Ettin Games

Ettin Games is a tabletop gaming store at 257 Farm to Market 1960 Bypass Rd E in Humble, Texas, with a calendar built around play rather than retail: Pokémon league every Sunday, a bi-weekly XCrawl Classics game, and a steady run of Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying sessions. It carries Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, and it suits beginners, kids and anyone looking for a group to play with.

Weekly play

Pokémon league meets on Sundays and is the store's fixed weekly event.

The league is kid and beginner friendly, with a seasoned league representative on hand for questions, and it also meets on Wednesdays.

Roleplaying and tabletop nights

Beyond cards, the store runs a deep calendar of tabletop events, with more than a hundred sessions on the books at once. The weekend of October 31 shows the range:

• XCrawl Classics at 10 AM, a bi-weekly dungeon-crawl game in which teams of adventurers face deathtraps and gimmicked monsters in a bloodsport broadcast set in a dystopian fantasy empire. Entry is $8.
• D&D 5E: Curse of the Azure Bonds at 2 PM, a campaign built around faction-based investigation and political intrigue across Cormyr and the Dalelands. Entry is $8.
• Ten Candles at 6 PM, a zero-prep tragic horror game played by candlelight in one-shot sessions of two to four hours. This session is for players 18 and older.

Seats at these events are limited, and the Halloween weekend sessions were down to a handful of open seats in the days before.

Organized play

Ettin Games runs Pokémon League, with sessions on Sunday afternoons and Wednesdays. Players can pick up tips and deck ideas from experienced regulars or simply play.

The community

The store is building a solid community of gamers, and its local group has grown to roughly 1,860 members. The size of that membership shows in how quickly seats fill on a typical weekend.

Getting there

The store sits on the Farm to Market 1960 Bypass in Humble, in a stretch with several other game and comic shops close by.

The local scene

Several other stores are near in Humble. DNA Comics is about 0.1 miles away and All Star Comics and Games about 0.3 miles. 3d Games is roughly half a mile off, GameXChange about 1.2 miles, and Loot Keep Trading Cards and Collectibles about 4.6 miles. Legends Card Con, a card show about 9.5 miles away, next starts on October 31, 2026.