Green Ronin had to wait quite a while to make their presentation at GTS, being part of the Tuesday night dinner that included Wizard Entertainment, the Origins Awards nominations, and Games Workshop. But once Chris Pramas was finally able to take the podium, the GR gospel was spread. Some copies
Category: Dungeons & Dragons
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
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
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,
Troll Lord to publish Necromancer Games products
The current big d20 news is that Troll Lord Games and Necromancer Games announced a joint publishing venture. Starting in June, Troll Lord will begin publishing d20 products for Necromancer, increasing Necromancer’s product flow and adding to what’s already being published by Sword and Sorcery. The first such product will
Green Ronin goes mental
Green Ronin has just added two psionic-related d20 supplements to their product schedule for the summer. Monsters of the Mind will present 64 pages of psionic beasties written by Kevin Brennan, James Maliszewski, Morgan Peer, and Tracey Peer. More than 50 creatures will crawl out of the book, along with
OgreCave Interview: The Inner Circle
Crikey! Joe’s cornered the rare and elusive Inner Circle, a D20 company with a violet outer coat. Isn’t it gorgeous? Watch as Joe asks it a few questions. Careful now, Joe!
Check yer d20, Mister?
The folks over at The Game Mechanics have just released a second d20 resource, Staves of Ascendance. Written by Rich Redman (Savage Species, d20 Modern, Monster Manual II), the supplement shows players and GMs how a mystical staff or rod can be the stuff of legends. Twelve powerful tools that
OgreCave Interview: Silverthorne Games
Joe has needled new d20 company Silverthorne Games with enough questions to form our latest interview. See what the young game company has to say about the industry, PDF publishing, and finding a voice amidst all the other products out there.
Mongoose releases book of vile secretions
Mongoose Publishing‘s Encyclopaedia Arcane: Nymphology has been released on what it seems to be using as the industry’s equivalent to straight-to-video, RPGNow. Written by the author of the Slayer’s Guide to Rules Lawyers and Female Gamers, this eldritch tome promises rules for prestige classes including “Mystic Pimp, Seduction Mage and,
SRDenied?
The uproar today in the d20 portion of the industry is WotC‘s recent changes to the System Reference Document, which tells all the d20 publishers out there what they can and can’t make use of from established D&D rules. Why the concern? Well, apparently several creatures that were in the
Fantasy Setting Search has a winner already
Congratulations to Keith Baker, former Icehouse world co-champion and winner of the WotC Fantasy Setting Search. Baker got paid 100 grand for the 100-page setting bible he wrote, which, as I understand it, is an above-average page rate for the industry. Still no word on the content of this new
Way of the Witch review
Joe hits us with a review of Citizen Games‘ Way of the Witch sourcebook. Only the second D20 book about witches that we’ve reviewed… I think.
A few D&D collectible miniatures details
ICv2 brings the pain – WotC’s new miniatures guy, also named Chris, answers precisely four questions about the upcoming pre-painted, randomly sorted D&D minis game. The most intriguing bit here is there will be some Chainmail figures in the first set, so that investment won’t be rendered worthless for the