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 Shadowrun 4th Edition: 20th Anniversary Limited Edition[CAT 2600ALE]To celebrate 20 years of this seminal RPG, Catalyst Game Labs is pleased to announce this limited edition of the Shadowrun Fourth Edition 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook. Limited to 1,500 copies, this special edition comes with a full-color heavyweight slipcase, a leatherette cover with silver imprinting, two cloth bookmarks, and an 11Ó x 34Ó double-sided poster of the Seattle skyline Ñ one side blue, the other red. |
 High School Drama[CAT 11020]OMG, soo much drama! What is High School Drama!? High School Drama! is a hilarious new card game published by Shifting Skies Games to bridge that gap between casual gamers and traditional gamers. You play a student in high school and you're trying to get your clique to take over the school. Hook up with other students, spread vicious lies and rumors about your rivals and pretend to bond with your fake friends. Earn yearbook signatures by going to special events like homecoming and sci-fi movie openings or by earning student standouts like cutest couple and most artistic. Each player controls one main student but quickly forms a growing clique by hooking up with other students and organizations. Everyone starts as freshmen, but only the player who has the most yearbook signatures at the end of graduation wins! Once you've selected your main character, the object of the game is to build the strongest clique possible and you'll use this clique to fight for the only resource that matters in high school—your reputation as measured by how many yearbook signatures you have by the time you graduate! Will your clique rule the school or will you just flunk out? Players take turns alternating drawing up actions into their hands and then playing them (a game mechanic called "drafting"). You can choose either a Hookup, Breakup, Bond or a special Event card. Once everyone has their hand complete, you play your actions. You can play Hookups to make new friends or join school clubs (this allows you to expand your clique). Maybe you want to start hanging out with the Goth Chick or try out for Varisty Football. Playing the Bond card let's you spend time with your new friends and strengthen your relationships (fortify your clique) so you can win yearbook signatures at the end of each year. Along the way, your carefully crafted plans for popularity will be undermined, backstabbed, broken up, wrung through the rumor mill, exposed on the internet and stolen. Your character will watch helplessly as their rivals use underhanded methods to sabotage friendships and break the carefully tended relationships in your clique. And then you will do it right back to them! Of course, trash talking is encouraged! |
 Battletech: Technical Readout 3060[CAT 35126]BattleTech Technical Readout: 3060 returns one of last the FASA-era Technical Readouts to active publication. It provides a wealth of designs that still play an active role in the present BattleTech timeline whose histories and development have been out of print for close to ten years--including the first look at the Clans combat vehicle and their newly revealed ProtoMech technology. This reprint includes a new cover, and errata worked in throughout. |
 Shadowrun: Dawn of the Artifacts 2 - Midnight[CAT 26401]There are deep secrets in the Sixth World, and there are people who will do anything to uncover them. Some secrets reach into the ancient past, but they still have the power to shake the world. What they will do depends on whose hands they fall into... Dusk was only the beginning. Jane "Frosty" Foster is back and ready to continue her artifact hunt. If they're game, runners will join her in a chase across North America, from the frozen, bug-filled wastes of Chicago to the political hotbed of Denver to the Deep Lacuna lurking under Los Angeles. Midnight is the second adventure in the Dawn of the Artifacts series, giving skilled runners the chance to find a second powerful artifact and perhaps uncover clues about what makes these treasures so valuable. |
 High School Drama[CAT 11030]Players take on the role of classic student archtypes—emotional vortex to man candy, preppy to 1337 haXx0r—trying to hookup with other students and clubs, while making sure to breakup your rivals. At the end of four school years (because High School is like totally so superficial ya know) players burn off all their bonds they’ve created, turning them into signatures in their yearbook. The player with the most signatures at the end of game is the winner! The Varsity Edition of High School Drama enhances and streamlines game play, while clarifying various rules based on player feedback from the original edition of the game. |
