OgreCave Gaming News Update

Darren Watts of Hero Games on Champions for Hero: Sixth Edition, released for the first time anywhere at DunDraCon 34. Darren describes the lush, full-color book, and as an added challenge, fields a general question or two from a young gamer as well. He also talks briefly of other things to come later in 2010, including Fantasy Hero for Sixth Edition, lots of villain books, and a new project he’s playtesting, Champions Beyond.

We’re giving some new audio editing software a test drive with this episode, so let us know how it sounds.

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OgreCave’s interview from PAX ’09 with game industry icon Matt Forbeck. Matt describes his upcoming Guild Wars novel, other novel projects in the works, and helps us understand what’s been going on with a possible Brave New World movie. He also tells us about being searched before entering J.J. Abrams’ office, travels down memory lane regarding former game companies, mentions his time working on Decipher’s Lord of the Rings RPG, and more.

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OgreCave’s interview from PAX ’09 with Will Schoonover of Steve Jackson Games. Will let us know how Revolution and The Stars Are Right have been received so far, described the upcoming game Nanuk in full detail, and hinted at a “Kovalic, non-Munchkin Cthulhu-related product” due next year which has since become more obvious.

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OgreCave’s interview from KublaCon ’09 with Keith Baker, creator of the Gloom card game, and the Eberron setting for Dungeons & Dragons. Keith talks about plans for the Fourth Edition launch of Eberron and assures us everything will be fine, then talks about his bardic world travel plans.

In case you missed them, the sites Keith mentioned are www.bossythecow.com (his main page) and http://gloomforge.livejournal.com .

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OgreCave’s interview from KublaCon ’09 with Josh Qualtieri of Zombiesmith, which made its convention debut in KublaCon’s exhibit hall this year. Josh tells us how the miniatures company began, about the artistic outlook of the company, and Zombiesmith’s new miniatures ruleset, This Quar’s War.

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OgreCave’s interview from KublaCon ’09 with Aldo Ghiozzi of Impressions Advertising & Marketing. Aldo fills us in on the latest developments for this year’s Free RPG Day, coming June 20.

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OgreCave’s interview from KublaCon ’09 with Harley Stroh from Goodman Games. Harley tells us about an upcoming Age of Cthulhu adventure, talks of Fourth Edition products such as Level Up and a Free RPG Day ’09 adventure, and a number of other projects.

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OgreCave’s interview with Darren Watts from Hero Games, recorded at the GAMA Trade Show 2009. Darren tells us how the run-up to Hero System: Sixth Edition is proceeding (very well), and how the relationship with Cryptic Studios and Champions Online is turning out to be a dream come true.

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OgreCave’s interview with Matt Wilson from Privateer Press, recorded at the GAMA Trade Show 2009. Matt tells us about plans for upcoming Monsterpocalypse expansions – including the appearance of Voltron in the game – the continuing WarMachine 2.0 Field Test, and reasons for plastic versus metal miniatures. He also foreshadows an announcement coming in a few weeks.

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OgreCave’s interview with Will Schoonover from Steve Jackson Games, recorded at the GAMA Trade Show 2009. Will tells us about FRAG! Gold Edition (just released), and describes upcoming releases, such as The Stars Are Right and Revolution (both due this summer).

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