Time for a giveaway! We’re giving away this Varia Starter Set to kickstart your next game night.
So, you get to a game night and you’re ready to throw down some battle cards! Sometimes, it’s fun to break out a few booster packs and build a couple of decks. But, sometimes… you just wanna skip all that and get down to battling. If the latter speaks to you, you might be interested in the Varia Starter Set, published by Guildhouse Games.
Varia is a card-and-dice-based dueling game designed to provide an accessible experience right out of the box. Just pick a class, grab some dice, and start playing with a pre-constructed deck. Or, if you feel like shaking things up, you can mix and match for a customized experience.
The Varia Starter Set comes with two classes: the Volcanic Warrior and Shadow Assassin. Each class includes the cards, dice, and tokens you’ll need to start playing. The Starter Set also includes a rulebook and a full-color comic to introduce players to the Varia lore. And all this comes in a beautifully illustrated card storage box. On top of that, you‘ll receive four Varia Promo Cards: Ebon Cloak, Bowie Knife, Molten Ravager, and Thorium Crusher.
Log in to or sign up for a donor account, then donate $7.77 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this giveaway until 2:45pm PST.
We here at Desert Bus for Hope would like to thank one of our Prize Sponsors for this year’s event: Take This!
Take This is a mental health nonprofit; their mission is decrease the stigma, and increase the support for, mental health in the game enthusiast community and inside the game industry. The foundation of all of their work is the principle that hope is healing in the journey to mental wellness. They provide resources, training, and support for individuals and companies that help the gaming community improve its mental well-being and resilience. The organization addresses the underlying conditions that can create and perpetuate mental health challenges: stigma, harmful studio culture, harassment and toxicity, lack of diversity and accessibility, and problematic game and community design.
Thank you Take This for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope!
Yesterday, the intrepid adventurers of Alpha Flight embarked on their quests through the multiverse. Today, as our adventures continue, we’re challenging the community to come up with portraits of the party!
As a quick refresher, the adventuring party includes…
- Waywocket (Gnome Wizard) and Vulp (Fox Familiar)
- Bepis (Loxodon Paladin)
- Boom (Gnome Artificer)
- Issac (Tiefling Rogue)
Of note, you don’t have to draw all four characters, and feel free to use whichever art style you prefer!
Send your submissions as a PNG or JPG to contest@desertbus.org with the subject line Character Portraits. Be sure to include the screen name you’d like to go by should we show your submission on air or on the blog.
We’ll run this Creative Challenge until 4:00pm PST today. The winner receives an Official Desert Bus 2021 T-Shirt and Gold DBloon!
Coming up very soon, SungWon Cho (a.k.a. ProZD) will be joining us live during Alpha Flight via the latest DB Labs hybrid robot technology!
SungWon Cho is a voice actor. You also may know him as ProZD online where he makes videos on YouTube/Twitter/all the social medias. He loves his cats Effie and Sophie very much.
SungWon Cho will be joining us starting at 1:00pm PST. Tune in here at desertbus.org or at twitch.tv/desertbus!
Hello to all! Today on Dawn Guard we were visited by LIZ!!
(Dammit Liz!)
And boy did we get a lot of work out of her sweet face!
But now we are off, to enjoy the rest of our day in peace!
Make sure you behave yourselves!!! Or you’ll get the water bottle from Ashley.
Magic magic ma–*cough* Sorry. HELLO! Do you like Magic the Gathering? Then I have a hot one for ya…
One of the most popular planes is back with Guilds of Ravnica and Ravnica Allegiance Mythic Editions. Each Mythic Edition contains 8 exclusive masterpiece Planeswalker cards that were only available in the Mythic Editions, 24 draft booster packs of their respective set, and all the appropriate tokens and counters needed for the masterpiece cards.
Donate $7.77 or multiples thereof by 11:50am PST for a chance to go wide with value!!
First up we have a beautifully made musical instrument called a Kantele!
If you’re curious what one sounds like, check out this very soothing video of one being played here
A Kantele is a traditional Finnish instrument. This Kantele uses a piece of sheoak as a sound board with natural edges with a sound box made of red oak. The Kantele has a deep bell like resonance that keeps the notes ringing long after the cord is plucked.
Next up we have these beautiful Mass Effect themed stone pendants!
This Mass Effect stone pendant set is inspired by a selection of favourite characters and themes. So whether you’re feeling like a lawfully good Paragon one day, or sassy questionable Renegade another; there’s a pendant for that. Also included is your very own Krogan, Turian and Asari – please remember to feed and pet them every day.
Make sure to keep an eye on these and get in your bids before they’re gone!
We all know it’s dangerous to go alone, that’s why you strap a sword to your hip. But you’ve got lots of other gear to take with you on your quests, and even more you’re sure to find. No matter if your adventures see you facing off against cosmic horrors from beyond the stars, or just having picnic lunch in the local park, a sturdy bag is an absolute necessity.
If you’d like to win this bag, donate $9.99 or multiples thereof for a chance to win! Make sure to submit your donations by 10:15am PST!!
This Gladstone bag (more commonly recognized as a Doctors bag) is hand stitched from two varieties of fine Horween leather, lined with an Ottertex waterproof canvas interior with water resistant zipper, and features a Fidlock Magnetic clasp that snaps closed from any angle but only opens one way. All to keep your roughly 6 Liters of gear Secure, Dry and Safe. Each corner is embossed with one of the four shift banners, and the strap for the fastener displays the Desert Bus Mon front and center for subtle but iconic DB pride.
If you love playing small card games for when you’re on the go?
Then this giveaway is perfect for you!
Donate $6.78 or multiples thereof by 8:45am PST for a chance to win!
Donate $5.13 or multiples thereof by 7:10am PST for a chance to win!
Step into the World of Darkness in the newest edition of the classic role playing game Vampire: the Masquerade. In this game of personal and political horror you are one of the things people fear, one of the monsters that stalks the shadows and feeds on the living. But do you embrace that monster and give in to the hunger? Or do you fight it, clinging desperately to the last shreds of your humanity? While you struggle to maintain control, the vampire clans struggle to maintain the Masquerade, the centuries long tradition that has kept the existence of vampires a secret from humanity. In this pack you will get the Vampire: the Masquerade V5 corebook, the Anarch and Camarilla sourcebooks, a collection of clan pins (Brujah, Toreador, Ventrue), and a recreation of Damsel’s hat from Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines. This hat was only sold at PDXCON 2019 and is no longer available.