Month: June 2001

Aldo at Wingnut Games tells us that Battle Cattle: The Card Game is on its way to the printers, and should be reaching stores in September from Steve Jackson Games. For now, you can check out the boxshot and begin selecting opponents to gore. Heck, just challenge anyone that gets

This month’s update to all things Freeport has surfaced over at Green Ronin. It includes a new beast, the plague wraith, as well as a related adventure hook, new disease, and a new spell. All this, and Legions of Hell is being printed this week? (**holds hands together with fingertips

If this week’s topic, Using Limericks To Spice Things Up, makes you hesitate like I did, you owe it to yourself to go take a look. Just don’t end any lines with “City of Brass,” or you could be going down that slippery slope to words that rhyme with Nantucket.

This month, Invisible City Productions has brought something completely different to light: rules for a free swimming pool game called Roboctopus! The game is essentially a Marco Polo variant, but it’s a Marco Polo variant involving a bloodthirsty, sonar-equipped, mechanical mollusk, so I say “go for it!” It’s not as

After weeks of building excitement (not to mention assembling a soundtrack), Deep7 has completed its Shriek: 2nd Edition CD-ROM. This disc contains an expanded version of the previously-online-only 1PG along with a musical soundtrack that would be appropriate for the slasher movies that inspired the game. The CD-ROM, which costs

With the Third Edition Forgotten Realms in stores just over a week, Wizards presents us with a look back at previous incarnations of the Realms from Elminster himself, Ed Greenwood. It’s an interesting read, and gives a glimpse into what’s involved in presenting a massive campaign setting to the D&D

New D20 company Game Horizons has made plans to create a series of “Master Adventures” that are fully compatible with the Master Maze miniature sets from Dwarven Forge. If you’re not familiar with Dwarven Forge’s work, check out the gallery from the D&D 3 playtest I ran when I was

The word from Pinnacle is that Deadlands D20 is at the printers (the final “Making of” article shows off the book’s cover art). While we wait anxiously for the ink to dry, the promo poster for Weird Wars has taken over the PEG site’s splash page. Anyone who orders $20

They never rest over at . Joyce Godecke has joined the Cheapass crew as their new Marketing Director. Joyce comes to the company by way of Amazon.com, and as such, has taken a step up in the world. The latest BRAWL expansion, , is available, as well as a limited

“Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce the imminent launch of Dragonstar, a new space-fantasy RPG setting for use with the d20 System. […] Dragonstar is a universe of magic and machine, science and sorcery, a universe where dragons rule a galactic empire and humans, elves, dwarves, and the other

An adventure by Monte Cook, author of D&D 3’s Dungeon Master’s Guide, is available for free download over at Wizards of the Coast. The short quest, called A Frigid Demise, involves a white dragon with a few tricks up her… uh, scales. The adventure is for four 13th level characters.

I’m sorry, but this is rad.

It’s been almost two months since Rio Grande Games posted their last newsletter, but they’ve finally made some new announcements. This week should see the release of Barbarossa and Traders of Genoa. Releases announced for later this summer include The Lord of the Rings: The Search, a Tolkien-inspired game for

9th Level Games has announced a pair of impending releases. The second solo adventure for Kobolds Ate My Baby, titled Necro-Groundhog of The Awfully Dark Graveyard of Excruciating Arcane Death, will ship this month. Apparently, King Torg (ALL HAIL KING TORG!) has a demon stuck in his teeth, and he

Galloglass Games has just made two announcements: one good, one bad. The good news is that Mesomorph Games is now ready to sell Piecepacks. The kits cost $17.50 plus shipping, which isn’t a bad price when you consider how flexible they are. The bad news (which could certainly have been