Restocks! Coup, The Resistance, Avalon & Splendor.

What’s happening?

Today: Beer Tasting from 6-8pm (What makes a beer thirst-quenching? will be the topic); Scrabble @ 7pm.

Wednesday: Riichi Mahjong @ 2pm; D&D Encounters (Dead in Thay) @ 6pm; Android: Netrunner @ 7pm (we’ll be getting ready for the big draft tournament on Sunday!).

The exciting news today is that we got a bunch of long-awaited restocks today: The Resistance, The Resistance: Avalon, Coup and Splendor.

Spendor we’ve talked about recently, the gem-mining nominee for this year’s Spiel des Jahres.

The others are all great, thinking games for larger groups — Coup goes up to 6 players, the two Resistances are 5-10 player games. They’re all secret role games where players take on characters and the others have to guess who they are or what faction they belong to. They’re quick, fun and require a bit more thought than most party games.

We highly recommend all of them!

Coup was a surprise hit last fall, and has been out of print ever since, so now’s your chance to pick up this great game!

Tim Morgan

When Tim Morgan told his high school guidance counselor that he wanted to publish games for a living, the response was a clueless, “Uhhhh, you’ll probably want some college then.” Twenty-five years later, while still not publishing games for a living, he has made games his life -- over twenty years as the manager of a game store in Seattle, playtester of more RPGs and board games than you can shake a stick at, and small-press publisher of several games and even more novels. And now, co-owner of the ‘Round the Table Game Pub in Lynnwood. He currently lives in Everett, WA, where he is the caretaker of four (no, five!) lolcats, the oppressive taskmaster of a teenaged daughter, and the devoted husband of a wonderful author. His latest work is Ellis: Kingdom in Turmoil, a full RPG rules system and setting, detailing a low-fantasy world where religion is king and morality matters.