Ever wanted to dive into the Weird West, but just didn’t get around to it? Better spur your wallet into action, pardner, ‘cuz Pinnacle is having a rather large Halloween/5th anniversary sale of Deadlands related products. Eighteen different reduced-price bundles of products are being offered, from the core game, the
Fast Forward Moves… um, Forward
Fast Forward Entertainment has announced plans for their next three D20 supplements. Looks like they’re making a play for the title of “Most D20 pages published in Q4.” Encyclopedia of Demons and Devils ($29.99; Ships Nov 12) – 224 page hardcover with all manner of demons and devils. Rings of
2002 Games 100
Funagain Games just released this year’s Games 100, the annual best-of list and unofficial holiday buyer’s guide compiled by Games Magazine. The year’s #1 game according to the 100 is Evo, in which dinosaurs try to get to warm climates and “bid for genes.” Many other interesting nuggets can be
Rangers of Taradoin Return
With remarkable speed, Sean-Robert Shaw has released the sequel to his Rangers of Taradoin gamebook. The book, entitled The Rangers of Taradoin: Of Cuneral Larinon and the Scions, provides both solitaire and multi-player role-playing rules (just like the first one) but, according to the author, doesn’t have the numerous editorial
Buy Your Way Into Chez Geek
The Game Industry Disaster Relief Auction continues to draw support from all corners of the game industry, and is rumbling toward the $10,000 mark. Today, Steve Jackson Games and their ally John Kovalic got together to offer a truly unique item to the auction: an official Chez Geek card based
Legion of Lost Souls Heading to Printer
Privateer Press announced that the conclusion of the Witchfire Trilogy, The Legion of Lost Souls, shipped to the printer yesterday, and should be arriving in stores in about a month. The Trilogy’s final installment has been expanded to 96 pages, and will retail for $12.95. Definitely worth waiting for, though
Happy birthday to Cheryl, my
Happy birthday to Cheryl, my wife and best friend. Without your help and understanding, OgreCave would not exist. Happy birthday, sweetie!
A Future for Fighting Fantasy?
A few days ago, posted a rumor that some of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (which include such classics as The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Deathtrap Dungeon) may return to print in the near future. Although this republication is by no means a sure thing, the new interview with series
Rogue Publishing Offers Trip Directly to Hell
Rogue Publishing, an interesting e-publisher which splits its time between reprinting classic swashbuckling fiction and releasing new role-playing products, has just announced the availability of a new adventure: The Collectors: The Burning House. This 81-page PDF file costs $4.50 to download, which is a pretty good deal considering it contains
Pokemon Craze Returns From Grave To Feast On Flesh Of Living
As long as we’re at ICV2, check this: Yu-Gi-Oh, the show and game that unseated Pokemon as the one true god of the youth of Japan, has come to America and is already getting huge ratings. One interesting piece of news is that Yu-Gi-Oh is even more fiendishly tied in
White Wolf: “We’re Number One! We’re Number One!”
ICV2 has the scoop, because they always do: “In the White Wolf presentation at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit in Las Vegas last week, Director of Sales Fred Yelk announced that, ‘White Wolf Publishing is determined to become the #1 independent publisher of d20 products.’ The company is scaling up to
Zombies!!! Playtest Report
Play on a biiig table. It took us about 2 hours to play our first four-player game of Zombies (so figure on 90 minutes once you get up to speed), and the whole deck of map tiles did come out. You will be needing lotsa space. And if you suck
Suing D20 Companies For Fun and Profit
Roleplaying e-zine The Scribe has just posted an interview with Steve Perrin, famed co-designer of RuneQuest and other systems. In answer to one of the questions about the D20 craze, Mr Perrin wrote “I hope the various companies will sue D20 projects to fund other work, but we’ll see.” I’m
Entire Staff of Journeyman Press Laid Off
Through various channels, we’ve been hearing that the US Playing Card Company has suddenly eliminated its speciality games division, better known as Journeyman Press. All four Journeyman employees were laid off at 2:30 pm this afternoon. This shocking news comes in the middle of the release of Zombies!!!, the biggest
Necromancer Brings Grimtooth’s Traps To D&D3e
You didn’t really think you’d be safe, did you? Just because the Grimtooth’s Traps books were 1st Edition, and we’ve reached 3rd, did you honestly think he wouldn’t find a way to put your characters in mortal danger again? Yes, Grimtooth the Troll is back from the dead, and appropriately