New Games for May 3 – May 9, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Yu-Gi-Oh Shining Darkness Boosters
Your deck will shine with the power of darkness with this 100-card expansion that unleashes new Monsters, Spells, and Traps for the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s TCG. Blackwings soared from the skies in 2009 and stormed the field with big monsters, fast Summons, and awesome card effects. Now Blackwings get their biggest boost yet with The Shining Darkness, including nine new Blackwing-themed cards. And, not to be outdone, the fiendish Infernity monsters get over a dozen new cards, bringing the Infernity monsters to the forefront of competitive Dueling and transforming them into a powerful new Deck type.

Cthulhu Dice Game
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 as players take turns rolling the big, beautiful, custom 12-sided die embossed with tentacles, Elder Signs, and more. Destroy your opponents’ sanity… or, better yet,steal it! But watch out for Cthulhu – when he comes up, he takes sanity from everyone! The last sane cultist wins… unless everyone goes mad together. Then Cthulhu wins!

Munchkin Fairy Dust
Meet the Sparkly Good Fairy. She wants all the munchkins to play nice, and sheÕs willing to bash in some heads to make sure they do! Play her way, and sheÕll sprinkle you with Fairy Dust. Play dirty, and you might end up fighting her instead… over and over and over.

Dominion Alchemy Expansion
There are strange things going on in your basement laboratories. They keep calling up for more barrels of quicksilver, or bits of your hair. Well, it’s all in the name of progress. They’re looking for a way to turn lead into gold, or at least into something better than lead. They’re also looking for a universal solvent. If they manage that one, you will take whatever they use to hold it in and build a castle out of it – a castle that can’t be dissolved! Now that’s progress! This expansion adds new Kingdom cards to the Dominion board game, and requires a copy of Dominion or Dominion: Intrigue to play.

At the Gates of Loyang
The third in the harvest trilogy (Agricola, Le Havre) from Uwe Rosenberg! In At the Gates of Loyang, players are producing goods by planting, cultivating, and selling them to customers.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Pathfinder Chronicles Classic Treasures Revisited
Since the birth of fantasy roleplaying, a handful of mythic treasures have lurked in the hordes of tens of thousands of campaigns. Classic Treasures Revisited places these important treasures into the context of the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting, with historical details, advice for using them in Pathfinder games.

Pathfinder Modyke City of Golden Death
The chase is on to stop the cult of the Living God Razmir from plundering a fabled city made from priceless treasure, a place full of untold wealth and lurking danger! City of Golden Death is an adventure for 5th-level characters, and serves as the final installment of the Price of Immortality campaign arc that includes the Pathfinder Modules Crypt of the Everflame and Masks of the Living God.

Level Up #3
Covering all things 4E, Level Up includes adventures, character options, new monsters, Azagar’s Advice for Adventurers, and the endearing wisdom of Dear Archmage Abby.

RIFTS: Triax Two
Triax Two is the long awaited and hotly anticipated sequel to the hugely popular Rifts World Book 5: Triax & The NGR. Features a ton of new weapons, vehicles, power armor, giant robots and much more.

D&D Dungeon Magazine Annual
The Best of the Best! This Dungeons & Dragons supplement gathers a year’s worth of Dungeon magazine adventures originally appearing on D&D Insider into one easy-to-reference source

D&D HS1 The Slaying Stone
The tiefling empire of Bael Turath crumbled long ago, but the ruins of its ancient cities remain. Lost within one such ruin is a powerful relic called the Slaying Stone, and brave heroes must retrieve it before it falls into the hands of their enemies! This standalone D&D adventure is designed for 1st-level characters.

D&D Players Strategy Guide
The Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Strategy Guide is aimed at D&D players who crave the envy of their gamer peers. In addition to character optimization tips and player advice, this book includes entertaining sidebar essays written by celebrity gamers and a distinctive comic art style unlike other books in the D&D game line.

XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery
by Tracy & Curtis Hickman, illustrated by Howard Tayler Throw off your chains! Too long have your role playing games been held in the bonds of substandard game masters, bound in needlessly complicated rules sets, and enslaved by players who will avoid doing anything unless it counts toward leveling up. It is time to take a stand! The cure for the common game, XDM is packed with advice, tips, techniques, and ideas designed to take any complacent role playing adventure group and bust their game wide open