Atlas Games
Vicious Gardens Game
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Games & Puzzles
$47.00
Reader Reward Price: $42.30
Vicious Gardens is a card game that combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.
Grow and harvest eccentric plants such as Fuzzlesquash, Spotted Bildge, or Floofberry in your garden. Over 80 uniquely named and illustrated plants are guaranteed to captivate and entertain — even if your neighbor ends up stealing them!
Vicious Gardens has a unique cast of specialists ready to sabotage your opponents and help your garden flourish: Wormsworth, Beebeard, the Curmudgeon, and many more. Use these Specialists to obtain garden upgrades and Victory Cards. But beware, your competition can hire their own Specialists.
Obtain special abilities by harvesting your plants to attain Victory Cards, too. Adding Victory Cards such as Carnivorous Plants and Gnudist Gnomes are your surest way to victory. Once a gardener has accumulated three Victory Cards in their garden, the End of the Season (a.k.a. end of the game) begins!
Gameplay Basics
Step 1: Plant - Plant into different Plots based on category: Fruit, Flowers, Produce, and Herbs. These are worth one point each, but you will also need to harvest these to use Specialists or obtain Victory Cards. Gardening is all about balance!
Step 2: Use Specialists - Strategically play your Specialists to improve your garden or sabotage others. The best gardeners get their hands dirty ;)
Step 3: Harvest for Victory Cards - Harvest the requisite plants and obtain your Victory Cards before other gardeners can! These are worth eight points each and provide unique bonuses for you to take advantage of.
End the Season! - The gardener that obtains their third Victory Card ends the season! Take the End of Season token and prepare to gloat while other gardeners take their final turn.
Team Play! - Partner-up or triple-up to work together in your quest of botanic domination. This game mode is easy to apply and, in our opinion, almost more delightfully vicious. Simply plant in your partner's garden and team up in ruining other's. Misery loves company after all.
Contents:
Matte Finish Game Box
Game Board
72 Uniquely Named & Illustrated Plant Cards
8 Wild Bloom Cards
14 Victory Cards with Unique Abelites
34 Specialist Cards
5 Pollinators, 3 Pestilence, & 1 (Extremely Fabulous) Bird Bath
1 End of Season Token
Number of Players: 2-6
Playing Time: 20-45 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 10+
Stir Fry 18 Game
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Games & Puzzles
$12.00
Reader Reward Price: $10.80
Stir Fry Eighteen is a fun and quick bluffing game with a tasty theme! Collect ingredients, deceive your opponents, and cook Stir Fry! The compact deck and simple rules allows for the game to be taken and played almost anywhere.
Gameplay
You'll start with 3 cards. From there you want to collect enough cards to "cook stir fry" and score points, the first to 50 points wins. In order to get a better hand however, you'll need to discard pairs of ingredients or a single protein card. Here's where the deception comes in, you can bluff as you discard and hope nobody calls for a "Taste Test". If nobody catches you, you'll get to draw new cards. If you get caught you don't get to draw new cards, but your opponent does! This game is small and portable, perfect for taking "to go!"
Contents:
18 Ingredients Cards
1 Rule Leaflet
Number of Players: 2-5
Playing Time: 5-12 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 6+
Weird Little Elf Game
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Games & Puzzles
$16.00
Reader Reward Price: $14.40
The World of Weird Little Elf It’s the night before Christmas … Santa's Elves are working hard to finish all the toys in the workshop. But something isn't right. The Elves are acting very strangely! Rumour has it that a terrible Imp has snuck into the workshop to sabotage the toys and ruin Christmas. But the Elves can be mischievous, too, and Santa's having trouble telling who's who. So he gathers all the "Elves" around and asks them all one simple question … Gameplay Basics Weird Little Elf is the little bitty holiday game that’s a little bit weird. Players take turns being Santa, who poses a question for the others to answer. The other players are Elves, although one is secretly an Imp who follows a special rule that could give it away. The first player to accuse the Imp correctly three times wins! Number of Players: 4-15 Playing Time: 15 Minutes Recommended Ages: 8+
Tribunals of Hermes
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Trade paperback
$14.00
Reader Reward Price: $12.60
Visit the Hermetic Tribunal of Iberia with this Ars Magica fourth edition supplement. Trapped between harsh mountains and turbulent seas, this region is naturally isolated. Its residents battle each other for magic, territory, and revenge. Savage invaders continually test their resolution. This sourcebook contains extensive background on both the mundane and magical populations of Mythic Europe’s Spanish peninsula. Select one of the fully developed covenants for use in your saga, or create your own based on the material within these pages. Several saga suggestions are provided to facilitate play. Or, if you prefer, build your own plot around the profiles of supernatural entities and places in this book. Tribunals of Hermes: Iberia requires Ars Magica fourth edition to play.
