Category: OgreCave

In October, Green Ronin will present Arcana: Societies of Magic, a D20 sourcebook on mystic organizations, secret or otherwise. Written by Kevin Brennan and James Maliszewski, this promises to be a good one. Here’s the details: Arcana: Societies of Magic details six different organizations that employ unique styles of magic

The official Star Wars website has announced some preliminary details about Episode II. Specifically, the name of the movie has been announced as Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Uhh… oh-kay. Certainly inspires confidence, don’t it? :-/

I checked with Fantasy Flight at GenCon about their expansion to the Lord of the Rings boardgame (formerly a WotC game). There was a single, unopened copy of the expansion, Friends and Foes,at a booth dedicated to nothing but the boardgame. From looking at the back, the game will have

New card games were everywhere at GenCon this year. Let me see what I can remember… The Ebay card game from Journeyman Press looked promising, though uncomplicated. WotC’s Harry Potter CCG had major displays inside the castle, and seemed well designed from a cursory glance at the game. However, $3.29

Galloglass Games has made two recent announcements. First of all, their twisted rail game HellRail has returned to print courtesy of Mayfair Games and is now available for sale. Secondly, a new mailing list aimed at discussing the issues involved in publishing cheap card and board games has just been

One of the more entertaining single-space booths was the tribal tent of Outside the Asylum Productions, who were at GenCon promoting their boardgame, Nomad. In the game, which is packaged in a strange tent-like box, are several cloth gameboards and a number of game pieces. Each player uses a small

One of my roommates ran a scheduled playtest game of the new Tekumel RPG being developed by . The new game uses the Tri-Stat system, used throughout most of the GOO product line. Though I didn’t have a chance to join in, my roommate said the players thought the combat

Apparently, yesterday’s posts didn’t show up. They should now be displaying just fine, so check out my preliminary report on GenCon 2001. I’ll be adding more later today.

Over at booth #347, Sovereign Press had the entire line of last year’s Sovereign Stone RPG, now converted to the D20 System. There always seemed to be activity there, partly because Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman were at the booth, signing everything from Dragonlance to their Sovereign Stone novel. Don

Okay, I’m back. Getting *to* GenCon was a minor nightmare that took 28 hours, but getting back went quite smoothly. Plenty of thunderstorms in both directions. And since my trip to GenCon was on non-OgreCave business (I’m working for Wizard’s Attic and Skotos Tech on a project to expand RPGnet.

Well, I’m on layover in the Denver airport, but I’ll be movin’ on home soon. I’ll have some GenCon posts for you tomorrow, and an image gallery shortly thereafter. Stay tuned.

Since appearing more or less out of nowhere a few weeks ago, has grown into a remarkable resource for fans of the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. In addition to the usual reviews and solutions, it has some exclusive looks at books that never made it into print along with

, makers of the popular anime RPG Big Eyes, Small Mouth and its many spin-offs, has just announced that their Tri-Stat System will reach yet another popular genre next summer. With the release of Silver Age Sentinels, players will be able to adventure in the many potential worlds of “four-color-style”

If things seem a little bit ominously quiet around here, that’s probably because Sven has left for GenCon. If you can’t make it to the convention yourself, you might enjoy visiting Wizards of the Coast‘s Virtual GenCon from time to time over the next few days. If you have a

Ever wonder what it’s like to be Gary Gygax’s publisher, or what the guys who put those CD-ROM d20 modules on your game store’s shelves were thinking? Read all about it in the first of what are sure to be many OgreCave interviews. (Peep Colin’s fly new corner graphic while