So I bought the two-player starter because it was so damned cheap, for the sole reason of reporting on it… then I forgot to report on it! But it’s okay because I’m pretty sure it’s all still the same! Here’s the deal: combat reminds me somewhat of . Cards act
Month: April 2002
Inner City Lemmings Going Online
Inner City Games has a new deal with Gametable Online to create a multi-player online version of Lemmings in Space. A beta version should be ready by mid- to late October. Soon, players will be killing their rodent space crews through their computers. Roast a few over a solar flare
Confounded Furriners! Why Can’t They Just Talk American?
Several readers emailed to let me know that The Dark Eye, the RPG mentioned yesterday, is probably Das Schwarze Auge, a popular fantasy RPG in Germany. I should have looked more closely at all the German-language stuff on the FanPro home page, seeing as how I linked to it and
Fast Forward To Distribute Shadowrun, BattleTech, Dark Eye
Missed this news earlier in the week: Fast Forward, FanPro, and FASA “announced together that they have entered into an agreement allowing Fast Forward to be the sales and distribution arm for the Classic Battletech game, the Shadowrun roleplaying game and The Dark Eye roleplaying game with all new releases
Silver Age Sentinels Mounts D20 Second-Wave Assault
have announced that they’ll be following up the release of their Tri-Stat System superhero RPG with a D20 version in time for Gen Con. If I were them, I’d pull a Godlike and throw them both in the same edition, but maybe Godlike’s presence in the same genre is a
This Is Sick With A Capital S
The first of the Four Horsemen has been found. In Canada. Some might remember WizKids Games‘ Find the Four Horsemen Contest. The basics of it are that WizKids has made a very few Mage Knight figures of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. Wizkids put
RPGs prohibited in Brazilian City
I found this thread over at the EN World forums. The situation is that recently a law banning all Roleplaying Games from the Brazilian City of Vila Velha was approved and signed into law despite the best efforts of a gamer named Tiago. There is an attempt to invalidate the
In The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future, There Is Only… Tango!
So I actually got to play the Warhammer 40,000 CCG last night. It’s hard to describe why this game feels innovative, because it does, despite the fact that the tactics and battle mechanics all feel ripped out of other games, which themselves were not that innovative. I haven’t wanted to
Cyberpunk V.3 Delayed. Again
As the new guy this’ll be my first post. Let’s hope I don’t break anything. 🙂 At R.Talsorian Games a recent rant by Lisa updates the status of a number of RTG products. Most noticeable is the delay (again) of Cyberpunk V.3. The reason given being creator Mike Pondsmith’s 12-hour
Alien Abduction, Free of Charge
The Penny Games site has released a new free game: Alien Abduction, an entry in the Unequal Forces board game competition. This two-player strategy game pits a human player controlling two genetically-enhanced and well-armed individuals against a legion of replicating little alien monsters. You can play it with Chess and
Enter The Viking Enters Stores
Hard to get my mind around the idea that I’ll be thirty in less than two hours. Hoo-boy. Anyway… This week, Atlas Games brings on the norsemen again with Enter the Viking, an 80-page sourcebook for Rune. With “ten cushion encounters and a plot encounter sequence,” the vikings in your
French People Threaten To Give Roleplaying Award
GROG stands for “Guide du Roliste Galactique” – “Roleplayer’s Guide to the Galaxy,” according to the press release. It also nicely suggests “grognard,” a French term long used to describe hardcore wargamers, but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that the nominees for the Grog d’Or, an award
Spelljammer D20. Be Afraid…
The May issue of Dungeon/Polyhedron dares to go back to the Spelljammer setting, revised for the D20 System. The 46-page section details prestige classes, feats, skills, equipment, different uses for spells, several planets, and a bunch of spelljamming ships to cruise through space in. But some of the stranger parts
Shamans, Shamans Everywhere
Mongoose Publishing has announced details of the first book in their Encyclopedia Divine series, Shaman, due out in May. This seems to mirror the style of the Encyclopedia Arcane series, introducing new magic theories and prestige classes. The second in the Divine series, Fey Magic, will follow in June. As
Atlas Spans Globe, Brings African Adventures
This August, Atlas Games will bring Nyambe: African Adventures to the d20 System. According to today’s press release, the 256-page book (16 of which in full color) will have a variety of goodies. I’ll give you their PR laundry list on it; too many weirdly spelled words for me: Twelve