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Artist and all around great guy John Kovalic has put out a call to fans of his hilarious gaming comic, Dork Tower. John’s looking for your opinion of which Dork Tower strips should be in this summer’s Best of Dork Tower #1, and he’s offering a bribe — er, prize

Back from GAMA and settling into their new website nicely, Pinnacle has begun an ongoing column to chronicle the creation of Deadlands D20. As Deadlands fans may recall, the D20 project was scrapped when Pinnacle was purchased by Cybergames last September, but when PEG regained its independence in January, the

(Just doing that to get interesting search engine traffic. No offense.) Steve Jackson Games has pre-announced another non-collectible expansion set for , the collectible version of Illuminati. Purists may scoff, but lots of folks played INWO, and its streamlined rule set helped make a ridiculous explosion of cards and concepts

Since a day without WotC news is like… well, just go read this more complete outline of their 2001 plans. Harry Potter and major league sports, oh my. No mention of the Potter RPG, which further confirms the news that the RPG has been called off.

Most gamers don’t understand the game distribution business, and frankly, we here at the Cave aren’t way ahead of you. But we do understand that Alliance Game Distributors‘ acquisition, announced Friday, of Berkeley-Topline Distributors and “selected assets” of Barchetta Distribution will change the industry in massive ways. Berkeley and Barchetta

Deep7, the company responsible for the 1PG line of quick and easy role-playing games, has just released a new card game. In Snake Oil, each player is a quack attempting to sell allegedly miraculous potions and oils in an effort to become rich at the expense of the gullible masses.

After looking over the new Psionics Handbook, I was wondering where certain prominent psionic beasties had gone. Obviously, some of Wizards’ psions have been monitoring my thoughts, and the result is today’s post of extra psionic creatures. Bruce Cordell, the Psi Handbook’s designer, wrote up the stats for Thri-Kreen, Su

Clanbook: Followers of Set has slithered its way onto the shelves. White Wolf’s Revised line of clanbooks continues with the Setites, the children of the dark vampire god, Set. These fanged corrupters have been hissing in the ears of Kindred since the Great Deluge, and now they continue their good

Deep water really scares me. Sharks really scare me. The image of a half-man, half-shark gliding in the murky depths below my water-treading legs terrifies the hell out of me. But then that’s the whole point of the World of Darkness. The latest installment in White Wolf’s Changing Breeds series,

After an amazing response at last week’s GAMA convention, Tyranny Games is moving up the release of Sack Armies: Expeditionary Force from August to June. The game’s first two expansions, Colonization and Fortification, are still scheduled for December 2001 and Spring 2002 respectively. We’re eagerly awaiting our first expedition in

The helpful folks at White Wolf recently posted a FAQ about their newest role-playing genre, Mummy: the Resurrection. Among the topics discussed are Mummy’s place in the World of Darkness, the obligatory rules problems, and the possible addition of Mummy to the Mind’s Eye Theatre line.

James Wyatt, designer of the upcoming Oriental Adventures supplement for D&D 3, has revealed some interesting tidbits about the book’s contents. For one thing, the setting will be Rukugan (of Legend of the Five Rings), not Kara-Tur. Wyatt also gave a rough estimate of the other contents of OA 3E,

Jim Butler, long-time veteran of TSR and Wizards of the Coast, is leaving the company after this Friday. As part of a corporate reorganization, his position was supposed to be eliminated in December of last year, but Jim had so much to do, his departure was slightly delayed. Butler’s next

GURPS Low-Tech ($20.95) has finally been completed. Obsidian daggers, leather armor, sundials and chariots galore pack the book’s 128 pages. There are even some new rules for piecemeal armor. Everything from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages is detailed in Low-Tech, so if you’ve been waiting for this supplement

One of our favorite game designers, Tom Jolly, dropped us a line recently. When we asked him how he likes working with Fantasy Flight Games on products like Diskwars and Drakon, he had nothing but praise for his co-conspirators. “We have a pretty good relationship,” said Tom. “Christian [Petersen of