Month: May 2001

For those of you who remember the two AD&D boxed sets detailing Undermountain, the immense dungeon under Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms, Wizards has posted details on an old friend. Halaster Blackcloak, the mad archmage who created the deadly caverns and still wanders them, has thirty levels to his name.

This August, Steve Jackson Games will be relaunching the Car Wars line, starting with a new edition of Car Wars: The Card Game. As part of the second wave of products, SJ Games will work with Wingnut Games to bring you Battle Cattle: The Card Game in September. The two

French RPG site Roliste.com has named their Grog D’or (Game of the Year): Blue Planet v2 by Fantasy Flight Games. This is an impressive victory for FFG, considering that Blue Planet was up against such heavy hitters as Call of Cthulhu, Conspiracy X, Feng Shui, and Herowars. best essay uk

Rumors have it that Journeyman Press will be releasing Ebay: The Card Game this September. The furious bidding and selling should follow shortly thereafter.

The folks over at Gamegrene.com have an interview with the infamous 9th Level Games crew, creators of Kobolds Ate My Baby. Go read how the popular weird RPG resulted from a drunken bet, and several other interesting tidbits. The best thing about KAMB, other than death by spontaneous combustion, is

John Kovalic has posted the entire Dork Tower 12-page storyline, Matt & Gilly’s Big Date. The strip is nominated for an Origins Award this year, so go check it out. As an added bonus, you’ll learn of the heartbreak of gamer love unfulfilled.

This week’s issue of Roleplaying Tips continues the theme of using names to enhance your game. Though I hope my games never require the use of a stopwatch to speed things up, the other tips are quite useful, as usual.

Mystic Eye Games just let us know that their D20 System book, Nightmares & Dreams: A Creature Collection, won’t be arriving quite as soon as originally predicted. MEG’s Doug Herring had an acceptable reason for the delay: We could not fit in all that we wanted in a 56 page

Citizen Games has updated their site with both D20 and non-D20 items. We’re given a taste of the races from Myrra, Citizen’s D20 campaign world, and a quick look at some rules from MAFIA: The Organized Crime RPG. The site’s free download section will be receiving a regular influx of

It appears that Deep7 has found the bands they were looking for, as they have just announced the impending release of the CD-ROM-based second edition of their simple, cinematic horror role-playing game, Shriek. The new edition will contain all the fast-playing goodness of the original, but it will feature a

New company Mongoose Publishing is heading in a different direction with their D&D 3 supplements: highly detailed guides of one monster race. Called the Slayer’s Guides, each book will fully explore one creature type, both for the players’ benefit and the DM’s. The first of these guides, The Slayer’s Guide

Battleplay.com has just announced the release of Doubloon Lagoon, a desktop published game to download, print and play. Every aspect of pirating on the high seas is built into the game, as well as some mystical artifacts and sea monsters. Okay, sing it with me now: Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate’s

Our latest review is of Drakon, by Fantasy Flight Games. I finally pulled myself away from the playtesting to finish it up. Can you tell I enjoyed it?

In case I hadn’t mentioned it already, you can now cast your vote for this year’s Origins Awards. If you play games at all, you should give the nominees a look.

Pinnacle has a new update on their D20 adaptation of Deadlands. Included therein is a .pdf preview of the Gunslinger class, which will look familiar to both D&D and Deadlands players. That’s precisely what Pinnacle is going for. In fact, the folks at PEG are getting such a great response