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Issue 52 July 2017 Board Game Auction Sell off the games you don’t play and get the games you want by participating in our first ever Board Game Auction... Book Sale! Get great deals on loads of books as we pare down in preparation for our move... New Arrivals! Oodles of new games arrived in June. Check ’em out!... Page 1 Page 4 Page 2 We’re Moving Last November, an investment group bought this shopping center. ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store over by the Post Office and doing other renovations as well. We've been told to expect our rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. ere are plans for the latter online. If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some benefit for it: more space, better visibility, increased traffic. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may increase traffic through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!] Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New! Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night! Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction off your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor- ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell. Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get Save the Date! Friday, July 7, 6 pm Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Saturday, July 15 7 Wonders: Duel Tournament and Special Game Night Saturday, July 22, 11am - 5pm Munchkin Super Summer Game Day Saturday, August 5, 11am - 6pm Check in Games for the Auction Saturday, August 5, 6pm Game Night & Game Auction INSIDE: • Board Game Auction • Loads of Books On Sale! 7 Wonders: Duel Tournament • Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Munchkin Super Play Day • New Arrivals: Agents of SMERSH, Century: Spice Road, Dresden Files: Cooperative Card Game, Escape Room Games, Fabled Fruit, Great Western Trail, Hanamikoji, In the Year of the Dragon, Kraftwagen, Notre Dame, Potion Explosion, Railroad Revolution, XCOM: The Board Game, Yamatai, Yokohama • Game Library Additions • New Arrivals & Back In Stock • Used Games for Sale 4650 Ladson Rd, Ste I, Summerville, SC 29485 (843) 695-1498 10am to 6pm Tues thru Sat Used books & new board games. We'll teach you how to play! Here Be Books & Games News We’re Moving!

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Page 1: EXIT: ˜e Game - ˜e Pharaoh's Tomb We’re Moving!€¦ · Issue 52 July 2017 Board Game Auction Sell off the games you don’t play and get the games you want by participating in

Issue 52 July 2017

Board Game AuctionSell off the games you don’t play and get the games you want by participating in our first ever Board Game Auction...

Book Sale!Get great deals on loads of books as we pare down in preparation for our move...

New Arrivals!Oodles of new games arrived in June. Check ’em out!...

Page 1 Page 4Page 2

We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

Save the Date!Friday, July 7, 6 pm

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book ClubHerland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Saturday, July 157 Wonders: Duel Tournament and Special Game Night

Saturday, July 22, 11am - 5pmMunchkin Super Summer Game Day

Saturday, August 5, 11am - 6pmCheck in Games for the Auction

Saturday, August 5, 6pmGame Night & Game AuctionINSIDE:

• Board Game Auction• Loads of Books On Sale!• 7 Wonders: Duel Tournament• Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Munchkin Super Play Day• New Arrivals: Agents of SMERSH,

Century: Spice Road, Dresden Files: Cooperative Card Game, Escape Room Games, Fabled Fruit, Great Western Trail, Hanamikoji, In the Year of the Dragon, Kraftwagen, Notre Dame, Potion Explosion, Railroad Revolution, XCOM: The Board Game, Yamatai, Yokohama

• Game Library Additions• New Arrivals & Back In Stock• Used Games for Sale

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

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Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

50% off

hardbacks!

Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

We’re MovingLast November, an investment group

bought this shopping center. �ey're building a Lowe's Grocery Store

over by the Post O�ce and doing other renovations as well.We've been told to expect our

rent to more than triple, assuming they renovate our building rather than demolish it and put in a big chain store. �ere are plans for the latter online.If we have to pay more rent, we'd prefer to get some bene�t for it: more space, better visibility, increased tra�c. While the Lowe's Grocery Store may

increase tra�c through our parking lot, it won't improve our visibility, nor will it give us any more space. So, we're moving.... [continued on Page 3 - We’re Moving!]

Board Game Auction Turn Your Old, Unwanted Games Into New!Here Be Books & Games celebrates 12 years in business with a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night!

Turn your old games into new! We’ll auction o� your old games and give you the proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game/lot) so you can buy new games. You can spend your store credit however you want: on games we have in stock, special orders, preor-ders, books, RPGs - whatever we sell.