 Shadowrun: Vice[CAT 26203]Illegal is a strong word. It means you're doing something that the government doesn't want you to do. You'd never do anything like that, right? Or would you? It might be that some laws are... misguided. It's civil disobedience and a moral imperative to oppose those laws. Gandhi taught us that. My friends and I, we're here to help you make these difficult moral choices. We'll even provide you with a support network, if someone objects to your strong moral compass. And, hey, if everything works out, maybe all of us might come out ahead. Don't worry! We've got your back. Vice is a sourcebook for Shadowrun, Fourth Edition. It provides a detailed look at all levels of organized crime, from the major transnational syndicates like the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Mafia to the smallest street gangs and specialist organizations. History, personality, and membership of these groups are provided along with suggestions on how best to use them as key players in a Shadowrun campaign. The crimes they commit, the metahumans they recruit, the law enforcement they oppose, and the shadowruns they sponsor are all in here. Whether your team of runners works in concert with the criminal underworld or tries to oppose it, Vice will offer new insights and options to your campaign. |
 Shadowrun Vice[CAT 26203]Illegal is a strong word. It means you're doing something that the government doesn't want you to do. You'd never do anything like that, right? Or would you? It might be that some laws are... misguided. It's civil disobedience and a moral imperative to oppose those laws. Gandhi taught us that. My friends and I, we're here to help you make these difficult moral choices. We'll even provide you with a support network, if someone objects to your strong moral compass. And, hey, if everything works out, maybe all of us might come out ahead. Don't worry! We've got your back. Vice is a sourcebook for Shadowrun, Fourth Edition. It provides a detailed look at all levels of organized crime, from the major transnational syndicates like the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Mafia to the smallest street gangs and specialist organizations. History, personality, and membership of these groups are provided along with suggestions on how best to use them as key players in a Shadowrun campaign. The crimes they commit, the metahumans they recruit, the law enforcement they oppose, and the shadowruns they sponsor are all in here. Whether your team of runners works in concert with the criminal underworld or tries to oppose it, Vice will offer new insights and options to your campaign. |
 Ergo[CAT 11070] 1 Playboard - Consisting of the Arena (56 spaces) with outer track (34 spaces). 2 Storage Compartments - Consisting 24 playing pieces, 12 black, 12 white. Lion embossed on one side, hollow on the other.
Object of the game
The winner is the player who is first to arrange 5 of his own pieces in an uninterrupted vertical, horizontal or diagonal line anywhere on the playboard (including the outer track).
To start
Both players place your 12 pieces lion side up in the storage compartment on your side of the playboard. Black always starts.
Moves you can make
1. Move a piece from the storage compartment to any position in the arena (hollow side up)
2. Move a piece from the storage compartment to any free position on the outer track (lion side up).
3. Move a piece in the arena (hollow side up) one space vertically or horizontally. If it moves to the outer track turn it lion side up.
4. Move a lion piece one space vertically, horizontally or Diagonally.
5. Slide a lion space around the outer track to any other free space (no jumping).
That's it. A simple game with a bit more going on then Pente. The rules are in 10 languages. |
 Shadowrun: Seattle 2072[CAT 26102]Welcome Home. It’s a screwed up city. Isolated from the rest of the UCAS, it’s a haven for criminals—smugglers, syndicates, gangers. Legal criminals, too—megacorporations, governments, politicians. As beautiful as she is dysfunctional, Seattle is urban sprawl amid rolling hills and forests nestled up to man-made wonders next door to natural and man-made disasters. Whether you’re a native or not, Seattle will draw you in like no other. You can run for a lifetime and never leave Seattle, but some say you can’t run for a lifetime without entering. Seattle 2072, the second full-color hardcover as part of our 20th Anniversary of Shadowrun celebration. This 200-page book is the ultimate look at Seattle, presenting the City on the Sound in full color, like you’ve never seen her before. |
 Cattle Token Set (10)[MDG-10Cattle]10 20 mm x 15 mm cattle tokens made of wood |
 Shadowrun Dawn of the Artifacts: Dusk[CAT 26400]Sixth World scholars have long hypothesized the cyclical nature of magic. For years corporations, collectors and other factions have spent fortunes hunting down surviving relics of this mythical age. The shadows whisper of lost lore and a secret history to the world. A privileged few have come into possession of ancient items of great power and mysterious purpose, artifacts from before recorded history. Now it |
 Shadowrun 4th Ed 20th Anniversary[CAT 2600A]The year is 2072. Magic has returned and creatures of myth and legend walk among us as megacorps bleed the world dry. You're a shadowrunner - a deniable asset, a corporate pawn - using bleeding-edge science and magic to make your meat body and mind better-than-flesh. Stay on the edge, and you may survive another run on the mean sprawl streets. Shadowrun, Fourth Edition offers a completely new rules system that is simple, integrated, and accessible. The state-of-the-art has also been advanced, introducing a new level of augmented reality, new gear, and new magical discoveries. |
