ACD Distribution is taking steps to improve its shipping times to the western side of the US by opening a new warehouse just a bit down the road from me, in Fresno, CA. The California warehouse will begin shipping out orders on December 2. Retailers will be able to continue
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This guy does a bunch of them here. Check out his reports on the Essen game fair in Germany.
OgreCave Interview: Steve Jackson
Craig recently posed a few questions to gaming luminary Steve Jackson, and got some interesting responses. What does the long-time game designer and GURPS creator have to say about the state of the industry, or the future of Steve Jackson Games? To learn more, you’ll have to read, buddy.
New Review: Game Mastering Secrets
No power outage today, so we’ve got stuff for ya. Joe has checked out Game Mastering Secrets: Second Edition from Grey Ghost Press, and tells all in his latest review. Is it exactly what the beginner GM in your circle of friends needs? Perhaps so. Find out inside.
Green Ronin bringing Bloody Bastards, and more
Green Ronin Publishing has posted some details of a few upcoming d20 releases, including the second RPG product to have “bastards” in the title in the past year or so (bonus points if you remembered the other one). The products GR announced were: Pocket Magica (February ’03 release) Mutants &
Way of the Witch ships tomorrow
Our buddy Michael Eckert, President of Citizen Games, has just informed us that Way of the Witch will ship out tomorrow to stores everywhere. This d20 sourcebook is one I’ve been looking forward to. Written by popular industry authors Jean Rabe, Janet Pack, Christina Stiles, and Megan Robertson, Way of
Mega Mongoose
The guys at Mongoose Publishing have unleashed yet another website update with some interesting tidbits. The details of several new supplements are up, including these tasty morsels: Quintessential Druid (November release) Slaine RPG: Teeth of the Moon Sow (November release) Ultimate Feats (November release) Judge Dredd RPG: Brit-Cit (November release)
Battle Cattle goodies available soon
Wingnut Games has informed us that Battle Cattle: Third Edition is at the printers and will arrive in retail stores everywhere in time for Christmas. OgreCave’s own Colin Adams did the cover art, so buy it many, many times. The game of cattle combat simply wouldn’t be complete without cow
Lift Off Playtest Report
Now that we’ve played more Fightball, and sampled this German real-time card game, I think I can safely say that the future of realtime card games looks a lot more like regular card games than it used to. We’re playing enough Fightball that we may be heading for a full
Green Ronin Buys Dragon Fist RPG
Green Ronin announced today that Chris Pramas’ baby, the sadly neglected Origins award nominee Dragon Fist is now Green Ronin property. WotC released it as a PDF, and it was reportedly a strong influence on 3rd Edition’s Oriental Adventures as well. The soft-spoken and well-dressed Mr. Pramas plans to bring
Chez Niche-Market!
Right, well, I missed the news about Chez Greek, a fraternity-themed standalone Chez Geek clone that’s fully compatible with the original. Apparently, the SJG marketing department decided that not everyone who might enjoy a fun card game is a self-billed geek. It’s currently listed as At The Printer. Yesterday they
MEG sends taste of Sands of Pain and Dry Lands
Mystic Eye Games was nice enough to send over some story teasers from two of MEG’s D20 products: Interludes: Sands of Pain (in stores now) and Dry Lands (coming this Dec/Jan). From what Hal Greegberg told me a while back, Sands of Pain serves as the connection between the city
Confusion reduction at PI Games
Politically Incorrect Games has changed the name of its Action Exploits game to Active Exploits Diceless Roleplaying. The change was made in order to avoid having the game confused with Gold Rush Games‘ new Action! System. I’m all for reducing confusion.
Cartoon Action Hour demo online
Spectrum Game Studios and Z-Man Games have announced a free demo of Cartoon Action Hour (the 1980s action cartoon RPG, for those of you playing our home game). There’s two parts to the demo, the Playset and Action Pack #1, which can both be downloaded from Spectrum’s freebie page. Here’s
Rio Grande Honored by Games Magazine, Brags in Newsletter
Not too surprisingly, Rio Grande Games has a respectable number of products listed in the Games 100 list from Games Magazine. They were so proud that they immediately released a new newsletter even though they don’t seem to have any other news (the game descriptions are the same as the