We’ve got a pair of new reviews for you this morning: Greg’s look at Jade Magi Sewer Crawl by Monkeygod Enterprises, and Matthew’s analysis of The Slayer’s Guide to Bugbears by Mongoose Publishing. Have at them!
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Fantasy Flight Releases D20 On Multiple Fronts
Though still getting former AEG guy Kevin Wilson settled, Fantasy Flight has managed to keep cranking out the hits. The Nocturnum campaign just might be available in time for GenCon, which is sure to decrease the sanity of many Call of Cthulhu D20 characters. The modern day horror campaign details
Cheapass Switches Promo Ploys At GenCon
For the past few years, has run ads in the program books at Origins and GenCon. Usually, these featured free Button Men that could be cut out at the Cheapass booth and made into the fully operational model. This GenCon, the company’s skipped that in favor of a Milwaukee area
Boston Massacre Next Month
The first supplement for Tyranny Games‘ The End is at the printers and scheduled to reach stores next month. Entitled The Boston Massacre, the book will provide details on the Boston region, describe the Boston-D.C. conflict, and supply game stats for the area’s important personalities. A new class, the Founder
Hay! Battle Cattle Minis Re-Release
Wingnut Games has just released the Battle Cattle miniatures with new (and greatly improved) packaging. The Medium Battle Cattle is also seeing light for the first time in this release, so those of us who got our figs from the first release still need to get to stores for the
Rio Grande Update
Rio Grande Games has released another newsletter. generic cialis lowest price The highlights of the newsletter are descriptions of two forthcoming games: Trans America, a railroad game due in late August, and Heave Ho!, a Scottish tug of war game (!) featuring Nessie (!!) due out in late August or
Krusty Would Approve
Wizards of the Coast has announced plans for The Simpsons TCG. The game will first arrive this October in the form of 40-card decks featuring Bart, Homer, Lisa or Mr Burns. Naturally, 11-card boosters will also be available. Ex-cellent. Interview With Bad Axe Games Joe has cornered Bad Axe Games
Treeforts Appear in Invisible City
Invisible City Productions has released a larger-than-average game of the month this week: Treefort Nations. In this strategy game, players control territorial monkeys building treeforts in the Great Wood and attacking one another with catapults. The game can be played by two to eight players, takes anywhere from a couple
Green Ronin to Arm Everyone
Green Ronin has struck a deal with Charles Ryan to publish a D20 version of his ground breaking Ultramodern Firearms. Ultramodern Firearms was originally released by Chameleon Eclectic in 1993 but fell by the wayside when Chameleon Eclectic went under. The new edition will feature all manner of new and deadly
Gregory Horror Show: Nevermind
Played it. Tried to figure out how it used the booster minis, as we hoped that would alleviate the slow-as-snails, isolationist game that came in the core box. Turns out that the minis are either supposed to get brought in when you happen to draw a card that depicts the
WotC Rumblings: Online Store, E-Tools, And So On
With Hasbro’s quarterly earnings announcement due this coming Monday, it comes as no surprise that Wizards of the Coast‘s online store has closed down. Why? Because WotC has finally announced part of what’s been rumored for weeks now: someone else will be handling online retail sales for them from now
ENnies Awards Voting Open
EN World has just opened up online voting for the seventeen categories of the ENnies. The awards focus on the same subject as EN World, the D20 System, and will announce the winners in a ceremony at GenCon next month.
Spiel Des Jahres Winner Speaks
BrettBoard points us to this interview with Villa Paletti designer Bill Payne. Damn Canadians!
More Hard Sci-Fi, GURPS-Style
Steve Jackson Games has scheduled a second edition of the GURPS Uplift sourcebook for release in October. Based on David Brin’s classic Uplift series, humans challenge the galactic status quo by daring to “uplift” chimpanzees and dolphins into tool-using sentience. After Transhuman Space and Traveller, this neatly positions GURPS as
D20! Here Comes D6. HALO to the Rest of You!
In the tradition of the D20 Open Game License, Eternal Tempest has released their core rules, HALO. Eternal Tempest is giving away the system for any game company or designer to use. They have posted the core rule files and usage guidelines on their site for download. The system has been