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Isn’t that how it goes? Man, it’s been at least 18 years since I took piano lessons. Anyway, the first issue of Fudge Factor, a free monthly magazine website for players of the Fudge RPG system, has burst onto the scene. Well, maybe “burst” isn’t the right word, but they’ve

I’d just like to say that The Games Journal is cool. Thank you.

Late yesterday, Precedence announced both their 2002 release schedule, and the fact that the Wheel of Time CCG wouldn’t be a part of it. The company has “canceled its ongoing efforts to produce a 2nd Edition set for the Wheel of Time CCG. While development of the previously announced 2nd

Perhaps to compensate for the fact that they didn’t manage to release anything during the month of August, Invisible City has put out their free October game with remarkable speed. It’s called Blockade, it’s an abstract strategy game, and it requires, of all things, half a Backgammon board. If you’re

…even the Halloween Gift Packs from Cheapass. it’s got all the Friedey’s games (Give Me The Brain, Lord of the Fries, Change, Great Brain Robbery), plus Renfield and Parts Unknown, and finally (somewhat spuriously) Witch Trial. Top it all off with 2 random selections from the Freaks and Vampyres sets

The latest expansion for Magic: The Gathering, called Odyssey, is in stores now. The set boasts 350 black-bordered cards (110 rares, 110 uncommons, 110 commons, and 20 lands) with new artwork. New special abilities are also introduced: Flashback, which allows cards to be played after they’ve been placed in the

Games Workshop has begun taking preorders for their Lord of the Rings game line. The line starts with their Fellowship of the Ring Boxed Game, a miniatures combat game that includes rules, dice and “48 highly detailed plastic miniatures.” A set of miniatures that represent the Fellowship of the Ring

Chaosium has finally gotten their limited edition shipment of 20th Anniversary Call of Cthulhu. Where my office is, I have to walk through Chaosium to get to the bathroom, so I’ve seen these rare beauties firsthand. Each book’s supple green cover seemed to shift and move under my touch. I

Fantasy Flight is having a big DiskWars clearance sale through next Monday. If you never checked out DiskWars, now is an excellent time, and if you checked out DiskWars but thought it had problems, now is an excellent time to check out Range Wars if you haven’t – it fixed

Well, I finally got to play the damned thing, after failing to pick up a demo pack at Origins for some reason and failing to tell Allan to get one at Gen Con. The demo is a fairly limited and controlled play environment… which may be why I enjoyed playing

It comes out in March, it’s a “customizable board game” built on a grid of cards, with no collectible elements. The press release describes it thus: “you play the part of a Hero adventuring through a dangerous labyrinth of Monsters, Magic and Treasure. It is fast, portable, and easy to

The Game Industry Disaster Fund Auction starts in a couple of hours. You know that auctions and sweat-inducing compulsive shopping go hand-in-hand, so get on over there. It’s for the best cause we’ve got right now.

If you’ve been holding off on getting into Gold Rush Games‘ Sengoku or Usagi Yojimbo role-playing games, now may be the time to catch up. In an effort to reduce prices, the company is offering bundled packages containing core rulebooks, supplements and CD-ROMs for both games. More information can be

Two new D20 modules, Tapestry Saga – Web of the Widow (based in Columbia Games‘ world of Hârn) and Dark Awakenings: Guardian, feature CD-ROM material by the folks at Auran. The Hârn one seems to be CD-ROM only, but Auran’s own adventure is a 60-page book with full-color inserts and

Synister Creative Systems has been kind enough to give us a look at the current draft of the Buccaneer prestige class from their D20 RPG Skull & Bones. From everything we’ve seen thus far, this may be the pirate-themed product to watch for. Polly want a character sheet?