Did you know that Imagine Games and Hobbies also sells USED GAMES AND MINIATURES? We have a large selection of old-school and new-school RPGs, miniatures and board games. Here’s a small selection of some of the RPG lines we have:

In Nomine, RuneQuest (lots of old classic box sets!), Unknown Armies, Chill, Hero Wars, Ars Magica, Middle Earth RPG, World of Warcraft, Shadow Run, Rifts, World of Darkenss (LOTS from the newer editions), GURPS, Castle Falkenstein, and Pendragon!

Some of these games (like RuneQuest, Ars Magica and In Nomine) have their core books and TONS of supplements!

Prices are great (from $1 and up!), so drop on by and check out our selection, and get nostalgic all over the Judges Guild stuff (yes, we have a bunch of Judges Guild source books – classic!!)

Also a lot of miniatures – old RAFM historicals, and Old Glory- many still in their original packages!

So drop on by today!

We’ll be helping to celebrate the 2nd annual International Tabletop Day this year. More details to come, but suffice it to say there will be games games games! We’ll have some scheduled games (TBA) throughout the day, run by some very helpful (and handsome) volunteers, and we’ll also make sure to have some “pick-up-and-play” games available. And we’ll also have homemade baking available for munching on (we also always have snacks and drinks available for purchase)

So, drop in any time during the day and play some games with us, and, of course, browse our great selection of games and surplus to take something  home with you. Open from 11:00am till 6:00pm.

Hope to see you there!

Are you familiar with Wil Wheaton’s interweb show called Tabletop? No? Well then, what are you waiting for! It’s a great show to find out how some games are played. Interested in the game Forbidden Island but don’t want to put the bucks down until you see the insides? Check out Tabletop and find out! Have a friend who’s mentioned that the game Smash Up was really fun? Check out Tabletop to see what all the fuss is about! Like Star Trek and Settlers of Catan, but not sure how it would play? Check out Tabletop when they played Star Trek Catan!

If you hadn’t noticed, I put links to all of those shows in there. You can thank me later.

Seriously though, Wil Wheaton is the Oprah Winfrey of the Geek world! He showcases a game on his show, and BAM! we are sold out. We have a good selection of his games in stock, but they do tend to go fast. So, go check out Tabletop at the Geek and Sundry website (which also has a lot of other cool things), and then come on down to the store and check out our selection of Tabletop featured games (we also have an excellent collection of other games as well).

In the meantime, here’s the latest Tabletop show, featuring Takenoko, a game about a hungry panda and an angry grumpy gardener (and we have it in stock!). Just click the picture below to be taken to the video (apparently our website is troublesome when it comes to embedding HTML code – curses!)

Holy mackeral! We’ve been so busy receiving stock from our various suppliers since late last week, we’re only NOW able to tell you about it! Lots of restock of great games, but we also received a whole batch of new ones that you need to check out.

First off, the NEW STUFF.

If you follow Wil Wheaton’s TABLETOP interweb show, you’ll recognize this game: Takenoko!

 Here’s what boardgamegeek.com has to say about it: 

  A long time ago at the Japanese Imperial court, the Chinese Emperor offered a  giant panda bear as a symbol of peace to the Japanese Emperor. Since then, the  Japanese Emperor has entrusted his court members (the players) with the difficult  task of caring for the animal by tending to his bamboo garden. In Takenoko, the  players will cultivate land plots, irrigate them, and grow one of the three species  of bamboo (Green, Yellow, and Pink) with the help of the Imperial gardener to  maintain this bamboo garden. They will have to bear with the immoderate hunger  of this sacred animal for the juicy and tender bamboo. The player who manages  his land plots best, growing the most bamboo while feeding the delicate appetite  of the panda, will win the game.

We’ve also brought in two award-winning Z-man games: Asante and Targri. Both are designed for 2-players, for which we get a lot of requests.

Other NEW games include:

Both Fortune & Glory expansions: Treasure Hunters and Rise of the Crimson Hand; Dungeon Twister the card game; a few expansion tracks for Formula D (Circuits 1, 3 and 4); a nifty looking game about ninjas called Ninjato; a family dice game called Zooloretto, a card game called The King’s Command, a recently popular manic real-time game called Escape: The Curse of the Temple, a mysterious game called Room 25, and a beautifully illustrated cardgame based on Alice in Wonderland called Parade.

Our restock of popular games include:

Carcassonne (and all available expansions); Ticket to Ride (basic, Euro, Nederlands, Marklan, Asia); Saboteur (1 and 2); A bunch of X-Wing miniatures ships; a bunch of Star Trek Attack Wing ships; SmallWorld; Mage Wars; Android Netrunner data packs (a whole schwack of them, except the new one, True Colors, which we should get in soon); 7 Wonders; Fiasco; The Resistance; Dead Panic (it’s awesome!); Cthulhu Gloom; Battlestar Galactica (and its expansions); Ultimate Werewolf; Cosmic Encounters; Dungeon Fighter; King of Tokyo; Fortune and Glory; Monty Python Fluxx; a bunch of Pathfinder books; Frag Gold Edition; and Hive!

