Atlas Games has just confirmed the rumor we reported a month ago, stating that Dungeoneer will indeed be published by Atlas from now on. The game was transferred to Atlas from Citizen Games, which admitted a lack of funds was making the proper support of Dungeoneer impossible. The sold-out dungeon-delving
Month: July 2003
Everything's Getting GOO-ey
As Mike reported at Origins, Big Eyes, Small Mouth d20 was released upon an unsuspecting world, and all of the rules content is Open Gaming Content. Now has taken the extra step of creating a BESM d20 System Reference Document, taking those three special little initials (SRD) and making them
Babylon 5 Previews Build Anticipation
Now that the Babylon 5 RPG is fully operational (read: shipping to stores), Mongoose Publishing has multiple preview downloads available on the B5 section of the company’s website. Currently, three preview downloads are available, including the official character sheet. I’m waiting. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
GenCon Indy Chat at WotC Site
You’ve got less than half an hour to get to the Wizards.community chat on GenCon Indianapolis with Mr GenCon himself, Peter Adkison. The chat’s today at 5pm PST, so if you don’t already have a password at the WotC community section, you may be out of luck today (it can
Mongoose Plans for GenCon ’03
Mongoose Publishing‘s Matthew Sprange sent out a notice to the company mailing list which showed just how evil he can be when he wants to. Sure, the email let us know that the Babylon 5 RPG will be there in case we don’t have it already, and that several other
Roleplaying Tips Weekly #179
The latest issue of Roleplaying Tips Weekly features a guide to player types, a popular theme that comes up now and then in various forms. However, this list actually has useful suggestions on how to deal with those Munchkins, Power Gamers, Rules Lawyers and the like. Other than killing their
Origins 2003 hangover: BESM me, BESM me mucho
New at the show from was BESM D20, and the big news was that the whole rules content of the book is Open Gaming Content, not just the five percent or whatever demanded by the D20 System License. I had a long conversation with Mark MacKinnon about parallels between how
Saving Private Checkers
Invisible City Productions has done it again with a new free checkers variant as the latest of their free game of the month offerings. In Saving Private Checkers, a regular game of Checkers is played on a pattern of face-down poker cards. These cards can cause pieces to get blown
Origins Awards: are they broken, should we fix?
Ryan Dancey has floated a very specific set of proposals to change the voting process for the Origins Awards, and they’re eliciting unusually active discussion on GamingReport. I like the vote-count suggestions, but if the goal is to make the awards less of a flavor-of-the-month popularity contest, why eliminate “outdated”
Origins 2003 aftermath: better living through tiny giant robots
A friend ordered me to find out about something called Solaris VII at the WizKids tournament space at Origins. Turns out that it’s a set of unofficial alternate rules to make MechWarrior a fast, brutal game for mechs only. It’s named after the BattleTech universe’s “arena planet,” written into the
Spiel des Jahres 2003 winner announced
Winners and nominee lists are here. Most of this year’s nominees are relative unknowns here in the states, although I’ve seen Amun-Re get plenty of play on the strength of the Knizia name. Shortlist nominee Clans is the only other one with an identifiable English edition. This is the second
Gamebooks on the Rise?
These are good days to be a gamebook fan, it would seem. Just a couple of days ago, I noticed that the forthcoming American reprints of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks are starting to show up in major online bookstores, and this morning, an informant let me know that Troll is
ENnies Nominees Announced
EN World has just posted the for this year’s ENnies (aka The 2nd Annual Gen Con EN World D20 System Awards). Voting will soon begin on the popular prize, and as with last year, the winners will be announced at GenCon. Notably absent from the nominees this year is Mystic