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Thursday, October 13, 2005
Worldwide D&D Game Day on November 5th
Wizards of the Coast has announced its plans for Worldwide D&D Game Day 2005 (press release below), to be held November 5th at participating game stores. The recent WotC adventure release Fane of Lolth will provide the challenges of the day, and attendees will come away with souvenirs like D&D Miniatures or “a very special D&D Campaigns Card.” I’d theorize the souvenir miniature connected to this year’s event is likely to be a drow of some sort (obvious choice), or a Spider of Lolth, but I could be completely off base. Go attend, and find out for yourself. “November 5th, on a very special D&D Campaigns Card, Elminster gets some unfortunate news…”
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Racer Knights of Falconus video shows cars, small dice, strange woodchips
WhiteWolf is opening the kimono on next month’s CSG entry Racer Knights of Falconus with a 10MB downloadable video about setting up the game. It clearly shows the cars and some of the other widgets that structure the game, including something odd to demarcate their play area that reminds me of the big hunks of bark they used to line kids’ playgrounds with, back before there were quite so many lawsuits. Aspects of the cars look kind of cool, other aspects look kind of overengineered (did the stat strips need to be made? I think something cheaper might actually have worked better), and still other aspects look overengineered but also cool. Me, I think the video thing is a great idea, whose time may even have come (I wish we had figures on broadband penetration amongst hobby gamers). I could quibble - the sound mix isn’t 100%, and there are a ton of ways they could have made it smaller - but on the whole it’s worth a look.
Essen 05 travelogues begin slightly bothering me
Not that I’m complaining - I know how tough it is to pull yourself away from a show to report on it - but it just seems like it’s always done in the same, sort of stilted way. Firstly, why tell us in obsessive detail how you got to the hotel? I can see this being of interest to people who play rail games all the time, but that’s about it. Second, why not many little posts about the many games you played and/or saw? The publishers would certainly appreciate the Googlejuice that stems from having the title of their game in the name of the page. (This fellow seems to be making a try, actually. It’s tough, though, isn’t it?) But no, it’s always Travel Day, Day 1, Day 2. Day 1 is laid out for you in a certain-to-be-replaced index at Gamewire, and there’s plenty more here.
Oh: Deutsche SpielePriese goes to Alea’s Louis XIV. Rio Grande already has it on your shelf. Or, you know, your store’s shelf.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Today’s completely random web game find
Wanna play Carcassonne online against other players or (fairly stupid) bots? Here ya go.
News flash: gaming trade show plagued by non-professionals and swag hoarders
But not the one you think, ho ho ho ho. I guess it’s true what they say: mo’ money, mo’ problems.
Friday, October 7, 2005
Tiny drow poison the minds of WotC
This week’s D&D Miniatures preview was all drow, all the time. However, the page was down for a good portion of this morning, presumably after WotC staff realized the rare Drow Arachnomancer figure was listed as an uncommon. Apparently, the mistake is repeated on the figure’s stat cards. Double check those official checklists, kids.
Decipher moves remaining RPG releases to PDF
I guess they had layout finished and all that. So if you’ve been holding out hope for your still-unreleased Decipher RPG books, I’m afraid you’ll be sucking electrons. These will be released on DriveThruRPG starting in “the next couple weeks” - we’ll see how it goes from there.
No Audio Report this week
My travel plans totally smacked us up, so we will have to pick up again next weekend. We will at least touch on the stuff in last week’s comments next time, but we thought we’d throw out another topic to tide you all over; let’s call it an “open thread” and see what happens, besides everyone telling us we should get forums. Got something you wouldn’t mind hearing some talk about on the podcast? Let us know.
Monday, October 3, 2005
Shadowrun 4th: slight delay
OgreCave has been hearing that Shadowrun 4th Edition won’t be meeting its shipping date this week. Apparently, a printing delay, the bane of many a publisher, has kept FanPro from meeting the release date of today, October 3rd. Word is to expect the book soon, probably next week, so don’t blow the cash you set aside for it just yet.
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Audio Report: crisp, clean, and advanced
42 minutes of fresh new recording technique await you. Keep the comments coming, plus you can leave voicemail for ‘misuba’ if you have Skype. The discussion question for next week’s show: who’s going to So Cal? Bring it.
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