New GAMES this week:

Starting next Monday at 7:00 PM, the Yellow Sofa cafe at 24 Main Street here in Northampton will host a games night, open to one and all.  They'll be playing board and card games, from Scrabble to Liar's Dice and more.  For more information, contact organizer April Grant at "aprilcath (AT) yahoo ( PERIOD) com".

New releases:
GURPS Spaceships $14.95
    -GURPS Spaceships is the long-awaited companion to GURPS Space, presenting rules for TL7-12 spacecraft, from tiny lifeboats to giant dreadnoughts. It covers spaceship design, travel, and operations, along with a (mapless) space combat system.  The ship design and operation rules in GURPS Spaceships are more abstract than those found in GURPS Vehicle Design or GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars . . . but they're much faster, with a minimum of math and a maximum of colorful options. It takes only minutes to build even the largest spaceship . . . and wrapped around the design system are basic space travel and combat systems to get you into space right away.  

GURPS Mysteries $19.95
    -This book offers advice and rules for creating mysteries as stand-alone adventures, as part of an existing campaign, or as a campaign in their own right, with specific discussions of the low-tech, modern-tech, future, magic, and horror settings.  It includes sections on: setting the crime scene, including detailed forensic information on causes of death, investigation methods, and a forensic timeline; creating interesting villains, including matching disadvantages to motives and means of carrying out a crime; a template-based character generation system for iconic investigators, including the genius detective, the hardboiled shamus, police detectives, investigating magicians, even "that darn kid"; sample detective and investigative agencies to hire or bedevil characters; expanded rules for questioning and interacting with NPCs; and more.

GURPS Supers$24.95
    -This book includes a history and analysis of the supers genre, its precursors and variations; a guide to character creation, including powers and other abilities, codes of conduct, dual identities, and personal relationships; more than 20 new wildcard skills; 22 templates for super characters, each customizable to higher or lower power levels; rules for creating equipment, vehicles, bases, automata, and magical spells; a guide to creating and running supers adventures; continuity creation guidelines and tools, so your supers universe can have the same depth as published worlds; new game mechanics for character creation, including new interpretations of advantages, disadvantages, and skills and newly defined perks, quirks, enhancements, limitations, and techniques; and more.

Exalted Compass Of Terrestrial Directions III The East  $24.99
    -The third of five Terrestrial Direction books devoted to fleshing out the bare bones of Creation presented in the Exalted core book, this one devoted to the East.  It includes mass combat stats for the forces of Halta, Linowan and other Eastern powers, as well as dominion stats for the Mandate of Heaven, and traits for the East’s native gods and beasts.

Battletech Tactical Operations $49.99
    -Take your warfare to a whole new level of excitement! Deploy under cover of exotic weather and severe planetary conditions. Surprise your enemy with your mastery of new battlefield tactics—from artillery to command-level comms to minefields— as well as cutting-edge, prototype technologies! A daring commander can take advantage of any or all of these… if he’s brave enough to seize the moment!  Tactical Operations is the one-source reference for advanced rules that apply to on-world operations. It includes new movement and combat options, an extensive Advanced Weapons and Equipment section, and the rules for playing and constructing advanced Support Vehicles and Mobile Structures.

Battletech Wolf & Blake Starter Book $24.99
    -This book provides a short synopsis of the history leading up to the Jihad—the current war sweeping the Inner Sphere—as well as a brief history and personal dossiers on the members of these two elite combat commands. Comes with record sheets for everyone in both the commands, including ten, never-before-seen ’Mech variants/configurations mounting experimental technologies. The first in a new series and the perfect way to jump into the further excitement of the Classic BattleTech universe. 

Regular Stock Items:  
Modern Myths is a full-service game story as well as a comics store, and we carry a wide assortment of board, card and role playing games.  We range from new games like Aces & Eights, Scion, Traveller, Trail of Cthulhu, and Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition to old favorites like Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Palladiumand Unknown Armies. For board and card games, too, we run the gamut, from Settlers of Catan, Munchkin,Carcassonne, and Guillotine to Blokus, Chessand Go.  We also carry boosters and starters for a few collectible games, including Magic The Gathering, Heroclix, Star Wars minis, Axis and Allies minis, and Dungeons & Dragons minis.

"But what if you don't have it?" I hear you cry.  Let me assure you: if it's in print, we will gladly order it for you, at no extra cost.  Moreover, we do game orders at least once a week, so if it's available, you won't have to wait long, either.  (And, yes, this applies to paints and minis from Games Workshop, as well.)


D&D Third Edition note:  While we still have a few in stock, third edition books are now officially out of print.  We have, and will continue to buy,  3.5 books in the used section, all in good condition, some of which are also on eBay.  If you are looking for new material, but don't wish to switch to fourth edition, check out the new Pathfinder RPG from Paizo.