Month: July 2001

We’ve created a special archive of all our coverage of Origins 2001, plus some brand new photos. Check ’em out!

At long last, FFG has a web page for Vortex, the new effort from the team that gave you DiskWars. Check out some disk im- sorry, tile images, download sample tiles and rules, and generally sit back and admire.

Wingnut Games wants everyone to know that the second printing of Land of Og is back in stock. So if you couldn’t find it before, try again — it’s worth the effort. Freeport Enters Arcanis: the World of Shattered Empires As we mentioned a while back, Paradigm Concepts and Green

Sean Robert-Shaw, an active member of the Lone Wolf community and the author of several interesting online gamebooks, has just announced that Barnes & Noble is now offering his new role-playing game, Rangers of Taradoin, for sale. The book will offer gamebook-style solitaire play as well as traditional multiplayer adventuring,

Earlier today, Troll Lord Games announced its newest D20 adventure, Felsentheim: Dogs of War, is available to the gaming public. The adventure is part three of the Death on the Treklant trilogy. This time, the characters are “fleeing the goblin war parties on their trail, hoping to reach the safety

Continuing the quest to bring their Generic Universal Role-Playing System to as many players as possible, Steve Jackson Games announced their agreement with Fantasy Flight Games to produce GURPS Blue Planet. As the sourcebook is just getting underway, no release date was given, but you can bet the world of

You’ve seen Hot or Not, right? The site where you judge everyone by their looks? Well, now there’s Cool Mini or Not, which asks you to do the same for painted miniatures. You can even send in a picture of your own artistic endeavors to be rated by the masses.

Has real life been taking too much of your time lately? Me too. Consequently, I’ve fallen a bit behind in my issues of Roleplaying Tips. Let’s play some catch-up: Issue #81explores ways to liven up your cities, and also gives some great ideas on Planning A Group’s Combat Tactics. Issue

With the excitement of Origins all wrapped up, and GenCon just around the corner, a lot has been happening in D20. Let’s get to it. Pinnacle released Deadlands D20 at Origins, and are so on top of things, they’ve already posted some errata. Mystic Eye has been busy posting freebies

So I found this flyer at Origins for something called Morton’s List. The web site loads slower than ass, so I’ll quote you some of the flyer first: “There is no board to play on, unless you consider the Earth beneath your feet to be one. Morton’s List is not

Let’s hope so, anyway. I caught a wicked cold halfway through the con and it’s still messing with me. Don’t sleep with your head too close to the AC, kids. Series Archer Delayed I don’t know if any of the rest of you remember back when AEG put up this

There’s been some job switching at Wizards of the Coast. Chris Perkins, former Star Wars Gamer and Star Wars Insider Editor-in-Chief moved into the Creative Director position for Wizards of the Coast. Dave Gross left his spot as Editor-in-Chief of Dragon Magazine after a five year stint to take Chris’

The High Lords lost their lease! Every alternate reality must go! At least that’s what I envision as a good sales pitch for West End Games’ big summer Torg sale. The main set is on sale for $10, Drama Decks are a mere $3, and anything else from the game

First, a correction: it’s Risk 2210 A.D., not 2101 A.D. But what’s 109 years between friends, eh? Still no page about this one on the AH web site. Deadlands D20 Surfaces Yes, it’s printed, it was at the show. The cover doesn’t look like your conventional Deadlands stuff – it’s

The Kargatane, official website of D20 Ravenloft, has recently whispered of other product plans by White Wolf’s Arthaus team. After the initial hardcover Ravenloft book in October, Arthaus will reveal Secrets of the Dread Realms, 72 pages of DM-only information, including magic, NPCs, and other info. That will be followed