bring an end to the generations of warfare that engulfed the worlds mankind now called home. Shortly thereafter, to seal their alliance, they turned against the various independent realms of the Periphery. Over the next twenty years, the so-called Reunification War would rage, claiming more lives than the savagery of the Age of War before it, all to realize House Cameron’s dream of a united humanity – at any cost! Historical: Reunification War describes the first grand military campaign of the newborn Star League against the collected realms of the Periphery.

D&D Neverwinter Campaign Guide HC

Reduced to ruins by supernatural cataclysms, Neverwinter rises from the ashes to reclaim its title as the Jewel of the North. This Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition sourcebook presents a complete heroic-tier campaign setting that plunges players into the politics, skullduggery, and peril of a city on the brink of destruction or greatness.

L5R RPG Great Clans

The Emerald Empire of Rokugan has long been one of war and conflict, a great history forged at its heart by an unending sibling rivalry. The Great Clans of Rokugan were founded by the Kami, children of the Sun and Moon, and their adherence to their founders personalities and vows have defined the Empire. Each seeks to gain ground over the others, a continuing reflection of the Tournament of the Kami that set the Empire in motion so long ago. The Great Clans takes you deep into the psyche and workings of the The Great Clans of Rokugan. This Legend of the Five Rings RPG sourcebook features a full chapter on each of the Great Clans, focusing on the various families, histories, and culture that makes up those Clans. Additional chapters also cover the evil Spider Clan, the return of Heritage Tables, and vassal families.

DC Adventures Heroes & Villains V1

The DC Universe features a dazzling array of characters who have thrilled readers for generations. Now they come to life for tabletop gaming in DC Adventures RPG: Heroes & Villains Volume 1, covering characters A-K.

RIFTS: Vampire Kingdoms Updated RPG

This RIFTS World Book features revised and updated information on vampires – their strengths, weaknesses, and powers – as well as expanded details on Vampire Kingdoms, vampire hunters, Techno-Wizard slayer devices, Monsters, D-Bees, and adventure ideas galore.

HackMaster Hacklopedia of Beasts

This encyclopedic, HackMaster sourcebook details the history, habitat, behaviors, and ecology of over 170 creatures and monsters. Each beautifully illustrated entry includes not only game mechanics, but also first-hand excerpts from researcher field notes, naturalist sketches ‘drawn from life’, range maps, local legends, and more.

Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game Box Set

Based on the award-winning graphic novel series published by Archaia Studio Press and utilizing the Burning Wheels rules system, the Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game Box Set contains everything players need to immerse themselves into a world where mice struggle to live safely and prosper amongst harsh conditions and a host of predators and hidden dangers. Included herein you’ll find the original Core Rules Book, a 32-page supplement with all-new adventure scenarios and a host of game aids, including a GM deck of 12 Action Cards, two Player Decks of 12 Action Cards, Condition Cards, Characters Sheets, GM sheets, a GM screen, Mouse Dice, and a Map of the Mouse Territories.

Savage Worlds Deluxe RPG

This Deluxe Edition of the award-winning, fast, furious, and fun Savage Worlds system features all-new design notes from the authors, beautiful new art from the industry’s best talent, plus updates, adventures, and new Setting and situational rules such as Interludes and Dramatic Tasks.

Psionics Unleashed

Tap into the mysteries of psionics and the magic of the mind! Updated to support the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Psionics Unleashed contains everything needed to easily integrate psionics into any campaign, including characters, items, monsters, and powers. Contained within you’ll find new base classes (the psion, psychic warrior, soulknife, and wilder), plus psionic-themed prestige classes, races, feats, and powers.

Vertigo Event! 99 Days Launch Party! And More!

Rogues Gallery is well-known for our all-ages events, but in August, we’ll be throwing a party for the grown-ups!

Vertigo mainstays Matt Sturges, Chris Roberson and Kristian Donaldson will be joining us, as will Dogs of Mars creator Paul Maybury, for an event celebrating comics with swears, nudity and/or violence!

Celebrating the launch of Kristian’s new crime graphic novel 99 Days, as well as the culmination of Sturges’s run on Jack of Fables, the latest Cinderella miniseries by Roberson and the first storyline of Dogs of Mars by Maybury, we’ll also have plenty more work from these creators available! That includes free copies of the Free Comic Book Day issue of Roberson’s Elric The Balance Lost while supplies last!

Plan to join us from 1 – 4 PM on Saturday, August 27th!

Midnight Release for DC’s New 52!

We’ll be celebrating the DC relaunch with a midnight release party for Flashpoint #5 and Justice League #1 on the night of Tuesday, August 30th!

We’ll close at 9 PM as usual, but then we’ll reopen at 11:00 for a party which will include sales on DC graphic novels, a live remote podcast with the folks at Geek Bombast, a themed cake and plenty more!

The full relaunch of DC’s New 52 will start the first Wednesday in September! We’ve got a preorder book available with information on all the new books, so feel free to come in and check it out!

