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Shea Porr of the Camarilla player organization announced on a mailing list yesterday that “[a] Utah court has approved, in full, a temporary restraining order against White Wolf. In summary, this order prohibits White Wolf from using the name The Camarilla; restrains them from claiming to be The Camarilla or

I’ve just had a look at the d20 supplement Dramatis Personae from new company Archangel Studios, and despite the buxom faerie chick on the front cover, I have to say I’m impressed with this product’s style. Subtitled Campaign Ready NPCs, the book has 24 NPCs ready to use, each illustrated

Green Ronin has just announced their May d20 release: Secret College of Necromancy. Put together by David “Zeb” Cook and Wolfgang Baur, the 96-page supplement will cover everything dead — er, necromancy. Everything from creatures and spells to history of the art will be explored in the book’s fell pages.

Piecepack.org has just reorganized its game page into a tidy table that allows user voting. Whether or not you have already tried out the universal board game kit and its many applications, it’s worth taking a look. Even if you don’t want to buy the nifty wooden set, you can

I finally decided to go ahead and post my review of Vortex, even though we haven’t gotten to test multiplayer quite yet. I think you’ll find the article enlightening anyway. And yeah, . Go to town…

According to Slashdot, the long-awaited online gaming toolbox Neverwinter Nights will be published by Infogrames sometime in the first half of this year. The press release says nothing about precise dates, however. Other games have tried NWN’s model of game-mastered online roleplaying without drawing much interest, but none of them

Our latest review delves into the pages of The Quintessential Fighter by Mongoose Publishing, wherein d20 warriors can become even more effective at chopping things up. Matthew analyzes how well the rules slice and dice, but can they still cut a tomato? Find out inside.

White Wolf and the official live-action Vampire club The Camarilla aren’t getting along too well of late. The problems between the two seem to be caused by an inability to agree on the terms of a contract. The Camarilla, a world-wide organization of gamers playing the Mind’s Eye Theater LARP,

was the first CCG I ever played, and more or less re-initiated me into gaming. All these years later, its standard rulebook has just been revised, according to the Daily Illuminator, which is in a position to know. Relive the memories! Or admire its genius for the first time! Or

have been having schedule issues lately, to hear ICv2 tell it. But they now claim to be shipping their trademark Pioneer-licenced sourcebooks for Serial Experiments Lain in February, Parallel Dual in April, and Fushigi Yugi and Trigun in May. Also on the press release is BESM: Dungeon Crawl, which I

WizKids continues to build momentum with Mage Knight Conquest. Conquest provides mass combat rules for Mage Knight, allowing players to use armies of 500 – 3,500 per side and still finish in about two hours. The Conquest rules are available on WizKids’ game rules page, and will serve to prep

We’ve just heard that the Buffy The Vampire Slayer CCG has sold out in the U.S. Never fear, though: Score Entertainment is having more printed up that should be available in February. You can stake your claim then.

A preview of The Lost City of Gaxmoor is available from Troll Lord Games. Gaxmoor will be 136 pages of d20 danger, “a city scape maelstrom of Orcs, Hobgoblins, Gnolls, Ogres and you guessed it, a pack of viscious demons adventure.” Written by Ernie and Luke Gygax, the book will

Atlas Games has sorted out those other magic systems for your d20 games. You know: Alchemy, Astrology, Geomancy, and the rest. In all, ten new magic systems will be described in Occult Lore, giving spell-users more options than they could ever need. The book will also contain an assortment of

Vortex is a game worth trying, but its price point combined with its diversity of factions makes it difficult to get what you want for the money. I’ve spent a hundred bucks on it and a couple of factions still aren’t playable. Well, until February 4, FFG is selling .