New this Week:

Games
D&D 4th Ed: Forgotten Realms Player's Guide
D&d 4 th Ed: Adventurer's Vault
D&D 4th Ed: Scepter Tower of Spellgard
Conflict of Heroes board game
Chaotic: M'Arrillion Invasion TCG

Graphic Novels
Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle (author of Pyongyang)

Restock:
Batman Dark Knight Returns
Understanding Comics
Maus
Wanted

Toys
All Star Superman and Batman figures
Living Dead Doll series 16
Battlestar Galactica (we ordered these last October and they finally arrived!)

September Heroclix Events

Events start at 6pm

4^th Thurs The Infinity Gauntlet!

1000 pts, no feats

Prize: Infinity Gauntlet Event Dial

11^th Thurs Secret Invasion Week 5: Skrull Traitor’s Draft

400 pts, No Feats, Bystanders, BFCs, Special Objects, check Online for Full rules

Prize: Reed Richards LE

17^th Weds Secret Invasion Week 6: Skrull Accusation!

400 pts, No Feats, Bystanders, BFCs, Special Objects, check Online for Full rules

Prize: Sue Ricards LE

24^th Weds Secret Invasion Week 7:

300 points, Marvel Only

No Feats, Bystanders, BFCs, Sp. Objects Prize: Johnny Storm LE

New this week:

Comics:

Lots and lots of Marvel titles this week!

New Avengers #44
Mighty Avengers#17
Avengers Initiative#16
Wolverine #68
Amazing Spider-Man #569 to name a few!

DC is not keeping up, but we did get:
All Star Superman Volume 1 softcover in! Highly recommended!

Games:

It's all about Pathfinder this week!

Pathfinder Beta RPG
Pathfinder 12 &13
Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting

Restock:

Secret Invasion boosters
Axis & Allies War at Sea boosters
Axis & Allies boosters

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Gordzilla and I have recently celebrated our 20th Wedding Anniversary! Hard to believe it's been that long! So it's kind of neat, that on that day, we were interviewed for the Free Press for this article about Downtown Living. Check it out!

Photo courtesy of Sue Bradnam, Sun Media

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We say good-bye to another employee, Justin, who has been in charge of our Friday Night Magic. Justin is moving on to complete his schooling in Montreal! We wish him the best of luck! We welcome Clinton as his successor! As well as FNM's, Clinton will be seen in the store on Tuesdays and Saturdays, please make him feel at home!

Heroclix Events Update

please note that the event for the 27th of August

has been moved to Thursday the 28th due to a work schedule change

Thurs 28^th Weds Secret Invasion Week 4: Floor

300 pts build, 150 points of your force must come from Secret Invasion

Prizes: Invigorate

Thanks for your patience

New rule for Shards of Alara Release!

Some of the keen eyed players may have noticed this bit of information floating around on the internet recently...

"Tournament Structure/Format: [for Shards release Sealed]
(basics about building a sealed deck (a tourney deck and three boosters) followed by...) Players must choose one of the five Shards and construct a deck using cards that share the same colors of the Shard chosen."


Once you remove the jargon from it, it states that each player (upon receiving their sealed deck) must choose one of the Shards (3 colour alliances) of Alara and can only play cards represented by those colours.

So no four colour decks, no funny splashes; just do what Wizards tells you to.

I'm personally miffed, however I'd like to know what you folks think. Fun wrinkle, or yet another terrible decision by Wizards?

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Post-script: allegedly the release will also feature special "super" lands which tap for 3 different colours of mana related to your shard. No mana screw here, I suppose.

This particular rumour I'll only believe once I see it. (As opposed to the deck building limitations, which Wizards has press-released)

September FNMs!

September 5th – Standard!

September 12th – Draft!

September 19th – Standard!

September 26th – Draft!




Afterdrafts will occur on demand.


Please also remember that Shards of Alara is creeping up on us. Pre-order soon to make sure we have everything you want the second the set is released!

New this week:

Games:
Hunter: The Vigil RPG from White Wolf
Equinox Road for Changeling the Lost
Zombies!!!7 Send in the Clowns expansion
Humans!!!: a stand alone game or can be combined with Zombies!!!

Comics:
Secret Invasion #5
Halo Uprising #3

Restock:
Watchmen TP
Walking Dead TP vol 8


Another Good-Bye:
Jessica has worked part-time at L.A. Mood's for 5 years, while attending Western. It's now time for her to move on and share her knowledge with young people as a high school teacher! We wish her the best of luck on her new journey!

Hello!
We welcome two new part-time employees Davita and Tom. Davita is a Beal student with an interest in music and art, and recently participated in the Fringe Festival. You will see her on Wednesdays and Sundays. Tom is a long time customer, who has a passion for games, particularly White Wolf and D&D, you'll see him regularly on Saturdays.

CLOSED
MONDAY, AUGUST 4TH

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Feeling parched...of action?

Thirsty...for adventure?

Is August...really hot?

Then come down to our FNMs this month, where each week we're giving out thematically appropriate FNM foil Deserts to reward our players!

August FNMs!

