Invisible City‘s latest game of the month has arrived. It’s Black Cat, a real-time, high-speed card game in the tradition of such classics as Spit and the alarmingly-named Egyptian Rat Screw. The game supports two to four players and should generate plenty of noise and chaos if you feel the
Month: March 2003
Chaosium cultists loose at GTS
Chaosium was moderately high profile, despite all the recent rumors flying around (which feeds into their Latin motto, “All rumors are true”), having a decent sized booth in the third exhibit hall and a big ad on the show bag. Arkham, the latest Cthulhu supplement, is shipping now, complete with
Shadowrun Duels tournament thoughts
At the Tuesday dinner presentation, we got details on some of WizKids‘ plans for the coming year. A humorous promo movie on Creepy Freaks, a number of HeroClix, MechWarrior and MageKnight expansion announcements, and it was on to what everyone really wanted to dive into: a tournament of Shadowrun Duels.
AEG doing Stargate, Warlord RPGs, and two for the kids
Stargate is a slam dunk for gaming (hey, we found a gate to Gamma World!), and a game set in the Warlord universe makes sense for the last successful CCG besides Magic that isn’t a license. The puzzling things announced in this report, though, are the two games evidently pitched
Hot, live snap-together dungeon action
Creepy Freaks is nice and all, but the presumably MK Dungeons-related plastic dungeon tiles which this post barely talks about but has drooly pictures of, ought to make some folks at Dwarven Forge sweat.
Decipher ups RPG support, continues twitching and winking about Matrix
GR’s notes about the Decipher seminar at GTS indicate that they told a bunch of retailers that they were really, really sorry about their apparent love-em-and-leave-em policy for their RPG releases of late. “Decipher will be releasing a minimum of 2 releases a month for the next few years for
GOO doing GoT RPG
Or, more properly, A Song of Ice and Fire. Available in “fall” (read: “Gen Con, we hope”), this RPG based on George R.R. Martin’s line of novels will be dual-system-dual-rulebook like Silver Age Sentinels. I wonder why Fantasy Flight didn’t get this one; maybe their RPG plate is full, or
This is hilarious: D&D minis are mini after all
And then I realized that it was all a dream! That’s right: apparently GR and many, many retailers were reacting to a typo in the D&D Miniatures promo materials. So now they have some photos and the minis are indeed Mage Knight/classic scale. Some poor WotC copy editor will be
Hey, ya stupid kid, that round thing ain’t just for whacking people
Check out the pics of the Shadowrun Duels package, specifically of the back. Do you think maybe they wanted to append a big red “Dammit!” but legal wouldn’t let them get away with it?
Green Ronin site haX0Red
Um… what? This is actually pretty funny. Yes, they were really hacked, evidently by idiot Russian teens. All the online news sources are certainly giving Green Ronin lots of love right now, and rightfully so. I hope Chris and Nicole are having a chuckle instead of stressing overmuch.
Complete Origins nominee list
There’s still no change to the official site, but here’s a list. We are now open for kibitzing.
The kids love the dragons: new post-3.5 D&D books
Two books hitting in November, one’s a big dragon book, lots of art, yay, not a hardcover for some reason. The other appears to duplicate the entire mission and role of Mongoose’s Quintessential Fighter. Unless “warrior” means something else, I’ve lost track. Perhaps not the exciting D&D announcement you’re looking
Simpsons CCG and D&D big-atures hit this fall
No, they didn’t kill the Simpsons game. That’s about all the new info on that, but there was a big burst of new intel on the upcoming prepainted, randomized D&D Miniatures game. The big shocker is that these figs will not be standard 25mm scale like MK and, well, all
3 of 5 Origins Game of the Year nominees have combat dials
The site doesn’t appear to have voting up the way they said it did at brunch this morning, but Allan (who is alive) remembers the Game of the Year nominees as Mutants and Masterminds, Buffy RPG, MK Dungeons, Marvel HeroClix, and MechWarrior. We’ll try to have a complete nominee listing
Phil Reed expands 101 Spellbooks, then goes looking for a wrist brace
See, ’cause spellbooks are handwritten, and he’d expand a lot of them and then, uh, forget it. New edition of this PDF product includes over 100 books and 75 spells for your enjoyment. Stay out of the carpal tunnel, kids. It’s dark in there.