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Free Board Game Demo at Our Worcester Location!
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BECKY CLOONAN APPEARING AT OUR
WORCESTER LOCATION FOR AN IN-STORE SIGNING!
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TIM SALE APPEARING AT OUR
WORCESTER LOCATION FOR AN IN-STORE SIGNING!
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Special Guest Appearance by Batman Artist Tim Sale at That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment of Worcester, MA continues to celebrate its 25th year of business on Park Avenue in a BIG way! Highly revered Batman artist Tim Sale will be appearing at That's Entertainment on Saturday, September 9th from 12:00p.m. to 5:00 p.m. for an in-store signing. Also, all back-issue, trade paperback, and hard cover comic books will be 25% off all day long, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. All "display" comic books retailing between $19.95 and $100 and under will also be 25% off.
Mr. Sale will be offering up to five signatures per person, free of charge. Fans are encouraged to bring comic books featuring Sale's artworkand related memorabilia to be signed. He will also be drawing free mini head sketches, one per person, upon request. Sale will be offering to draw more elaborate sketches for $50 each. Depending on the volume of requests, some attendees may be asked to pick up their paid sketches at a later time. This event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome to attend.
Tim Sale is the artist on the Eisner Award winning BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN and SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS, for which he won an Eisner for Artist of the Year. Along with writer Jeph Loeb, Sale also created DAREDEVIL: YELLOW, SPIDER-MAN: BLUE, HULK: GRAY and CAPTAIN AMERICA: WHITE for Marvel Comics. In 2018 he and writer Richard Starkings will debut the noir series, THE BROKEN MAN. Sale lives in Seattle with the beautiful and talented Susan Bailey, their two dogs and Bat-cat.
Manager Pete Beaudoin says, "I grew up a Marvel zombie, but Tim's Batman and Superman books were so gorgeous I had to read them. This opened up the world of DC comics to me."
Supervisor Chad Julian states, "The Long Halloween by Tim Sale is my all-time favorite comic book."
That's Entertainment has been a home to many pop-culture enthusiasts for 37 years, with roots going back to their first location on Chandler Street. Although their 25th year on Park Ave was officially observed on Saturday, July 1st , the store will be hosting special celebratory events throughout the year.
Located at the corner of Lois Lane and Park Ave. in Worcester, MA, That's Entertainment is a pop culture emporium which specializes in everyone's "geek." Check out their wide variety of comics, vinyl records, vintage and modern video games and systems, anime, collectible card games, roleplaying games, board games, sports cards, memorabilia, toys, posters, and so much more! For more information, go to www.thatse.com or call 508-755-4207. That's Entertainment. 244 Park Ave. Worcester, MA 01609.
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NEW
Magic the Gathering
COMMANDER 2017
DECKS!
RELEASING
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 25th!
This year, Commander decks return with Commander (2017 Edition) on August 25, 2017. The set features four new tribal-themed, 100-card decks including 56 all-new Magic cards legal in Vintage and Legacy.
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Pete is on vacation this week. We DO have new toys arriving this week, but unfortunately we do not have that list on hand. Please stop by the store to check out the new stock!
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SPECIAL ORDERS, BACKORDERS, and PRE-ORDERS!
Special Orders, Pre-Orders, and Backorders on board games always get 20% of the retail price. Special Orders, Pre-Orders, and Backorders on RPG books get 25% Off the retail price. to place an order, please contact Camille at camille@thatse.com or Sorana at sorana@thatse.com.
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NEW BOARD GAMES AT
OUR WORCESTER LOCATION!
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PAIZO PUBLISHING
Strap in and blast off! The Starfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the role of a bold science-fantasy explorer, investigating the mysteries of a weird and magical universe as part of a starship crew. Will you delve for lost artifacts in the ruins of alien temples? Strap on rune-enhanced armor and a laser rifle to battle undead empires in fleets of bone ships, or defend colonists from a swarm of ravenous monsters? Maybe you`ll hack into the mainframe of a god-run corporation, or search the stars for clues to the secret history of the universe or brand-new planets to explore. Whether you`re making first contact with new cultures on uncharted worlds or fighting to survive in the neon-lit back alleys of Absalom Station, you and your team will need all your wits, combat skill, and magic to make it through. But, most of all, you`ll need each other. This massive hardcover rulebook is the essential centerpiece of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, with rules for character creation, magic, gear, and more - everything you need to play Starfinder.
