The spittle is already flying over WizKids’ just-announced changes to its organized play program. The “storyline” marquee tournaments will be less frequent, and the LE figures will generally be a little more L, if you know what I mean. Predictably, nobody on the Internet appears to be happy with this.
Month: June 2003
Fighting Fantasy Official Site Open for Business
FightingFantasyGamebooks.com, the new official site for the Wizard Books reissues of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, is up and running. It should be a continuing source of news, contests, downloads and more; there’s also a club you can join that will get you some free goodies. Check it out!
Pinnacle Site Gets Facelift
Pinnacle’s got a new look & feel for its website this morning. PEG is giving away a free Lost Colony Showdown starter and booster to every online order of $50 or more, so take on those grapes and claim the land for your own… or at least figure out what
Atlas Flips to Old Maps of Africa
In other Atlas news, the company’s very first African-themed roleplaying sourcebook, South of the Sun, is available once more. The Ars Magica supplement was first published in 1991, long before the Nyambe expedition, and centered on the mythical kingdom of Prester John and its surroundings. From dream-sorcerers and demon-haunted hills
Dungeoneer May Move to Atlas
We’ve received an anonymous tip that Dungeoneer will be printed by Atlas Games shortly. Apparently, the rights to the game were signed over to Thomas Denmark, the artist and lead designer, and now Atlas will be “bringing it to the people” (a second printing, I’d imagine). This is good news,
More Citizen Debacle Details
After the story we posted this morning, we’ve received this from Mike Eckert of Citizen Games regarding the company’s recent restructuring and hacked website: Michael J. Eckert, former President of Citizen Games, is not the “former” President in question. Mr. Eckert left the company in early February. This was, indeed,
Second Glimpse of Testament
A second preview of Testament has been posted over at Green Ronin’s site. This second peek at roleplaying in the Biblical era shows off some of the book’s new spell summaries for the Blackguard, Cleric, Paladin, Psalmist, Qedeshot, and Sorceror/Wizard classes. There’s also a quick look at the Desert, Fertility,
Citizen Site Hacked; Finger Pointing Begins
Yesterday, the Citizen Games website had seemingly been hacked, displaying nothing but a Nazi flag and the German phrase “Bürger-Spiele ist zerhackt worden!” (translates to “Citizen Games has been hacked”). The offending post is down now, as is the entire site, and the accusations have begun. In the comment posts
Covert Announcement at Goodman Games
Goodman Games has announced that its two latest releases, Dungeon Crawl Classics #2: Lost Vault of Tsathzar Rho and EN World Player’s Journal #2, are now available. Additionally, Goodman announced a free 24-page print magazine, Covert Ops, which will cover “games not ready for mention on our web site.” The
WizKids Counting Down to Shadowrun: Duels
With Shadowrun: Duels releasing in just five days, WizKids is continuing to preview figures from the action figure combat game. The latest fig being shown off is Liada, an elf with major magic potential. That would’ve been nice as backup in the tournament at GTS, but Kyushi did just fine
Stargate RPG Website Up & Running
AEG has put its PR machine into gear and launched the official website for the Stargate SG-1 RPG. There’s not much on the site yet — just a set of character concept examples, some rules about the Stargate itself, and a link to the forum — but as the game’s
Fang & Fury Art Preview Posted
Green Ronin has thrown together an art preview for their upcoming vampire sourcebook, Fang & Fury. The six images showcased convey the dark, brooding mood appropriate for such powerful undead. what intrigues me are the images that feature what look like Stirges — those classic bat/mosquitoes — and a large,
OgreCave Review: Dynasties & Demagogues
Merwin’s here to argue his case on Dynasties & Demagogues from Atlas Games. I’m sure he’ll be using the political debate rules the d20 supplement offers in the process, too, so watch yourselves.
News flash: GAMES Magazine worth buying for once
Time to mobilize the Cave Army: head on down to a local newsstand that stocks GAMES, and pick up the August 2003 issue. It has a Hall-and-Oates-looking guy on the cover whom you might recognize as the guy on the spine of the Puerto Rico box. That’s right, GAMES is
More Details on Mongoose Magazine
Though news of Mongoose Publishing’s new magazine came out during GTS, and the first issue’s due next month, there’s still no sign of it on the company’s website. A friend of OgreCave pointed out that Matthew Sprange confirmed some details in a thread on the uk.games.roleplay newsgroup. Entitled Signs &