FFG's Store Championships

Running from February through March 2014, Fantasy Flight Games announced a new tournament level for organized play: the 2014 Store Championships. This new "premier tier"  format is the result of the reduction in the number of FFG-run Regional Tournaments. Through these new Store Championships, local stores will be able to host "high level" events that are a few steps below a Regional Championship tournament but bigger than the "standard 2014 tournament kits."

Stores that host successful Store Championship events will be considered as candidates to host one of the Regional Championship events later in the year. The six games for which Store Championships will be available are:

1. A Game of Thrones: The Card Game;
2. Android: Netrunner The Card Game;
3. Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game;
4. Star Wars: The Card Game;
5. Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game;
6. X-Wing

The event kits are a step up from FFG's standard 2014 tournament kits. Besides exclusive prizes, they also include prizes for the champion, finalists, Top 4, and participation prizes for up to 32 players. The living card game kits feature a championship plaque and deck box for the winner, a deck box for the runner up, four custom "Top 4" playmats for the top four participants, and 32 alternate art cards with full-bleed graphic design as participation prizes. The X-Wing kit will include a championship plaque and card box for the winner, a card box for the runner up, four acrylic range rulers for the top four players, and 32 Ten Numb ship cards featuring movie still art as participation prizes.

This is not the same format as FFG's Game Nights.

Top 10 Card/Dice Games - Summer 2013

Top 10 Hobby Channel Card/Dice Games
1.  Munchkin (Steve Jackson Games)
2.  Marvel Legendary (Upper Deck)
3.  Android: Netrunner (Fantasy Flight Games)
4.  Quarriors! (WizKids/NECA)
5.  7 Wonders (Asmodee)
6.  Smash Up (AEG)
7.  Bang! (daVinci Games)
8.  Dominion (Rio Grande Games)
9.  DC Deckbuilding Game (Cryptozoic Games)
10.  Star Wars LCG (Fantasy Flight Games)


*  This chart of the Top 10 Card/Dice Games (hobby channel) reflects sales in Summer 2013.  The charts are based on interviews with retailers, distributors, and manufacturers.

Android Netrunner LCG: Creation and Control Expansion - New Release

Creation and Control is the first deluxe expansion for Fantasy Flight Games' Android: Netrunner The Card Game. In Creation and Control, a new wave of enigmatic Shapers competes against the latest and greatest of Haas-Bioroid's developments in artificial intelligence, efficiency and security. With 165 new cards, Creation and Control instigates dramatic new strategies and high-stakes battles between corporations and runners for the control of valuable files and the futures outlined within them.


Creation and Control focuses on the struggles between the executives at Haas-Bioroid and those Shapers who are driven to tinker with their programs and hardware by an almost religious compulsion, but fans of every Android: Netrunner faction will find plenty of great uses for their influence, as well as twenty-seven neutral cards (three copies each of nine individual cards) that can sharpen the focus of any deck.

If you are in Puerto Rico, Bad DM recommends you visit The Gaming Pit, in Guaynabo, and Paladin Books and Games, in Isabela and Mayaguez, for a copy of the Android:Netrunner expansion Creation and Control.