Links to this Gleemax post, by Dungeons & Dragons Senior Brand Manager Scott Rouse, are currently floating all over the web, wherein Rouse asserts that the 4e GSL revision promised a month ago “has not been shelved”. Rouse stated that “The draft is done. The changes are approved and it
Category: Roleplaying Games
Call the Maid
As Mike mentioned a few weeks back, there’s a little game crossing the Pacific from Japan this year. A hit at Gen Con ’08, the Maid RPG is . Have a look if you dare, and see how this translation of a Japanese RPG about anime maids entertains – or
Order of the Stick rolls out rumble at Azure City
Order of the Stick fans should already know (or even have a preorder or Gen Con copy in-hand) but in case you missed it, there’s news. The third compliation book (and fourth book overall) of Rich Burlew’s popular online comic strip, titled Order of the Stick: War and XPs, has
Out of the Box back on the web
After around 18 months of hiatus, Ken Hite’s column Out of the Box has reappeared on the internet, thanks to the folks at Indie Press Revolution. Naturally, Ken kept himself busy with projects like Trail of Cthulhu in the interim, but we’re happy to see the column make its return.
Fantasy Flight announces price increases
It almost seemed inevitable, and now it has come to pass – Fantasy Flight Games just announced price increases for many of its product lines. Citing “energy, commodity, and labor prices” as the sources of “tremendous upward pressure on manufacturing pricing”, FFG plans to adjust its prices upward by 10%-25%
Tell-all Morocco book spills secrets at Chaosium
According to the dark overlords at Chaosium, the hot new ancient evil is about to pounce. Originally done as a Kinkos-style test product (aka “Monograph”), Secrets of Morocco for Call of Cthulhu has started filtering through distribution and should be in stores in a week or two. Now investigators can
Paizo to publish Book of Experimental Might compilation
Again with the smart moves: Paizo Publishing has plans to release a print version of Monte Cook’s Book of Experimental Might before the end of this year, according to a post today from the man himself. Previously only in print through Lulu’s POD, the new edition will combine BoEM volumes
Gamers: Dorkness Rising arrives at long last
After screenings at San Diego ComicCon and Gen Con Indy, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is finally ready for mass consumption. Dead Gentlemen Productions has been working on the highly anticipated sequel for quite a while now, so fans will be happy to know the DVD is available, complete with outtakes
All we're gonna say about the McCain thing
Edit: we should throw in a mention of this mildly amusing backpedal from the McCain campaign… which gets a little more amusing when you read that it predates the second anti-D&D slam. “Okay, nobody’s looking anymore… try it now!” Maybe someone should tell them that lots of D&D players are
More just in from Gen Con 2008
I’ve got a few minutes to peruse a few internet rumblings from this weekend’s big Indianapolis show, so I’ll point out a few things that caught my attention: The new Baron Munchausen RPG from Magnum Opus Press is at the Mongoose booth. [EDIT: we’ve had mixed reports on whether it
2008 ENnies winners announced at Gen Con Indy
Earlier this evening at Gen Con Indy, the winners of the Gen Con EN World RPG Awards 2008 were announced to all in attendance at the Indianapolis Westin Grand Ballroom (see full list below). Highlights include Paizo Publishing’s win for Fan Choice Best Publisher (Paizo generally dominated the categories, along
This just in from This Just In From Gen Con
The good news is, someone is actually bothering to report live from the show… where “live” is defined as “ways other than writing rambling daily reports that don’t go up until the next day.” The not-bad-but-maybe-weird news is that the reporting is being done in a podcast – a short
Grey Ranks and Wolfgang Baur’s Open Design project tie for Diana Jones Award
MAKE THEM FIGHT FOR IT Read all about it at Baur’s LJ. Diana Jones Award info here.
WotC amends D&D4 GSL in soon-to-be-specified ways
One of the big complaints about the Game System License for D&D 4 has been the clause that says they can change it without notification; well, apparently they have every intention of at least getting word to people who read the web, and here’s us doing our part. Changes to
A passing thought about RPG systems and conversion
So, my sleeping shadow army, riddle me this: how might one go about designing an RPG system that wasn’t necessarily meant to be played in and of itself, but was designed instead for easy and consistent conversion to any reasonably traditional RPG system? I don’t even know if there’s any