Month: June 2002

Ogres are Coming to Dinner Call me old fashioned, but I always thought Ogres were for killing, not hiring. Games Workshop has released a new free PDF scenario called Ogres for Hire for their Warhammer Skirmish system. You are preparing for your third battle with your enemy in as many

Monte Cook and his new PDF Malhavoc Press has released two new books. The Banewarrens on PDF and a new print title The Book of Eldritch Might II: Songs and Souls of Power. Not surprisingly both were written by D20 guru Monte Cook. The Book of Eldritch Might II is

Transhuman Space: Personnel Files Entering Playtesting The newest Transhuman Space supplement from Steve Jackson Games has entered playtesting at Pyramid Online. If you are subscriber you can help mold Transhuman history.

It’s the middle of a new month, so Invisible City Productions has once again released a free game. This time it’s Scoop!, a board game in which two to six players compete to be the first to sell three high-quality stories to the editor of the Action City Times. Solitaire

This Friday June 21st, Chris Galvin and Kierin Chase, the developers of the extensive organized play (OP) program for the Star Wars trading card game (TCG), will be available at Wizards.com to discuss the new Jedi Nights organized play program events that will be available to players. The chat will

Green Ronin has just posted a four-page PDF preview for Hammer & Helm. Lurking within, you’ll find eight feats, the Ironbound prestige class, and three priestly domains: Fortitude, Stonehearth, and Sword. There’s some cool artwork as well. Fetch your ale, get your beard combed, and go have a look.

Delayed by my previous computer’s rattling death, resultant email recovery problems, and some OgreCave staff changes, we now have the winner of our “Borrow the Car” Car Wars contest posted for all to see. Naturally, we had so many great entries that we’ve posted quite a few of them for

Even though Green Ronin and Paradigm Concepts have already announced their intertwined product lines under the OGL Interlock banner, they’ve now changed the title of the arrangement to OGL Interlink. “To avoid confusion with aspiring d20 publisher Interlock Games.” Sounds fair, and I’m all for having less confusion. The plans

Okay, crappy title, but it’s Monday. Give me a break. Green Ronin Publishing has added a few art galleries to their D20 product listings. First to be added are the Hammer & Helm gallery, showcasing the dwarves in the first of GR’s Races of Renown series. The book itself will

His latest expedition has taken Joe into the depths of Rappan Athuk 3: The Lower Levels by Necromancer Games. He seems to have enjoyed the ordeal, too. Go have a look and see why.

Project Aon has been working really efficiently lately. With record speed, they’ve released the free online edition of The Dungeons of Torgar, the tenth Lone Wolf gamebook. As with the last release, both online-playable and downloadable PDF editions are available, and all of the original illustrations are included.

Surprising no one, Rio Grande announced in its newsletter that it’d be picking up this reported frontrunner for this year’s Spiel des Jahres and printing it in English, for a July release. I want to make a July 4th joke here but I can’t quite make it work. In any

Phil Reed of Steve Jackson Games dropped us a note to let us know he’d be running Frag 3d games at Origins. He also sent along links to his Frag 3d Terrain Guidelines and Frag 3d Building pages. “I hope to see some people at Origins bring their own terrain

Politically Incorrect Games has announced its cooperation with Mystic Ages Online to present us gamers with an “art rich” version of Eldritch Ass Kicking. The enhanced version will be released during GenCon, and will be available as a free upgrade to customers who already own the game. The current version