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.
Dave Arneson kicks it with Goodman
As we reported forever ago, Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor setting (the first first roleplaying setting) is heading for D20-land. As we did not report forever ago because they hadn’t announced it, Goodman Games will be handling the publishing, and it’ll be here for Gen Con. Click “Read more” for the full
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
In the surprising-no-one department…
And yes, the MechWarrior Dropship has already hit eBay.
D&D in OED
GamingReport reports that the as a noun. I would caution against getting too excited about this; every year, the OED committee adds a bunch of vogue words, and most of them get removed again in a year’s time. They mostly do this to get press attention. If I were handicapping,
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
Human Head ups the Academy
Lo those many months ago we reported that Human Head Studios, the video game company that brought you Rune, was starting a paper-games division to be led by Matt Forbeck. Their first product, The Redhurst Academy of Magic, has been announced for a July release. It’s a fat hardcover and
New Tunnels & Trolls… sort of
Flying Buffalo has announced that they’ve sold out of fifth edition rulebooks for their classic Tunnels & Trolls RPG. Although the sixth edition isn’t ready yet (in fact, it’s still just a rumor, really), they had to print something, and thus, Tunnels & Trolls 5.5 has been created. It’s the
Eden gets Army of Darkness license
The press release says the license covers roleplaying and card games, and then says “the game” will come out in October, without saying which one. I suppose this means the RPG, although the card game appears to be another Abduction clone like HACK, so maybe they’ll bust it out pretty
Superlink for Supers RPG
Green Ronin has created a license for its Mutants & Masterminds RPG, in addition to the Open Gaming License it was released under. This new license, called M&M Superlink, is for non-Green Ronin products that are compatible with Mutants & Masterminds. Any new creations will have to be checked by
Troll Lord to publish Necromancer Games products
The current big d20 news is that Troll Lord Games and Necromancer Games announced a joint publishing venture. Starting in June, Troll Lord will begin publishing d20 products for Necromancer, increasing Necromancer’s product flow and adding to what’s already being published by Sword and Sorcery. The first such product will
End of a bubblicious era: WotC loses Pokemon license
The open letter to fans from Wizards CEO Chuck Huebner says that WotC’s proposal “to manufacture and distribute the Ruby & Sapphire releases was not accepted.” (Ruby and Sapphire are the two latest versions of the original Pokémon game for the Game Boy.) Three already-booked expansions will hit this year,
Rio Grande Keeps Up the Good Work
Rio Grande Games has just posted their latest newsletter. This month’s releases include Paris, Paris, a game about the effect of Parisian tourism on the economy, and Traders and Builders, the new Carcassonne expansion. Next month will see Amon-Re, a new Reiner Knizia design, and Bean Trader, the Bohnanza board
Green Ronin goes mental
Green Ronin has just added two psionic-related d20 supplements to their product schedule for the summer. Monsters of the Mind will present 64 pages of psionic beasties written by Kevin Brennan, James Maliszewski, Morgan Peer, and Tracey Peer. More than 50 creatures will crawl out of the book, along with