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From 11am to 5pm on Saturday, October 31st, Heroes Only will be grilling up hotdogs and hamburgers in support of the Toys for Tots program. Cost for a hotdog or hamburger with chips is $2.50. You can eat for free if you donate a NEW unopened toy!
Kettle corn, candy, and mini Halloween comics will also be available.
Come show your support to make sure every kid gets toys for Christmas!
Zendikar is a new world for Magic: The Gathering, and is the first set in the Zendikar block. It features 249 black-bordered cards, including randomly inserted premium versions of all cards in the set. It will be available in booster packs, intro packs, and fat packs.
nter a plane filled with lethal risks and priceless rewards. On Zendikar, mana works in ways never before experienced. This mana is Zendikar’s unique treasure, one that planeswalkers from across the Multiverse risk their lives to acquire. Dare to join them.
The new Magic: The Gathering set, Zendikar, releases on October 2nd. We’ll be holding the prerelease tournament on September 26th and the Launch Party on October 3rd. To find out more, visit our Events page HERE.
Don’t forget, the demo of Conquest of Arthenia is today starting at 2pm. Come out and try your hand at the new strategy card game. In conjunction with this, we’re most likely running a free campaign for the new Dungeon Masters Guide 2 for D&D beginning around 4pm.
On Saturday, September 5th, Eric and Drew will be running a demo of an RPG game called Insanity, beginning at noon.
Here’s a little info:
Insanity is very much a beer and pretzel game – it’s not to be taken seriously. Players play normal folk who are a little edgy. Then, something over the course of the session pushes them over the edge and they go on a murderous rampage we refer to as Frenzy. Combat is simple and fast. And this is one RPG you can actually win; last player standing wins (basically leveling up).
Insanity is an exercise in adaptive thinking: when a character Frenzies, they enter a dissociative fugue state, thinking they are someone else and that the entire world around them now fits that paradigm. For example, one frenzied character may believe they are He-Man, and that they have to find Kringer and defeat the evil hordes of Skeleton, another character may enter frenzy a few rounds later and think they are a Spartan super soldier from Halo and that they need 25 kills to win the match. It becomes quite humorous watching how these delusions are role-played out.
Drew and Eric are both planning on running a few sessions and will have pre-made characters available. Sounds like an interesting concept. Come check it out!
On Saturday, September 19th, from 2-8pm, we will be demoing a new strategy card game called Conquest of Arthenia at the store.
Here’s a little info about the game:
Conquest of Arthenia is a new medieval trading card game, unique in the elegant simplicity of its rules and the endless complexity of the strategy required to play. Unlike most card games, play occurs in a
number of regions, from players’ locations to a central battlefield (see diagram). Players must choose how to best use their units: will they defend their encampment to avoid being forced into surrender, or
will they protect their other locations to maintain the income necessary to deploy units, cast spells, and equip mercenaries? Will they venture into the battlefield to muster their own brave offensive against the enemy?
In Conquest, players select three of eight alignments, which consist of four elements (Fire, Water, Earth, and Air) and four ideologies (Order, Chaos, Natural, and Industrial). (To learn more about the alignments, go to www.conquestofarthenia.com/arthenia.) Each alignment has its own strengths and weaknesses, and each interacts with the others in unique ways. Players also choose which types of mercenaries to use. While Warriors utilize swordsmanship and brute strength, other mercenaries use tricks and talents. Craftsmen provide support and efficiency with their skills, wizards alter reality with their spells, and archers avoid being counterattacked by sniping units with their arrows. Additionally, these mercenaries can be equipped with various weapons, armors, shields, helmets, and accessories, and some have the ability to ride steeds, beasts, or even dragons.
Conquest is much more fast-paced than other games–players draw at least 2 cards from their decks each turn, which can easily become 3, 4, or 5 depending on their resources. Players can also barter one card from their hands each turn to draw an additional one. These innovations help players avoid the lack of control and feeling of helplessness that come with unlucky draws. This makes for an intense
struggle that is not for the weak-hearted or simple-minded. It takes courage, persistence, and cunning to prove your worth.
We’ll see you on the battlefield.
For more info about the game, visit www.conquestofarthenia.com
Hope to see you there!
Join us for the midnight release of Magic 2010, the new core set for Magic: The Gathering.
We will close tonight at 8pm and then reopen at midnight to begin selling the new core set. We will also be having pack wars. Come join in the fun!
The Magic 2010 Prerelease will be held on July11th @ 5pm. The launch party will be on July 18th @ 5pm.
For more information on these events, as well as promo cards that will be awarded to all participants, please visit our Events page HERE!
We will be running another D&D Game Day Adventure in celebration of Monster Manual 2 being released. The Adventure will begin on Saturday the 23rd at 11:00 am.
Heroes Only will close on Saturday, May 9th from 11:30 10:30 am to 2:302:00pm for a special movie outing to see the new Star Trek movie. Anyone is welcome to come. The show is at noon 11:15am on one of Capital Stadium Theater’s digital screens.
The store will reopen after the movie. Discussion about the movie will be held at the store afterward.
Hope to see everyone there!
Edit: Please note the time change. The noon showing was sold out, so time is moved to the earlier 11:15 showing at the Capital.
May 2nd is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! This event will run all day, or until we run out of free comics.
Also on May 2nd, around 5pm, we will have the Launch Party for ALARA REBORN!
More detailed information about the aforementioned events can be found by clicking the Events link in the navigation bar.