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For more information on Dragon’s Lair Austin events, please visit our website and online calendar or by the store and pick up an event schedule. For more information on events, please email our Events Coordinator, Robbie LaBanca.

Austin Lair Events for May 14 – May 20

Monday May 14, 2012

• 2 PM Austin Area Homeschoolers Game Day
• 7 PM Tephra RPG Demo & Playtest
• 7 PM Pathfinder Society
• 7 PM Open Minis Play

Tuesday May 15, 2012

• 7 PM Open Minis Play
• 7 PM Dystopian Wars Open Play
• 7 PM Magic: the Gathering Draft ($12)

Wednesday May 16, 2012

• New Comic Book Day!
• 7 PM Epic Armageddon Open Play
• 7 PM D&D Encounters/Lair Assault
• 7 PM Austin Blood Bowl League
• 7 PM Board and Card Game Group
• 7 PM Malifaux Open Play

Thursday May 17, 2012

• Warhammer Miniatures Night
• 7 PM Warhammer Fantasy/40K Open Play
• 7 PM Firestorm Armada/Uncharted Seas Casual Play
• 7 PM Beginner’s Painting Class
• 7 PM Legend of the Five Rings CCG (Constructed $5)

Friday May 18, 2012

• Clix & Card Game Night
• 7 PM Magic: the Gathering Standard Constructed ($5)
• 7 PM World of Warcraft TCG Draft ($12)
• 7:30 PM Heroclix: Clix for Kids Charity Event

Saturday May 19, 2012

• 5 PM Kid’s Warhammer
• 5 PM Settlers of Catan Meet-up
• 7 PM Dust Tactics League
• 7 PM Magic: the Gathering Commander Night

Sunday May 20, 2012

• 10 AM Warhammer Fantasy Tournament (Escalation Tournament)t
• 1 PM D&D RPGA Open Play
• 1 PM ShadowFist CCG Game Day
• 2 PM Pokemon League Play

Monday May 21, 2012

• 2 PM Austin Area Homeschoolers Game Day
• 7 PM Tephra RPG Demo & Playtest
• 7 PM Pathfinder Society
• 7 PM Open Minis Play

Every year, more than 500,000 babies are born to soon in the United States – almost 54,000 of them right here in Texas. The March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies and support families if something goes wrong.

On Friday, May 18, 2012 at 7:30 PM – Heroclix players from all over the great state of Texas are coming to the Austin Dragon’s Lair to play for a great cause and great prizes. Last year this event raised over $1400.00 for charity. Let’s see if we can beat that this year!

THE EVENT

WHEN: 7:30 PM Friday, May 18, 2012
WHERE: Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin
COST: $10
FORMAT: The main event will be a 300-point, 3 action Modern Age tournament – with a special rule. You can buy a re-roll for $1.00.

There is a $10.00 fee to register for the event. Everyone who participates will have the chance to win some great door prizes. For every event ticket ($10.00) purchased, you can increase your chances of winning a door prize.

THE TOURNAMENT

The main event will be a 300-point, 3 action Modern Age tournament – with a special rule. You can buy a re-roll for $1.00. Unhappy with that critical miss? Or your opponent’s critical hit? Watching a game and want to keep it interesting?

Donate $1.00 to the March of Dimes and buy a re-roll. You can buy a re-roll for yourself or for your opponent. If you’re a spectator, you can make any player re-roll their dice!

Go crazy with this – fill the donation jars and help create what promise to be some of the more creative and entertaining clix matches the Austin Lair has ever seen.

All the money raised by the tournament, from registration fees to re-rolls will be used to purchase comics, toys and games for the kids of the March of Dimes.

If you have any questions about the game or would like to donate anything for prizes, please contact Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin‘s Events Coordinator, Robbie Labanca (events@dlair.net).

Play clixs, help kids. It’s that simple.

Then come check out the Austin Lair‘s Learn to Play demo!

An Austin Lair employee will walk everyone through learning to play and judge an unofficial mock tournament, giving guidance, advice and help as you play. The Austin Lair will provide cards & dice.

This is a great laid-back, casual way to learn Magic: the Gathering!

WHEN: Saturday May 12 at 7PM
WHERE: Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin
COST: Free!

Helpful Links for those interested in Magic: The Gathering!

