Join us for a FREE one-day Pathfinder RPG MiniCon @ Endgame. Pathfinder is a table top fantasy RPG based on the world’s oldest role playing game. This event is fun, easy and great intro for new players and friends. All experience levels and ages welcome. You can bring a first level character or just show up and we’ll have many pregenerated characters for you to choose from. Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to adventuring with you.

Reserve your spot and see the list of games on our Warhorn:https://warhorn.net/events/endgame/schedule/2014/04/13

If you are interested in running a Pathfinder Society game for us, contact Mitchdj5plus5@gmail.com for full details of what we’d like to see.

Here is our Facebook event listing to invite your friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/543743702410680

Tim Pratt is the author of Pathfinder’s Liar’s Blade, City of the Fallen Sky and A Tomb of Winter’s Plunder. Tim will be signing books between 2-3PM. Anyone who brings or buys a copy of Tim’s book will also receive a Pathfinder Society Chronicle for that book.

Tim Pratt’s writing has won a Hugo Award, a Rhysling Award, and an Emperor Norton Award for Best Bay Area novel, and has been nominated for Nebula, Mythopoeic, World Fantasy, and Stoker Awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, as well as three short story collections of his own. He novels include the contemporary fantasies The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Briarpatch, and Heirs of Grace; the Forgotten Realms novel Venom in Her Veins; and seven books in the Marla Mason urban fantasy series (as T. A. Pratt). He edited the anthology Sympathy for the Devil, and the Rags & Bones anthologywith Melissa Marr. He is a Senior Editor at Locus Magazine.

PATHFINDER SOCIETY @ ENDGAME

EVERY MONDAY NIGHT 7-11PM

Pathfinder Society is a legendary league of explorers, archaeologists, and adventurers dedicated to discovering and chronicling the greatest mysteries and wonders of an ancient world beset by magic and evil. The campaign’s home base is sprawling Absalom, the so-called City at the Center of the World that stands astride the great Inner Sea on the mountain-capped Isle of Kortos. A Pathfinder’s adventures explore the dark alleys and political intrigues of Absalom between far-flung travels to the most interesting and exotic locales in the world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
More info and sign ups at: warhorn.net/events/endgame

We’ve just announced our upcoming 40K campaign, Inquisition War! This campaign will be starting in May and promises to be our most ambitious to date. Hit this link for full details!

It’s 100% Official: EndGame Café is coming this late spring/early Summer! And —

Wait, what is EndGame Café? Lemme back up here.

In October we announced we were in negotiations with our landlords to lease the space next to us so we could put in a full service café.  We’ve been in our current space for ten years now, and we had a big decision to make: five more years, or call it a good run and close things up.

Those five years are a big deal for us. As we thought about it, we realized we wanted and needed to do more than just five more years of the same thing. EndGame is at its best when we’re stretching ourselves, growing, and trying new things to better serve our fans and community.

In short, we wanted a bigger challenge, and a better space for you all to gather in.

We’ve always been unhappy with the fact that most of the “easy food and drink” closes up around us by 7pm, more or less. This changed in 2013 when Rosemunde opened up next door and helped our community find a quick bite before game time. Thing is, there just isn’t a coffee shop close by…and we all sure like a warm beverage late into the evening. Maybe a cookie too.

What we also discovered in 2013 was how many of our friends could help us find new and different events to host at EndGame. We had The Doubleclicks perform twice (once with Molly Lewis!). We also hosted Marian Call. We have been approached by others to do spoken-word, author readings and signings, and  improv workshops and shows. As a part of all this, we discovered that our current space is good for these types of things (acoustically we have been told it’s fantastic!), but  it forces us to displace other events or to squeeze them all together in tight confines.

With the café space next door we hope to do all of that and more. That’s the “why.”

Here’s what next for us:

- We launch a Kickstarter on 3/15/14 to help make this whole thing happen.

And here’s what’s next for you:

We’ll keep you updated on our progress throughout the build-out, and we hope to see you all for the mid-March launch of our Kickstarter campaign. With your ideas and support, we’re going to launch this café in true EndGame style.

It’s going to be a great start to another five years. We’re nothing without our community, and we’re thrilled to be serving you all even better as this new phase begins. Thanks for making it possible!

The first pre-release event of 2014 takes place on February 2nd and 3rd at EndGame!

We are now taking pre-registration to ensure you get a seat. Please drop us a line at endgame@endgameoakland.com and let us know: your name, what day(s) and time(s) you would like to play, your first and second choices of colors, your phone number, and your DCI number. (If you do not have a DCI number, we can sign you up for one at the event).

Formats will be sealed ($28) and Two-Headed Giant ($55 per team), and Open Dueling ($15).

Here’s the Schedule:
Saturday 2/11/13: 12:01am (Yep! Midnight release Party!)
Formats: Sealed

Saturday 2/1/13: 11 – 4pm
Formats: Sealed/Open Dueling

Saturday 2/1/13: 5pm
Formats: Sealed/2HG/Open Dueling

Sunday 2/2/13: 11 – 4pm
Formats: Sealed/Open Dueling

There will be five decks, , similar to the Return to Ravnica block pre-release events.:

Destined to:

Lead/White

Outwit/Blue

Dominate/Black

Conquer/Red

Thrive/Green

You are welcome to play in more than one event. If you have not pre-registered, then the event will be first-come, first-served until full.

Each Pre-release Pack contains items designed specifically for the chosen Heroic Destiny.

5 booster packs
1 seeded booster pack
1 promo card
1 Choose Your Path activity card
1 Spindown™ life counter
1 Welcome Letter
1 Hero Card
For this event, players may use the promo card included with the Pre-release Pack in their tournament deck.

Players then use their Heroic Destiny packs to create a 40 card minimum deck (including as much basic land as needed)

EndGame has two large mezzanine gaming areas. The lower mezzanine has eight folding tables for general gaming (accommodating up to 36 people before it starts getting crowded) and the upper mezzanine has six 8’ x 4’ purpose-built miniatures tables.

Our minis tables feature removable trays and can be quickly adapted for more general gaming purposes. We also have a large collection of painted terrain models to suit games like Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy, Flames of War, Saga, X-Wing Miniatures and others.

Our mezzanine gaming space can be configured to host roleplaying, boardgaming and CCG events, and we are also happy to occasionally host small musical events. Generally, there is no charge to use our gaming space but some events may require entry fees. Any such fees will be noted in the event description on our website.

A calendar of scheduled events is available on our website, and we refer you to this to check what’s going on. You are welcome to join us for any of our regularly scheduled weeknight events, and our more focused weekend events.

When an event is scheduled, it usually means that one or both of the mezzanine spaces is reserved for this activity. In this case, we may not be able to accommodate drop-ins on the day. It is always a good idea to look at the calendar and give us a call on the day you want to come in to play. That way we can check upstairs and let you know if there is any space available. Calling us is usually better than email or Facebook posts, as these may not be seen/responded to in time.

If you would like to host or run an event yourself, that’s great! Please contact Mike Montesa (mike@endgameoakland.com), our Events Coordinator, at least one month (preferably more) in advance and we’ll work with you to set things up.