| Jen Seiden |
I just prepped eighty pounds of meat. I’m not a chef or anything, but every year there are certain events that I volunteer to cook for. This weekend is “Bear’s Tavern”, an early-spring event where the food and drink are as prominent as any other imagined medieval-like inn events that we see in gaming and elsewhere. This is my third year working in the kitchens, and I’d thought I’d share: a lot goes on there! And much of it has nothing to do with cooking….
The kitchen is where much of the socializing takes place, not only among the staff and servants, but where the Lords and Ladies show up as well—don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. What historical records would have us believe is that the noblemen never associated with any of the common people. Often it was the kitchen staff who pulled the noble children in with them when working on a big feast or to feed a hungry bottomless stomach. The children would continue to visit the kitchen area right through adulthood and often associate it with familiar warmth. This is doubly true for taverns and inns, where the children of the owners found themselves conscripted into any sort of assistance they could perform. Visiting relatives would enter the kitchen to chat and gossip with kin and neighbors and visitors often sought out company near the ovens in the wintertime.
Therefore, it makes sense in a roleplaying game to put some of the action in the kitchens. Need to find a constable’s daughter before she is kidnapped? Check the kitchens. Want to introduce a map? Someone left one in the kitchens. Where’s the body? In the soup. You get the idea.
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Heroes Weekly
5 Pages plus
$3.99
Each week Avalon Games offers a new issue of Heroes Weekly.
Packed full of great superhero fun, each issue will offer a short adventure, an NPC, or some game mechanics for the Heroes Wear Masks system. While compatible with the HWM system, you can always use the information presented in each issue for other superhero games—just monkey around with the stats and mechanics to fit the system you are using.
Don’t miss an issue, they are super!
AVG4100-HW-77, Heroes Weekly, Vol 4, Issue #5, Funtown
Writer: Robert Hemminger
Sometimes a day at the fun park can be less than… well, fun. This is when the heroes are called in.
AVG4100-HW-78, Heroes Weekly, Vol 4, Issue #6, Entity X
Writer: Charles Smith
What will the heroes do when a terrible thing powered by Energy X is on the loose—a nightmare that eats Energy X. This issue comes with some great Sci-Fi soldier figure flats
AVG4100-HW-79, Heroes Weekly, Vol 4, Issue #7, The Shadow Walker
Writer: Robert Hemminger
We have a great new advanced class for you this week: the shadow walker. Either heroes or villains can take stealth to a whole new level.
AVG4100-HW-80, Heroes Weekly, Vol 4, Issue #8, The Parliament of the Sewers
Writer: Charles Smith
Some weird stuff goes on inside the sewers under the city. You have discovered its true strangeness.
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Avalon Models, A-Frame Men-at-Arms
AVG4700-A-08
$1.50
A collection of 10 A-Frame Paper Models. This set offers 10 men-at-arms in full color. Save your money and don’t go out to buy those expensive plastic and metal figures when you can get great models for a small price. Print up as many as you need and have fun.
Look for other great models in this series.
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Avalon Models, Tri-Frame Men-at-Arms
AVG4700-T-08
$1.50
A collection of 10 Tri-Frame Paper Models. This set offers 10 men-at-arms in full color. Save your money and don’t go out to buy those expensive plastic and metal figures when you can get great models for a small price. Print up as many as you need and have fun.
Look for other great models in this series.
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Avalon Models, Figure Flat Men-at-Arms
AVG4700-F-08
$1.50
A collection of 10 Figure Flat Paper Models. This set offers 10 robots in full color. Save your money and don’t go out to buy those expensive plastic and metal figures when you can get great models for a small price. Print up as many as you need and have fun.
Look for other great models in this series.
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Monster Hunters, Vampire Faction Book
AVG 5000-03
46 Pages
Robert Hemminger, Josh Vogt
$7.99
All you need to run the Vampire faction in the Monster Hunters, Battles of Blood tabletop skirmish-level game from Avalon Games. We have the Masters, the Heroes, and the minions. Inside you will find all the stats for Dracula and other great monsters as they fight to save mankind from the monstrous terrors.
This faction book provides full stats on all the characters, items for the vampire faction, and scenarios just for these creatures of the dark, along with great hidden objectives.
This is a must-buy if you love Monster Hunters.
Inside you will find information on:
Dracula
The Baroness
Ferenc
Feral Vampire
Wolves
Renfield
The Three Brides
Child Vampire
The Beguiled
Giant Bats
Rats
Vampire Thralls
And much more!
With Monster Hunters taking the Gothic Horror genre and standing it on its head, Avalon is bringing to our fans a great new game using classic monsters, gothic horror, and miniature battles. Don’t sit alone in the dark—get your friends together and have a scary night of tabletop fun with Monster Hunters, Battles of Blood.
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Monster Hunters, Vampire Faction Figure Flats
AVG 5000-03-FF
3 Pages
Robert Hemminger
1.99
Now you can get a game of Monster Hunters going faster with these easy-to-use paper figure flats. Based on the characters of the vampire faction, you have enough figures here to represent them all.
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Monster Hunters Battle Mat, The Castle
AVG 5100-CL-BM
26 Pages
$5.99
Need a castle to play your Monster Hunter game in, or for any other RPG? As always, Avalon Games is here to help out with 9 great, full-color battle mats. Each tile is an 8” x 8” square and fully compatible with all tabletop games that use an inch as the base of movement and range.
