Author: Allan Sugarbaker

New company Mongoose Publishing is heading in a different direction with their D&D 3 supplements: highly detailed guides of one monster race. Called the Slayer’s Guides, each book will fully explore one creature type, both for the players’ benefit and the DM’s. The first of these guides, The Slayer’s Guide

Battleplay.com has just announced the release of Doubloon Lagoon, a desktop published game to download, print and play. Every aspect of pirating on the high seas is built into the game, as well as some mystical artifacts and sea monsters. Okay, sing it with me now: Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate’s

Our latest review is of Drakon, by Fantasy Flight Games. I finally pulled myself away from the playtesting to finish it up. Can you tell I enjoyed it?

In case I hadn’t mentioned it already, you can now cast your vote for this year’s Origins Awards. If you play games at all, you should give the nominees a look.

Pinnacle has a new update on their D20 adaptation of Deadlands. Included therein is a .pdf preview of the Gunslinger class, which will look familiar to both D&D and Deadlands players. That’s precisely what Pinnacle is going for. In fact, the folks at PEG are getting such a great response

This week, Misguided Games reveals another race to us from their upcoming dieselpunk fantasy RPG, Children of the Sun. This time the Banfilidh, a race of “pixie-like plant creatures” take center stage. Freeport and Folios (No, I said folio, not Foglio. Pay attention.) Despite the lack of a March update,

Proper use of names, by they for towns or for characters, is tackled in the latest issue of RoleplayingTips.com. There are also some ideas for speeding up combats, and several other useful tidbits. Applying a Fresh Beatdown Shadowfist.com has a new look to accompany the CCG’s latest expansion, Netherworld II:

Precedence Studios has announced their new worldwide agreement to develop and publish Tyranny Games’ Sack Armies. The upcoming collectible wargame will have 120 hex shaped army tokens, and will be sold in 42 token starter sacks for $13.99 or 18 token booster sets for $4.95. From what I’ve seen of

There’s so much happening with D&D 3 and the D20 System, I’ll try to round up most of the news in one big summary. Consider this my attempt at a Chain Lightning spell. 🙂 Atlas Games has posted a preview of Touched by the Gods, a hardcover sourcebook of all

Nightshift Games has posted an entertaining eight page pdf preview of the Supermegatopia RPG. The anime game may be mature in nature, but that won’t stop it from acting goofy as well. For example, the sheer amount of kiwi fruit in Supermegatopia outweighs the citizens thereof, and is used in