New Games for March 16 – March 21, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Goblins
Let the fight for stupidity begin! Have you ever played a fantasy game killing hordes of useless and stupid Goblin? Prepare to find yourself on the other side of the barricade! In this silly little card game, wave upon wave of Goblin try to conquer the city of the humans through debatable strategies, inconsistent plans, and brainless ÒEpic DeathÓ!

MTG Duel Decks Phyrexia VS Coalition
Relive the most epic battle in Magic: The Gathering history! The scourge known as the Phyrexian plane of Rath has been overlaid upon Dominaria. Single-minded and with an unyielding goal to eliminate all in their path, the mono-black Phyrexian army is filled with a variety of efficient killing machines. For Dominaria, victory is the only option. The Coalition, representing the five colors of Magic, has united under the leadership of Gerard Capashen to combat the Phyrexian invaders. When two forces that are polar opposites wage war, sheer devastation can be the only outcome. The question then remains, where will you stand?

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Dark Heresy Ascension
Learn to wield the authority of an Interrogator’s rosette, join the elite ranks of the Inquisitional Stormtroopers, or discover the secrets of technology known only to a Magos of the Lathe Worlds. Ascension also includes new gear, Talents, and Skills for characters who are ready to ascend to greater responsibilities – and greater challenges

HackMaster Basic Frandors Keep
Holding its lonely vigil high in the rocky hinterlands, on the furthest reaches of civilization, sits Frandor’s Keep. This combination adventure and regional supplement provides enough city, wilderness, and dungeon opportunities to raise characters from 1st to 5th level, and includes details on the surrounding area plus every building and notable NPC personality in the Keep, over 100 pieces of rumors and information, an appendix of new rules, color maps, and more!

RIFTS: Dimensional Outbreak (DB12)
The battle between Hell, Hades, and Dyval tears apart the fabric of space and time, spilling into Phase World and the Three Galaxies! This Dimension Book for RIFTS reveals more levels and secrets of Phase World, features details on new aliens, weapons, and gizmos, and introduces new adventures, monsters, and warring factions of Hell.

Bounty Head Bebop
Based in a time where the worst criminals and scum run free, the Police have no choice but to hire more Bounty Hunters for help. Are you ready to hunt these villains down? Are you ready to make lots of money? Then you’re ready for the Bounty Head Bebop RPG. Set in a gritty near future and based on high-octane anime, Bounty Head Bebop is a wild ride through the new Solar Frontier. Full of fast-paced action and sizzling drama, Bounty Head Bebop lets you play solar system-spanning anime-style adventures and live the “never say die, say profit” life of the bounty hunters of the ‘far modern’ future. The Bounty Head Bebop RPG is powered by the Inverted 20 system, which uses a single d20 for all rolls and offers a quick and easy resolution, but it’s not rules light. It’s rules quick. This book is all you need to get started in the world of Bounty Head Bebop, including an overview of the universe, rules for psychics, space ships to fly across the solar system, and all the guns you need to put a hole into your next bounty. Also included is a full adventure “Small Fry” which launches your Bounty Hunting career with a big bang. Welcome to Bounty Head Bebop.

Bounty Head Bebop Blastoff!
Live And Die Amongst the Music of the Stars A slow melody plays. It’s just a lazy day making a cargo run between Mars and the Ceres belt. But you know what they say, the tempo has to change sometime. Out of nohere, comes somebody’s bounty running like a bat out of hell firing everything its got at some rookie, probably on his first run. Cue the chase music. This milk run just got a whole lot more interesting. Get ready to blast your Bounty Head Bebop game into space with Bounty Head Bebop: Blast Off! a new supplement packed with everything you need go after your mark in the cold, quiet deeps of space. You will find: Ship creation rules to give your bounty hunters the ride they always deserved Ship edges and flaws for personalizing a ship and giving it that extra oomph in combat A complete map of the Ceres belt where all sorts of trouble awaits A few famous ships of the galaxy The rides of the worst criminal scum in the galaxy

Fiasco
THINGS CAN GO WRONG, FAST…Maybe some dude from youth group talked you into boosting a case of motor oil, but now your cousin is dead in a swamp and you killed him. Maybe you and your girlfriend figured you could scare your wife into a divorce, but things went pear-shaped and now a gang of cranked-up Mexicans with latex gloves and a pit bull are looking for you. It seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Fiasco is inspired by cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong – inspired by films like Blood Simple, Fargo, The Way of the Gun, Burn After Reading, and A Simple Plan. You’ll play ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. There will be big dreams and flawed execution. It won’t go well for them, to put it mildly, and in the end it will probably all go south in a glorious heap of jealousy, murder, and recrimination. Lives and reputations will be lost, painful wisdom will be gained, and if you are really lucky, your guy just might end up back where he started.

Fiasco is a GM-less game for 3-5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation. During a game you will engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust. It’s like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same amount of time it’d take to watch one.

GnomeMurdered
There is no force in this world more malevolent than gnomes that can so effectively strike fear, disgust, and hatred into the heart of any decent human being. Those of weak constitution might be shocked by the contents of this book, and some might believe that such a game should not be available to children for purchase, lecture, or especially play. Despite what we’ve been told, gnomes are not cute or cuddly. This pro-gnomish propaganda is meant to lure unsuspecting young innocents to their doom! In light of that, this book is no mere game. It is a low-cost investment that can truly save your life.

GnomeMurdered is a game that is hopefully entertaining in the same way that telling scary stories, reading horror novels, or watching scary movies can be entertaining. But GnomeMurdered is also meant to be informative, spreading the truth about those vile little beasts.

Above all, GnomeMurdered is an avant-garde, rules-lite game meant to be truly innovative in a way no game has ever been before. The actual required rules encompass less than a page, but the myriad of options allow you to think outside the box. For instance, who needs dice — use a coin, playing cards, physical contest, mental contest, narrative, or therapy in their stead. Scale the game with 4 levels of power. Learn how the gnomes think and plan their attacks by incorporating their styles of assassination, objects that can be looted from them, and the most-dreaded mutations that plague men who get too close. Round that out with 5 exciting scenarios, including Murder, She Gnomed and Aliens Versus Gnomes, and don’t forget about the The Great GnomeMurdered Flowchart.