Author: Allan Sugarbaker

Though not directly gaming related, I thought you’d want to know that the great Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has passed away. He died of a heart attack last Friday. You can read more about his passing here. Farewell, Doug. You were one hoopy frood,

Wizards has posted a teaser page for this year’s GenCon to lure you in with all the Star Wars events they have scheduled. If you desperately want to meet Billy Dee Williams, or just want to get in on some lightsaber swinging action, head over to the site. While you’re

QuikLink Interactive and Far Future Enterprises announced their plans to publish D20 Traveller, bringing the veteran sci-fi setting to today’s most popular system. So what’s left? Once the World of Darkness and GURPS cross over, we’ll be able to translate almost any character from one system to another. Nevermind why,

In August, Corsair Publishing, LLC will publish the first issue of Campaign Magazine, a D20 System publication. Each issue will contain two adventures and two articles centered on the issue’s theme. The rest of the magazine will be packed with reviews and news about everything D20. Seems like a project

Misguided Games has the first bit of new artwork from the Children of the Sun RPG. The set of sketches shows the Avendera, a leonine race that looks like a cool choice to play.

Does an order of broiled fae medallions in honey sauce sound… weird? Well, Kenzer & Company’s game of cannibalistic fairy combat, Fairy Meat, is in the news again. The Miniatures Page has images of the greens for the new miniatures. More greens of Gremlin and Gnome figures are expected in

For those of you who remember the two AD&D boxed sets detailing Undermountain, the immense dungeon under Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms, Wizards has posted details on an old friend. Halaster Blackcloak, the mad archmage who created the deadly caverns and still wanders them, has thirty levels to his name.

This August, Steve Jackson Games will be relaunching the Car Wars line, starting with a new edition of Car Wars: The Card Game. As part of the second wave of products, SJ Games will work with Wingnut Games to bring you Battle Cattle: The Card Game in September. The two

French RPG site Roliste.com has named their Grog D’or (Game of the Year): Blue Planet v2 by Fantasy Flight Games. This is an impressive victory for FFG, considering that Blue Planet was up against such heavy hitters as Call of Cthulhu, Conspiracy X, Feng Shui, and Herowars. best essay uk

Rumors have it that Journeyman Press will be releasing Ebay: The Card Game this September. The furious bidding and selling should follow shortly thereafter.

The folks over at Gamegrene.com have an interview with the infamous 9th Level Games crew, creators of Kobolds Ate My Baby. Go read how the popular weird RPG resulted from a drunken bet, and several other interesting tidbits. The best thing about KAMB, other than death by spontaneous combustion, is

John Kovalic has posted the entire Dork Tower 12-page storyline, Matt & Gilly’s Big Date. The strip is nominated for an Origins Award this year, so go check it out. As an added bonus, you’ll learn of the heartbreak of gamer love unfulfilled.

This week’s issue of Roleplaying Tips continues the theme of using names to enhance your game. Though I hope my games never require the use of a stopwatch to speed things up, the other tips are quite useful, as usual.

Mystic Eye Games just let us know that their D20 System book, Nightmares & Dreams: A Creature Collection, won’t be arriving quite as soon as originally predicted. MEG’s Doug Herring had an acceptable reason for the delay: We could not fit in all that we wanted in a 56 page

Citizen Games has updated their site with both D20 and non-D20 items. We’re given a taste of the races from Myrra, Citizen’s D20 campaign world, and a quick look at some rules from MAFIA: The Organized Crime RPG. The site’s free download section will be receiving a regular influx of