Privateer Press has posted a freebie for the third installment of their Witchfire Trilogy, The Legion of Lost Souls. The downloadable PDF has a map prop to give the players. Unless, like me, you prefer them to stumble around, lost and defenseless. Amazons! Everywhere You Look — Amazons!! MicroTactix has
Month: December 2001
Living Dragonstar Campaign Coming To RPGA
According to a Monday post on the FFG Rants page, playtesting for the Living Dragonstar RPGA campaign has begun. This sci-fi meets D&D d20 RPG puts lasers and spaceships in the hands of orcs and elves, and lots of gamers out there are eagerly awaiting its release. This is the
Fast Forward Brings Back Campaign In February
A story at ICv2 alerts us that it’s okay to let you know what we already knew: Fast Forward Entertainment has taken charge of the d20 publicationCampaign Magazine. Jim Ward has joined the company full-time now, and John Danovich of ACD Distribution has also joined the FFE team as Vice
Extra Song & Silence
Wizards has posted one’ve them there web enhancement thingies fer Song & Silence, which you can get yer hands on right here. There’s a quick adventure inside for four characters of 6th or 7th level. Monkey God Preview Illustration Galleries Monkey God Enterprises has posted galleries for three of their
Ral Partha Rights Sold
According to a recent press release, WizKids has sold off some of the Ral Partha rights to Iron Wind Metals, which plans to continue some of the product lines. Bravo, I say… as long as the figures live up to the Ral Partha standard. Guess Iron Wind will carry on
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide – Part 2
At long last, our Christmas Gift Guide – part 2, gift suggestions at the price point of $25 or under, for those of you with slightly higher gifting budgets than the average unplugged gaming journalist. There’s a few surprises on this list, so stay on your toes, and enjoy!
De Profundis First Look
Center stage on the mic… and we puttin it on wax… it’s the New Style. This latest in Hogshead’s line of boundary-pushing RPGs is perhaps the most rules-light of the whole line. It isn’t necessarily the lightest reading, though, as it outlines the “psychodrama” approach to role-playing in text that
Wargames West Closing Down
One of the pillars of the gaming industry, Wargames West, will be closing its doors for good at the end of this month. CEO Wayne Godfrey sent out this message today to clients and industry friends: After twenty years of business in our industry, I have decided to close Wargames
Mutterings About Mongoose
Matthew Sprange of Mongoose Publishing dropped us a line to let us know what’s been going on over there. Here’s what he told us: Full details and the cover art for Ships of the Elves, the next expansion to Seas of Blood, is now up on our web site. This
Superheroes Coming From Green Ronin
Going where no d20 RPG has gone just yet, Green Ronin is taking the plunge into superhero roleplaying next Fall with Mutants & Masterminds. Author Steve Kenson, contributor to the Shadowrun, Marvel Super-Heroes, DC Universe, Champions and Aberrant game lines, will bring us an RPG that “features fast, simple mechanics
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide – Part 1
Just in time for the big shopping rush, we present our Christmas Gift Guide – part 1. Have you got your big ticket game wishes picked out already, but you’re having trouble coming up with cheaper ideas? Or maybe you’re on a budget, but want to give something to everyone
The Wages of Electronic Plastic Sin
No, I’m not talking about that book, although I’ll link it, ’cause it’s cool. I mean the sort-of-football-shaped bar code reader and math-doer that Wizards bundled with every NFL Showdown 2002 starter set. The PlayGrid device, manufactured by WotC’s sibling company Tiger, has a great deal of trouble reading the
WizKids Opens Store, Reassures Public They Haven’t Gone Nuts
ICv2 reports that WizKids has opened a retail store in Redmond, WA (yes, home of the Microsoft campus), in a highly youth-visible location. The stated purpose of the store is advance playtesting of new games and expansions, not an eventual global empire. “[ExecVP Martin] Stever told us that WizKids has
Bastion Press To Support RPGA’s Living City
Ryan Dancey of OrganizedPlay issued a press release today that answers questions of adventure support of the Living City setting: OrganizedPlay, Inc., a developer of software supporting game player networks, and licensee of the RPGA Living city of Raven’s Bluff campaign, announced today that it has entered into a long-term
The End Goes D20
Tyranny Games has announced that The End: Lost Souls Edition will use the D20 system. According to the press release, “The End promises to challenge the d20 system conventions with realistic injury effects, achievement-base experience, and a single starting class: the Meek. The class levels for the Meek reflect experience