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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Origins Awards nominees announced for 2007
Though underannounced and hard to find (as usual), the 2007 Origins Awards top nominees are decided. ‘Tis an interesting batch this year, with many expected titles (Ptolus was a no-brainer), and some surprises as well (Shear Panic? Really? Huh). The list also contains a few endangered or extinct products, such as Paizo’s Dragon Magazine and the defunct MSM publication Games Quarterly Magazine. Click below for the full list of nominees.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Dragonlance license not renewed to Margaret Weis Productions
Rumored at GTS yesterday, this post by Margaret Weis at Dragonlance.com (copied below) confirms that Wizards of the Coast has not renewed the Dragonlance RPG license that was with Margaret Weis Productions. As Weis mentions in her statement, her company “will be releasing new Dragonlance RPG product through the end of this year and then will step back from our association with Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro.” Weis went on to mention a new world being developed with Tracy Hickman (also of Dragonlance fame) called Dragonships of the Vindras, which will be a new game complimented by novels through Tor Books. Like Paizo, which just lost Dragon and Dungeon, Margaret Weis Productions seems to be maximizing its bonuses for the best possible saving throw in its upcoming post-WotC license era. We’ll see how it turns out for them.
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Dragon and Dungeon Magazines will return to Wizards, go electronic only
Rumored for a while now, today it was officially announced that Paizo Publishing will no longer be publishing Dragon Magazine or its sister magazine, Dungeon. This doesn’t seem to be by Paizo’s choice, as Wizards of the Coast jointly announced the conclusion of Paizo’s license to publish the magazines - seems that Hasbro-owned WotC is looking to drink more deeply of the PDF market. In the press release (copied below), Scott Rouse, Senior Brand Manager of Dungeons & Dragons at WotC stated “Today the internet is where people go to get this kind of information. By moving to an online model we are using a delivery system that broadens our reach to fans around the world.” Readers that liked having the magazines in hand rather than being forced to a computer screen may disagree, especially those who recently resubscribed. Paizo is offering multiple transition options to subscribers with issues remaining after the final issues in September (Dragon #359 and Dungeon #150), including the option of signing on for Pathfinder, “a new monthly 96-page perfect-bound, OGL-compatible, full-color softcover Adventure Path book printed on high-quality paper for use with the world’s most popular roleplaying game.” Personally, I just received the May ‘07 issue of Dragon today, and it contains a “Last issue. Resubscribe!” announcement bundled with it. Either Paizo got caught off guard with this, or someone forgot to notify the shipping department.
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Audio Report: DunDraCon, Goodman Games and Troll Lord
Allan’s interview with two D20 survivors - Goodman Games and Troll Lord games, respectively - is the meat of this show. We also report on DDC more generally, and threaten to talk about lots of other stuff. Get with it.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 3
Okay, let’s face it: at this point, the only gift shopping left to provide suggestions for is the last week of panic shopping. Or post-holiday gift certificate spending! Either way, OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006 has more great gift ideas for gamers, in Twelve Games Around the d20. Oddly enough, this third list focuses on gift ideas from the d20 System and its offshoots. We’ll have more for you soon, but don’t wait for us - fly, you fools! Get those gifts under wraps, lest friends and relatives regard you as they would a glass of sour egg nog.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Bastion Games calls it quits, hands off titles
Seems the siren call of the computer game industry has lured another creative spirit toward better funded pastures. In a pair of press releases today, Bastion Press announced that starting now, other companies would be taking up support of its properties. Specifically, Bastion’s President Jim Butler has handed off nearly all of its RPG titles to DragonWing Games, which will continue to sell Bastion products, reprint sold out titles, and develop new ones under the joint Bastion/DragonWing banner. The other Bastion property, Oathbound, has landed in the hands of its original author, Greg Dent, and will soon have a new website at Oathbound.net. Both press releases are below.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Keith Baker to work with D&D Online
Turbine, the company behind Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, has just announced that Eberron creator Keith Baker will write storylines and fiction for the massively multiplayer online RPG. The folks at Turbine continue to put great support behind their game, and are offering a free seven-day trial if you’re curious. The fight against World of Warcraft is going to be a tough one, but with moves like this, D&D Online just might carve out its own kingdom (plus, they bought us drinks in Chinatown late last year, so we hope things work out).
