I’m thinking maybe they should change the company name to Monsoon Publishing, or something else that equally conveys the rapid publishing pace Mongoose has managed to build up to. Don’t get me wrong: I like having more products I can select from. During the heyday of TSR, I bought far
Category: Roleplaying Games
The Forge enters terrible twos
Clinton R. Nixon from over at The Forge just dropped us a line with this special announcement. Normally, I’d give you the abridged version, but for this special occasion, I’ll let his words speak for themselves: The Forge, a community website for the promotion and creation of creator-owned role-playing games,
Bad Axe 2003 releases announced
Bad Axe Games has just posted their release schedule for the rest of 2003, which is filled to the brim with d20 goodness. In June, the Heroes of High Favor d20 series will complete its goal of providing a sourcebook for each of the most popular race/class combinations. Heroes of
White Wolf does WarCraft
I’m surprised this didn’t come out more loudly at GTS – but maybe that’s because WotC’s old Blizzard-licensed RPGs were so poor. My interpretation of this blurb is that this new hardcover (street date: July) will take after WarCraft III’s integration of role-playing elements. Imagine a tabletop RPG in which
Plucky ‘indie RPGs’ have own website, awards
The finalists for the 2002 Indie RPG Awards have been announced. This gig focuses not just on PDF releases, but on new system designs, and appears to have some kind of game built into its awards-voting system wherein you “buy” votes. Hmm. Anyway, this is as good a place as
Green Ronin GTS recap
Green Ronin had to wait quite a while to make their presentation at GTS, being part of the Tuesday night dinner that included Wizard Entertainment, the Origins Awards nominations, and Games Workshop. But once Chris Pramas was finally able to take the podium, the GR gospel was spread. Some copies
GURPS Faerie and other playtests
For those who enjoy getting an early peek at stuff, Steve Jackson Games has announced three more playtests you could get in on. The long-awaited GURPS Faerie, by Graeme Davis, is now in playtest on Pyramid, as is GURPS Covert Ops by William H. Stoddard and Hans-Christian Vortisch. Last but
Chaosium cultists loose at GTS
Chaosium was moderately high profile, despite all the recent rumors flying around (which feeds into their Latin motto, “All rumors are true”), having a decent sized booth in the third exhibit hall and a big ad on the show bag. Arkham, the latest Cthulhu supplement, is shipping now, complete with
AEG doing Stargate, Warlord RPGs, and two for the kids
Stargate is a slam dunk for gaming (hey, we found a gate to Gamma World!), and a game set in the Warlord universe makes sense for the last successful CCG besides Magic that isn’t a license. The puzzling things announced in this report, though, are the two games evidently pitched
Decipher ups RPG support, continues twitching and winking about Matrix
GR’s notes about the Decipher seminar at GTS indicate that they told a bunch of retailers that they were really, really sorry about their apparent love-em-and-leave-em policy for their RPG releases of late. “Decipher will be releasing a minimum of 2 releases a month for the next few years for
GOO doing GoT RPG
Or, more properly, A Song of Ice and Fire. Available in “fall” (read: “Gen Con, we hope”), this RPG based on George R.R. Martin’s line of novels will be dual-system-dual-rulebook like Silver Age Sentinels. I wonder why Fantasy Flight didn’t get this one; maybe their RPG plate is full, or
Nocturnals are go
May or may not apparently equals may: Green Ronin will publish a Nocturnals sourcebook for Mutants and Masterminds. The Halloweeny flavor of this property is something new for superhero roleplaying, so, hey, new things are good, right? Press release lives riiiiight about here.
Mongoose magazine mayhem
ENworld reported last week that Mongoose dropped a big, fat, absurdly coy, practically-an-announcement hint that they’re doing a magazine of some kind. We couldn’t find where they made the statement that ENworld quotes, so we considered it a rumor. GR now apparently has from Mongoose. Full color, Mongoose product coverage
Ars Magica: free as in beer
Atlas Games is making some pretty big moves right now, releasing the 4th edition of Ars Magica as a free PDF download, and messing with their website in some pretty positive ways. I like.
Dream Pod 9 goes OGL, sort of, confusing area journalist
You know what really chaps my business? When people report about the OGL as if “OGL” means “that system that WotC released under the OGL and makes available under additional rules as the D20 System.” The OGL is just a set of terms! Under which anyone can distribute content! Get