Everyone is welcome to participate in the game auction, both as a seller and as a buyer. As a seller, it’s a chance to turn games you don’t play anymore into new games you really want. As a buyer, it’s a chance to get

some great deals or add rare games to your collection. Here Be Books & Games will also be contributing some great games to the auction, so there should be no shortage of things to buy!

DetailsOn Saturday, August 5, between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm, bring your games to Here Be Books & Games. We'll have you �ll out a form, indicating the reserve price (the lowest you’re willing to sell each game or game bundle for), plus any notes about condition, expansions or extras we should mention during the auction. You can download the form from our web site and �ll it out ahead of time to speed up the process. If you like, you can bundle several games together as a single lot to make it more attractive to buyers! We recommend you do this for small games.

We’ll put the games on display until the auction starts at 7:00 pm. �e auction itself will run until 9:00 pm, after which Game Night festivities will resume as normal.

Payments for any games purchased will be made to Here Be Books & Games, and sellers will receive their proceeds in store credit (less $1 per game or lot sold). Store credit is not the same as trade credit: you can use store credit like a gift certi�cate. Also, if you want an in-print game or accessory that’s not in stock, we’ll order it for you.

So, join us Saturday, August 5th for this truly exciting Board Game Auction event and help us celebrate 12 years in business!

Loads of Books On Sale!Packing and moving 30,000 books is a daunting task. So we need to de-bulk some before our move.

�e �rst up on the chopping block - as Tim puts it - are the hardbacks in the following categories:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy• Mystery & Intrigue• Westerns• Romance • Biographies & Memoirs

Buy them all - please - at 50% OFF the marked price!*

Look for more specials as we continue to prepare for the move.

* Some exceptions apply.

7 Wonders: Duel Tourney July 15 - Play

Qualifiers Now!�e 7 Wonders: Duel Tourna-ment is just around the corner: July 15. If you haven’t played all three of your Quali�ers yet, please do so by July 7.

�e top eight players from the Quali�ers will play in the Finals during a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15. Tournament Admission is $5.

Tournament Prizes1st Place - Velvet 7 Wonders: Duel Bag of Metal Coins, Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

2nd Place - Metal Con�ict Pawn and Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

3rd thru 8th Places - Statue of Liberty Wonder Card.

�e metal coins and Con�ict Pawn are really nice. You can see them on display in our glass counter. Scoring details are available on our web site.

Whether you play in the tournament or not, you’re welcome to join us for a special Game Night on Saturday, July 15.

Munchkin Super Summer Game DayLook! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Munchkin? Yes, it's Super-Munchkin! 'Cause it's #PlayMunchkin Super Summer Game Day!

Visit Here Be Books & Games, Saturday, July 22, 11am to 5pm to play Super Munchkin with other Munchkin fans! We've got plenty of Munchkin swag like exclusive bookmarks and cards!

Plus, on the weekend of the event, if you post a pic of yourself playing Super Munchkin on social media and tag it with #PlayMunchkin, you'll be entered to win a sweet Super Munchkin prize pack! Make sure you tag Here Be Books & Games (#HereBeBooksAndGames) as well, so we'll be entered to win something special, too!

In The Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary EditionIn the game, In the Year of the Dragon, designed by Stefan Feld, each player takes on the role of a Chinese prince, seeking to maximize the prosperity and prestige of his province in the ancient China of approximately 1,000 A.D.

To assist in these endeavors, the princes must call upon the diverse talents of their courtiers, from scholars and monks to warriors and craftsmen. �ese loyal subjects will lend their expertise to the struggle to shield their rulers from the often disastrous consequences of the myriad untoward events that plague the populace from month to month.

Be it drought, contagion or Mongol invasion, only foresight and planning will spare the princes and their subjects from these fates. �e better a player can manage his province and withstand the seemingly unending onslaught of hazardous events, the more honor and victory points he will have to show for it in the end.

In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition includes In the Year of the Dragon base game plus the �e Great Wall of China and �e Super Events expansions that �rst appeared in the alea Treasure Chest.

2 to 5 can play In the Year of the Dragon: 10th Anniversary Edition in 75 to 100 minutes. Best for ages 12 and up.

Kraftwagen: V6 EditionIn Kraftwagen: V6 Edition, players advance the state of automobile development and production by playing as start-up companies. �ey must research new technologies and build improved chassis and engines. Early Grand Prix races provide the young companies with prestige and money, but players must balance ful�lling the demand preferences of buyers with the lowest possible price.

