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NEW: The Quiet Year is a map-drawing game in which you define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every action is set against a backdrop of dwindling time and rising concern.

The game is played using a deck of cards – each of the 52 cards corresponds to a week during the quiet year. Each card triggers certain events – bringing bad news, good omens, project delays and sudden changes in luck. At the end of the quiet year, the Frost Shepherds will come, ending the game.

Get the premium boxed set and free PDFs in our shop now and take a journey through The Quiet Year.

From Buried Without Ceremony

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NEW: City of Blood and Plaster is a system agnostic setting zine with NPCs, factions, and mysteries for your next exploration of Gilded Age Chicago. The scenarios and play materials all take inspiration from Gothic horror and Chicago history.

At the Chicago World's Fair, you might promenade on the very first Moving Walkway while enjoying a blue ribbon beer. You might sit in one of the first Ferris Wheel cars, which accommodated 40 people. This was all during a time of political and social strife, when socialists, anarchists, union activists, and early civil rights leaders all fought to have their voices heard.

Scenarios are formatted with Jason Cordova’s 7-3-1 Technique and take inspiration from the mystery style of Carved from Brindlewood games, but no previous knowledge is required.

From Storygames Chicago

NEW: Vesta Mandate is a sci-fi political thriller roleplaying game for 2-4 players. On Vesta Station, you play the conniving mastermind with a secret agenda that will bring the Station to its knees or uplift it to a new era.

Vesta stands alone as a revolutionary project, an asteroid amid the inky black. In the canyon of Rheasilvia, the Council plots and backstabs, dreaming of the power to forge the unfinished nation into polished steel. Yet Corporate looms, ready to shatter the dream into molten slag.

Vesta Mandate is inspired by Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA), with mechanics and procedures added to turn the game into a competitive, political drama.

From Storygames Chicago

NEW: Call of Cthulhu 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set!

We're excited (terrified?) to bring Call of Cthulhu to the shop as it reaches the 50th Anniversary Milestone! This collector's Slipcase Set Includes:

The Keeper Rulebook: contains the core rules, background, guidance, spells, and monsters of the game
Investigator Handbook: contains expanded rules for creating player characters, a wealth of over 100 occupations and skill descriptions, as well as guidance on getting the most from the game.
Keeper Screen Pack: contains two ready-to-play scenarios, a set of large, full-color maps and a 34’ Keeper Screen

From Chaosium Inc.

Get this beautiful slipcase or the accessible starter set in our shop now at Tabletop Bookshelf, your gaming bookstore!

NEW: Mothership has landed at Tabletop Bookshelf!

Mothership®, the award-winning sci-fi horror RPG where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space!

Mothership® is designed from the ground up to be intuitive to run and easy to play, no system-mastery required. For players, the simple d100 Panic Engine ensures that you always know how likely you are to succeed at any given task.

For Wardens (GMs), the rules are easy to reference, and designed everything to fit into clean “control panel” style spreads. That means if you’re looking at the combat rules, everything you need to know fits on the two pages open in front of you, no more flipping around to find all the edge cases for a simple question.

You’ll excavate dangerous derelict spacecraft, explore strange unknown worlds, encounter hostile alien life and examine the horrors encroaching upon your every move. Easy to Play. Hard to Survive. Mothership from Tuesday Knight Games

Jump into the game with the Core Boxed Set or upgrade to the Deluxe Boxed Set, both available in-store or online now (see link in comment)

READ: Tabletop Bookshelf Built It's Brick-And-Mortar Future out of Past Goodwill

In this article, Tabletop Bookshelf founder Tom Gibes shares his story of growing a small online shop into Milwaukee first independent RPG bookstore, built by lifting up small, passionate tabletop creators. Combining a unique professional history with passion and good will, Gibes was able to build something entirely new: a gaming bookstore that welcomes everyone to the table.

by Nico Deyo for Rascal News

Tabletop Bookshelf is an ongoing celebration of all the incredible work in the tabletop RPG space. It does not exist without the hard work and creativity of the TTRPG community of creators. We will continue to work every day to build as a big and bright a stage as possible and to keep the celebration going!

Explore our curated collection online or at our Milwaukee location at 134 W Pittsburgh Ave, Walker's Point.

NEW: 86 is a solo journaling game where you play a highly-skilled chef opening their first restaurant. With the zine, a deck of cards, a flame source, and a few other items, you will detail the specifics of your rise from line cook to owner including the menu, the staff, your enemies, and the building itself.

Through a single session of play, you will answer the prompts, percolate on them, take a match and watch them burn. Includes the game zine as well as printable prompt cards.

From Carrion Comfort via Plus One

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The puzzle is now available both in store an online, find the link in comments ⬇️

Thank you, Tabletop Bookshelf for agreeing to carry our gorgeous and informative 1000-piece “Great Lakes Basin” puzzle! $5 from every puzzle purchased goes to support work of Michigan Sea Grant, whose fabulous watershed map the puzzle colorfully depicts, and the wider efforts to study and protect the Great Lakes by all of the university-based partners of www.greatlakesseagrant.com

NEW: in Hellwhalers you play as damned whalers, sailing hell's oceans to hunt a monstrous leviathan whale in a bid for redemption of your immortal souls.

Whalers will earn souls through roleplay, challenges, and gambling, eventually collecting enough to pulse the Hellwhale's disembodied heart, a blackened, grisly organ kept locked away by the captain. To pulse the heart is to summon the monster you seek: the dreaded Hellwhale. Slaying this titan of Hell's waters is said to earn you a place back in God's graces.

Suitable for 2-5 players and one Guide, who plays the captain, a foul tempered figure driving the whalers ever onward in a maddened quest for the whale's flesh and blood.

Gambling plays a central role in the gameplay loop, creating a procedurally generated series of events each day. Gambling takes place on a Sic-Bo board, a game played with three six-sided dice.

Collect lore, gamble with souls, fish hellish creatures from the depths, and fight a demon whale in Hellwhalers! From Brewest Games via Plus One