September will be a pretty busy month at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy ® in Bellevue! Check out these events:

September 4-6, OK nothing this weekend, but with PAX and Bumbershoot we decided not to try and compete. However, if you won’t be at either of those events in town, come on in for open gaming!

September 11 is Worldwide D&D Game Day in celebration on the re-release of the red box basic set for 4e! In addition to D&D games that day, we will also have a special preview of Gamma World (set for release in October).

September 18 is the 24th anniversary of Dragon’s Lair! We will be having signings from 4-8pm with Steve Frank of Zombies vs. Cheerleaders and Mark Rahner, author of Rotten and Cthulthu Tale.

September 23rd is our Scars of Mirrodin pre-release event

and spilling over into October, we have:

October 2nd is out Scars of Mirrodin release event

October 3rd is a special Green Ronin anniversary party, where we will be celebrating Green Ronin Games’ anniversary and its release of the DC Adventures RPG.

In case you missed the event, here’s some pictures!

And here’s all the gamers that showed up.  This was when we had Paranoia, Rifts, and D&D 4E all running simultaneously!

Free RPG day is coming this Saturday June 19th!  Come by to play in our games or just get free stuff from friendly participating game companies!  Please note that due to limited supply, free items will be handed out with a few guidelines: if you are running a game at the store, you get first pick; if you are playing in a game in the store, you get next pick; everyone else gets something on a first come first serve basis.  Those participating in games later in the day at the store can request a specific item beforehand (subject to availability, first ask first serve), but if you sign up for a game before Free RPG day starts (and actually show up to participate) you are guaranteed to get something.

What RPG events will we have, you ask? Check out our calendar! We have Paranoia, Earthdawn, and Call of Cthulhu events running pretty much all day. Please sign up at the store to ensure a spot in any particular game.  Due to content, the Call of Cthulhu game is restricted to players age 16 or over.  Don’t see a game you want to play?  We still have room for more if you are or know of a GM who can run a game!

Also, from 1pm-4pm we are pleased to welcome the local Garrison Titan of the 501st Stormtrooper division!

You may also ask, what sorts of free things may we expect on free RPG day? Well, here’s a list:

• (Alderac Entertainment Group) L5R 4th Edition RPG Quickstart & Adventure
• (Amarillo Design Bureau)  Prime Directive Quickstart (1 copy only)
• (Blue Panther) Unique Color Knockdown Dice Tower (1 copy only)
• (Chessex Manufacturing) Commemorative Dice
• (Columbia Games) Harn Quickstart & Adventure (1 copy only)
• (Exile Game Studios) Hollow Earth Expedition Quickstart & Adv.
• (Fantasy Flight Games) Warhammer 40K Roleplay: Deathwatch Adventure
• (Goodman Games) Age of Cthulhu Adventure: Abominations of the Amazon Adventure
• (Guild of Blades Publishing) Heroes Forever Quickstart & Adventure (1 copy only)
• (Paizo Publishing) Pathfinder Module: Master of the Fallen Fortress
• (Q-Workshop) unique dice
• (Skirmisher Publishing) d-∞, Volume 0
• (Troll Lord Games) Castles & Crusades Quickstart and Adventure
• (White Wolf Publishing) New Exalted 2nd Edition Quickstart & Adventure entitled “Under the Rose”
• (Wizards of the Coast) Dark Sun 4th Edition D&D Adventure

Want to play mini games at Dragon’s Lair but don’t want to bring your own boards? We want to accommodate! This Saturday, June 5th all day long we will be building tables and terrain for mini games like Warhammer, Warmachine, Malifaux, Firestorm Armada, or any others you might want. We will be providing raw materials – we just need the expertise and help from our valued customers! If you have ideas about what materials we need, please email bellevue@dlair.net with what you think we’ll need so we can get prepared prior to Saturday.

As an extra bonus, everyone who helps out gets a 10% discount on any purchase that day!

In case you missed it last week, here’s some highlights from last week’s grand opening!

Our artist guest, Amy Mebberson.

Local author Anne Bean.

Friday Night Magic

Steve Jackson Games demo by our local MIB Chris

Our friendly staff, Alexandra, Christie, and Dwayne.

The ladies even did their nails to match .

Owner Dave with his son Griffin the next generation gamer, and his daughter Persephone the next generation comic fan.

Technically this didn’t get installed till a few days after the grand opening, but our new sign did finally arrive, and it’s gorgeous .