Fantasy Flight tells us that a limited number of Battlestar Galactica board games from the initial print run will finally be on sale Tuesday at local game stores.

So say we all.

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Topps Company announced today that WizKids is ceasing operations, effective immediately. They’re more interested in their sports cards.

However, they’re working on finding alternative arrangements so that lines such as Heroclix, Battletech, Shadowrun, and so on, will continue to be produced and supported.

(announcements: Catalyst Game Labs – Battletech and Shadowrun RPG, WizKids – Heroclix, MechWarrior, MageKnight, etc…)

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The Thanksgiving Game began as many games do:a family tradition to while away the time on a holiday.

It’s a Balderdash-style game: each player “reflects on God’s blessings,” writes one down, and then everyone has to guess who wrote which.

Designed by Louis Stolz.

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Assuming that the choice is between Chess, Checkers, Scrabble, Boggle, and Chinese Checkers, and that the questions and answers are not to be taken too seriously, Blogthings wants you to know “What kind of board game are you?”

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If you’re a fan of roleplaying in space like I am, you too have probably been waiting for Mongoose Publishing’s latest book in the Traveller series. Like the volumes before it, High Guard revisits the classic Traveller little-black-book of the same name with further detail on Naval careers and spaceship design and combat. Now, on the one hand, you may already find some copies of the book on retailer shelves now. On the other hand, you should know that any copy you find now has some printing errors and has been recalled by Mongoose. The corrected version should be available in about a month. If you do, however, end up with one of the misprinted volumes, Mongoose has promised to send you the new one when it arrives. In the meantime, perhaps one of these fantastic resources will satisfy your need for inspiration:

No? Just makes the anticipation worse? Well then, there is Career Book 1 from Spica Publishing, currently number eight on the bestseller list at DriveThruRPG. This one’s not about space ships, but it does give you eight new and enhanced careers for your Traveller characters, including unique mustering-out benefits and expanded mishap and events tables.

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For the Euro game that’s really a war game—or is it war game that’s really a Euro game?—another expansion is on its way from Z-Man. Early Nights, an add-on for Duel in the Dark, lets players recreate the earliest British bombing campaigns of World War II. For those who are not familiar with it, Duel in the Dark is clearly a game with a strong military theme, yet the abstract mechanics avoid the simulationist detail found in most traditional war games, and allow play in under an hour. Also, the three-dimensional overhead view makes it among the best looking games I’ve seen of any genre. Z-Man was selling copies of Early Nights this weekend at Euro Quest, and will be shipping it out to retailers and distributors shortly.

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