Month: May 2001

Rob Kuntz, the third founder of the original Dungeons & Dragons, will be lending his support to Necromancer Games’ slogan, “Third Edition Look, First Edition Feel,” with several D20 adventures. Starting with reworked versions of Kuntz’s Maze of Zayene series (which will be extended with a brand new fifth adventure,

Months after Wizards of the Coast decided to stop publishing Legend of the Five Rings game products, Alderac Entertainment Group has gained the licence to publish the L5R CCG. AEG is the perfect company to take over L5R, as they were the ones who created it in 1995. John Zinser,

The guys at Necromancer Games just added another free supplement to their product support page. This time, Crucible of Freya, Necromancer’s first D&D 3 product to be sold in stores, receives the extra attention. The download includes 23 pages of ideas, maps, and encounters to expand the adventure, and has

Invisible City Productions, the diversified organization which has been bringing a new free game to the Internet every month for quite some time now, has done it again. This month’s offering is Lilypad, a two-player Checkers variant in which two fairies race across a pond filled with frogs and turtles.

Another week has come, heralding another issue of Roleplaying Tips. This week’s theme? “7 More Ways You Can Make Travel Interesting Or Important.” Have a look, you aspiring travel agent, you.

White Wolf co-founder Mark Rein-Hagen’s new company Atomoton updated their site recently with some visuals of the “InterACTION” figures that integrate with the card play in their upcoming game Z-G. The report that ICV2 posted a few days ago is sketchy about gameplay, but hopefully it’s a little more involved

FFG has expanded their page for the upcoming Twilight Imperium-inspired disk game Armada, with lots of Flash, story material and a PDF of the complete rules. We haven’t inspected it in detail, but if you want to see where disk games are going as badly as we do, you should.

Though not directly gaming related, I thought you’d want to know that the great Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has passed away. He died of a heart attack last Friday. You can read more about his passing here. Farewell, Doug. You were one hoopy frood,

Lore Gaming, the future publisher of the Lore line of thematically-related role-playing games, has been rebuilding its website for quite some time now, but the redesigned pages are nearly done. By late afternoon tomorrow, the site should have a new look and contain lots of information on several forthcoming releases:

Wizards has posted a teaser page for this year’s GenCon to lure you in with all the Star Wars events they have scheduled. If you desperately want to meet Billy Dee Williams, or just want to get in on some lightsaber swinging action, head over to the site. While you’re

QuikLink Interactive and Far Future Enterprises announced their plans to publish D20 Traveller, bringing the veteran sci-fi setting to today’s most popular system. So what’s left? Once the World of Darkness and GURPS cross over, we’ll be able to translate almost any character from one system to another. Nevermind why,

In August, Corsair Publishing, LLC will publish the first issue of Campaign Magazine, a D20 System publication. Each issue will contain two adventures and two articles centered on the issue’s theme. The rest of the magazine will be packed with reviews and news about everything D20. Seems like a project

Misguided Games has the first bit of new artwork from the Children of the Sun RPG. The set of sketches shows the Avendera, a leonine race that looks like a cool choice to play.

Does an order of broiled fae medallions in honey sauce sound… weird? Well, Kenzer & Company’s game of cannibalistic fairy combat, Fairy Meat, is in the news again. The Miniatures Page has images of the greens for the new miniatures. More greens of Gremlin and Gnome figures are expected in

” ‘I think this product will stop men thinking of women as the weaker sex.’ said Louis Porter, Jr., President & CEO of Louis Porter, Jr. Design.” Hey, that’s nothing – we’re working on a D20 adventure that’s going to cure lupus. [insert knee-slap here] But seriously, folks: this sounds