Fantasy Flight has announced another book in their popular D20 line, Legends & Lairs. The latest addition to the product line is Spells and Spellcraft, a hardcover supplement focusing on… uh, spells and such. Actually, the book will get into some useful areas: This 176-page hardcover book will offer scores
Mystic Races Headed For Stores
Fantasy Flight Games has announced that their Mythic Races hardcover supplement for D20 is back from the printer and available to order. A preview of one of the book’s races, the Pevishan, is on the website. Bilbo’s Party, Saturday at Decipher. BYOR (Bring Your One Ring) Decipher is hosting an
Forgotten Realms Headed For TV
Canadian production company Fireworks, producers of the film Rat Race as well as some syndicated sci-fi shows and an upcoming “prestige TV” movie based on the classic children’s book A Wrinkle in Time, have just licensed Forgotten Realms from Hasbro and plan to produce a live-action television series based on
Hasbro Lends a Hand
The gaming community has been coming together to assist relief efforts after last Tuesday’s attack. Here’s just a few of the contributions being made: Hasbro has just announced their plan to help relief efforts in New York. According to this morning’s press release, “The Hasbro Children’s Foundation, a philanthropic arm
Roleplaying Tips Weekly # 90
Johnn Four brings us an extra long issue of Roleplaying Tips this week to show that terror will not prevail. This week’s issue focuses on cities. Darklances Sighted on Dragonlance Nexus Over at the Dragonlance Nexus, the first tidbits from the site’s upcoming campaign setting, War of the Dark Lance,
Invisible City Initiates Schlock Attack
Invisible City is at it again with a new free game: Schlock Attack, a two-player checkers variant inspired by the online Schlock Mercenary comic strip by Howard Taylor. In the variant, each player chooses a different character from the comic strip, with the choice of character determining special abilities and
Vortex About to Ship, Premiere Party Benefits Red Cross
You know, Vortex, that semi-collectible hex-tile game by the DiskWars guys? The one that we didn’t review but that I post about a lot and still haven’t gotten to bloody well play? It’s back from the printers and due to ship out at month’s end, according to the Fantasy Flight
Malhavoc Press Keepin’ Busy
Malhavoc Press has posted a new cover image for The Book of Eldritch Might. Looks pretty nice, too. Meanwhile, company founder Monte Cook says he’s “in comic geek heaven” due to the two Mage Knight games he’s designing, one on DC Comics and one on Marvel. It’ll be interesting to
Star Legion CD-ROM Announced
Deep7 has just announced the release of their second enhanced 1PG, the Star Legion CD-ROM. As with the previous Shriek CD-ROM, the disc will contain an improved version of the text of the original downloadable game combined with new scenarios, a full musical soundtrack and a comic book. At $6.95,
Preview Article For Lord of the Rings
Decipher has posted an article on The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, due to come out in February 2002. The rulebook will be 288 full-color pages, and make use of the CODA system, the rules designed for Decipher’s upcoming Star Trek RPG. Check out the full preview article here.
A Superheroes Game I’d Actually Play
The section of Pagan Publishing’s site devoted to their upcoming WWII superhero RPG, Godlike, has been expanded dramatically. In addition to a variety of cool “propaganda” of the era, there’s some details about the game’s dice pool rules. Go take a look at the past as it might have been.
Card Game Quickies
First, for those of you who never touch the scroll bar, we’ve got a PayPal donation box set up down there. Go stare at it. Second, speaking of PayPal, they’ve set up a really easy way to give money to the Red Cross. But, if it’s a choice between those
Carve Some Runes on That D20
In light of the tragic events that took place on the east coast today, I’ll do my best to overcome the shock of it all and distract you with game news. Okay, now turn away from the TV news. Look at the monkey! Look at the silly monkey! Our friends
OgreCave’s GenCon and Pennsic Features
Okay, you’ve waited long enough, so we’ve finally compiled the news posts from GenCon into one big review. We’ve also added our photo galleries, with more than fifty images to peruse. Sound good? Then go relive the granddaddy of game conventions in our GenCon 2001 feature. And as an added
Ryan Dancey Leaves WotC, Starts Organized Play
We only found out about this when we listened to Gaming Report’s audio interview, but apparently Dancey’s company was announced at GenCon. Unclear why there hasn’t been more news about this, although it’s possible that we’re just blind and missed it. He’s apparently continuing to do lots of work for