As Mike reported at Origins, Big Eyes, Small Mouth d20 was released upon an unsuspecting world, and all of the rules content is Open Gaming Content. Now has taken the extra step of creating a BESM d20 System Reference Document, taking those three special little initials (SRD) and making them
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GenCon Indy Chat at WotC Site
You’ve got less than half an hour to get to the Wizards.community chat on GenCon Indianapolis with Mr GenCon himself, Peter Adkison. The chat’s today at 5pm PST, so if you don’t already have a password at the WotC community section, you may be out of luck today (it can
Origins Awards: are they broken, should we fix?
Ryan Dancey has floated a very specific set of proposals to change the voting process for the Origins Awards, and they’re eliciting unusually active discussion on GamingReport. I like the vote-count suggestions, but if the goal is to make the awards less of a flavor-of-the-month popularity contest, why eliminate “outdated”
ENnies Nominees Announced
EN World has just posted the for this year’s ENnies (aka The 2nd Annual Gen Con EN World D20 System Awards). Voting will soon begin on the popular prize, and as with last year, the winners will be announced at GenCon. Notably absent from the nominees this year is Mystic
Price tag for WizKids: $29.5MM
More details on the WizKids deal and the rest of Topps’ financial picture.
Live from Origins 2003: Turns out that Vanna-ing is a career with a future
A little late-breaking news from the awards ceremony: Nicole Lindroos has been named the new chair of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design. Congratulations, Nic!
2003 Origins Awards winners
I was going to be all smooth and post the Origins Awards results live as they happened from the ballroom, but you can’t get signal in the ballroom… I’d have to sit in the hallway to be online. Well, OK. Game Aid/Accessory: Gamemastering Secrets, Gray Ghost Press Play-By-Mail: Button Men
Make an Elder God, Win a Kewpie Doll
Yog-Sothoth.com has announced a joint contest with Toy Vault, the folks who made all those stuffed Cthulhu toys. The challenge? Create your very own plush Cthulhu. Yep, Toy Vault wants to pick your brain for variant ideas on Cthulhu and company, and is offering up one of each Cthulhu plush
Pinnacle Site Gets Facelift
Pinnacle’s got a new look & feel for its website this morning. PEG is giving away a free Lost Colony Showdown starter and booster to every online order of $50 or more, so take on those grapes and claim the land for your own… or at least figure out what
More Citizen Debacle Details
After the story we posted this morning, we’ve received this from Mike Eckert of Citizen Games regarding the company’s recent restructuring and hacked website: Michael J. Eckert, former President of Citizen Games, is not the “former” President in question. Mr. Eckert left the company in early February. This was, indeed,
Citizen Site Hacked; Finger Pointing Begins
Yesterday, the Citizen Games website had seemingly been hacked, displaying nothing but a Nazi flag and the German phrase “Bürger-Spiele ist zerhackt worden!” (translates to “Citizen Games has been hacked”). The offending post is down now, as is the entire site, and the accusations have begun. In the comment posts
WotC Calms v3.5 Jitters
In an announcement that was surely designed to calm nervous gamers, Wizards of the Coast made it clear today that next month’s release of D&D 3.5 will not invalidate the WotC rulebooks. Or at least, in cases where things get changed, a free backward-compatibility guide will be available to straighten
d20 Weekly Passes On
Steve Jackson Games has called a halt to its newest online subscription magazine, d20 Weekly. The man himself, Steve Jackson, made the announcement: The current (May 28, 2003) issue of d20 Weekly will be the last. We’re glad we tried it, and we published quite a few articles that we’re
MEG Turns Three. Happy Birthday!
Mystic Eye Games has grown and grown over the last few years, and now MEG is turning three years old. To celebrate, a number of special deals are being offered through MEG’s online store. If you’ve been falling behind on your Bluffside products, need some added resources for your Dragonstar
I Guess the Wayans Brothers Need the Work
Gaming Report has posted a short message so shocking that I hesitate to even broach the subject (and I am not talking about the rumored Giuffria reunion). There are apparently plans to release a sequel to the rightly panned Dungeons and Dragons movie in 2004. That is about all that