Don Reents Retirement

 

I want to  congratulate Don Reents on his announced retirement from Chessex Manufacturing (See “Chessex Owner Donald Reents Retires”). Don has been a fixture in the industry and Chessex was the first national distributor to compete with The Armory, eventually merging the two companies in 1998 (See “Chessex Founder Don Reents”). Chessex was also the first company to greatly expand the varieties of dice stores offered to the hobby game customer as well as related items such as Battlemats, tokens and markers.  However, the thing I most remember about Reents was sitting down with him at Ft. Wayne Pentecon back in the late nineties and pelting him with questions about baseball and his thoughts about various aspects of the sport and its fans which I incorporated into my dissertation. So Don, happy retirement, thanks for the help and to paraphrase Douglas Adams “So long and thanks for all the dice”.

D&D World of Warcraft

 

Wizards of the Coast is making a big push to make sure its first Gameplay Expansion for Dungeons and Dragons sell successfully (See “Wizards of the Coast Reveals Product Line Details for Dungeons and Dragons:  World of Warcraft”) offering stores incentives tied to the quantity of books purchased. For the first time, a D&D book will release with three covers:  Standard cover, Alternate/WPN Store cover and a Collector Edition cover with an MSRP of $99.99.  Ordering 6 copies of any cover gets a store a metal display rack similar to the one given out with the release of the 2024 updates for the Dungeons and Dragons core rulebooks. Order 12 copies of any cover in any combination and the store receives the metal display rack and a free copy of the Standard cover book.  To encourage stores to really push their orders, a store ordering 24 copies of any combination of covers will receive a large display holding 12 to 15 books and a free copy of the Collector’s Edition cover.

Pokemon

 We currently have Pitch Black, Chaos Rising, Perfect Order and destined Rivals booster packs in stock, as well as a limited quantity of Japanese Pokemon packs. We also have a few Destined Rivals ETKs left and expect to get in more First Partner Series 3 boxes later this week.

We do play Pokemon from 6 to 8, generally a tournament, on Wednesday night and 1 to 3 on Saturday afternoon.

Games Workshop New Releases

 Releaseing Sept 19th 

Your descent into the new edition of Necromunda continues as House Escher and House Goliath get new characters and new rules in a series of Underhive Journals.

The Underhive Journals are new format, soft cover books that add new gang-specific content for campaign play, so players can fight over territories that reflect their gang, take appropriate side jobs for their skills, and draw from a whole new list of Gang Tactics.  

These new gang characters are bringing backup in the form of the Goliath Forge Bosses & Sumpkrocs and Escher Gang Matriarchs & Phyrr Cats gang boxes, available separately for the first time.

Point Salad

 If you would like to Play Point Salad, Ajay will run a session of the game at 6 p.m. on August 31.  Great way to wrap up the month.

Pokemon Destined Rivals

 We should have a restock of Pokemon Destined Rivals ETKs out on the shelf Friday.  Price will be $89.99

Cryer from the Castle 8/25

 Brando with Cryer from the Castle for the week of 8/25/26

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