Or, more properly, A Song of Ice and Fire. Available in “fall” (read: “Gen Con, we hope”), this RPG based on George R.R. Martin’s line of novels will be dual-system-dual-rulebook like Silver Age Sentinels. I wonder why Fantasy Flight didn’t get this one; maybe their RPG plate is full, or
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This is hilarious: D&D minis are mini after all
And then I realized that it was all a dream! That’s right: apparently GR and many, many retailers were reacting to a typo in the D&D Miniatures promo materials. So now they have some photos and the minis are indeed Mage Knight/classic scale. Some poor WotC copy editor will be
Hey, ya stupid kid, that round thing ain’t just for whacking people
Check out the pics of the Shadowrun Duels package, specifically of the back. Do you think maybe they wanted to append a big red “Dammit!” but legal wouldn’t let them get away with it?
Green Ronin site haX0Red
Um… what? This is actually pretty funny. Yes, they were really hacked, evidently by idiot Russian teens. All the online news sources are certainly giving Green Ronin lots of love right now, and rightfully so. I hope Chris and Nicole are having a chuckle instead of stressing overmuch.
Complete Origins nominee list
There’s still no change to the official site, but here’s a list. We are now open for kibitzing.
The kids love the dragons: new post-3.5 D&D books
Two books hitting in November, one’s a big dragon book, lots of art, yay, not a hardcover for some reason. The other appears to duplicate the entire mission and role of Mongoose’s Quintessential Fighter. Unless “warrior” means something else, I’ve lost track. Perhaps not the exciting D&D announcement you’re looking
Simpsons CCG and D&D big-atures hit this fall
No, they didn’t kill the Simpsons game. That’s about all the new info on that, but there was a big burst of new intel on the upcoming prepainted, randomized D&D Miniatures game. The big shocker is that these figs will not be standard 25mm scale like MK and, well, all
3 of 5 Origins Game of the Year nominees have combat dials
The site doesn’t appear to have voting up the way they said it did at brunch this morning, but Allan (who is alive) remembers the Game of the Year nominees as Mutants and Masterminds, Buffy RPG, MK Dungeons, Marvel HeroClix, and MechWarrior. We’ll try to have a complete nominee listing
Phil Reed expands 101 Spellbooks, then goes looking for a wrist brace
See, ’cause spellbooks are handwritten, and he’d expand a lot of them and then, uh, forget it. New edition of this PDF product includes over 100 books and 75 spells for your enjoyment. Stay out of the carpal tunnel, kids. It’s dark in there.
Nocturnals are go
May or may not apparently equals may: Green Ronin will publish a Nocturnals sourcebook for Mutants and Masterminds. The Halloweeny flavor of this property is something new for superhero roleplaying, so, hey, new things are good, right? Press release lives riiiiight about here.
Dave Arneson kicks it with Goodman
As we reported forever ago, Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor setting (the first first roleplaying setting) is heading for D20-land. As we did not report forever ago because they hadn’t announced it, Goodman Games will be handling the publishing, and it’ll be here for Gen Con. Click “Read more” for the full
Mongoose magazine mayhem
ENworld reported last week that Mongoose dropped a big, fat, absurdly coy, practically-an-announcement hint that they’re doing a magazine of some kind. We couldn’t find where they made the statement that ENworld quotes, so we considered it a rumor. GR now apparently has from Mongoose. Full color, Mongoose product coverage
In the surprising-no-one department…
And yes, the MechWarrior Dropship has already hit eBay.
D&D in OED
GamingReport reports that the as a noun. I would caution against getting too excited about this; every year, the OED committee adds a bunch of vogue words, and most of them get removed again in a year’s time. They mostly do this to get press attention. If I were handicapping,
Ars Magica: free as in beer
Atlas Games is making some pretty big moves right now, releasing the 4th edition of Ars Magica as a free PDF download, and messing with their website in some pretty positive ways. I like.