Planegea Star Shaman's Song Rp
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Hardcover
$66.00
Reader Reward Price: $59.40
Planegea is primal fantasy roleplaying. Whatever you want to explore in 5E—slaying monstrous creatures, navigating political intrigue, exploring ancient ruins, crafting enchanted weapons, infiltrating evil cults, battling, building, casting, carousing—it’s all here. Planegea rises out of our earliest ancestral memory, a world we can barely recognize, which holds all the adventure we can imagine. You won’t find limitations on class or kinship here; rather, the world is filled with ideas and inspiration for running a long and glorious game set before written words, hammered ore, and plowed fields. Drawn from the traditions of sword & sorcery pulp adventures, infused with the blood-pounding thrills of the Fury Road, and caught in the jaws of primordial dreams, Planegea has adventures for everyone who ever felt the cold wind raise a chill of hunt and hope on their raw skin. Nothing is as you expect in Planegea. Elves are shimmering dream-walkers, dwarves are half stone, humans are beast-tamers, halflings are silent stalkers, gnomes are filthy scavengers, and dragonborn are just a heartbeat away from their draconic ancestors. There are no great, universal gods—only a patchwork quilt of local deities, often appearing in the shapes you least expect, with powers that are bought with offerings and strange favors. In Planegea, the planes of existence have not yet separated, and a warrior can travel by foot from the Sea of Stars to the infinite, volcanic peak of Blood Mountain; but along the way, that warrior must battle everything from cold alien intelligences to the genie caravans; from the four empires of the giants to the monsters that hunt the howling peaks and roaring oceans that ring the Great Valley; from the cold, bony fingers of the Nightmare World to the terrifying jaws of the jungle known by as the Venom Abyss. Every step of the journey is plagued with danger and death. What's in the Book? FOR PLAYERS: Clanfire & Wilderness, introducing you to the unexpected truths and exciting realities of life in Planegea. Kinships, revealing the primordial form of familiar faces like the gnomes and godmarked (tieflings), plus four all-new kinships including starlings and saurians! Classes, including all-new sub-classes. Backgrounds, twenty primeval 5E backgrounds for customizing your Planegea characters. Equipment & Trade, including a comprehensive guide for how to adapt any treasure to the Stone Age. Spells, with dozens of new options for spellcasters! AND GAME MASTERS: Planegea Adventures, including wilderness tools, clan tools, and adventure environments for your Stone Age campaigns. The Primal World, a comprehensive gazetteer detailing everything from Blood Mountain to the World-Fangs; from the Great Valley to the Giant Kingdoms; from Nod to the Kingdom of the Dead. Factions & Threats, with dozens of enemies and allies for the PCs to encounter in their journeys. Treasures, including amazing new magic items like the enigmatic basin of dreaming and terrifying apparatus of the mammoth. Gods & Monsters, including dozens of new monsters and rules for creating your own primal gods!
Murder Of Crows Game
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Games & Puzzles
$23.00
Reader Reward Price: $20.70
A lightweight card game where players uncover the story of a murder most fowl.
When a player wins by spelling M-U-R-D-E-R, those cards’ flavor text combines to tell the homicide’s tale.
A fast game with quick turns, compact size, and a low price point.
A great gift idea or add-on sale for horror and mystery fans.
Second Edition has several improvements, cards are now tarot-sized, and optional two-player variant has been added, and it now comes packaged in a convenient tin case.
Gameplay Basics
Second Edition includes The Murdered Third, an optional two-player variant. Players will draw for a “murdered” third player and apply the negative effects of that card.
Each letter card has a simple ability. For example, “U” is for “Uncover”: When you play it, everyone else reveals their hands, and you take a card from someone.
Every card can be used to counter opposing plays, by matching the number of crows that appear.
Spell M-U-R-D-E-R to win!