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Secrets
(4-8 Players/15-35 mins.)
In Secrets, the second co-design between Eric Lang and Bruno Faidutti, players are assigned a hidden team - the CIA or KGB - and are trying to collect the most points for their side. In addition, one or two players are secretly anti-establishment Hippies who are working for nobody. Their goal is to fight the Man and have the fewest points.
On your turn, offer one of two randomly drawn agent cards to another player. These cards are worth points and have varying good or bad abilities. That player either accepts the agent, in which case they score it, or they refuse, in which case the card returns to you, and you score it. The game ends when a player has five cards, after which the teams are revealed; the team with the highest combined score wins, unless a Hippie has the single lowest score, in which case they win.
The interactions between the character cards are the spice of the game, but since the abilities are discoverable during play, the game can be taught in three minutes.
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Unearthed
(2-4 Players/25-50 mins.)
Long ago, your ancestors built great cities across the world. Now your tribe must explore forests, deserts, islands, mountains, and caverns to find these lost cities. Claim the ruins, build places of power, and restore the glory of a bygone age.
Unearth is a bend-your-luck game of dice placement and set collection. Designed by Jason Harner and Matthew Ransom, it plays in under an hour with 2-4 players. Each player leads a tribe of Delvers, represented by five dice (3 six-sided, 1 four-sided, and 1 eight-sided). Players take turns rolling and placing dice in an attempt to claim Ruins.
The game's elegant core mechanic is accessible to players of all skill levels. High rolls help players claim Ruins, while low rolls help players collect Stones. This opens two paths to victory: claiming sets of Ruins or using Stones to build Wonders. Delver cards help you affect your dice rolls or dice in play, and Wonders can grant abilities that impact the late game.
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The Apocrypha Adventure Card Game allows you to play it as a cooperative card game, or with a game master as a role playing game. The world is on the brink of an apocalypse, set in motion by monsters only your characters can see. Gameplay is story-based, and features deck construction and character growth. Over time, characters will unlock repressed memory fragments that will add new powers. Each mission has a unique setup and goal, which often involves hunting down a true threat hiding among the cards at the nexuses that characters investigate.
The game will be released in a base box that will contain one chapter expansion. The base game, called The World, comes with 584 cards, 20 six-sided dice, 1 rulebook, 1 storybook, 30 dividers, and 10 character stand-up tokens. The remaining eight chapters will appear in two expansions, The Flesh and The Devil, each with 400 cards, 10 dividers, 1 storybook, and 4 character stand-up tokens.
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The Agents is a strategic card game that introduces a unique double-edged card mechanism into the undercover world of covert operations, subterfuge, secrecy and sabotage. Players must join their Agents into Factions, assign Missions and take their opponents down, to gather intel and win the most points.
Each Agent card features a "command" on one end of the card and "points" on the other end. The direction in which you place the card determines from which asset you benefit. If you choose to perform the command, one of your opponents scores the points; if you keep the points for yourself, an opponent gets to perform the command. With 25 different Agents, each with its own unique ability, Agents can be turned, killed, extracted and swapped - making the game ever flexible, variable, unpredictable and a test of forward planning and quick thinking. As you learn about each Agent's special abilities, discover how Agents work together or against each other, and weigh up the advantages of collecting points for yourself versus using the commands to further your goals and sabotage your opponent's strategies, the game becomes increasingly complex, dynamic and challenging.
Missions, played alongside Factions of Agents, provide interesting, strategic conditions which, if fulfilled, score you big points - but if you race ahead, you'll also become a target for attack. The better you're doing, the more under fire you'll be.
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In Wasteland Express Delivery Service, you take on the role of drivers inhabiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland riddled with outrageous, unhinged, and otherworldly characters who are set on unleashing mayhem at every turn.
To survive in this deranged universe, drivers must haul food, water, and guns between the handful of settlements pockmarked through the wasteland. You must battle insane raiders who occupy the void between cities, taking on missions from the three factions that have divided up the last of civilization: the fascist New Republic Army, is hellbent on bringing the world to heel for its own good; the heretical Oracles of Ceres, who have turned their attention to the worship of the land; and the technologically obsessed Archivists, who cling to the old ways and the hope of restoring our lost civilization.
But what do you care? You're here to get paid and live another day free. Outfit your truck, hire some insane riders to help fend off raiders, add some storage, and just keep truckin'.