• What Is Magic: the Gathering
• DCI Homepage
• Basic Magic: the Gathering rulebook
• Learn To Play
• Game Basics
• Gatherer – a searchable database of cards
• Banned/Restricted lists
• Planeswalker Rules
• Magic: the Gathering Tournament Rules
• Friday Night Magic homepage
• Sanctioned Formats

WHEN: 7:30 PM Friday, May 18, 2012
WHERE: Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin
WHO: Ari Marmell & Keith Baker

Ari Marmel • Ari Marmell’s homepage

Ari has written supplements and rules for D&D 3.5 and D&D 4.0, (including Tomb of Horrors and Eberron Player’s Guide & Eberron Campaign Guide) and has written novels for Magic: the Gathering (Agents of Artifice) and several other game-universe tie-in novels.

Ari has written several original fiction novels: The Corvie Rebaine Novels: The Conqueror’s Shadow, The Warlod’s Legacy, The Goblin Corps and his newest book, Thief’s Covenant: A Widdershins Adventure.

Keith Baker

Keith is the creator of the Eberron campaign setting, the author of several Eberron novels and one of the people behind Atlas Game’s Gloom card game. He’s an award-winning RPG writer and game developer.

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Christopher Golden

Dark Fantasy and Horror master, Christopher Golden sits down with Bryan and Matt to discuss his current collaboration with Mike Mignola, Joe Golem and the Drowning City as well as his upcoming work on the follow-up Baltimore series from Dark Horse and more! Chris also teases an upcoming project with Charline Harris (author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels) called Cemetery Girl!

• May 2012

If you have any questions about events or would like to schedule an event with Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin, please email our Events Coordinator, Robbie LaBanca.

Dust Tactics is a alternate history tactical miniatures board game of ruthless engagements in which 2-4 players wage war against each other with the forces of rival factions belonging to one of the world’s superpowers. The Allies and the Axis control the majority of the world and are constantly battling for valuable and rare deposits of VK. Which battle will decide the outcome of the war?

• Dust Tactics Homepage
• About Dust Tactics

WHERE: Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin
WHEN: Saturdays at 7 PM
COST: Free

Like Dust Tactics? Check out Dust Warfare.

Just stop by your local Lair and ask at the front counter and you can buy passes for A-Kon.

A-Kon are available for a limited time and while supplies last.

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Michael Moreci

LairCast™ Hosts Bryan and Alan sit down with Michael Moreci to chat about his new comic, Hoax Hunters by Image Comics, that premiered in March. He covers everything from concept of the book, its origins and what the future holds for the book. Check out this fun podcast and learn more about the X Files meets Mythbusters book, Hoax Hunters!

Our first post is just simply a thank you to our customers.

Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin has raised well over $1000 for the Hill Country Ride for AIDS. That’s money that goes to buy food, shelter and medical care for AIDS patients who otherwise couldn’t afford it.

Not only is the Austin Lair a donation site, we are going to be a pit stop along the ride – this is a cause we are very proud to be supporting and we’re even prouder of how generous and supportive our customers have been. We are part of an industry and a culture that have proven, time and time again, that has proven to be full of generous, compassionate and awesome people.

Every day, more and more of these donation slips are appearing on our walls as our customers continue to prove how awesome they are. We’ve had a lot of people who didn’t want to leave their name, but have filled out slips with their favorite comic book, movie, book, manga and anime heroes and villains. Everyone from Captain James T. Kirk to Robin (all of them), the X-Men (most of them) have appeared on these slips.

The way the Austin comics & gaming community has come out to support this event has been phenomenal.

Steve Jackson Games donated door prizes, swag and several of their Men-In-Black came out the night of our home-made Serenity Munchkin tournament and our vendors have been incredibly supportive in helping us get prize support for our other events.

And we still have one charity gaming event left. This Friday night, you can participate in our Magic: the Gathering Friday Night Magic Charity Event. For ever $1 a Magic player donates, they get their name entered into a drawing for some amazing door prizes, such as a full box of Dark Ascension boosters. You can donate as much as you like to get your name entered as many times as you want – $10 will buy ten entries.

By the time we close Friday night, we hope that the last bits of remaining space around the store will be hung with donation slips.

Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin takes pride in our connection to our community. Not only do we participate in charity events such as the Hill Country Ride for AIDS and Operation Blue Santa, we donate comics, graphic novels and manga to the Highland Park Elementary School’s Fluency center, donate people and prize support to local library game events and even help sponsor Yomicon the Austin Public Library’s yearly free anime and manga convention.

The community – our customers – have kept us in business and growing for more than 25 years and we are very glad we are able to give back to the community and people who have given us all these years of success.

EDIT: Thanks to the generous contributions by our customers, Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy® Austin was able to raise approximately $2100 for the Hill Country Ride for AIDS.