Month: August 2001

Wingnut Games has posted the Quickstart rules to StuperPowers Deluxe. The humorous RPG of superheroes with silly or useless powers will be arriving in October, and weigh in at 112 pages. Pro-Am Adventures Surface The first round of results from Citizen Games’ D20 adventure writing contest has been posted on

If you haven’t been by the in a while, go take a look at the site and see what you think. Personally, as much as I like the company’s products, I can’t say anything good about the main page. It’s entirely unintuitive, serving only to drastically slow you down as

Viking Games has posted an 11-page preview of their D20 book, Monster Menagerie.Check out the stats and descriptions for several beasts, including the Banshee, and the Mantoid, which sounds suspiciously similar to a Tri-Kreen from Dark Sun.

Due to a number of developments, not the least of which being Hasbro lobotomizing the electronics division of Wizards of the Coast and feeding the properties to Infogrames, the Master Tools D&D 3 software has been delayed until the first quarter of 2002. Considering how far the product vision had

This ICv2 report has a (precious) few more details about the WotC d20 crackdown we reported on early in the week. They say: “Is this a laudable attempt to standardize procedures and enforce a necessary discipline on sloppy publishers, or is it the stunned reaction of an organization that has

Citizen Games has a preview up of the Desperado RPG, which uses the D20 System. This looks like a pure western game, with none of that horror or fantasy stuff. Still, I’ll be interested to compare this to Pinnacle’s Deadlands D20.

In October, Green Ronin will present Arcana: Societies of Magic, a D20 sourcebook on mystic organizations, secret or otherwise. Written by Kevin Brennan and James Maliszewski, this promises to be a good one. Here’s the details: Arcana: Societies of Magic details six different organizations that employ unique styles of magic

The official Star Wars website has announced some preliminary details about Episode II. Specifically, the name of the movie has been announced as Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Uhh… oh-kay. Certainly inspires confidence, don’t it? :-/

I checked with Fantasy Flight at GenCon about their expansion to the Lord of the Rings boardgame (formerly a WotC game). There was a single, unopened copy of the expansion, Friends and Foes,at a booth dedicated to nothing but the boardgame. From looking at the back, the game will have

New card games were everywhere at GenCon this year. Let me see what I can remember… The Ebay card game from Journeyman Press looked promising, though uncomplicated. WotC’s Harry Potter CCG had major displays inside the castle, and seemed well designed from a cursory glance at the game. However, $3.29

Galloglass Games has made two recent announcements. First of all, their twisted rail game HellRail has returned to print courtesy of Mayfair Games and is now available for sale. Secondly, a new mailing list aimed at discussing the issues involved in publishing cheap card and board games has just been

One of the more entertaining single-space booths was the tribal tent of Outside the Asylum Productions, who were at GenCon promoting their boardgame, Nomad. In the game, which is packaged in a strange tent-like box, are several cloth gameboards and a number of game pieces. Each player uses a small

One of my roommates ran a scheduled playtest game of the new Tekumel RPG being developed by . The new game uses the Tri-Stat system, used throughout most of the GOO product line. Though I didn’t have a chance to join in, my roommate said the players thought the combat

Apparently, yesterday’s posts didn’t show up. They should now be displaying just fine, so check out my preliminary report on GenCon 2001. I’ll be adding more later today.

Over at booth #347, Sovereign Press had the entire line of last year’s Sovereign Stone RPG, now converted to the D20 System. There always seemed to be activity there, partly because Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman were at the booth, signing everything from Dragonlance to their Sovereign Stone novel. Don