The Castle's Ramparts
The blog for news, events, releases and commentary from Castle Perilous Games & Books. located in downtown Carbondale IL. New posts every Monday and Wednesday.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Krypto's Golden Biscuit Contest
Available June 18th
Two lucky comic book fans will win the opportunity to attend the World Premiere of director James Gunn's Superman, taking place in Los Angeles, by discovering "Krypto’s Golden Biscuit" hidden inside the front cover of DC’s facsimile edition reprint of the 1955 comic book Adventure Comics #210 , which will land in local comic book shops starting on June 18!
Written by Otto Binder and drawn by Curt Swan (including art by Ramona Fradon and George Papp), this iconic comic book features Krypto’s first appearance in comics in the story "The Superdog from Krypton," where a young Clark Kent rediscovers Superboy’s best friend in this heartwarming reunion spanning years of time and light-years of space.
Monday, May 19, 2025
New Games Workshop Releases
For June 7th
SPACE WOLVES ARMY SET
CHAPTER APPROVED MISSION PACK (ENG)
WARHAMMER 40000: CRUSADE: ARMAGEDDON ENG
CHAPTER APPROVED: OBJECTIVES SET 2025-26
Sunday, May 18, 2025
De Minimus Exemption
Since the “de minimus” exemption expired on May 2, a look
at their websites show online fast fashion retailers Temu and Shein are
approaching the addition duties different. Temu has apparently moved a lot of
product to stateside warehouses and shows these “local” items, that avoid the
tariff, first when a customer searches on the side. Shein, meanwhile,
apparently has little to no US presence and has chosen to include the tariffs
in its displayed costs, not breaking them out for consumers as Amazon
had considered doing.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Tariffs
Starting to see some effects from tariffs, especially in supplies. Arriving restocks of Ultra Pro Standard 2.5” x3.5” Soft Sleeves, commonly referred to as “penny sleeves”, will now cost $1.22 per pack, quite a jump from the previous price of 54 to 57 cents a pack, a price increase of about 125%, certainly rendering the penny sleeve designation as moot. Now the question is: raise the price on supplies to a figure whereby the store makes its standard margin, or add the tariff amount to the current retail price and treat it as a tax?
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Sunday, May 11, 2025
GW Releases for May 31
Here are the GW releases for May 31. Let us know by 3 p.m. on the 13 if you want any:
BATTALION: WOOD ELF REALMS
ARCANE JOURNAL: WOOD ELF REALMS
WOOD ELF REALMS: GLADE GUARD
WOOD ELF REALMS: GLADE RIDERS
WOOD ELF REALMS: ETERNAL GUARD
WOOD ELF REALMS ARALOTH LORD OF TALSYN
HIGH ELF REALMS: SILVER HELMS
HIGH ELF REALMS: HIGH ELF LOREMASTER
THOUSAND SONS: WARPFLAME THRALLBAND
CODEX: THOUSAND SONS (HB) (ENGLISH)
DATASHEET CARDS: THOUSAND SONS (ENGLISH)
COMBAT PATROL: THOUSAND SONS