Number of Players: 2-5
Playing Time: 20 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 13+
Magical Kitties Save the Day W
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Trade paperback
$20.00
Reader Reward Price: $18.00
Far from the towns and cities of house kitties, in the vast wilderness beyond, live brave kitties without any humans at all! The Wild Ones band together in Prides each with their own territory, lead by the wise but mysterious Sage. Together they solve the problems of grouchy wild animals, pesky forest fairies, and even an occasional Bigfoot passing through. But when a strange trapper intrudes on their territory, it’s up to the Wild Ones to rescue their forest friends, They’ll need to uncover his hidden secret to save the day! • This adventure and setting book takes the kitty krew into the dark forests and open plains of the Wild Ones, magical kitties without Humans to protect. • Fully compatible with Magical Kitties Save the Day, an RPG of cute, fierce kitties. • Includes a gorgeous full-color poster map to keep players curious and engaged. Format: 32 pages, full color softcover book with poster map bound inside (9.25 x 9.25 in)
Godsforge Game 2e
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Games & Puzzles
$46.00
Reader Reward Price: $41.40
The World of Godsforge Etherium is the ultimate source of magical power. Once, it was plentiful and the land was peaceful, but Etherium slowly receded from the land, dwindling to a single site. The mighty fought for this mystic forge, where powerful artifacts were crafted. By weaving Etherium with other elements, titans were summoned and devastating sorceries conjured, giving wizards the power of gods. You are a great mage, battling for this last reservoir of Etherium. You’ll craft creations and cast spells to defeat your rivals, leaving you as master of the Godsforge! Gameplay Basics In Godsforge, you are an elite spellcaster. You roll, re-roll, group, and combine dice whose results channel the crucial elements you need to summon creations and cast sorceries from your cards. For example, two 4s can each channel Water, which you can combine with a Veilstone to craft the Leviathan, a powerful attacker. But you have two re-rolls each turn, and if one of them becomes a 5 or better, they can be added together to channel Feywood, a crucial component to the Oakenshield, which will protect you turn after turn. To increase your options even further, die results of 1 are Etherium, a “wild” element that can substitute for any number on the die, and results of 6 channel Veilstones, which can increase or decrease another die result by 1 — and can even be stored from turn to turn for future use. In short: your choices matter! Whatever you choose to create or cast, your goal is simple: take the last ebb of your opponents’ life force and be the last one standing! Godsforge features simultaneous play. All players roll their dice, craft their spells, and launch their attacks at the same time. There’s no downtime — everyone’s always playing. Multiplayer conflict is straightforward. All players attack to their left and defend to their right to avoid kingmaking. A perfectly balanced power ramp ensures each player’s forces rise dramatically to a climactic endgame. Endgame conditions bring play to a swift conclusion as soon as any player dies. Eliminated players get right back into the next game’s action, no waiting. Format: Board 56 Poker-sized cards 30 Veilstones 17 Six-sided dice Four scoring tokens Rulebook Number of Players: 2-4 Players Playing Time: 20-40 minutes Recommended Ages: 14+
Gloom Game 2nd Edition
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Games & Puzzles
$34.00
Reader Reward Price: $30.60
In the Gloom card game, you assume control of the fate of an eccentric family of misfits and misanthropes. The goal of the game is sad, but simple: you want your characters to suffer the greatest tragedies possible before passing on to the well-deserved respite of death. Play horrible mishaps like Pursued by Poodles or Mocked by Midgets on your own characters, while trying to cheer your opponents' characters with marriages and other happy occasions.
Printed on transparent plastic cards, Gloom features an innovative design by Keith Baker. Multiple modifier cards can be played on top of the same character card; since the cards are transparent, elements from previously played modifier cards either show through or are obscured by those played above them. You'll immediately and easily know the worth of every character, no matter how many modifiers they have. You've got to see (through) this game to believe it!
The second edition includes sturdy new packaging, rules fixes, timing icons, reminder cards, and more; plus it's fully compatible with the first edition game and supplements. It's sure to delight even the most despondent Gloom fan!
