[Now Available] Alvin & Dexter, KoDT #171, Shadowrun WAR!

A Ticket to Ride
Alvin & Dexter Monster Expansion
Days of Wonder

Meet Alvin & Dexter - two detailed monster figures that bring their own special brand of chaos to cities across the Ticket to Ride landscape. Alvin (the Alien) and Dexter (the Dinosaur) are two wacky characters ready to help you stomp opponents and zap tickets in this fun expansion. But don't take them too lightly; they also introduce a devious new tactical layer to the game.

The last two players to start get to place the monsters in different cities on any Ticket to Ride map. It doesn't matter which map - Alvin and Dexter are just as adept at rampaging through London, Zurich or Stockholm as they are in New York or San Francisco. Once a monster moves in, it's now a City in Chaos - no one can build a new route into or out of that city until the monster moves on!

Players may move a single monster to a different city anytime during their turn by turning in 1 or 2 Locomotive wild cards and moving the monster up to 3 cities away for each card they discard. The player who moves Alvin (or Dexter) the most during the game will also earn a bonus. Any Destination Tickets that include cities that Alvin and Dexter occupy at the end of the game are worth only half their normal point value!

This is an expansion. An original copy of any complete board game from the Ticket to Ride series is required to play with the Alvin & Dexter Monster Expansion.

The Box Contains: 2 detailed monster figures; 40 Monster cards; 2 Bonus cards; and a multi-lingual rules booklet. $13.00 MSRP


Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine #171
Kenzer & Company

"Better Gate Than Lever"

The Strips
High Stakes Joker Part II: It's a game of chance when sturm giants are involved.
Raising the Stakes: Will Johnny's gamble with sturm giants pay off?
All In: Johnny faces a little more competition.

The Lost Strips
Lost Strip: untitled ("The Assassin Who Came in from the Cold")
The GM "Strikes" Back: It's not just the players who are facing a dice audit.
The Dice Audit: Weird Pete performs some dice tests.
The Gift Dice: The dice audit tests are in.
Channeling Gary Part II: Who's really on "the other side"?
One-Two Punches

Feature Articles
Vengeance is Mine, Sayeth the Dwarf {SoloQuest} by Brandon Neff
Beyond the Book: From the Journals of Haarpang the Mage {HackMaster Basic} by Kenzer and Company

GameMaster's Workshop
Bait and Tackle: Generic Adventure Hooks and Encounters for the GM to run with
All Things Magic: Esarin's Collar {fantasy; systemless} by Kurt Evans
Casting Call: Happy Humblefeet {HackMaster Basic} by Kurt Evans
Deadly Trappings: Thrice Deadly Hallway {fantasy; systemless} by Kurt Evans
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Brandebnor Drelguldril, Sulat Pateris, Vikmir Esarin {HackMaster Basic} by Kurt Evans
Dungeons Ready to Occupy: The Home of Sulat Pateris {fantasy; systemless} by Kurt Evans
Rustlers of the Night: Subterranean Whisp {HackMaster Basic} by James Butler

Regular Columns
Game Mechanic: Home-Brewed Rules and Tweaks Playing without Magic Shops {for D&D/Pathfinder} by Frank Trollman
Tales from the Table: Actual tales from our readers
Web Scryer: Podcasting Keeps Rolling surfed by Kenneth Newquist
Geek Fu Action Grip: Holiday Role-Playing gripped by Mur Lafferty
Gaming the Movies: Terriers by Jim Davenport

Reviews
Lost Game Safari: WarDogs! scouted by Andy Miller
Lookin' at Comics: Intervention Con scrutinized by Tony DiGerolamo
The “Indy” Game Scene: Maschine Zeit explored by Ashok Desai
Disks of Wondrous Power: Third Person Horror played by Rick Moscatello
Off the Shelf: Evermeet: Island of the Elves by Elaine Cunningham read by Paul Westermeyer
Board Squawk: Panzer General: Russian Assault, Chaos Isle, TactDecks boarded by Anthony DuLac
Brian's Picks: Please Stand By, Undead Avenue, Third World General

Departments
Cries from the Attic: Editorial of a Madman
Table Talk: Our Readers Talk Back
Friendly Local Game Store: The GuardTower
Weird Pete's Bulletin Board
Back Room at the Games Pit
Parting Shots

Other Toons
Dice Fiction by Caleb Wallace
Celebrity Hack by Caleb Wallace
Brutus the Barbarian by Caleb Wallace
Unnamed cartoon by Scott R. Krol

80 pages, $4.99, b&w

Shadowrun
WAR!
Catalyst Game Labs

The diplomats have failed. The tensions have only grown worse. Each side has pushed the other too far, so there’s nothing left to do but fight. At the border of Aztlan and Amazonia, war has broken out. The streets of Bogotá are being pummeled, mercenaries are being hired and killed in approximately equal numbers, and blood is being spilled in dark rooms to give strength to mages on the battlefield. Most importantly, runners are being hired by the score.

War! puts Shadowrun players into the world of open combat. From sabotage missions behind enemy lines to intelligence operations to small-squad mercenary tactics, War! provides the background information, gear, and rules players need to plunge into the chaos of battle. 184 pages, B&W, $29.99