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Principia Malefex, the RPG of gothic horror in modern Britain, has announced their next product to scare the wits out of your players: The Fools’ Paradise scenario supplement for Principia Malefex has gone to print and will be released at the start of September 2001, marking the first release for

Munchkin is long. Or very, very random. Maybe the latter always leads to the former, I don’t know. We played with four players, and although you should always factor in some inflation for a first game, it took in excess of two hours for someone to get their “character” from

In a recent newsletter, Rio Grande Games laid out their plans for Fall releases. In addition to several titles which have been discussed before (Dvonn, Lord of the Rings: The Search, Shark and Where’s Bob’s Hat), the schedule includes a number of interesting new games that will see simultaneous U.S.

Wiz Kids’ kung fu is superior. Having just recently gained the license to make a CMG similar to Mage Knight that’s based on DC Comics properties, they have now gained the license to do the same for Marvel Comics. The rules to the Marvel CMG will be written by the

ICv2 brings the world an official statement from mega-distributor Diamond that . Of course, rumors have been flying at least since Origins about TSR getting sold, and any number of potential buyers have been discussed, so maybe Diamond just lost a bidding war. (Doing my part to keep the mill

This just in: the biggest, and arguably best, site for D&D 3 and D20, Eric Noah’s Unofficial D&D 3 News, is shutting down in the next few days. The invaluable resource and news site has lead the charge in all things related to D&D 3, and is thought by some

Green Ronin has posted some art from their upcoming Spaceship Zero RPG,and has let the world at large know about their revised plans for the Freeport: The City of Adventuresourcebook. “It’s now going to be a 160 page hardback sourcebook … it features a beautiful poster-sized map of the city.”

Over at Mongoose Publishing, they’ve posted a preview of the upcoming Necromancy book in the form of designer’s notes. Matthew Sprange reveals a bit about the process of making mages of death fun to play again without unbalancing them. White Wolf on the Prowl White Wolf made so many announcements

In a press release, Holistic Design let the world know that their stylish Fading Suns RPG setting will make the leap to the D20 System this November. Not only that, but “Fading Suns: D20 will include Open Gaming rules for high-tech devices and artifacts, ranging from blasters and energy shields

Wingnut Games has posted the Quickstart rules to StuperPowers Deluxe. The humorous RPG of superheroes with silly or useless powers will be arriving in October, and weigh in at 112 pages. Pro-Am Adventures Surface The first round of results from Citizen Games’ D20 adventure writing contest has been posted on

If you haven’t been by the in a while, go take a look at the site and see what you think. Personally, as much as I like the company’s products, I can’t say anything good about the main page. It’s entirely unintuitive, serving only to drastically slow you down as

Viking Games has posted an 11-page preview of their D20 book, Monster Menagerie.Check out the stats and descriptions for several beasts, including the Banshee, and the Mantoid, which sounds suspiciously similar to a Tri-Kreen from Dark Sun.

Due to a number of developments, not the least of which being Hasbro lobotomizing the electronics division of Wizards of the Coast and feeding the properties to Infogrames, the Master Tools D&D 3 software has been delayed until the first quarter of 2002. Considering how far the product vision had

This ICv2 report has a (precious) few more details about the WotC d20 crackdown we reported on early in the week. They say: “Is this a laudable attempt to standardize procedures and enforce a necessary discipline on sloppy publishers, or is it the stunned reaction of an organization that has

Citizen Games has a preview up of the Desperado RPG, which uses the D20 System. This looks like a pure western game, with none of that horror or fantasy stuff. Still, I’ll be interested to compare this to Pinnacle’s Deadlands D20.