Cultivate Game
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65
$47.00
Reader Reward Price: $42.30
You are a cult leader working to fill your compound with followers who can help you carry out your cult’s agenda. As you cultivate various types of recruits, their unique skills will gain your cult powers to help you fulfill your agenda. But watch out! If you are becoming too powerful, rival cult leaders may try to sabotage you or convert the followers you can’t keep in line. You might also garner unwanted attention and be subjected to an undercover investigation at any time. Persuade the right followers, outwit your foes, and rise above the rest. Easy to learn, with lots of player interaction Beautiful wooden components Unique art style and theming Hilarious tongue-in-cheek humor Contents: 5 Investigator Meeples 86 Follower Meeples 74 Playing Cards 5 Compound Boards 5 Character Agenda Mats 5 Marker Cubes Number of Players: 2-5 Playing Time: 20-50 Minutes Recommended Ages: 14+
Ars Magica Rpg 5th Edition Sc
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Trade paperback
$39.00
Reader Reward Price: $35.10
Ars Magica is the award-winning roleplaying game by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein•Hagen about wizards and their allies in Mythic Europe. This flexible, deeply built world can support games that are historically accurate or fantasy-based, epic or small scale, political or personal. Players work together to tell the story of their covenant — all of the magi, their companions, and grogs. This history can span decades. It might be heroic, tragic, or both in turn. The covenant could influence the entirety of Mythic Europe or the fates of a small corner of the world. Spells will be cast. Duels won and lost. Houses may rise and fall. But magic is forever. Ars Magica is a troupe-style, storytelling game. This means that players will not only play a magus, but also the companions and grogs who serve them. Each of these characters contributes to the covenant they belong to, and therefore to the story itself. The game is famous for its magic rules, which set a new standard for RPG magic systems. The system is divided into arts, each of which comes with a set of verbs and nouns (called Techniques and Forms). Players simply put them together into phrases like "Control Fire" to represent what they want to do. This fifth edition core book contains all of the rules you need to play, and there’s an enormous library of Ars Magica supplements in our catalog to help develop your campaign. As a rule, older sourcebooks are usable with the newest edition.
White Box Game Design Kit In A Box
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Games & Puzzles
$37.00
Reader Reward Price: $33.30
The White Box is a game design workshop-in-a-box. It contains a book of essays and a whole bunch of prototyping pieces to help you get the game ideas out of your head and onto the table.
The White Box is intended to provide tools and tips for people who want to create their own games. The plain white box contains 18 essays about how to design games, written by Jeremy Holcomb (The Duke, Timestreams) and bound in a 128-page book. A variety of generic game components are also included: two punchboard sheets, 100 8mm wooden cubes, 24 wooden meeples, 4 larger 25mm wooden cubes, 90 plastic discs, 8 six-sided dice, and a gift card for The Game Crafter.
Once Upon A Time Game Fairy Tales Exp
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Games & Puzzles
$17.00
Reader Reward Price: $15.30
Pixies, goblins, and leprechauns live under toadstools and behind waterfalls in fairy tales, making mischief, delighting children, and spreading dewdrops across spider webs.
Fairy Tales is an expansion for Once Upon a Time, the card game where players tell a story together using cards that show fairy tale elements and endings. Shuffle these elfin cards into your Once Upon a Time collection to sprinkle some magic fairy dust on your storytelling fun!
Number of Players: 2-6
Playing Time: 30 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 8+
Once Upon A Time Game Knightly Tales Exp
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Games & Puzzles
$17.00
Reader Reward Price: $15.30
Once Upon a Time is a storytelling card game that puts the players in control of an amazing and oftentimes nonsensical tale of heroism and returning to the same castle inexplicably six or seven times. Knightly Tales is an expansion to this extremely entertaining game. It adds a focus on those fairy tales that revolve around knights and princesses and true chivalry. Once Upon a Time is certainly a different game to bust out on your game nights, but if you haven't tried it, I can only say that we found it to be quite a bit of fun. For those writer and actor types this should be your jam.
Once Upon A Time 3e
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Games & Puzzles
$33.00
Reader Reward Price: $29.70
Tell your own fantastic tales of brave heroes and daring adventure!
Once Upon a Time is the award-winning storytelling card game that encourages creativity and collaborative play. One player is the Storyteller, and begins telling a story using the fairytale elements on her Story cards, guiding the plot toward her Ending Card. The other players use their own cards to interrupt her and become the new Storyteller. The winner is the first player to use all her Story Cards and play her Ending Card. The object of the game, though, isn't just to win, but to have fun telling a story together.
Once Upon a Time was named to GAMES Magazine's Best Family Card Game section in 1997. The 3rd Edition features:
New Artwork: Entirely new artwork by fantasy artist extraordinaire Omar Rayyan, known for his work for Magic: The Gathering and his amazing children's books.
Revised Cardlist: A re-worked cardlist designed to make play smooth and easy.
Redesigned Box: A larger box with new graphic design and "book-like" front flap, for greater visiblity and shelf presence.
Simplified Rulesheet: A simplified rules sheet designed to bring new players quickly into the game.
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