Along with the new Monty Python Fluxx, you can now get Fluxx in Dutch. As well as Zombie Fluxx, Eco Fluxx, Jewish Fluxx, Spanish Fluxx, Christian Fluxx, German Fluxx, Japanese Fluxx, Stoner Fluxx, and a basket of cloth Flowers & Fluxx.

So many ways to annoy the hell out of me.

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Field Marshal Games is a new strategy game store, selling war, board, card, role-playing, and miniature games.

They also have an exclusive set of field marshal dice (pictured) for your Risk or A&A games, and a custom dice bag.

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Polyglot Puppets is putting up a performance / play installation called “The Big Game” at the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Kids participate as tokens in various big board games, either as a fun activity for the family or as performance for onlookers.

Includes a giant dice sculpture, oversized dominos, Scrabble tiles, green houses of Monopoly, and a huge smoking volcano, as well as music, visual, and other elements.

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FoxMind Games has a number of new items available:

Abalone: Hardly a new game, must be new to Foxmind’s line of products.

Jungle Speed: Everyone flips cards, and, if two cards match, you have to be the first to grab the stick.

Meta-Form: Inductive and deductive logic puzzles.

Six: Lay tiles, be the first to form one of three shapes.

Oops: A Rush-hour like puzzle game of finding the right sequence of moves.

Zoologic: Another “make the right sequence of moves” puzzle game.

Architecto: Puzzle game of forming shapes.

Equilibrio: Ditto.

Kippit: Place cubes on the seesaw, trying to get rid of your pieces.

Shokoba: Match numbers to win the jewels on the table.

Memorico: Four games included, I don’t have any details.

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Mongoose Publishing will take over publishing the Lejendary Adventure RPG system by the late Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

It will include never before adventures from the late master, and is coordinated by Gail Gygax, Gary’s widow.

You can download a quick start guide here (PDF).

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Demonstrating Dungeons & Dragons ability to influence music—all genres at the same time—is a song on the band Split Lip Rayfield’s latest album, “I’ll Be Around.” You see, the group has been described as “post-punk progressive bluegrass,” and the subject track, “The High Price of Necromancy,” is a heavy-metal song. Explain that, you say! I can’t. This is a game blog, after all, not a music blog. But the band does explain the link to RPGs:

That’s one in a series of tunes that have been informed by my youthful indulgence in role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons and fantasy novels and stuff like that. It’s really kind of an argument about how it’s not worth it to pursue necromancy, because you don’t end up being very powerful and there are a lot of bad side effects cosmetically…

It’s different than necrophilia, although they’re not mutually exclusive. Necromancers are probably into that because they’re lonely – I assume. A necromancer is someone who dabbles in raising the dead, animating dead tissue, skeletons and zombies and that sort of thing, and maybe the occasional curse. They’re usually a kind of minor magical force.

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