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
D&D Minis ‘06: Hugeness confirmed
For those that missed the catalog mention, impending hugeness was reiterated last week. Wizards made a D&D Miniatures news announcement on its website that mostly repeated known plans for 2006. Perhaps most important, it brought more attention to the War of the Dragon Queen set, coming in July. Adding more punch to the “Year of the Dragon”, the set will contain “12 Huge figures in this 60-figure set”, as well as some epic-level figures with the characteristic second stat cards. The rarity distribution of the huge figures in Dragon Queen will be at least slightly different than that of the Giants of Legend big boys, which were 12 of a 72-figure set.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
2005 ENnies winners announced
Amidst all the excitement of GenCon Indy, the 2005 Gen Con EN World RPG Award winners were announced. The winners are copied below, though all of the nominees are worth checking out.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
ENnies 2005 nominees announced, voting open
This year’s ENnie Award nominees have been announced for 2005. As always, the winners will be revealed at Gen Con Indy. You can swing by and vote now, if you like. In case traffic gets heavy, nominees are copied below.
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Monday, July 11, 2005
Industry pros on RuneQuest, Mongoose, D20 and more
You think I sound like a grump about the RPG business? Listen to some folks who are actually in the industry. This is on the weblog of D&D stalwart Mike Mearls, whose leadoff post is a bit annoyingly vague. But check out Ryan Dancey’s followup; for all his faults the guy often sees the industry clearer than almost anyone. And don’t skimp on clicking through to the replies and sub-comments; lots of fantastic stuff in there, like this.
Monday, May 16, 2005
Steal this developer’s journal: details on Thieves’ World
Right, so… Thieves’ World. Green Ronin is doing it for D20. There’s a dev journal with one article up so far. I keep waiting for some company or another to embrace the weblog a little more fully; I just feel like that’s the form this kind of article belongs in these days. But it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. Nothing but… coffee. And roleplaying products. And coffee.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
D&D RTS for PCs, OMG WTF
That’ll be my last TLA joke for a while, I think. Anyway, not sure how I missed this one: Dragonshard is a real-time strategy game set in Eberron, with three playable factions and a story written by Keith Baker himself. I’ve never been able to warm up to RTS myself - it’s too much like work for me to enjoy it as play - but it’s good to get Eberron out there in more media, methinks. Release set for June.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Paizo readies meals in a box for GMs
That’s right, Doritos and Pepsi shipped to your door every month. No. No, that’s not what they’re doing at all. The GameMastery line “offers GameMasters everything they need to run a complete short encounter - including unique high-quality metal miniatures, four double-sided map cards that join together to form a gridded encounter map, and a complete encounter utilizing the Open Gaming License - all in one package.” I happen to think this is a pretty good idea, and man, Paizo’s sure working hard to repurpose Dungeon content (I don’t know for sure that that’s what the GameMastery adventures are, but it seems reasonable).
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
It’s not the size, it’s how you delve it
The uberdungeon of the ’90s, TSR’s Ruins of Undermountain, is getting the floors redone and a new coat of paint in a series of web articles on the WotC site. Now this is the way to bring a mind-numbingly large, sprawling dungeon to the the gamer masses: in bite-sized chunks, for free. Don’t go for the world record and cram every single beast with an experience point value into a boxed set or kobold-crushing tome. AEG’s already tried that, and spent too much time on shoehorning the SRD’s beasts into the World’s Largest Dungeon, while not spending enough time editing.
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Monday, March 7, 2005
DragonMech: Second Age preview online
Giant mechs of dwarven design will continue to dent and blast the mechs of other races, in DragonMech: Second Age of Walkers. Fresh today, Goodman Games has a 15-page preview download on the autocratic Stenian Confederacy, providing the first detailed look at the DragonMech world. Though I haven’t taken the plunge into fantasy mechs just yet, I’ve heard good things about the DragonMech setting. Second Age of Walkers should be in your local stores now.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
WotC senior designer on why books are not great sometimes
You don’t see this getting talked about in public much. And, well, it’s possible we weren’t supposed to see it in public at all. But more likely it came out of a forum or something. This (specifically, the curtailing of the scope and selection of Forgotten Realms sourcebooks) is what it costs to keep D&D in print, so if you care about the business, pay attention. You see, WotC has these things called “targets” - and they hit them.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Necromancer goes with Kenzer, stays with Sword & Sorcery
The march toward separation of development and publishing continues. Necro is apparently quite happy with S&S, but will be moving several of what look to be single adventures through Kenzer & Company beginning in June. I hope the industry fosters more of this kind of in-(or at least inter-)dependence.
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