Kraftwagen: V6 Edition includes the V6 Expansion, a new set of tiles, featuring the next technology available at the time, the V6 Engine.

Stronghold Games: Great Designer Series #3, it supports 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up. Plays in 75 minutes.

Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary EditionIn Notre Dame, designer Stefan Feld artfully combines card drafting and area in�uence to make an excellent tactical and strategic game set in the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Players take on the roles of the heads of in�uential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. Each family controls one

of the 3 -5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. �e player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition includes the Notre Dame base game, New Persons I & II expansions, plus �e Trading Routes expansion for Castles of Burgundy.

Notre Dame has earned many honors, including: 2007 Spiel des Jahres Recommended, 2007 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place, and several Golden Geek and other nominations. It supports 2 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in 45 to 75 minutes.

Potion ExplosionPotion Explosion - A game of potion-crafting and marble-crashing for 2 to 4 Sorcery students. �is game is incredibly fun!

It's senior year at Horribi-lorum Sorcery Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards. All the hard work and studying comes down to this: the �nal exams! Under the helpful tutelage of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients, represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions!

When you pull ingredients out of the potion dispenser, higher up ingredients slide down to �ll the gap. You want to try to make the same ingredients smash together - literally - causing explosions and big turn combinations. �e more Explosions you trigger on a turn, the more

We’re Moving! [continued from page 1]

Where we're moving, we don't know exactly yet - most likely within 10 miles of where we are now. We're looking in Summerville, Goose Creek, Ladson and this end of North Charleston. We need:

• At least 1200 square feet, but would prefer 2000+. • Plenty of space for parking to accommodate Game

Night, Book Sales and gaming events.• Better visibility.• Closer access to the freeway would be a plus.• I'd like a kitchenette.

If you know of something or see something, please let us know. We’d prefer to buy, rather than be at the mercy of a landlord again.

In the meantime, we need to raise some money and debulk. Moving is expensive. While we've been saving since we heard the shopping center had been bought, it's not enough. Packing and moving 30,000 books and our assorted games is a daunting task - overwhelming if you ask me. Not to mention, we'll also have to build new shelves, paint, and otherwise prepare our new place - wherever it will be.

How Can You Help?• Buy more books and

games from us now!• Take advantage of our

upcoming sales.• Participate in our Game

Auction.• Sign up for text messages, phone calls, and/or

emails, so we can notify you of our upcoming sales, game auction, and new location.

We're going through our books now, have already put some on sale, and will continue to add more as we go through each section. Watch for in-store signs, our web site and Facebook page details as they become available.

Plans to host a Board Game Auction at our August Game Night are in progress. I know we have many games in our Game Library that are no longer in print, so there's really no reason for us to keep them. But that's just the seed. You can bring games you don't want any more and we'll auction them o�, too, then give you the proceeds, less a $1, in store credit. �en you can buy new games. See the article on page 1 for details.

We appreciate your help and support, whatever form it takes, and look forward to many more years in business.

New Arrivals!Sooo many new games have arrived in the last few weeks! Plus, we signed on with a new distributor who carries games we've long wanted to stock - games not carried by our primary distributors - which added even more games to the new arrival list. Here's a quick run-down of our new o�erings. All are in stock now! I've listed them alphabetically - I couldn't think of a better way to do it.

= Demo Available.We can teach you how to play!

Agents of SMERSH: 2nd EditionAgents of SMERSH is a coop-erative storytelling adventure board game set in the Cold War era with over 1600 written encounters! You play U.N. Secret Service Spies pitted against the newly formed and independent SMERSH,

headed by diabolical Dr. Lobo.

You and your companions will travel the world attempt-ing to thwart the plans of Dr. Lobo and his minions. �ere are plenty of gadgets, guns, cars, and humorous references to James Bond.

�e storytelling aspect of Agents of SMERSH is similar to Tales of Arabian Nights and Above and Below in that you read encounters from the nearly 300-page Book of Encounters. What I really like about Agents of SMERSH is that your particular skills actually seem to apply to the problem at hand. In Arabian Nights it seems random.

You may remember us having this in stock a few years ago. We had acquired a few directly from the publisher while attending Atlanta Game Fest. I'm so happy we're able to o�er it again.

Agents of SMERSH supports 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 90 to 120 mintues.

