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Thursday, December 11, 2003

December 11th, 2003: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Avalon Hill announces A&A D-Day

Mike Selinker dropped us a note about Axis & Allies D-Day, a new “standalone expansion” for Axis & Allies set to hit next May, to coincide with D-Day’s 60th anniversary. “Standalone expansion” is apparently what A&A Europe and A&A Pacific are called, as well. Well, okay: Selinker was really writing us to complain that we said A&A was getting split into two parts in its upcoming revision, which it’s not. We didn’t actually say it was, but in the resulting confusion, well, I don’t even know what we did say. You should clearly just be listening to Selinker instead of me, which just got easier thanks to his new series of columns at the AH site.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2003

December 9th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Deadlands Reloaded peek at Pinnacle

The folks at Pinnacle have just posted a first look at Deadlands Reloaded. Rumored to be coming out next summer, Deadlands Reloaded will be a full-color, hardcover retrospective, telling the entire story of the Weird West in one volume. According to a column from last July, the new game will use the Savage Worlds system, and stay away from d20 or the original Deadlands system. Deadlands Reloaded will be a gorgeous book, as Shane Hensley made the concious decision to contract one artist for all 80+ pieces of color art, a mister Thomas Denmark. Citizen Games’ Way of the Witch also had art done exclusively by Thomas, and it remains one of the best looking d20 products out there. Plus, there’s the added bonus that some friends of mine and I got to pose in wild west clothing for some photos Tom’s using as inspiration for his art. That guy with the two guns, there? That’s Colin.

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December 9th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2003 - part 3

As you’ve seen in the earlier installments of OgreCave’s annual feature, the holiday gift picks are flying fast and furious. With our third list of gift suggestions, we go exclusively d20, with A Dozen Christmas d20s. Come have a look at what the OgreCave staff considers essential reading in the d20 universe this year. We’ll have one more gift list for you in the days ahead, filled with games where shipping time is not a concern. Oops, did I just give it away?

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Monday, December 8, 2003

December 8th, 2003: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Now everyone can enjoy what Mike has been obsessing over

Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is formally out of beta today, so if you’re curious to check out the first major, professional massively multiplayer online RPG that doesn’t hew so close to the traditions thereof, check it out. No Tolkien anywhere to be found up in here, and no lame hack-and-slash gameplay or level grinding either. Those on not-so-current machines are especially encouraged to investigate.

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December 8th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
Lunch Money expansion & sequel planned

Atlas Games has announced the impending arrival of more schoolyard ass-kickings. Specifically, Atlas plans to release both an expansion deck and a sequel to the classic-yet-twisted card game, Lunch Money. Details aren’t available yet for the sequel, but the expansion, called Lunch Money: Sticks and Stones, will be a 55-card set that can be added to the original 110-card game. According to Atlas, Sticks and Stones will “bring new mechanics into the game, and the added cards also make it easier to accomodate larger groups of players.” Sticks and Stones should be available by the time the GAMA Trade Show rolls around (next March).

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Sunday, December 7, 2003

December 7th, 2003: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Quick, someone get the SuperDeck license

Yup, here it comes. Thank god CMGs have a slightly higher barrier to entry, financially speaking, or else it’d have been 1994 all over again last year, swarms of little plastic guys overwhelming us all. This original CMG (that is, the anime isn’t out yet) comes from Bandai, who are apparently all done licking their wounds from the Digimon and Gundam CCGs a few years ago (and have also announced plans to reenter that fray). What did we do to deserve it all? I know: this is punishment for all those failed Setting Search entries.

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Saturday, December 6, 2003

December 6th, 2003: Mike Sugarbaker says...
Cheapass releases downloadable beta board game

It was on the schedule but it’s not done, so James Ernest has taken a tip from the online gaming industry and decided to let us all be his QA engineers. Jacob Marley, Esquire requires the usual pawns and stones as well as 400 chips in 4 colors, which if you play One False Step For Mankind you’ve taken care of. Oh, and you need to print it out. This PDF edition will only be available for the month of December, so screw up your courage and fire up your browser. Then tighten up your shorts and prepare to face the Anthony Gallela star vehicle The Man Between, now available on DVD for your gift-buying needs.

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Friday, December 5, 2003

December 5th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
The Day of the Ninja is upon us

As I mentioned yesterday, our buddy Aeon, the Ninja Burger guy, has organized The Day of the Ninja, and we’re trying to do our part. The latest Ninja Burger RPG supplement, Burgertech, has been released by 9th Level Games, sites all over the web are ninja-fied, life is good. And don’t forget the RPGnet contest where you can win the new Ninja Burger card game by Steve Jackson Games. But to make all these ninja announcements publicly, loud and clear, just seems wrong. So a ninja has snuck into the Cave somewhere. (and I’m not talking about our review. And he’s not in the Santa suit, either, so don’t ask.)

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December 5th, 2003: Demian Katz says...
New Arrowflight Goodies Arrive

In case you recently found yourself wondering “Hey, what ever happened to Arrowflight?” you can wonder no further, as publisher Deep7 has just announced the release of three new .PDF supplements: A Cast of Thousands, a licensed collection of NPCs from SteamPower Publishing; Smuggler’s Bane, a complete adventure module from Politically Incorrect Games; and Deep7’s own Cold Roads, a guide to the Region of Ice.

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Thursday, December 4, 2003

December 4th, 2003: Allan Sugarbaker says...
The ninjas approach

Our buddy Aeon, of Ninja Burger fame, is running a contest over at RPGnet where you can win a copy of the new Ninja Burger card game by Steve Jackson Games. He’s set it up to celebrate the Day of the Ninja, which is tomorrow. Why tomorrow, you ask? I’ll let Aeon tell you:

I’m going to try and coordinate the efforts of the thousands of Ninja Burger fans, my friends, and maybe some of my enemies, to make Friday, December 5th the Day of the Ninja. Why that Friday? Because it’s opening day for the new Tom Cruise movie, The Last Samurai, and everyone knows that ninja will be celebrating the fact that there’s only one last samurai left to do away with. And it’s Tom Cruise, at that.

Stupid Gaijin.

Sounds good to me. As long as my burger and fries arrive in 30 minutes or less.

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