Catanamaniacs, Star Wars X-Wing and more

What’s Happening?

Today: Cider Tasting from 6-8pm (Yep! This week’s beer tasting is actually cider, give some grown-up apple juice a try!); Catanamanics @ 7:30pm

Wednesday: Riichi Mahjong @ 2pm; D&D Encounters: Dead in Thay @ 6pm; Netrunner League @ 7pm.

What’s Catanamaniacs? Join us for Settlers of Catan, the breakout 1995 game that changed the way the world looked at boardgames. We’re going to start playing every other Tuesday! New to the game? Looking to learn? We’ll teach in a friendly setting. Road-building master? Share your love for the game with us! We’re looking to grow a regular group and have quarterly tournaments!

But what’s really exciting this week is all of the New Releases, including Wave 4 X-Wing! E-Wings. Z-95 Headhunters. TIE Defenders. TIE Phantoms. They’re finally here! And a restock of Imperial Aces as well!

But we got in other things too! A game called 8-Minute Empire that we’d never seen, but looks so neat that we’ll be breaking it open today to give it a try. The Command Tower Deck Box for Magic is beautiful. The Game of Thrones, Westeros Intrigue Card Game by Reiner Knizia (not the LCG) looks very cool too!

And we’ll have restocks of Alien Frontiers, Microscope and The Quiet Year later this week!

So many games!

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.