Century: Spice RoadIf you like Splendor, you should love Century: Spice Road. Game play is simple, straightforward and easy to learn. Your goal is to acquire and trade for particular sets of spices to complete orders, which are worth victory points. Some orders even award you gold or silver worth three or one additional point respectively.

For a more complete description, read Tina’s Century: Spice Road game review in last month’s newsletter or on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Century: Spice Road supports 2 to 5 players ages 8 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes.

Dresden Files: Coop-erative Card Game�e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game - Play Harry Dresden and his friends as they take on the cases from the bestselling Dresden Files novels in a what-if scenario: what if Harry was on the scene with allies who weren’t there in the books?

�e core game includes Harry, Murphy, Susan, Michael, and the Alphas and plays through the �rst �ve novels as well as Side Jobs, a random scenario generator based on the short story collection of the same name.

Use your shared pool of action points called Fate points to take actions or generate more Fate points for the group. Solve more cases than there are foes remaining on the board to win!

Make your stand against the darkness - together! �e Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game supports 1 to 5 players, ages 13 and up, and plays in 30 minutes.

Escape Room GamesEscape Rooms are puzzle adventures you need to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. With the new EXIT and UNLOCK! series of games, you can have an Escape Room experience at home! Most can be played solo or by up to six players.

We recently got the �rst three adventures of the EXIT and UNLOCK! series in stock. Both series of adventure games are one-time plays. �e EXIT series uses decoder wheels, while the UNLOCK! series relies on an app you'll have to download before you can play. �e app is free. You don't have to be connected to the Internet when you play, just have the app installed.

�e EXIT games are destructible, the UNLOCK! are not, so you can pass them on to someone else when you're done. All of the escape-rooms-in-a-box are quite inexpen-sive - about the cost of one movie ticket, two if you go to a bargain matinee.

Which one do you want to play first?EXIT: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin - Your car

breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on

the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Pharaoh's Tomb �e hilight of your vacation to Egypt is the excursion to the Valley of the Kings! Unfortunately, while crawling through the narrow passageways, you lose touch with the rest of your tour group. As you enter a mysterious burial chamber, a massive stone door closes behind you. On the �oor lies a dusty notebook and an ancient disk...

EXIT: �e Game - �e Secret Lab You volunteer for a medical research study and report to a lab as instructed. But when you arrive, no one is there except you! You notice vapor rising from a test tube and start to feel dizzy. When you wake up, the door is locked and you discover a notebook and a strange disk...

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Formula - Enter a scientist's secret lab to recover a mysterious serum. Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: Squeek & Sausage - �wart the plans of th despicable Professor Noside in this cartoon-style adven-ture! Di�culty Level: 2 of 3.

UNLOCK! Escape Adventures: �e Island of Doctor Goorse - Visit the island of an eccentric antique collector billionaire and overcome its traps! Di�culty Level: 3 of 3.

Puzzling challenges await, whichever Escape Room adventure you choose!

Fabled FruitFabled Fruit is a Fable Game where the gameplay changes over time. �e game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mecha-

So make your way to Here Be Books & Games on Satur-day, July 22 and play Super Munchkin! �e fate of the world may very well depend on it.

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingCurrent Read: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Melissa)

Next Meeting: Friday, July 7 at 6 pm at HBB&G.

About the Book Club�e Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club reads fantasy and science �ction, plus urban fantasy, alternate history, etc. We meet once a month, usually the Friday after Game Night at 6 p.m. at the store.

Attending members submit a book title for the reading list. We pick one to read each month - usually the one we’ve found the most copies of. When we’ve read all the books on our list - one submitted by each member - we start a new list.

You’re welcome to join us. Just read the current selection and come to the meeting. More details are available on our web site’s Book Club page, our Facebook page and our Meetup Group.

Our Upcoming Reading List Thus FarFollowing is a list of books we may read in the upcoming months. Each member’s �nal selection for our reading list could change.

If you have copies of any of the following that you’d like to trade or sell, please bring them in.

• Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Carmen)

• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines or Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvarts-man (Diane)

• �e �ead that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Ho�man (Tim)

• �e Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (Zach)

Get automatic updates and reminders via our Meetup group at: www.meetup.com/Here-Be-Books-and-Games-Book-Club.

nisms and gameplay evolve. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. A Fable Game remains just as playable on the 20th play as it was the �rst time you played!

