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Author: Greg Kessler

A Free Gift from the Prophet

October 10, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

Mongoose Publishing has posted a free PDF enhancement for the Gary Gygax supplement, Slayer’s Guide to Dragons. This six page supplement is comprised of information that was cut from Ravage of Gorkai to conserve space. You get some additional background information and other goodies all for free. Make sure to

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Old Tunnels & Trolls Adventure Returns from Beyond

October 8, 2002 Greg Kessler Gamebooks, Roleplaying Games

Flying Buffalo Games keeps chugging on, and this week the company re-released a Solo Adventure for their long surviving game, Tunnels and Trolls. The reprinted adventure is called When the Cat’s Away by Catherine DeMott. The book also includes New Sorcerer Solitaire by James Walker, and the Solo For The

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Chaosium Back Online, Ready to Torment Dunwich All Over Again

October 7, 2002 Greg Kessler D20, Industry, Roleplaying Games

Chaosium announced this weekend that their web problems are behind them and they are ready to return to the 21st century. Chaosium has a new DSL provider and is again receiving emails. If you emailed them in the last two weeks of September, go ahead and resend just to make

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Abashima Brings You Cheap Feats For A (Not So Cheap) Good Cause

October 7, 2002 Greg Kessler D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Roleplaying Games

Abashima Press will be posting a new d20 feat each Friday for their Feat Friday. This week they posted their first, Tend to the Wounded. This handy little feat would go a long way in keeping any unlucky roller (or just plain reckless and careless player) like myself alive. They

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Dragonlance Comes to YOU!

October 7, 2002 Greg Kessler D20, Dungeons & Dragons, Roleplaying Games

After months of anticipation you can finally visit the new Dragonlance D20 site. Over the weekend the owners of the new site opened their doors to the gaming public and revealed a site full of information on the upcoming Dragonlance D20 game and lots of fan information. The site is

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Deadlands D20 Freebies and More Savage Worlds

October 3, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

Pinnacle Entertainment has posted their latest column on the making of Savage Worlds. In update number seven, Pinnacle lets you in on the mechanics of playtesting, group dynamics and the like. It’s a really interesting article and there’s a nice photo of the playtest work space, along with some good

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Be a Groupie…Or Just Play one in your Basement

October 2, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

Third World Games has posted some previews of cards to be included in their forthcoming expansion, Back Stage Pass for the Battle of the Bands game. Battle of the Bands is a card game where you get to play one of a set of messed up music folks. Until the

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Playtesters Needed for Unbidden

October 2, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

Three Sixty Publishing is ready for some serious playtesting. Three Sixty is now accepting applications from groups to playtest Unbidden, “a role-playing game of horror predicated on secrets, legend and myths as perpetuated by a displaced people seeking a sense of mission.” There’s supposed to be more information on the

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Queen’s Tier gets the Nod from Wizards of the Coast

September 30, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

The fan run campaign setting, The Queen’s Tier, has been given permission by Wizards of the Coast to reference certain copyrighted material on their site. WotC is allowing the site’s administrators to use material from a wide range of their products. Soon you will see references to books such as

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More Games Enter the D20 Orbit

September 29, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

The latest D20 conversion announcement comes from . This week it was announced that their signature anime game is going D20. Following in the footsteps of games like Rolemaster (someone explain that one to me), BESM D20 is expected in Spring of 2003. Additionally, they will be producing a D20

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Here comes Optasia!

September 29, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

A group of gamers have announced a new RPG system that they think will be the answer to your prayers. Optasia is a new system designed by a group of New Jersey gamers and set in a world called Taboo. The game isn’t quite ready, but their web page is

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New Pictures from Black Tree Designs

September 29, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

Right on schedule, the folks at Black Tree Design have posted pictures of some of their newest miniatures. For their Dark Ages line, Vikings abound. Make sure to take a look at the new Naked Viking Beserkers with Axes. For their WWII line, there are all kinds of new German

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A.I. Armoured Intelligence Ready for Playtest

September 28, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

A.I. Armoured Intelligence is a soon to be released small-scale wargame, designed to simulate conflict between a small number of AI-controlled tanks at short range. This small press game announced this week that its playtest rules are ready for download, FREE. You can also check out tank specs and more

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Warriors from George Lucas’ Past

September 27, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

One of the most interesting things to be added to the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars page lately is stats for the mystical Morgukai Warriors. Originally a character in the Expanded Universe comic books, the Morgukai Warriors are a nearly forgotten secret society from the distant past (theirs not

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Forge World and their 40K

September 26, 2002 Greg Kessler Uncategorized

Forge World and their 40K Masterpiece Forge World has posted pictures of their new Thunderhawk Gunship for WarHammer 40K. New pictures of the interior of an unpainted ship and a side by side picture of the old and new versions of the ship are featured on the page. The old

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