The Angel’s Curse expansion for the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer CCG hits shelves today in the US and Canada. I wasn’t aware that they were starting from way back in Season 1, but I guess they are. I also wasn’t aware that I would ever have a head full
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Three-Sixty Announces Film-Noir PDF RPG
Mean Streets: The RPG of Classic Film Noir, a complete downloadable game with a planned line of supplements, is coming soon from Three-Sixty Publishing, who have not only licensed the XPG system from fellow PDF-meisters Deep7, but will be selling through Deep7’s web site. Three-Sixty has a number of other
Moving From Planned Obsolescence To Constant Discovery
I admit it – I forgot to go to Gamegrene for a while. So I only just found this article. It certainly looks like a catch-22: too many revised editions and supplements and people complain about being bled dry, too few and they’ll say it’s a “dead game.” However, there’s
D20 Munchkin
Dear God, help us.
Cell Entertainment Announces Things Both Cool And Scary
In the cool department, there’s Hybrid, a 60mm (read: big) scale minis skirmish game that’ll be the first to use their “maglock” system as pervasively as it should have been used in the first place. According to flyers distributed at GTS, all weapons and armor will be magnetically attachable and
Cheapass Parks Fightball On A Pole
People have been talking about on the Cheapasses mail list for a few weeks, but the details have only just come to light on the web page. It’s, like, a board game and stuff. Also filtering out from Cheapass consciousness is , apparently this year’s card game in the Falling
Peter Adkison Buys GenCon
We are not kidding. Wizards has the press release up. Doesn’t this seem like it could become a bit dodgy? “Here, we’re gonna move the preeminent game convention from its 30-year home to a whole new location, aaaaaaaaaand hereyouhandleeverythingokaycool.” But I can’t imagine Adkison would go into this blind, and
Zombies!!! Returns From Grave, Clutching Clichéd Headline
Todd Breitenstein, veteran of Journeyman Press, has formed Twilight Creations to bring Zombies back to the people. When Darkness Comes takes the variable-board mechanic of Zombies and adds RPG-like character creation. Art is from the original Zombies artists. The base set (yes, there will be expansions) allegedly hits on June
Sovereign Press To Publish Dragonlance D20
It was announced this morning at GAMA – original Dragonlance co-author Margaret Weis’ company, Sovereign Press, will be doing Dragonlance for D&D3. It’s unclear whether this will be a D20 book requiring the Player’s Handbook and published by Sovereign, or some kind of licensed deal with full rules and the
Nominations for 2002 Origins Awards
The official site is going to be under construction until last week, so, um, until then, you can get the list of nominees .
GOO Starts Creator-Owned Imprint
Buried under the hailstorm of GAMA stuff on GamingReport yesterday (quick recap: WotC may put restrictions on “trade dress” for certain types of D20 products, the new Star Wars CCG has D20s in it, it’ll have basic common cards for the big characters and then rarer cards you stack up
Cell Entertainment Plots To Escape Sweden
Normally I wouldn’t report on news like this, but it’s been such a pain in the ass to get my hands on what I see as really exciting product that I was very happy to see this on GamingReport this morning: Cell Entertainment, manufacturers of great minis games like Lab
Godlike: Not D20, But An Incredible Simulation!
So it turns out there’s something kind of interesting in the appendices of the Godlike book. (To say nothing, for the moment, of the harrowing hazards in the Talent section, the phenomenal detail of the Background section that takes up the middle 151 pages of a 351-page hardcover, and the
Privateer Posts Monsternomicon Preview
With the characteristic style of the Iron Kingdoms setting, the Monsternomicon ain’t just another book full of monsters. There’s apparently a prestige class for moster-hunter, or monster-researcher or something, and a bunch of other stuff. Privateer Press slapped up a PDF preview just before running off to GAMA, which Allan
Monte Cook On WotC Layoffs
We appreciate your trying to make us feel better, Monte. We’re gonna worry anyway if it’s okay with you. (The latest Line of Sight fleshes out the picture of the recent layoffs a bit more. 50 people, about 10% of total WotC staff, there’s no more Director of Miniatures position