Wasteland Express Delivery Service includes an emergent narrative story that unfolds over the course of 10 sessions. Each scenario begins with a beautifully illustrated comic book introduction that sets up the storyline and the constantly escalating stakes and challenges in front of players. Alternatively, players can dive in with a randomly generated scenario that will play out over the course of a single story-driven game session.
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A bizarre and ingenious party game where you have to 'do things' without being accused by the other players. Be sneaky, act crazy, manipulate the group and get creative if you want to win!
The game consists of a deck of 2 types of playing cards:
DUELS to play during your turn. Choose your opponent, battle it out, and the group decides the winner.
...but that's just to keep the game going, the 'DO SOMETHING' cards are what it's all about! These are instructions you have to carry out during the other players' turns in such a way that they can verify it happened when you confess BUT if they call you out, you'll have to try again.
DEER LORD! is a social game, and the opinions of the players determine the gameplay. Win over your friends to win the game!
This BASIC game fits any occasion and is suitable for any type of player. If you're looking to spice it up, add one or more of the 3 expansions.
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Above and Below
(Employee Pick!)
(2-4 Players/90 mins.)
Your last village was ransacked by barbarians. You barely had time to pick up the baby and your favorite fishing pole before they started the burning and pillaging. You wandered over a cruel desert, braved frozen peaks, and even paddled a log across a rough sea, kicking at the sharks whenever they got too close, the baby strapped tightly to your back.
Then you found it! The perfect place to make your new home. But as soon as you had the first hut built, you discovered a vast network of caverns underground, brimming with shiny treasures, rare resources, and untold adventure. How could you limit your new village to the surface? You immediately start organizing expeditions and building houses underground as well as on the surface.
With any luck, you'll build a village even stronger than your last-- strong enough, even, to turn away the barbarians the next time they come knocking.
Above and Below is a mashup of town-building and storytelling where you and up to three friends compete to build the best village above and below ground. In the game, you send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how to best use them. You have your own personal village board, and you slide the villagers on this board to various areas to indicate that they've been given jobs to do. Will you send Hanna along on the expedition to the cave? Or should she instead spend her time teaching important skills to one of the young villagers?
A great cavern lies below the surface, ready for you to explore-- this is where the storytelling comes in. When you send a group of villagers to explore the depths, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react, and a lot will depend on which villagers you brought on the expedition, and who you're willing to sacrifice to succeed. The book of paragraphs is packed with encounters of amazing adventure, randomly chosen each time you visit the cavern.
At the end of the game, the player with the most well-developed village wins!
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The talk of the streets and taverns has all been about the so-called death curse: a wasting disease afflicting everyone whos ever been raised from the dead. Victims grow thinner and weaker each day, slowly but steadily sliding toward the death they once denied. When they finally succumb, they cant be raisedand neither can anyone else, regardless of whether theyve ever received that miracle in the past. Temples and scholars of divine magic point to the curse originating somewhere in Chult, a mysterious peninsula far to the south, ringed with mountains and choked with rain forests. Adventurers tasked with stopping the curse must travel to settlements such as Port Nyanzaru to secure guides to lead them into the dense jungle. At the end of the journey, a horrifying villain awaits with a familiar visage. Will your players survive?
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Explore a wealth of fantastic new rules options for both players and Dungeon Masters in this supplement for the world's greatest roleplaying game.
Assembled here for the first time is new information on adventurers of every stripe. In addition, you'll find valuable advice for those of nefarious intent who must deal with such meddling do-gooders, including the Xanathar's personal thoughts on how to dispatch anyone foolish enough to interfere with his business dealings. Alongside observations on "heroes" themselves, the beholder fills the pages of this tome with his personal thoughts on tricks, traps, and even treasures and how they can be put to villainous use.
- Complete rules for more than twenty new subclasses for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons, including the cavalier, the inquisitive, the horizon walker, and many more.
- Dozens of new feats and spells, and a system to give your character a unique, randomized backstory.
- A variety of systems and tools that provide Dungeon Masters new ways to personalize their home games, while also expanding the ways players can engage in organized play and shared world campaigns.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but evil is in its heart!
The Xanathar...
Waterdeep's most infamous crime lord, and a beholder to boot...
You'd be shocked to discover just how much he knows about you...
Yes, you... adventurers.
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Xanathar's Guide to Everything also comes in a limited edition format, exclusive to core hobby stores, featuring an alternative-art cover, beautifully illustrated by Hydro74.