 16mm Scatter Dice d6 (1)[CHX SCATTER]These dice are used for an old BLOODy game. Get a BOWL of them while youre at it.Price for 1 random colored die. |
 BT The Corps BattleCorp Anthology V1[CAT 35800]WARRIORS ALL!The great Star League general, Aleksandr Kerensky. Colonel Archer Christifori, a man with a score to settle. Neilson Geist, on Christmas patrol. MechWarrior Joanna of Clan Jade Falcon. A Sandoval scion. An eleven-year-old girl. Northwind Highlanders. A prisoner of war. They all have two things in common. A universe torn apart by unending warfare. A mission, to stand up against the darkness. This compilation contains a selection of eighteen of 2004s best fiction pieces, as well as an all-new story about young Kerensky by Loren L. Coleman! |
 BT Introductory Box Set[CAT 35000]Strap yourself into the ultimate suit of armor: the BattleMech. Thirty feet tall and weighing up to a hundred tons, this humanoid engine of destruction is a walking arsenal with enough firepower to level a city block. The Classic BattleTech game system takes you into the world of the 31st Century, where war has become a way of life. You are a MechWarrior. You are in command of the most powerful machine on the battlefield, and hold the fate of empires in your hand!The Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set thrusts you onto the battlefields of the 31st century. This box contains everything needed to play: * 24 unpainted, instantly ready-to-play plastic BattleMech miniatures * One 12-page full-color quick-start rulebook will have you into the action in minutes * One 32-page book of pre-generated BattleMech Record Sheets * One 80-page full-color rulebook * Inner Sphere at a Glance, a 48-page full-color book containing universe background and BattleMech technical data * One16-page full-color Painting and Tactics Guide * Two heavy-duty cards of compiled tables * Two 22" x 27" full-color mapsheets, with two different maps printed on either side * Two six-sided dice * One full-color, poster-sized map of the Inner Sphere circa 3067 |
 Shadowrun: Street Magic[CAT 26001]The advanced magic rulebook for Shadowrun Fourth Edition, Street Magic provides background details on everything known to magic in the year 2070, from the nature of mana and astral space, and its effects on society and the Awakened. |
 Shadowrun: Ghost Cartels[CAT 26302]Ghost Cartels drops the runners into the action, involving them in the drug deals and power plays shaking up Seattle, LA, Hong Kong, and even all the way to the jungles of South America. |
 Shadowrun: Arsenal[CAT 26003]Gear Up!When corpsec is raining lead down on your head, a wardrobe malfunction will get you dead. To survive against gangs, syndicates, and megacorps, shadowrunners need the best gear they can make, buy, or steal. Arsenal covers everything a runner team needs, from weapons and armor to advanced electronics and spy toys to the latest state-of-the-art drones. It also covers the intricacies of the black market and drug trade and provides advanced rules for combat and martial arts, mixing your own chemicals and explosives, and modifying your weapons and vehicles. |
 Shadowrun: Corporate Enclaves[CAT 26201]Are You Ready to Sell Your Soul? Corporate Enclaves shines the spotlight on two very different bastions of corporate power in the Sixth World: Los Angeles and Neo-Tokyo. Controlled and exploited by the iron hand of the megacorps, these sprawls are home to corporate powerhouses, their political minions, powerful crime factions, and plenty of intrigue and opportunities for enterprising and resourceful shadowrunners. The second in an ongoing series of themed setting books for Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, Corporate Enclaves also briefly visits the unique corporate dominions of Dubai, Europort, Manhattan, Nairobi, and Tenochtitl?n, and provides guidelines for developing your own corp-controlled settings. |
 TechManual[CAT 35002]The Gearhead?s HandbookHow does a MechWarrior interface with a BattleMech? How does a ProtoMech really work? When was the Gauss rifle or the Particle Projector Cannon developed? Or how can I just make my own, cool and unique BattleMech design? If you?ve ever been plagued by these questions, then get on your coveralls and make sure you?ve got your astech certification, because you?re about to dive into BattleTech construction! A companion volume to Total Warfare, the Classic BattleTech TechManual combines all the construction rules for the various units presented in that core rules set. Streamlined and updated, it contains all the core weaponry and equipment from previous rules set, as well as the newest, bleeding edge technologies. More than just a rulebook, however, the TechManual presents numerous sourcebook-style treatises, providing the in-universe context for these units and the technologies of their development. A must have resource for any BattleTech aficionado! |