Fiery Dragon Productions has released an adventure I heartily endorse, despite never having read it: The Giant’s Skull. Why do I put OgreCave’s Seal of Approval (TM) on this one? Well, I read the description, of course. Not only can the players portray the heroes who must retrieve a valuable
Hârn Now Fortified With Essential Peppers & Spices
Columbia Games today announced Trobridge Inn: Pepper & Spice, a HârnMaster/D20 module detailing “a fortified trading post on the major trade route between east and west Hârn.” This new module expands on articles from the old Kaldor “kingdom module,” zooming in to city-book levels of detail. Get ready to meet
Of Gods and Green
Dennis Detwiller, co-author of Pagan Publishing‘s Delta Green, has posted some preview art from Godlike, as well as an excerpt from the game’s upcoming sourcebook Will to Power. Detwiller promises the quickplay rules will be available soon, which “includes the entire rules section of the rulebook.” For Delta Green fans,
The Gables Launching Halloween Night
We’ve sent out the press release, so you now know what I’ll be doing Halloween night: launching RPGnet’s first Chat Theatre, The Gables. More info will be along soon, but until then, just plan on skipping all that boring partying and trick-or-treating in favor of some online fun with us,
WebRPG Needs Women! Uh, I Mean Money!
Gamegrene‘s on a roll. This opinion piece on the stripped-down online RPG tool WebRPG is interesting and should raise some hackles (and harvest plenty of WebRPG alternatives in the comments section – hey, there’s one), but it’s really about software and the Internet more than it’s about… you know… us.
Ninjas and Vampires
As you can see on the lefthand side of the page, we’ve added two new reviews for your reading pleasure. Matthew Pook brings us a look at Ninja Burger from 9th Level Games. After trying this game, you’ll never look at fast food the same way again. Secondly, Joe Kushner
Hasbro Advertising Machine In Full Swing
Seems like Hasbro’s putting their product in our faces more often than usual lately. At my local supermarket, the Lucky Charms boxes are shrinkwrapped together with a CD-ROM that has both a free Hasbro Interactive game (Boggle, Chutes & Ladders, Operation, Monopoly Junior, or Yahtzee) and AOL version 6.0. As
Speaking of Monopolies…
Well, as I’m sure you all know by now, this Thursday the 25th marks the release of a major new piece of software that some say is a godsend and a breakthrough, others say will waste untold hours of computing productivity, and virtually all agree is an extension of America’s
New 1PG On The Way
Deep7 has been so busy creating deluxe CD-ROM editions of their 1PG mini-RPGs that they haven’t had time to create any new ones for quite some time. Fortunately, they’ve just announced an addition to the line, created by game designer James Stubbs. Dime Heroes will extend the 1PG series into
A Reminder From The Great Old Ones
I finally got myself a copy of Chaosium’s latest masterpiece, 20th Anniversary Edition Call of Cthulhu. If you haven’t seen them, these books are gorgeous. I won’t bother boring you with the details, but I will say the stack of these books has dwindled below 80 copies, and they’ve been
I Got Your Forgotten Realms Right Here
Allan and I always used to talk about how cool it would be to write a regular gaming feature about all the games that languish unplayed in the back of our closets… the longer the better. We were going to call it The Gamer’s Closet, and it would be all
You Know, For Kids!
According to ICv2, that goofy Bionicle stuff is actually taking off. Maybe I’m just predisposed to see any new high-concept Lego thing as hopelessly lame. The Upper Deck-produced Bionicle CCG also appeared hopelessly lame, but I didn’t look very closely at it at Origins. Has anyone played it? Also, that
Lost Identities Found, Now Shipping
Looney Labs‘ Origins award-winning card game Chrononauts has a new expansion called Lost Identities, a fixed set of 13 new ID cards (IDs are one of the game’s three win conditions, and the most likely of them in my experience). Chrononauts can get a little bit frustrating when everyone’s familiar
Hasbro Finishing 2001 Strong
According to this article, Q3 profits for Hasbro are up a bit. Maybe now they won’t screw around with Wizards of the Coast (which wasn’t mentioned in the article) for a little while.
Invisible City Catches Up
Further compensating for the missed August game of the month, Invisible City Productions has released a second free game for the month of October. This time it’s Dungeon, a randomized hack-and-slash dungeon crawl played with a standard deck of cards. If you’re having trouble waiting for Mage Knight Dungeons to