STORE HOURS

Monday
11:00 am - 09:00 pm
Tuesday
11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Wednesday
11:00 am - 09:00 pm
Thursday
11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Friday
11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Saturday
11:00 am - 07:00 pm
Sunday
12:00 pm - 05:00 pm

OPEN

News from The Gate

Newly arrived games include a restock on the Earth core game, the Earth expansion - Abundance, Ice & Idols, and Block & Key.

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Today is the early retail release for Tokaido Duo and the Dragon Academy, a Wyrmspan expansion. Both games are from Stonemaier Games and look great on the demo table.

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Today is the early retail release for Tokaido Duo and the Dragon Academy, a Wyrmspan expansion. Both games are from Stonemaier Games and look great on the demo table.

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Don't forget that Thursdays are our Card Game Social night. Bring a deck or two from your favorite trading card game(s) to play. Better yet, teach another person how to play and help grow the community. Gundam, Star Wars Unlimited, Altered, One Piece, and Lorcana are all encouraged.

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We love the upcoming spooky holiday and we created a whole display of games to help customers celebrate. We even added some appropriately themed plushies and puzzles.

Facebook post   2025-10-09 09:00:52

The new shelves arrived and are built. Deduction: Hidden Identity games and the Exit games have a new home.

Weirdness is they are unfinished and not the color I thought we ordered but eventually, they will get stained. It is always something.

Facebook post   2025-10-08 21:37:38

Everyone's inner child secretly wants a Monstrous Holiday Stocking to hang on their mantle. Even Santa loves them!

The Dragon Claw, Troll Foot, Yeti Paw, Tentacle, and Bigfoot holiday stockings are in stock now. Each stocking is roughly 7 inches wide by 16.5 inches long and could double as a dice bag.

#holidaystockings
#doublesasDicebag
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Facebook post   2025-09-26 17:24:22

Temporary shelves are in place. I am not loving it, but I don't hate it.

Facebook post   2025-09-25 17:04:21

Roll & Write games have had their own shelf for awhile, but it was crowded by party games. Now they have their own end cap.

Facebook post   2025-09-25 16:06:25

Restock on chess and backgammon sets from Wood Expressions. We have student travel sets in tins, 7-in-1 game collections, and chess tournament sets complete with travel bags.

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Today, we reorganized family games and worked on changing how customer traffic flows in that area by Haba and Blue Orange. The new arrangement eliminates a pass through to the event center, but will give us additional space to display more games. The shelves for the backside haven't arrived yet, but we think it will work out nicely.

Facebook post   2025-09-24 23:37:15

Tuesday Game Night featured Creature Caravan by Red Raven Games. Players build a card tableau of creatures while traveling through a magnificent and dangerous land. They take turns simultaneously, placing dice on actions on their cards, moving their caravan on the map, and playing new creature cards. Players also compete to trade goods and rare coins in a shared market, search the mysterious white towers, and fight ember zombies as they travel. The game ends when one player reaches Eastrey. The player with the most points wins.

Facebook post   2025-09-23 23:38:58

Newly arrived games shown off by our guest product models include Merchants of Magic, Hello Kitty: Day at the Park, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Monikers, Alibis, 365 Adventures (2026): Dungeon, 365 Adventures (2026): Cthulhu, Everdell Collectors' Edition, and Everdell Legends.

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#friendlylocalgamestore

Facebook post   2025-09-23 23:32:47

Recent arrivals - Above and Below Haunted KS edition, Monsters Menace the World, Tea Witches, Superfight 2nd edition, Campy Creatures, and Cat Fluxx.

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Daggerheart Roleplaying Core Rulebook has arrived. This awesome RPG from Darrington Press has been one of the most requested items this year. The Gate received enough to fulfill all special orders (and there were a lot! Thank you!) plus stock our shelves.

Pick up your copy of this critically acclaimed rulebook today! The next wave won't arrive until November.

Facebook post   2025-09-15 22:13:36

Warmies is retiring the goose, one of our most beloved plushies. The Gate is nearly out of stock. Get it while you can! Once it's gone, it's gone!

Facebook post   2025-09-15 11:42:56

A while ago we announced that we would celebrate our 25th anniversary at the end of September. Unfortunately, life can interfere with even the best laid plans. MU moved its homecoming out of October and into September. We have to rebuild our deck. (And yes, it's going to be DIY.) Our DM was unavailable. And many other gremlins that have appeared to toss a wrench into it.

We have made the tough decision to move the celebration to Saturday, November 1. However, it is shaping up to be a great weekend of fun and games complete with cake.

Facebook post   2025-09-12 17:35:58

Restock Alert! Flamecraft is back in stock.

Facebook post   2025-09-11 12:01:53

NEW! Kitten Kaboodles for Boop. Now you can choose from four different kitten types to customize and enhance your Boop game.

Restock on Boo-oop (Halloween), Boop, and Boop Deck the Halls plus the Bop cat plushie.

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Newly arrived games -- A Place for All My Books (deluxe and regular versions), Gwent card game, Final Girl Premium Starter, Outfox the Fox trivia game, Boom Patrol, and D&D Owlbear Heroclix figure.

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Staff are hard at work inventorying all the board games in the store. If the wireless scanner would hold a charge, this would be faster.

Facebook post   2025-09-10 14:57:36

I took a little break from the carpet cleaning chaos and had a friend teach me how to play Kabuto Sumo. It's such a fun little game, even if the pieces look like colorful macarons in pictures.

#friendlylocalgamestore
#valhallasgategames
#boardgames

Facebook post   2025-09-10 14:54:20

While I waited for the carpet cleaners to finish, I completed tasks we can only do while we are closed. Check out these cute, little shoe covers I got to wear! Staff will get to wear the booties, too, while they inventory board games this afternoon.

We should have everything back to rights and open tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:00 am.

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#cleaning
#valhallasgategames
#boardgames

Facebook post   2025-09-10 13:49:02

Just a reminder, the Gate will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday).

Facebook post   2025-09-09 16:05:59

D&D Eberron Forge of the Artificer -- Reserve your copy today! We will have both covers available when the book releases in December.

Welcome to Eberron, where magic meets wondrous inventions. Play as the Artificer: the ultimate creative class. You're not just an inventor or spellcaster. You're an innovator, a bold-hearted visionary, with the potential to change the world. Creativity and ingenuity are your best weapons. Awaken your potential as master of the forge with this rules expansion for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons.

- PLAY THE ULTIMATE CREATIVE CLASS: Become a master of magical inventions with the revised Artificer class, redesigned for the new Core Rules

- 5 ARTIFICER SUBCLASSES: Choose from 4 revised Artificer subclasses and 1 new subclass: the Cartographer

- SPARK NEW CHARACTER IDEAS: Explore 5 revised species, 18 backgrounds, and 28 feats, including the redesigned Dragonmarks, which are no longer species-locked

- EXPERIMENT WITH NEW OPTIONS: Eberron: Forge of the Artificer includes new spells, bastions, and magic items

- CRAFT EXHILIRATING ADVENTURES FOR YOUR PARTY: Use 3 different campaign models with guidance for building fantasy noir, political thriller, and pulp adventure campaigns in the world of Eberron

- OVER 20 NEW MONSTERS: Create imaginative D&D encounters with over 20 new monsters, each inspired by a campaign model

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