�eme: Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. �ese fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices... You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in this search. �ey give you fruits, trade for fruits, or help you in other ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the �rst to satisfy your appetite for Fabled Fruits?

Honors include: 2017 Spiel des Jahres Recommended and several Golden Geek Nominations. 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up can play in about 25 minutes.

Freedom: Under-ground RailroadFreedom: �e Underground Railroad is a challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery

during the early 1800's thru the Civil War. Players work together for the Abolitionist cause, raising funds and helping slaves as they move from the Southern States to freedom in Canada. But every move risks alerting the slave catchers who roam the board trying to return the runaway slaves back to the plantations.

Freedom is an engaging game about a pivotal time in American history. Players become familiar with the important historical �gures, political agendas, and crucial events that unfolded to change American history and brought freedom to an enslaved people.

Features:• Teamwork - Players work together against the game.• Fun - Easy rules with continual involvement. • Educational - Take on roles of important historical

Abolitionist characters and learn about American history between 1800 and 1865. Freedom Teacher's Manual available separately.

Awards include: Dice Tower Co-op Game of the Year, Game Quest Best �ematic Game of the Year, and �e

Wargamer Historical Game of the Year.

Freedom: Underground Railroad can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 13 and up, in 1 to 2 hours.

Great Western TrailGreat Western Trail is a medium to heavy-weight Euro game. �e idea in Great Western Trail is you’re a cowboy goin’ to Kansas City – repeatedly. Along the trail, you’ll be able to acquire cattle; construct buildings that will

provide you with more or better actions; hire Cowboys, Builders and Engineers; encounter and/or clear hazards and Indians; move your train; acquire new goals; and perform other assorted actions.

Read Tina’s full review of Great Western Trail on �e Glass Meeple (�eGlassMeeple.com). Great Western Trail supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and has a playtime of 75 to 150 minutes.

HanamikojiWelcome to the most well-known geisha street in the old capital, Hanamikoji. Geisha — the graceful women elegantly mastering in art, music, dance, and a variety of artistic performances after years of training — are greatly respected and adored. Geisha may be translated to "artist" and they dance, sing and entertain everyone.

In Hanamikoji, two players compete to earn the favors of the seven geisha masters by collecting the performance items with which they excel. With careful speculation and sometimes a few bold moves, you may earn the essential items by giving away the less critical ones. Can you outsmart your opponent and win the most favors of the geisha?

Featuring incredible artwork, �uid gameplay, and a quick 15-30 minute playtime, dive into Japanese culture and curry favor with the greatest number of geisha to make your restaurant the most revered of them all!

Honors: 2016 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee. Hanamikoji is a beautiful and elegant two-player game you can play in 15 minutes. Supports ages 7 and up.

Ingredients you can gather. You can also drink Potions you completed earlier to unleash their power and gather even more!

Once you’ve collected all the necessary ingredients for a potion, you can complete it for points and take another potion to work on. You’ll score additional points for completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

�e player with the most points graduates head of the class! Are you ready to brew the most di�cult (and valuable) potions and grab the Student of the Year Award?

I got to play Potion Explosion recently and I love it! I highly recommend it! We’re working on acquiring a demo copy so we can teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up and plays in 30 to 45 minutes. I think younger kids could easily play this, too!

RailroadRevolutionIn America in the 19th Century, the U.S. government passes the Paci�c Railroad Acts and opens up the interior of the continent to railroad companies. Now the race is on to lay rail across the Great Plains and the Continental Divide and truly unite the United States of America.

In Railroad Revolution, you play the head of a small railroad company on the East coast, competing with other, rival, companies to expand your railroad West. You'll build train stations in strategic cities and help develop the �rst transcontinental telegraph system.

�e Railroad Revolution has begun! 2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee. For a full review, see last month’s newsletter or Tina’s game blog, �e Glass Meeple.

Railroad Revolution supports 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up and plays in 45 to 90 minutes.

XCOM: The Board GameParis has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the

streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil. Military responses have proven ine�ectual. Fear and anxiety lead to widespread riots. Human civilization stands upon the

brink of collapse...You are humanity's last hope.In XCOM: �e Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game's innovative, free digital companion app.

Where the world's militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one �nal mission to repel the invaders for good.

Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.

Requires FREE Digital Companion App. Available for iOS, Android, and most web browsers.

