Firefly Games announced this week the sequel to their giant monster battle game, Monster Island. The sequel, Escape from Monster Island, features more rules for smashing cities, crushing the puny military and generally being large, radioactive and grumpy. You can take a look at the cover and some more information
For Those About to Game, We Salute You
RPGnet is holding their second official RPGnet Game Day, and this time it’s near me, in Oakland, CA. Happening this Saturday at EndGame, the event will play host to game industry folks from Chaosium, Citizen Games, Firefly Games, Gold Rush Games, Hero Games, Issaries, Inc., and Wingnut Games. Gamers who
My Wishes Have Been Answered…
In my Monsternomicon review, I suggested that it might be useful to have a list of Monster Manual monsters that fit into the Iron Kingdoms campaign setting. It looks like Privateer Press agrees, as they now have just such a list in their support documents section. While you’re in the
Wrath & Rage Enhancement, for Improved Angry Orcs
Green Ronin has unleashed a web enhancement to accompany the release of Wrath & Rage, the Orc and Half-Orc handbook. The freebie includes a Player’s Handbook-style description of the orc race, as well as official errata. Download the PDF now, and feel the anger of the orcish community.
Free Lightspeed for PSI Rangers
Right now at the Lightspeed web site you can down load a free PDF of the revised PSI Rangers rules for the Lightspeed game. Lightspeed: Psi Rangers requires Lightspeed to play, but can be used with Instant Lightspeed with little conversion. The older version of Psi Rangers, intended for use
It’s Here, It’s Here
Traveller d20 is now available, bringing the number of Traveller variations to 1012 (the same number of drummers in Spinal Tap).
Cube Prospecting Grows in Popularity
Invisible City‘s latest free game of the month is a fast-paced, two-player paper and pencil game which works like a cross between Minesweeper and Battleship. Each player marks a treasure chest and several bombs on a sheet representing a cube. Players then take turns moving on a common board, trying
Mean Streets Expanded
Deep7 has just released the second supplement to its film noir RPG, Mean Streets. In Concrete Jungle, a 44-page .PDF file selling for $5.95, GMs will learn everything they ever needed to know about the people, places and past of New York City. Considering how interesting the brief New York
All Drow All the TIme from Goodman Games
The Complete Guide to Drow preview is now available at Goodman Games. In what is just the latest Drow release in a Drow kind of year, The Complete Guide to Drow contains new classes, new mutations, and a detailed description of Subterranean Drow society. New creatures will round out the
New Monsters at Wizards of the Coast
The Vampire Lord is the latest monster template to be unleashed on the WotC web site. These vampires are faster, tougher, and meaner than your run of the mill Ed Wood vampire. A new friend just in time for the most evil day of the year (aside from whenever System
How Many Hit Points Does a 4th Level Bum Have?
Well this is just the kind of exciting information that can be gleaned from the new PDF release by ., Everybody Else. For all those times when you need a quick NPC to fill in a hole in the adventure, Everybody Else has 80 NPC professions and 320 stat blocks.
It’s All About Homegrown
The RPG business has a lot in common with underground bands. Anyone who wants to get their work out into circulation can find an outlet. While we may have to wait until bands finish their CD’s or post a new song, RPG designers are great about letting us see what
Villains in Your Face OCTOBER 23
On October 23 the new source book for Deeds not Words, Bold Costumes Black Hearts will be unleashed into your neighborhood. Included in this supplement for the game of super hero madness is everything you have ever wanted to know about super villains (like where can you get those costumes
Here come the Devil Dogs
Devil Dog Design, makers of Dogs of War: Modern Skirmish Combat, have officially launched their web site. Since the announcement of this new game all we have had were teasers from places like Pinnacle Entertainment Group, now these folks have their own web site. Check out the page and see
Monsternomicon Review: Tastes Like Life!
Hey, what’s this? Monsternomicon cereal? Let’s give it to Demian… aw, he won’t like it, he hates everything. Hey! He likes it! Hey, Demian!