Author: Allan Sugarbaker

After hinting at their next RPG title through RPG.net’s Guess the Game contest, Clockworks Games has bared all to the world. Their next title, Chosen, will be a science-fantasy setting where ancient legends come to life in Earth’s future. Space exploration, wizards, psionics — who could ask for anything more?

Mystic Eye has a new D&D creature for all of you still chomping at the bit for Nightmares & Dreams. This time, it’s the Dream Elemental, a sweet and loving creature that wants to cuddle (Yeah, right). They’ve also posted additional web enhancements for The Pit of Loch-Durnan, including detailed

Skotos.net has scored another victory by becoming the new home of Biting the Hand. Jessica Mulligan’s Biting the Hand column, formerly found at Happy Puppy, was created to discuss and dissect the online gaming industry. According to Mulligan, when she first started the column “The hype and disinformation surrounding online

Tyranny Games and Precedence Studios announced the existence of basic Trainer sets for their upcoming tabletop wargame, Sack Armies: Expeditionary Force. You can find the Trainer set on sackarmies.com and Precedence’s site as a .pdf file. Learn the game before it’s released! Be the envy of your friends! Umm… have

Okay, so this isn’t gaming related. In fact, I remain convinced that a direct translation of The X-Files into an RPG wouldn’t work very well. However, as a long-time fan of the show, and a fan of decent spin-offs like The Lone Gunmen, I must say I completely disagree with

Though there aren’t any official Land of Og miniatures (yet), Wingnut Games has come up with a short list of officially sanctioned Reaper minis that can satisfy your club-swinging needs. Here’s the lowdown, from Aldo Ghiozzi himself: OK, so these caveman minis are not officially “licensed” or look as silly

Several new maps have gone up at Glorantha.com, including the Colymar territory, Slontos, and the Shadow Plateau. There’s also a detailed guide on traveling through the Harda Pass. I love this stuff.

Fiery Dragon Productions has just become the second company to have its D20 products distributed under White Wolf’s Sword & Sorcery imprint. The first Fiery Dragon adventure that will bear the S&S logo, Nature’s Fury, will arrive in August. Boy, White Wolf’s sure building up steam with their D20 projects.

To steel us against the dread creatures about to be unleashed in Legions of Hell, Green Ronin has posted a three page preview of the infernal beasts we can expect. Forewarned is forearmed, my friends. Best to arm yourselves against the coming of Hell in Freeport.

As a proponent of good role-playing games, I try not to discriminate against computer RPGs. After all, tabletop RPGs are rapidly coming to rely on having a PC nearby. A few computer games are even starting to learn that having character advancement, monsters and treasure doesn’t automatically mean a role

Now that my daughter’s 2nd birthday went without a hitch, I’ll get back to business. Let’s see… As we reported last week, Necromancer Games will be working with Rob Kuntz, co-founder of Dungeons & Dragons, on several upcoming projects. To give us an idea of things to come, a new

Rob Kuntz, the third founder of the original Dungeons & Dragons, will be lending his support to Necromancer Games’ slogan, “Third Edition Look, First Edition Feel,” with several D20 adventures. Starting with reworked versions of Kuntz’s Maze of Zayene series (which will be extended with a brand new fifth adventure,

Months after Wizards of the Coast decided to stop publishing Legend of the Five Rings game products, Alderac Entertainment Group has gained the licence to publish the L5R CCG. AEG is the perfect company to take over L5R, as they were the ones who created it in 1995. John Zinser,

The guys at Necromancer Games just added another free supplement to their product support page. This time, Crucible of Freya, Necromancer’s first D&D 3 product to be sold in stores, receives the extra attention. The download includes 23 pages of ideas, maps, and encounters to expand the adventure, and has

Another week has come, heralding another issue of Roleplaying Tips. This week’s theme? “7 More Ways You Can Make Travel Interesting Or Important.” Have a look, you aspiring travel agent, you.