Month: September 2002

Necromancer Games Gives Up the Good Stuff The benevolent forces at Necromancer Games have blessed the gaming community with their own contribution to open gaming content. The nice folks at Necromancer have posted the Original Spell Name Compendium, a list of converted spell names for use by anyone in the

Bonds of Magic Previews at Malhavoc Press Site In less than a week the new book from Sean K. Reynolds

Invisible City Productions‘ latest free game of the month is here. It’s a neat little Rummy/Dominoes hybrid called Pokino. The game is played using double-12 dominoes, a Poker deck and lots of tokens, and two or more players can participate. The rules also include numerous variants, so once again, you’ll

Our ever-curious interviewer Joe Kushner brings us today’s Q&A to start the week off right. This time, Joe’s brought us an interview with Robin Laws, the impressive and prolific game designer. Have a look, and find the answer to that all-important question: what smells of ferret?

The latest d20 buzz is all involving the upcoming Book of Vile Darkness, WotC‘s hardcover D&D3e book of “mature subjects” written by Monte Cook. The book will go where no other “official” D&D rulebook has gone: deep into the nature of evil. Reportedly, the book will contain rules for human

Magic of Faerûn Prestige Classes Wizards of the Coast has posted a new Prestige Class for Forgotten Realms. The latest freebie from WotC includes epic level progressions for three existing classes from Magic of Faerûn (wizard of Waterdeep, the incantatrix, and the mage-killer) and a brand new epic class called

New PDF at the Iron Crown Site Emer Book I: Haestra, The Northwest has been added as a color PDF download from the Iron Crown Enterprises site. The new 132 page book includes: A detailed timeline A large section devoted to the realms of Haestra Info on the Changramai Warrior-monk

Free Scenario for Star Wars RPG After a bad week at the Wizards of the Coast headquarters, we have something free and useful. Steal of a Deal is a free adventure for any Star Wars RPG era. This mini-adventure is designed for four 4th-level characters and can be be easily

More on the Return of Battlefleet Gothic Games Workshop has added some additional details regarding the relaunch of Battlefleet Gothic. The new Battlefleet Gothic box set includes a rulebook and 8 plastic multi-part Imperial and Chaos Cruisers which can assembled into a variety of different spaceship types. It also includes

Paper Buildings are all the Rage Starbase Omega 3 from MicroTactix is ready for you and your game. The new Starbase Omega 3 set contains everything you need to build a nice paper starport, shuttle pads and all manner of spaceish type things. A wide variety of cardstock figures, signs,

Breaking from their dinosaur theme, Goodman Games will soon be releasing three Aerial Adventure Guides and be the first to take d20 into the clouds. The first volume, Rulers of the Sky, should arrive in stores on Monday. In the meantime, a new 9-page preview of the Guides is up,

The title says it all. The d20 onslaught continues with Joe’s interview of Wil Upchurch and Greg Benage from Fantasy Flight Games. Also, Demian brings us a glowing review of The Longest Night, part one of The Witchfire Trilogy from Privateer Press.

We just received this tidbit from Brett at PI Games: “BTRC and Politically Incorrect Games have reached a cross-licensing agreement to release settings for their respective universal rpg systems, EABA and Action Exploits Diceless Roleplaying.” Okay, so what are they? Well, Action Exploits is a free diceless RPG system from