Brave New Worlds

This should have gone up a while ago, but better late than never…right?! BNW Old City Series Book Discussion on Promethea is Monday April 5th @ 7pm!

Read the books and come tell Rob and some other people what you thought about it.

Wizards of the Coast has unveiled a new program called Dungeons & Dragons: Encounters will allow RPG fans to organize and unite on a weekly basis.  Starting Wednesday, March 17th and running until June 2nd, Encounters will encourage in-store gaming in the same manner that Friday Night Magic provides a weekly gathering for Magic players.  The first adventure is called “Undermountain”, and games will begin in our Willow Grove store at 6 PM.  For more detailed information, visit the official site : http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Event.aspx?x=dnd/4new/event/dndencounters

Brave New Worlds Willow Grove will serve as the host for the 2010 White Day Anime  Minicon sponsored by the Delaware Anime Society (with a special assist by its Pennsylvania Chapter).

So stop by on Saturday, March 20 from 7-11 p.m. to get your anime on.  There will be a $10 admission fee at the door.

Activities will include screenings of Shoujo, Ranma 1/2 and Kare Kano; video game tournaments in games like Mariokart and Wario Ware Smooth Moves; a trivia contest and a cosplay contest.

There will also be food and a raffle with awesome prizes like DVDs, magazines, toys and more!

For more information on DAS, which hold their monthly meetings at Brave New Worlds Willow Grove the last Saturday of every month, click the jump Delaware Anime Society – D.A.S. Kanameiji

Drum Roll please – continuing the eclectic selections of the Willow Grove Book Discussion our March book (March 27 @ 7 p.m.) will be our first foray into the world of manga with Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys Volume 1.

So if you have yet to venture out and sit down with the folks at the Willow Grove book discussion group, might we suggest giving Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys a try.

This Monday, March 8th, the Brave New Worlds Old City Book Discussion Club will kick off a new series by reading Promethea vol 1 by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams. All you have to do is just read the book and then come out to the shop by 7pm to discuss it amongst your fellow comic book readers! This book discussion group meets up on the 2nd Monday of every month.

Promethea Vol 1, Alan Moore/JH Williams, $14.99, WildStorm

We are welcoming a monthly Munchkin game back to Brave New Worlds Willow Grove beginning March 13. So break out your cards, wake your friends and get ready to Kill the Monsters, Steal the Treasure and Stab Your Buddy.

Our monthly game is perfect for everyone, fans of the game, beginners (we will teach you, and try not to steal all of your stuff).

So now is the time to jump back on the bandwagon. Join us and we travel to the dungeon, kill everything we meet, backstab our friends (because what are friends for) and steal their stuff. Don’t forget to grab the treasure and run.

Brave New Worlds Willow Grove is one of a select few retailers hosting this very special Warhammer 40k event – Evolution … Adapt or Die!  For five-straight weeks in January, Brave New Worlds Willow Grove will be hosting the Planet Posul battles that will be part of the sets new lore.

So stop by Brave New Worlds Willow Grove every Saturday now through February 6.  New players are encouraged to come to learn how to play, we will supply you with an army to use.  For the more warhammer 40k savvy among us, bring an army with at least three colors, and prepare to have fun.

For more information, Contact Dave.

The Tyranids are an alien menace from the cold depths of the void that hunger endlessly for the taste of warm flesh.  They infest the stars in numbers that are in the untold billions, a raw force of destruction that has been likened to a locust swarm.  They move in Hive fleets that remorselessly drift through space consuming everything in their wake.  These fleets have been named by the Imperium as they are encountered (Behemoth, Kraken and Leviathan being the most infamous).

At this time Hive Fleet Leviathan is moving through the southern reaches of the galactic core, as it moves along it gathers more genetic material for the continued evolution of the Tyranid species.  During this time of strife opportunistic and warlike races will utilize the panic sowed by leviathans advance to further their own schemes.

The Imperium, beset on all sides must look to unlikely allies to help save its self from being consumed by the hunger that is the Tyranid.

In the first weeks of 2010 the battle for the Galatic Southern Pole will be fought in the Mid Atlantic area of the United States with several stores (both GW Retail Stores and Independents) representing individual planets.

Updates will be posted weekly as battle reports from the individual planets come arrive describing the advance or repulsion of the Tyranic tide.

REMAINING WEEKS:

Weeks 3-4 (January 23 and 30) Standard Mission Scenarios are used

a. All stratagems can carry over from the planet strike games

Week 5 (February 6^th) is the final event and will be an Apocalypse Game

a. Based on results advantages and disadvantages will be assigned (stratagems)

b. Apocalypse formations and super heavies can be used

Tyranid players will be able to use the new codex as soon as it is released (including the store copies). This is to symbolize the evolution of the hive as it moves through space.

Brian Wood (DMZ, Local) made an appearance at our Old CIty Location to sign books on October 3rd 2008.  Check out the gallery below and keep an eye out for more creator appearances in the future.