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Friday, August 29, 2003

August 29th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Living Room plans Street Fighter, other CAPCOM RPGs

As you can see from the full press release below, Living Room Games has snagged the license to put out tabletop RPGs based on some of the classic CAPCOM video games. This means that sometime next year, we’ll start seeing RPGs for Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Final Fight, and Rival Schools. If Living Room Games’ energetic support of Earthdawn is any indication, CAPCOM’s properties are in good hands, and are sure to fare better than the White Wolf Street Fighter attempt of the early ’90s.
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August 29th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
The shadows are coming

The jumpgate is open and the Babylon 5 products are starting to flow out. Mongoose says the first season book, The Coming of Shadows, should be reaching stores in a week or so. While this first season book seems to be focused on Season Two, you’ll meet and greet the movers and shakers that will shape the Babylon 5 story, as each episode gets its own synopsis, along with the new rules to cover them in game terms. A galactic map of the Narn/Centauri war, several more ship write-ups, and prestige classes like Imperial Telepath and Techno-Mage round out the 144-page supplement. See the press release below for more details, if you like.
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Thursday, August 28, 2003

August 28th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Malhavoc pulls up a chair

Hot off his win as Best Publisher at the ENnies, Monte Cook and Malhavoc Press have created quite a buzz with the alternate Player’s Handbook Arcana Unearthed. With a lion-humanoid PC race, a different selection of classes and magic, and a reorganization of D&D’s basic assumptions as a whole, it was obvious from the start that gamers would sit up and take notice. Support products have flocked to the AU banner from multiple companies, so why should Malhavoc itself be any different? Just released today, The Diamond Throne provides the default campaign setting for Arcana Unearthed players, including eight new prestige classes and plenty of new magic items. The 96-page PDF version of Throne is available now at the slightly discounted price of $9. The print version won’t be cut and set until November.

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August 28th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Still time to enter OgreCave’s P3 contest

Just a couple days left to enter our P3 contest, where you can win every d20 supplement Phil Reed currently has to offer. That’s right, every single one. Wait… no, just the 30+ PDF products he’s offering at his site, we’re not offering up his entire personal library. You can’t hold us to that!

Aw, crap. Phil’s gonna kill me.

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August 28th, 2003: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Everyone likes mathematical simulation-based art when it has zombies

This would make an awfully nice screensaver for an All Flesh fan. (You know, I think the real experiment here is to see how fast this link has spread around the Internet. I’m off to eat some yummy brains now. Bye!)

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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

August 27th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Indy HeroClix preview sale at DragonCon

You’ve only got one day left to wait for Indy HeroClix. Well, one day left if you’re going to DragonCon in Atlanta, that is. A limited stash of the new CMG addiction will be available from WizKids at the con, so if you plan to be there, get your starter and three boosters early. A few MechWarrior Dropships, as well as a few Liao Incursion boosters will be lurking nearby. As for the rest of us, we’ll have to be content with the Indy HeroClix rule book, the Powers and Abilities card, and other tidbits until the official street date of October 1.

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Monday, August 25, 2003

August 25th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
New reviews: Snow Witch, Signs, & Buffy

I’m tempted to declare it Matthew Monday due to all the reviews he’s sent in that are up today. First, he tells us about the d20 adaptation of Caverns of the Snow Witch by Myriador Ltd. Then he regales us with the ups and downs of Signs & Portents #1, the first issue of Mongoose Publishing’s new in-house magazine. Finally, a review of his that’s been languishing in my computer for a while gives us a look at the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG by Eden Studios.

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Sunday, August 24, 2003

August 24th, 2003: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Suave in-store campaigns for Avalon Hill

This looks seriously freakin’ hot. Avalon Hill’s official incorporation into WotC is bearing fruit: “Wizards of the Coast is producing its first board game expansions as part of this program. The expansions, which are taken home by the winners of the event, will serve to alter play for experienced players, who have often figured out the strategies and counter-strategies that work best with the game as it came out of the box. And they’ll help WotC evaluate the concept of board game expansions as add-on products, which it’s interested in as a way to expand sales of the Avalon Hill properties.” That’s right, kids: Risk 2210 expansion boards, available first (possibly only) to winners at store events. Axis and Allies and Acquire (!!!) will also be getting the “Avalon Hill Frontline” treatment. Evil? Brilliant? Both?

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Friday, August 22, 2003

August 22nd, 2003: Demian Katz says...
Custom Trivia from Invisible City

It’s game of the month time once again at Invisible City, and this time it’s something a little different: 1,000 Blank White Questions, a trivia game in which the players make up all of the questions. You can ask anything you like, but you run the risk of losing points if none of your opponents are able to come up with a correct response. Of course, there’s more to the game than just answering questions — there’s also a nifty printable board which helps to determine who asks the questions and when the game is over. As always, it’s good fun at an unbeatable price.

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August 22nd, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Massive Mongoose

The next D&D tome headed out the door at Mongoose Publishing is the Slayer’s Guide to Giants. With the same expanded size as the Guides to Undead and Dragons (128 pages), the new book gives giants the full treatment. Gamemasters can expect to find Half-Giant and Giant King templates, giant feats, the Giant spell domain, lairs, tactics, and for those who are feeling generous, ways for characters to fight back. Too bad this book wasn’t available a few years back, when I used such large giant miniatures that my players insisted “miniatures” was no longer the correct term, and they should be referred to as “action figures.”
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