New Games for October 3 – October 23, 2011

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Time Line
Was the light bulb invented before or after glasses? With Timeline, learn the answer to this question and thousands of others by comparing your knowledge or hunches to historic reality.

Blood Bowl Team Manager
Are you ready to face off against stout Dwarfs, crafty Skaven, and ruthless Orcs, all to become Spike! Magazine’s Manager of the Year? Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game is a bone-breaking, breathtaking game of violence and outright cheating as Chaos, Dwarf, Wood Elf, Human, Orc, and Skaven teams compete against each other over the course of a brutal season. Customize your team by drafting Star Players, hiring staff, upgrading facilities, and cheating like mad! As the coach of one of six famous and vicious teams from the Blood Bowl world, you will capitalize on its unique play style, customizing your deck to manage your team in a series of nail-biting tournaments leading up to the brutal Blood Bowl itself!

Star Trek The Next Generation Deck-Building Game
Build your deck and boldly go! The final frontier of the Star Trek universe beckons in the Star Trek Deck Building Game: The Next Generation! As Captain of a small Starship with a standard crew and basic weaponry, you’ll explore the universe, interact with alien races, complete missions, and experience the mysteries of space. Will you use your crew’s experience to improve your ships systems or recruit more experienced crewmen to your ship? Will you form diplomatic relationships or conquer civilizations in battle? Play these different scenarios (Borg Invasion, Exploration, and Klingon Civil War) or create your own! Star Trek Deck Building Game: The Next Generation comes complete with 300 cards, five 20-sided dice, and a game manual.

WOW CCG Aftermath Throne Tides
Murlocs, Nagas, and Ogres, oh my! Aftermath – Throne of the Tides introduces Monsters as playable Hero races in World of Warcraft: The Trading Card Game!

LTR The One Ring RPG
Smaug has been defeated, the Battle of Five Armies has been won, and Bilbo has returned to the Shire. The War of the Rings is still a generation away, but much danger still remains. The One Ring – Adventures Over the Edge of the Wild is a new roleplaying game based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic, The Lord of the Rings, and set after the events chronicled in The Hobbit.

Martian Dice Game
Your mission, Martians, is to swoop down on the pathetic denizens of the primitive planet ‘Earth’, and scoop up as many of the inhabitants as you can manage. The Earthlings might manage to put up a feeble defense, but surely nothing that a small taste of your Death Rays can’t handle. Make Mars proud… be the first Martian to fill your abduction quota!

Harry Potter Hogwarts House Cup Challenge
Who will win the House Cup? You decide! Play as one of your favorite characters! Different rules and gameplay for beginners and advanced players!Hogwarts: House Cup Challenge is an Adventure Board Game that allows 2 – 4 players to portray Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville in their quest to win the House Cup for Gryffindor! Players move their characters around the board encountering Adventure Cards and increasing their Knowledge, Skill, and Honor. As the characters’ abilities grow, they will face harder challenges based on the first five Harry Potter films, from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! Players who complete difficult adventures earn victory points for themselves and for Gryffindor. When Gryffindor reaches 500 points, the player with the most points wins the game!

D&D Legend of Drizzt Board Game
The adventures of Drizzt Do’Urden, as told in the New York Times bestselling Forgotten Realms novels by R.A. Salvatore, come to life in this thrilling board game! Take on the role of the legendary drow ranger or one of his famous adventuring companions, battle fearsome foes, and win treasure and glory. Designed for 1-5 players, this board game features multiple scenarios, challenging quests, and cooperative game play, and can be combined with other D&D Adventure System Cooperative Play board games, including Castle Ravenloft and Wrath of Ashardalon, to create an even more exciting experience.

Dark Minions
Pillage! Destroy! Vanquish Your Foes! As leaders of marauding forces, players in Dark Minions gain Vanquish Points by sending out their minions to sack, and ultimately conquer, opposing armies, towers, and cities. Recall minions from the graveyard to bolster a player’s forces, or higher Overlords to boost your powers and morale! This edition of Alan Newmanalso’s devilish dice game includes the Demon Lords expansion – which introduces additional Overlords to the mayhem – plus a special town tile and a unique die.

Ares Project
Earth has been devastated by thousands of years of human exploitation. The salvation of mankind lies millions of miles away, in the Martian tundra, where four factions fight for the future: Terrans, the remnants of the global Earth Defense Force; Kahoum, an ancient cabal; Colossus, a renegade team of underpaid engineers gathered to create the ultimate fighting machine; Xenos, the original inhabitants of Mars, who have lain in dormant hibernation for millennia – until now. Build your forces, upgrade them with advanced technologies, and launch them into battle with fast-paced, card-driven action in The Ares Project!

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

BRP The Magic Book
Magic pervades many worlds of the Basic Roleplaying game system, for in the game every adventurer – every character – has the capacity to manipulate invisible powers. This sourcebook explains the mechanics of three independent magic systems – spirit magic, divine magic, and Wizardry – and details ritual magic, a system common to shamans, priests, and wizardry.