Honors include: 2015 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee, 2015 Golden Geek Best �ematic Board Game Nominee and 2015 Spiel der Spiele Gri�n Scroll Winner. XCOM: �e Board Game can be played solo or with up to 4 players, ages 14 and up in 1 to 2 hours.

YamataiYamatai is the latest game from Days of Wonder, makers of the renowned Ticket to Ride series of games!For Queen Himiko's Smile - Queen Himiko has tasked every builder in the kingdom with a prestigous mission: build the capital of Yamataï and make it th

jewel of the archi-pelago.Your task: surpass your competitors and build the most presti-gious city of them all, using resources from the �eets that travel through the king-dom. Prepare your strategy, recruit specialists, and do whatever is necessary to become the best builder and be rewarded by Queen Himiko for your work. In the end, only one name will be remembered as the greatest builder of Yamataï!Earn prestige points using a variety of strategies. Clear the di�erent islands of the archipelago to recruit powerful specialists that will assist you, or use the resources carried by the boats that navigate between them to construct buildings on the islands! And, if you're skilled enough, try creating prestigious buildings such as high temples or rare torii.

Yamataï supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in 40 to 80 minutes.YokohamaOnce Yokohama was just a �shing village, but now at the beginning of the Meiji era it’s becoming a harbor open to foreign countries and one of the leading trade cities of Japan. As a result, many Japanese prod-ucts such as copper and raw silk are collected in Yokohama for export to other countries. At the same time, the city is starting to incorporate foreign technology and culture, with even the streets becoming more modernized. In the shadow of this development was the presence of many Yokohama mer-chants.

Play a merchant in this Meiji period. Build shops and trading houses, broaden your sales channels, and learn new technologies, to gain fame and make your business successful.

Yokohama supports 2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, with a 90 minute playtime.

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

11 nimmt! 23 6 nimmt! 6 nimmt! Junior7 Wonders 7 Wonders: Duel Above and Below Abyss Acquire 2016 Agricola Revised EditionAirlines Europe Akrotiri Al Cabohne AlchemistsAlhambra: Big Box Alhambra: The Dice GameAlien Frontiers Amerigo Among the Stars ...and then, we held hands.Animal Upon Animal Animal Upon Animal: Small Yet Great!AquaSphere Aton Attila BANG! BANG! The Dice GameBattlestar GalacticaBig Boggle Black FleetLa Boca Bohn To Be Wild!Bohnanza Bohnanza Fun & EasyBohnanza: Ladies & GangstersBora Bora BraveRats Bring Your Own BookBrugesThe Builders: AntiquityThe Builders: Middle AgesBullenpartyBurger JointCa$h 'n Guns Café International: Card GameCan't Stop Canasta CalienteCarcassonneCarcassonne: 10 Year EditionCarcassonne: South Seas Castle PanicCastles of Burgundy Castles of Mad King Ludwig Catan

Here Be Books & Games Demo Game LibraryHave you ever taken a look at the full list of games in our library on Board Game Geek? If not, then here’s a quick list. Ask for a demo anytime and Tim or Tina will teach you how to play!

Catan Dice Game Catan Histories: Merchants of Europe Catan: Junior Caverna: The Cave Farmers Celestia Century: Spice RoadCinque Terre CitadelsCloud 9 Clubs Coal BaronCoal Baron: The Card GameCodenames Codenames: Pictures The Colonists Coloretto Colorpop Colt Express Concept Concordia Cosmic Encounter Coup Darjeeling DC Comics DBGDC Comics DBG: Heroes Unite Dead Men Tell No TalesDiamonds Dice City Dice Town Dimension DiscoveriesDixit Dixit Odyssey Dominion Dr. EurekaElder Sign Elysium EndeavorEscape: Curse of the Temple Fabled FruitFactory Fun Fantasy Wizard Fastrack Felinia Fire�y Fluxx Fire�y: The Game Five Crowns Five Tribes: Djinns of NaqalaFlash Point: Fire Rescue Flash! Fluxx Forbidden Desert Forbidden Island Francis Drake