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Sorry all! Dario is on vacation (at Gen Con) for a few days. We will announce the winner of the iPod trivia, and have a whole new set of trivia clues in our next newsletter. - Sorana (marketing)
What is Ipod Triviia and How Does it Work?
Our Ipod trivia is pretty simple. We'll pick a character from either comics, movies, television or video games and choose song titles that give a clue to the characters identity. The clues are always part of the song title so don't get hung up on the artists names. Email your guesses to
Fitch@thatse.com with the word trivia or newsletter in the subject.
Winners will be announced in our next newsletter!
Players who answer correctly have their names placed in a hat and randomly picked for a $10 store credit prize to That's Entertainment (can be used at both store locations). Credit expires within 30 days of the Newsletter release announcing the winner, so head on down and collect it right away. Remember to ALWAYS include your FULL NAME and where you would like to pick up the prize (Worcester or Fitchburg) in your email. Further details are in the fine print below.
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Dario is on vacation this week, folks. We will have Fitchburg updates in our next newsletter. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Magic the Gathering Drafts every Wednesday starting at 6:00 pm
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Magic the Gathering FNM every Friday starting at 6:00 pm. Please visit our Facebook events pages for further details.
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DEADPOOL KILLS MARVEL UNIVERSE AGAIN #4 (OF 5)
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Dalibor Talajic (CA) Dave Johnson
* Gwenpool! Moon Knight! Ms. Marvel! The Guardians! Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur!
* Bad news, buddy - they're all gonna die in here!
* It's right there in the title! Buy the ticket, take the ride!
Parental Advisory
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GENERATIONS UNWORTHY THOR & MIGHTY THOR #1
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Mahmud A. Asrar
HER HAMMER, HIS AX: A WORTHY APOCALYPSE.
* When a battle goes south, Thor finds herself in ancient Egypt - facing a young Odinson!
* A misguided party of Vikings has bitten off way more than they can spear. But when the prince of Asgard answers their cries for help, he ends up in a fight no axe alone can win! And Apocalypse is not one for mercy.
* Can a not-yet-worthy god and a time-lost hero take on one of the world's most powerful mutants at the height of his empire? And what does their encounter mean for the future of two Thors?
Rated T+
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SECRET EMPIRE #9
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Nick Spencer (A) Leinil Francis Yu (CA) Mark Brooks
UNITED WE STAND - against the SECRET EMPIRE!
Rated T+
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DC COMICS
(W) Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Paul Dini (A) John Timms, Bret Blevins, J. Bone (CA) Amanda Conner
"MEAN STREETS!" Harley's been doing her best to hold her corner of New York City together, but the mayor's been doing his best to tip the whole town into corruption! Harley's gonna have to hammer some sense into this guy once and for all...and in "Harley Loves Joker" part ten, The Joker's vendetta against the thief who's been scalping all his prime jobs threatens to get everyone killed!
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SABRINA #8 CVR A REG HACK (RES)
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATION
(W) Roberto Aguirre Sacasa (A/CA) Robert Hack
"Witch-War," Part Two (of Six). Edward Spellman, trapped in Harvey's body, has been reunited with Madame Satan, who is finally realizing her grand plan of revenge. But Edward has his own dark agenda, and with Sabrina cut off from her aunts, the Spellman ladies are more vulnerable than ever as Round Two of the "Witch-War" commences!
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BEN REILLY SCARLET SPIDER #6
MARVEL COMICS
(W) Peter David (A) Will Sliney (CA) Mark Bagley
* With enemies bearing down on him from every side, Ben Reilly's running out of options and running out of time!
* It doesn't help that one of the people out for Ben's blood is his spider-powered web-slinging sibling KAINE!
Rated T+
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MARVEL COMICS
(W) Marc Guggenheim (A) Lan Medina (CA) Ken Lashley
* Colossus and Magik return to Russia to help a stranger with ties to their past...
* ...only to discover him in the clutches of OMEGA RED!
* But surely the newly resurrected cyborg serial killer means the X-Men no harm though, right?
Rated T+
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Click below to see a list of
next week's comic book releases.
Please note that we may not order every comic book on the list for our store shelf, but if there is a book you're interested in, please send in a special order request to Pete (pete@thatse.com).
We also offer comic book subscriptions. Our service is free!
We will reserve the comics you want every week in a personalized mailbox at our store.
We only ask that you purchase your comics from your subscription box at least once a month.
Call a store associate for more details
508-755-4207
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