Used with Avalon’s Monster Hunters, Battle of Blood, you can run countless battle between monsters and heroes and expand your RPG games with full-color encounters. Use these tiles with any other game you like, and have fun mixing and matching the tiles with other sets Avalon will release.
Bring the fight to the Castle and let the battles begin!
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Alternate Fringe Figures, Avalon Mini-Game #152
AVG1500-152
7 Pages
$2.99
New figures for your game, these alternate Fringe figures will add a whole new dimension to your Nova Blast scenarios or any other sci-fi game.
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Avalon Class, Animal Master
AVG5300-03
9 Pages
$4.99
Ed Fleming
Each issue of Avalon Class will bring to your game a new advanced class for the Pathfinder RPG. Add new directions for players to explore, or create new possibilities for NPCs. Whatever the use, each class will open up all sorts of adventurous doors to dive into and game.
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Avalon Clip Art, Sci-Fi 5
AVG 1660
10 Pages
$4.50
Over the years, Avalon Games has collected a ton of artwork for use in various games. Well, we got to thinking, why couldn’t you use this great art in your products? So, here it is, Avalon Clip Art! Each set within this series offers you a ton of great art and for a great price. Each product focuses on a set genre or character type and provides you with great filler art and character art for your gaming products.
Look for new sets to come out all the time, as we have thousands of pictures to offer, so have fun…
Usage Requirements/Limitations:
You may reduce, re-color, or crop any image included here. You may not resell these images in clip art packets or art collections.
If you use any of these images, in your product, you must include the statement:
Some artwork copyrighted by Avalon Games, used with permission.
By purchasing this product you agree to these terms.
All work has been scanned at 300 DPI.
Why re-invent the wheel when Avalon Games has already done all the hard work?
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Avalon Art, Cars Set 8
AVG4600-08
5 Pages
$2.99
A great series of top-down views of a car, it comes in several versions: black-and-white line art, full-color, full-color and ready for a race, full-color with guns, and a four road warrior version set with different guns and colors.
A great way to add some fun to your board game. Use them as counters, art images for your product, or just print them up and use them in your RPG. Whatever you use them for, you will find they are great quality images at a great price.
Look for more cars in the series — each month a new release will arrive, expanding your options and adding to your fleet of road warrior-ready cars.
Usage Requirements/Limitations:
You may reduce, re-color, or crop any image included here. You may not resell these images in clip art packets or art collections.
If you use any of these images, in your product, you must include the statement:
Some artwork copyrighted by Avalon Games, used with permission.
By purchasing this product you agree to these terms.
All work has been scanned at 300 DPI.
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One Knight Games, Vol 1, Issue 4
AVG4900-04
17 Pages
A.J Keening
$5.99
The Lonely Forest
A recent uprising amongst the local tribes of the far north has upset the careful string of alliances that the Bezian Empire has worked so hard to forge. The uprising was, of course, put down harshly and easily by the Imperial Army. The peace, however, has been broken. Without the Imperial Peace, the local tribes have resumed their perpetual infighting, and one of those tribes decided to build a fortress on its border in order to aid in their defense. ...A fortress, in Imperial territory, occupied solely by one of the conquered tribes. That is something that the Empire cannot allow.
When you need a game for just one night, One Knight Games provides everything you need. From reading the rules to making characters to playing the adventure, everything is geared toward having it all happen in a single night. The game rules are free, so download the system at http://www.rpgnow.com/product/124526/One-Knight-Games-Free-Rules?cPath=1658 _19945 and check it out. Then try out The Lonely Forest, which combines intrigue and adventure!
The adventures of One Knight Games provide the story, maps, and descriptions of encounters—everything you need to run the adventure. However, they do not tell the GM what to say during an encounter, nor do they dictate how to run said encounters. These things are up to the Gamemaster to decide.
This first issue of One Knight Games offers a full night’s worth of fun, everything you need to run a fast, fun game with little effort and very little prep time.
Need a fast game to fill the night? Avalon is ready to help with our One Knight Game system. Get a free copy of the rules on the website, and get your game on.
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Avalon’s Mystic Treasures, Five Articles of Magical Clothing
AVG 5200-03
7 Pages
$4.99
Writer: Mike Myler
Need some great magic items for your Pathfinder game? Each issue of the Avalon Mystic Treasures series will focus on five new magical items for any Pathfinder games. Each item comes with a full description, powers, and cost, as well as history and adventure hooks. All you need to do is drop them into your game and watch your players squeal with delight.
Each issue will showcase news items and new treasures, so get each and every issue and add to your magical collection.
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Arcana Journal #58
AVG2300-14-58
33 Pages
$2.99
The true wonders of Arcana are explored in the monthly journals. Each issue focuses on a hex or faction within the game world, offering rumors, hidden lore, and detailed descriptions of all the important sites and people. Full-color maps (also offered in print-easy black and white) are provided, plus all sites of worthwhile note, such as towns and major adventure sites. Floor plans of castles and other location are also offered.
In addition to this detailed write-up, each issue will also focus on other aspects of the game world, its history, important people, the Magi and gaming classes. When you add it all up, these journals take the mundane and make it magical. It is through the journals that the Arcana game world will grow, expand, and become a living place of adventure.
This issue of the Journal will cover the following aspects of the game world.
House Blackmoor Holdings
Lay Magic
Magi of the Age of Darkness
Dress of the North
So don’t forget to incorporate the kitchens of your setting, whether out in the medieval world or up in space. They are useful hangouts where what you least expect happens. I’m off to go cook a feast for a bunch of weary travelers… see you next month.
Jen Seiden
Promotional Manager for Avalon Games
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