Freedom: Underground RailroadFresco Galaxy Trucker Gang of Four El Gaucho Get Bit! Ghost Stories Glass Road Gloom Granada Grand Austria HotelGreat Western Trail The GrizzledHanabiHanabi Extra Hansa TeutonicaLe Havre Helios Hey! That's My Fish! DeluxeHive Holiday Fluxx Hornochsen! Horse Fair Card Game Hot Tin Roof If Wishes Were Fishes!In the Year of the DragonIncan Gold Ingenious Ingenious Challenges La Isla Isle of Skye Istanbul Jaipur Jórvík KanagawaKaruba KeltisKeltis: Card GameKeltis: Dice GameKeltis: Stones King of New York King of the Jungle Card Game King of Tokyo Kingdom Builder Kingsburg Kodama: The Tree Spirits LadybohnLanterns: The Harvest FestivalLas Vegas Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy Legendary Encounters:

An Alien DBGLegendary: Marvel DBGLewis & Clark Lords of Vegas Lords of WaterdeepLorenzo Il Magni�co Lost Cities Love Letter Machi Koro: Deluxe Edition Mamma Mia! Manila Martian Dice Memoir '44 Mille Bornes Mission: Red Planet MombasaMord im Arosa Munchkin Munchkin Cthulhu Murano My First Bohnanza My Village MysteriumNada! Nanuk New York 1901 Niagara Niya No Thanks! Nottingham Oceanos Octo Dice Oh My Goods! Ora et Labora Oracle of Delphi Oz Fluxx P.I.Pairs Pairs: Goddesses of Cuisine Pandemic Pandemic IberiaPandemic Legacy: Season 1 Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu Pandemic: The Cure Patchwork Piñata Pirate FluxxPirate's Cove PitPoseidon's KingdomPower Grid Princes of Machu Picchu Puerto RicoQuadropolis Quiddler

Qwirkle Qwixx Ra Race for the Galaxy RageRailroad Revolution Red Dragon Inn Red November Red7 Revolution! Rhino Hero Rialto Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island Robo Rally Roll For It! Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age Russian Railroads Saboteur Safe BreakerSan Juan Say AnythingDer schwarze Pirat: Das Duell Settlers of the Stone Age Shadows over Camelot Shakespeare Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Small World Small World Underground Smash Up Snowdonia SplendorSpot it Jr.! AnimalsSpot it! Spot it! Halloween Spyrium Star FluxxStar Realms Star Realms: Colony WarsStation Master Steam Stone Age Suburbia Sushi Draft Sushi Go! T.I.M.E StoriesTakenoko Taluva Tanz der Hornochsen! Targi Telestrations Telestrations After Dark Tell Tale: Fairy Tales

The Three Musketeers: The Queen's Pendants Tichu Ticket to Ride Ticket to Ride: 10th Ann. Ed.Ticket to Ride: AfricaTicket to Ride: AsiaTicket to Ride: Europe Ticket to Ride: India & SwitzerlandTicket to Ride: MärklinTicket to Ride: Netherlands Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries Ticket to Ride: Rails & SailsTicket to Ride: U.K. & Penn. Tides of Time Tier auf Tier: Das Duell Tier auf Tier: Das große Abenteuer Tigris & Euphrates Time's Up! Deluxe Time's Up! Title Recall!Tobago Tokaido Trajan Trans America Tsuro Tsuro of the SeasTzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar Ultimate WerewolfUnexploded Cow Urbania Valdora Vegas Showdown Die vergessene Stadt Village Viticulture Voyages of Marco Polo We Didn't Playtest This At AllWe Didn't Playtest This Either We Didn't Playtest This LegaciesWelcome Back to the Dungeon Welcome to the Dungeon Why First?Wits & Wagers Würfel Bohnanza Yamslam Zombie Dice Zombie Fluxx Zombies!!! Zoowaboo

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Century: Spice RoadCoal Baron: The Great Card GameDiamondsFabled FruitFreedom: The Underground RailroadGreat Western TrailIn the Year of the DragonLorenzo il MagnificoMombasaOceanosRailroad Revolution

Titles in Library: 584

try before you buy!we’ll teach you

how to play!

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Issue 52 Here Be Books & Games News July 2017

Used Games For SaleHaggisIsis & OsirisMetroMr. Jack in New YorkMousquetaires du RoyNationsPatricianRelic Runners

BombayBulls and BearsChallenge YahtzeeDC Comics: Forever EvilDoctor Who: The Card GameDominionDon QuixoteEclipse

Small WorldSnorta!Space PiratesStar Trek: ExpeditionsStarfarers of CatanXenoshyft

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