New Games for August 2 – August 7, 2011

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Lord of the Rings LCG Conflict at the Carrock
Hot on the trail of Gollum, the heroes venture down the banks of the Anduin, only to hear whispers of a new threat looming! The second Adventure Pack in the Shadows of Mirkwood cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, Conflict at the Carrock contains 60 fixed cards continuing the heroes’ quest to find and apprehend the creature Gollum. A new hero joins the quest, along with three copies of nine new player cards from all four spheres featuring new and familiar faces, a new deck of Encounter cards, and the Conflict at the Carrock Quest cards.

Rune Age
Set in the fantasy realm of Terrinoth (Runebound, Descent: Journeys in the Dark), Rune Age puts players in control of one of four races, vying for dominance in a world embroiled in conflict.

Red November Revised Ed
Control desperate Gnome sailors in a frantic race against the clock in Red November! Can you survive in the submarine until you are rescued? To prevent destruction, players must work together to complete tasks as efficiently as possible. As members of a Gnome sailor crew, players meander about the submarine, fixing the most pressing problems or collecting items to help in repairs. Each movement and action takes away precious minutes and triggers the drawing of Event cards, which activates more disasters! This revised edition of Red November introduces a larger game board, Item cards, and clarified rules.

Ventura
In an age of great battles, valiant leaders, and unscrupulous mercenary armies, fortune lies within your grasp in Ventura, a board game of nobility and conquest! Set in 14th century Italy, Ventura puts players in control of warring noble houses, each vying for control of the countries growing wealth. Balance your houseÕs earnings and maintain your hired soldiers to keep your family’s noble standing. Remember, the best armies are also the ones that cost the most! With more than 120 plastic pieces, 40 Territory tiles, 4 Family Boards, a scoring board, and over 100 cards, Ventura will whisk players into a world of warring mercenaries and noble families, all seeking control of ItalyÕs burgeoning wealth!

Cthulhu Gloom
In Cthulhu Gloom, you control a group of Lovecraftian protagonists and guide them down a path of horror and madness to an untimely death – while keeping your opponents happy, healthy, and annoyingly alive.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Combat HC
Seize the initiative and chop your foes to pieces with this exciting new guide to the art of martial combat for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game!

Pathfinder Adv Path Shadows of Gallowspire
With relics gathered from across the land, the death-worshipers travel to the most feared location in the Pathfinder campaign setting, the tower of Gallowspire, wherein lurk the deathless remains of the immortal evil wizard known as the Whispering Tyrant. There the cultists plot to conduct a ritual to resurrect the notorious villain, using their collected relics to transform an innocent into a new undead body for the imprisoned archmage! A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 13th-level characters, Shadows of Gallowspire brings the Carrion Crown Adventure Path to its climactic conclusion!

Pathfinder Adv Path Brinewall Legacy
When the Licktoad Goblins of Brinestump Marsh get a hold of a crate of fireworks, adventurers are needed to handle the explosive and annoying situation. But in vanquishing the pyromaniac goblins, the heroes uncover a secret that has been hidden in the marsh for nearly a quarter of a century – a secret that sends them north to the mysterious ruins of Brinewall Castle, where a powerful legacy waits to be rediscovered! A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 1st-level characters, Brinewall Legacy launches the Jade Regent Adventure Path, a sweeping quest that takes the heroes from familiar territory in Varisia all the way across the ice fields of the Crown of the World to distant Tian Xia, the land of the Dragon Empires.

Pathfinder Society Field Guide
This handy reference contains everything an adventuring agent of the Pathfinder Society needs to survive in the wild and wooly world of Golarion. From tips on information networks and secret orders within the Society itself, to new equipment and ways to use your Pathfinder training to unlock special character abilities, the Pathfinder Society Field Guide is 100% legal for play in the international Pathfinder Society Organized Play shared world campaign, and an invaluable reference for players and GMs alike.

Pathfinder Camp Setting Inner Sea Magic
Magic has suffused the Inner Sea region for thousands of years. This Pathfinder sourcebook takes a detailed look at the magical traditions of the Inner Sea, including rules for magic variants, examinations of how magic is taught, and how the spellcasters of the region have chosen to specialize in various forms of magic. Also included are two new oracle mysteries, 18 new archetypes for spellcasting classes, a pair of new prestige classes, and a wide selection of unique, unusual, and exciting new spells for all who would seek to master the art of magic.

Pathfinder Player Companion Goblins/Golarion
The bane of chicken coops and untended children across Golarion, manic and murderous goblins sow their unique brand of malicious mischief throughout the Pathfinder world. Now you can take up your dogslicer and ride your goblin dog into battle against shrieking villagers and half-wit adventurers as a goblin yourself!

Rogue Trader Citadel of Skulls
The second adventure in The Warpstorm Trilogy for Rogue Trader, Citadel of Skulls can be played as a standalone adventure or connected to the events introduced in The Frozen Reaches

Dragon Age RPG Boxed Set 2
Return to Ferelden and face the Blight in Dragon Age! This second boxed set brings Dragon Age players to the next stage of their journey, providing everything needed to play characters of level 6 to 10.