Books and Things…

Hey PI-Fans,A new week opens and… we’re still in Phase One. So we do what comes naturally to us at this point really. We add new things to the webstore.Last week’s Games Workshop preorders are up on the website, but they’ve been joined under the Preorder tab by the upcoming Magic: The Gathering Core 2021 releases.The Book and RPG shelf has undergone a major expansion as well, with an eclectic array of BattleTech novels, non-fiction titles and role-playing games like the Vampire: The Masquerade range joining the store.On the board game front, we’ve added Plan B’s excellent Century series to the store, while both Rory’s Story Cubes and Untold – Adventures Await let you stretch your storytelling muscles. And of course, where would we be without party and family games?And on the wargaming front… we’ve expanded the BattleTech range, but also more importantly put up a Start Collecting! Warhammer 40,000 [...]

By |2020-06-30T18:00:40+08:00June 15th, 2020|Board Games, Card Games, Items, New items, News, Role Playing Games|

New For You

Hey PI-Fans,The Games @ PI team has been hard at work slowly chewing through our backlog of titles and I’d like to seize on this opportunity to feature a pair of titles new to the webstore; Walking in Burano and Seikatsu: A Pet’s Life. Seikatsu: A Pet’s Life is an abstract tile playing game of adorable animals. Players plop down a mass of pets lounging on cushions, while trying to form large collections of animals to score. Placement becomes even more important in the end game as the arrangement of coloured cushions, relative to each player scores them additional points, so players must consider where they are putting down pets for proper points. Walking in Burano is a card drafting game about building and decorating houses in Burano, a beautiful island of Venice. In Walking in Burano, players draft floor cards featuring different personal decor items to build three floor [...]

By |2020-06-30T18:05:01+08:00June 12th, 2020|Board Games, Card Games, Items, New items, News, Role Playing Games|

The Savage Worlds RPG Review

Hey PI-Fans,Let’s just get this out of the way from the start. Savage Worlds Adventure Edition is an RPG, but Savage Worlds is not Dungeons & Dragons.If you want a role-playing system based on the pseudo-medieval high-fantasy Vancian-magic rooted assumptions that D&D is known for, you play D&D. This isn’t meant as a knock. D&D is a great system, but is also wholly unapologetic in the kind of story it wants to tell.As a ‘universal’ system, Savage Worlds… is less constrained than its RPG half-brother and a bit more manic in execution. TL;DR: Savage Worlds is a classless RPG system which uses a simple roll-against-target-number resolution system for streamlined roleplaying and fast combat. Savage Worlds Adventure Edition is the latest edition of the Savage Worlds RPG and provides a universal set of rules that can be easily adapted for Noir, Superhero, Pulp-Action, Military and Science-Fiction settings. […]

By |2020-07-02T10:02:21+08:00June 10th, 2020|Items, Reviews, Role Playing Games|

Spaces, Races and Special Places

Hey PI-Fans,You know how the game works. We’re still plugging away at work as always.This week feels oddly like it’s centred on a slab of space and adventure themed games. Entirely unplanned of course, but between the Warhammer 40,000 Talisman spinoff Relic, galaxy conquest wargame Star Wars: Rebellion, the Mars colonization themed Terraforming Mars and the ever wacky Galaxy Truckers, it’s really hard not to think this wasn’t planned.It wasn’t.On the other hand, we’re also adding a new Book section to the website containing both a smattering of Fiction and Non-Fiction titles. As with all things, we hope to grow this in the future to encompass a great many more titles, but in the meantime, we strongly recommend Gary Ray’s excellent Friendly Local Game Store, an acerbic but witty at the joys and tribulations of running a business in this industry.We’ll keep chipping away at the backlog as we work [...]

By |2020-06-30T18:07:24+08:00June 8th, 2020|Board Games, Card Games, News, Role Playing Games|

More For The Store

Hey PI-Fans,While we’ve stepped out of the Circuit Breaker, very little has changed for us really. Retail is still shuttered but the Games @ PI Webstore on the other hand, is still very much operational.While we can’t unleash the new Arkham Horror LCG packs to the world just yet (ask again tomorrow), new on the webstore is a pile of titles for your perusal.As promised, we’re going to keep plugging away at this as we work to expand our RPG, Miniature and Board Game categories.As always, the option to make the leap over and start browsing right away is always open to you HERE, but if you’d like a list about what we added, keep reading. […]

By |2020-06-30T18:09:40+08:00June 4th, 2020|Board Games, Card Games, Miniature Games, News, Role Playing Games|
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