I suppose it was inevitable, considering the popularity of the Warhammer 40,000 CCG : Sabertooth Games has had 85% of the company bought by Games Workshop. The prediction is that this will result in higher product quality, a crossover of popular WH40K artists, and a minor delay in the release
Author: Allan Sugarbaker
Classic Miniatures Change Hands
The Miniatures Page reports that Dark Ages Miniatures has gained ownership of the award winning Grenadier Personality Series One and Series Two miniatures lines sculpted by Julie Guthrie. I own several of these classics, and you probably do too (there were 188 figures total). Emperors Choice, which was bought by
The First Seal Is Broken? Then Why’d I Bother Coming Back To Work?
Tyranny Games has informed us that to announce the upcoming release of the d20 system RPG, The End: Lost Souls Edition, “Pestilence stalks the Earth once again. As The End approaches, Pestilence and its agents bring old and new plagues to the world. New strains of Smallpox, Ebola, and Influenza
Decipher To Lose Star Wars Licence
While the RPG department at Decipher gains momentum by the day, it looks like their CCG department is having its legs cut out from beneath it. On the company’s website today, Decipher CEO Warren Holland provided extensive quotes from a July 2000 presentation made to Lucasfilm executives. The quotes were
Dancing and Darkspyre
Matthew has given us two more d20 reviews to round out the year with. The first is The Last Dance, a ghostly mystery of an adventure from Atlas Games. Our second review is of Assault on Darkspyre from Hammerdog Games, wherein the players help bring down an archmage’s fortress because
More Godlike Personalities
The official Godlike RPG website has another teaser for you: stats for The Shade, one of Churchill’s “special” bodyguards (who are referred to collectively as the “Ugly Mugs”). According to a post on the Godlike mailing list from co-designer Dennis Detwiller, “The Shade is a good example of a beginning
FFG Releases Stellar Matter, Dragonstar RPG
The latest releases from Fantasy Flight are enough to make nearly any gamer stop and stare for a moment. The first book for the Dragonstar d20 RPG, The Starfarer’s Handbook, is arriving in stores within the next day or so. This game is for those of us who don’t mind
Gary Gygax To Pen Slayer’s Guide To Dragons
Mongoose Publishing has just announced that Gary Gygax himself will be writing The Slayer’s Guide to Dragons. Gygax, along with Jon Cretfield and two other developers, will create a 128-page monster of a book. According to Gygax, “We plan to bring you fresh perspectives on the ancient race of dragons,
New Mage Knight Dragon Scenarios
WizKids have declared this to be Dragon Month (in mid-December? Must be that new math). Each Friday for the next three weeks, the WizKids website will be posting a Mage Knight scenario that revolves around one of those big-ass dragon figures. Why post these scenarios (aside from the coolness factor,
Eden Studios To Publish Buffy The Vampire Slayer RPG
Eden Studios announced an agreement today with Donruss Playoff L.P., a licensee of Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising, to develop the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG for a Summer 2002 release. The rules will be written by CJ Carella (author of the Witchcraft RPG), and will be compatible with
Notable Additions To Bastion Press Board
Bastion Press announced two new additions to its Board of Directors: Ryan Dancey and Cathleen Adkison. If you’ve never heard of those names, go review the press release. Of course, if you’ve never heard those names, there’s a few other names you probably missed. We’ll start with a little company
Witchfire Freebie
Privateer Press has posted a freebie for the third installment of their Witchfire Trilogy, The Legion of Lost Souls. The downloadable PDF has a map prop to give the players. Unless, like me, you prefer them to stumble around, lost and defenseless. Amazons! Everywhere You Look — Amazons!! MicroTactix has
Living Dragonstar Campaign Coming To RPGA
According to a Monday post on the FFG Rants page, playtesting for the Living Dragonstar RPGA campaign has begun. This sci-fi meets D&D d20 RPG puts lasers and spaceships in the hands of orcs and elves, and lots of gamers out there are eagerly awaiting its release. This is the
Fast Forward Brings Back Campaign In February
A story at ICv2 alerts us that it’s okay to let you know what we already knew: Fast Forward Entertainment has taken charge of the d20 publicationCampaign Magazine. Jim Ward has joined the company full-time now, and John Danovich of ACD Distribution has also joined the FFE team as Vice
Extra Song & Silence
Wizards has posted one’ve them there web enhancement thingies fer Song & Silence, which you can get yer hands on right here. There’s a quick adventure inside for four characters of 6th or 7th level. Monkey God Preview Illustration Galleries Monkey God Enterprises has posted galleries for three of their