August 1st – Eventide Draft!

August 8th – Standard!

August 15th – Draft!

August 22rd – Standard!

August 29th – Draft!


Afterdrafts will occur on demand. :D

August Heroclix Events

Events start at 6pm

6^th Weds Secret Invasion Week 1: Sealed

Buy 2 boosters of Secret Invasion and build a 300 pt team.

Prize: Healing Factor Feat

13^th Weds Secret Invasion Week 2: Sealed

Buy 2 boosters of Secret Invasion and build a 300 pt team

Prize: Disassemble Feat

20^th Weds Secret Invasion Week 3: Floor

300 pts build, 150 points of your force must come from Secret Invasion

Prizes: Improvise

27^th Weds Secret Invasion Week 4: Floor

300 pts build, 150 points of your force must come from Secret Invasion

Prizes: Invigorate

Addendum to this Friday's FNM:

Please note that Eventide will be legal at this Friday's event; so all you Ghost Dad players can feel free to slide your Unmakes in without fear of retribution. :D

Joss Whedon's Dr Horrible Sing-along-Blog!

I hope you have been watching! Joss Whedon has produced a 3 part mini musical only available on-line until July 20th! You must have the latest Adoble flash to play it, though, go to drhorrible.com

New D&D 4th Edition books in stock:

Dungeon Tiles: Halls of the Giant Kings
Adventure: Thunderspire Labyrinth
Character Record Sheets
Premium Dice
Miniatures: Against the Giants boosters

Other new games this month:
Settlers of Catan Expansion: Traders and Barbarians
Wealth of Nations
Marvel Heroclix: Fantastic Four Starters

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Are you excited about the new Batman movie yet?

Check out this link to the Gotham Cable News!

July Heroclix Events

Events start at 6pm

9^th Weds HeroClix World Championship Qualifier II

Restricted 300 point event

Prize: local champion

16^th weds Powered Core Rules Event

300pts, NO Feats, BFC, Double-Base, Giant, & Colossal characters, Theme Teams, Special Objects. Special Powers, Traits, Team abilities can be used

Prize: Collateral Damage LE’s

30^th Weds Secret Invasion Release Event

Buy 2 boosters of Secret Invasion and build a 300 pt team.

Prizes: Illuminati Event dial for winner & fellowship, "Nowhere to Hide" BFC card

and "Spaceship Crashsite" map for all players (max 16)

And be sure to Pick up the New Marvel Fantastic Four Starter, as there are many rule changes

and some great Clixs,

Marvel Secret Invasion releases on the 23rd of July

Can Heroclix Survive the Skrull Invasion!?!

Eventide release information:

The eventide release will be held on Saturday July 26th and will begin at noon with registration opening at 11:30.

The cost of entry will be $20, which will purchase 5 booster packs of Eventide and also contribute to the prize pool. As always, Wizards will be sending us prizes, and it should be an exciting event for all!

For you Joss Whedon fans:

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Free RPG Day 2008

Our first Free RPG Day was a great success! I didn't know what to expect so soon after D&D Day, but we had a lot of repeat customers from that day. D&D 4th Edition, Hunter, Pathfinder, and Tunnels and Trolls were among the games being played in the basement that day! Many people took advantage of the great RPG sales we had on during the day, making them 50% of our sales for the day!

July -- Magic and stuff!

After an interesting mixup with Wizards, it looks like our FNMs are back on track! Here are all the magic dates for July -- and the July FNM card is Wall of Roots. Zomg!

July 4 -- Draft
July 11 -- Standard
July 18 -- Draft
July 25 -- Standard
July 26 -- Eventide Release (NOTE: THIS IS A SATURDAY!)

More information regarding the release party will be made available shortly~

Also, those of you who have been paying attention will be aware that with the changes in Wizard's organized play policy, starting in the near future we will be eligible to host larger events, including prereleases and possibly even GP Trials! Be sure to post here or come and find Justin to tell him what you think about these changes, and what you'd like to see happen!

Free Role-playing Game Day
Saturday, June 21st

Drop by and pick up your free RPG!

Also check out these amazing sales:
10% off 4th Edition D&D
20% off Role-playing Games
50% off our bargain RPG's

Starting at 11 AM, DM's will be standing by for demos
or just drop in and play!

Visit the official Free RPG Day website
for more information.

Worldwide D&D Day, June 7, 2008

D&D Day was a great success! The morning and afternoon sessions were full, keeping our 5 DM's quite busy! Congratulations to Courtney for winning the door prize of Keep on the Shadowfell Adventure! Many thanks to all those who participated it was great to see the new faces! Our sales on 4th Ed were brisk and we sold out of Player's Handbooks by Saturday and sold out again of a restock on Monday. But never fear more Player's Handbooks are coming in today!

Also many thanks to our DM's Paul,

Jeff,

Dylan,

John,

and Charles!

Other photos of D&D Day will be found on our flickr site. Also on a side note, one of our DM's Dylan will be offering a course up at UWO, next fall, on D&D and role-playing games and their impact on today's culture. Early details are posted on our bulletin board in the store.