So come drop by today, and pick up a new game!

Also in the store: a whole bunch of new surplus came in (bags, backpacks, pants, toques, gloves and balaclavas).

After a long wait, the much anticipated new zombie game by the makers of the award winning Castle Panic is here: DEAD PANIC!

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From Boardgamegeek.com:

The zombie apocalypse has begun, and you and your friends take on the roles of various characters who are all working to survive.

In Dead Panic, each player takes on the role of one of eight unique characters, which have special abilities. Players work together to survive in a remote cabin, at the center of the board, against waves of the undead that close in from the edges of the board. If the players can hold out, survivors bring pieces of the radio needed to call for rescue. Once rescue arrives, it’s up to each player to leave the safety of the cabin and make it out alive!

To fight the zombies, players use cabin cards, some of which are weapons that help players attack zombies at a distance or in hand-to-hand combat. If characters take too many injuries during combat, they die and return to the game as a zombie with customized rules as a member of the undead! Other cabin cards are items, which give the players various benefits and a better chance at survival. The supply of items and weapons is limited, however. Once the cabin deck is exhausted, it is not reshuffled. A separate deck of cards, called event cards, allow the zombies to have their turn. This deck not only brings a variety of zombies into play but each card also has a special effect when drawn.

Can you survive Dead Panic?

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IN STOCK NOW! Only $41.99.

Do you  like the Android Netrunner game? Do you want to play it more often?

Well, come down to Imagine Games this Saturday, February 18, with your decks and play! This isn’t a sanctioned tournament, but a chance for you to try out and refine your decks.

Time: 11:30am till 6:00pm.

Hope to see you there!

Game description from the publisher:

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Android: Netrunner is an asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players. Set in the cyberpunk future of Android and Infiltration, the game pits a megacorporation and its massive resources against the subversive talents of lone runners.

Corporations seek to score agendas by advancing them. Doing so takes time and credits. To buy the time and earn the credits they need, they must secure their servers and data forts with “ice”. These security programs come in different varieties, from simple barriers, to code gates and aggressive sentries. They serve as the corporation’s virtual eyes, ears, and machine guns on the sprawling information superhighways of the network.

In turn, runners need to spend their time and credits acquiring a sufficient wealth of resources, purchasing the necessary hardware, and developing suitably powerful ice-breaker programs to hack past corporate security measures. Their jobs are always a little desperate, driven by tight timelines, and shrouded in mystery. When a runner jacks-in and starts a run at a corporate server, he risks having his best programs trashed or being caught by a trace program and left vulnerable to corporate countermeasures. It’s not uncommon for an unprepared runner to fail to bypass a nasty sentry and suffer massive brain damage as a result. Even if a runner gets through a data fort’s defenses, there’s no telling what it holds. Sometimes, the runner finds something of value. Sometimes, the best he can do is work to trash whatever the corporation was developing.

The first player to seven points wins the game, but not likely before he suffers some brain damage or bad publicity.

With the release of the 2014 Steamroller rules it seems like a perfect time to run the first event of the year!

First, here is the link to the rules:

And here are the event details:
Date: Feb 1, 2014 (Saturday)
Place: Imagine Games and Hobbies
Time: First round starts at noon
No entrance fee
No painting requirement
The winner will get a set of 4 Privateer Press dice
More Details:
3 rounds
50pts
2 lists
Deathclock timing
Conversions and proxies need to be approved in advance

Just a reminder on player responsibilities:
Read the updated Steamroller rules, especially the parts about controlling, contesting and dominating.
A copy of the scenario will be available at each table before the start of the match but it doesn’t hurt to be familiar with them before hand.
Make sure you have all the dice, tokens, measuring devices, cards and models you need. You will also need templates for any effects that you generate on the table (excluding ones that are CMD or CNTRL).
If you’re running a tier, it’s up to you to have a copy of the tier on hand for your opponent to see (this can be a photocopy, pdf they can read, hand written, etc.).

Looking forward to seeing everyone come out and have a great time!

We’ve got Robinson Crusoe in STOCK! This game was out of print for a long time (shortly after it was released) but we’ve got it now! Come on down today and grab a copy for yourself!

Here’s what Boardgamegeek.com says about the game:

“Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island is another epic game created by Ignacy Trzewiczek, the author of Stronghold. This time Trzewiczek takes the players to a deserted island, where they’ll play the parts of shipwreck survivors confronted by an extraordinary adventure. They’ll be faced with the challenges of building a shelter, finding food, fighting wild beasts, and protecting themselves from weather changes. Building walls around their homes, animal domestication, constructing weapons and tools from what they find and much more awaits them on the island. The players decide in which direction the game will unfold and – after several in-game weeks of hard work – how their settlement will look. Will they manage to discover the secret of the island in the meantime? Will they find a pirate treasure, or an abandoned village? Will they discover an underground city or a cursed temple at the bottom of a volcano? Answers to these questions lie in hundreds of event cards and hundreds of object and structure cards that can be used during the game…”