OgreCave

New card games were everywhere at GenCon this year. Let me see what I can remember… The Ebay card game from Journeyman Press looked promising, though uncomplicated. WotC’s Harry Potter CCG had major displays inside the castle, and seemed well designed from a cursory glance at the game. However, $3.29

Galloglass Games has made two recent announcements. First of all, their twisted rail game HellRail has returned to print courtesy of Mayfair Games and is now available for sale. Secondly, a new mailing list aimed at discussing the issues involved in publishing cheap card and board games has just been

One of the more entertaining single-space booths was the tribal tent of Outside the Asylum Productions, who were at GenCon promoting their boardgame, Nomad. In the game, which is packaged in a strange tent-like box, are several cloth gameboards and a number of game pieces. Each player uses a small

One of my roommates ran a scheduled playtest game of the new Tekumel RPG being developed by . The new game uses the Tri-Stat system, used throughout most of the GOO product line. Though I didn’t have a chance to join in, my roommate said the players thought the combat

Apparently, yesterday’s posts didn’t show up. They should now be displaying just fine, so check out my preliminary report on GenCon 2001. I’ll be adding more later today.

Over at booth #347, Sovereign Press had the entire line of last year’s Sovereign Stone RPG, now converted to the D20 System. There always seemed to be activity there, partly because Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman were at the booth, signing everything from Dragonlance to their Sovereign Stone novel. Don

Okay, I’m back. Getting *to* GenCon was a minor nightmare that took 28 hours, but getting back went quite smoothly. Plenty of thunderstorms in both directions. And since my trip to GenCon was on non-OgreCave business (I’m working for Wizard’s Attic and Skotos Tech on a project to expand RPGnet.

Well, I’m on layover in the Denver airport, but I’ll be movin’ on home soon. I’ll have some GenCon posts for you tomorrow, and an image gallery shortly thereafter. Stay tuned.

Since appearing more or less out of nowhere a few weeks ago, has grown into a remarkable resource for fans of the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. In addition to the usual reviews and solutions, it has some exclusive looks at books that never made it into print along with

, makers of the popular anime RPG Big Eyes, Small Mouth and its many spin-offs, has just announced that their Tri-Stat System will reach yet another popular genre next summer. With the release of Silver Age Sentinels, players will be able to adventure in the many potential worlds of “four-color-style”

If things seem a little bit ominously quiet around here, that’s probably because Sven has left for GenCon. If you can’t make it to the convention yourself, you might enjoy visiting Wizards of the Coast‘s Virtual GenCon from time to time over the next few days. If you have a

Ever wonder what it’s like to be Gary Gygax’s publisher, or what the guys who put those CD-ROM d20 modules on your game store’s shelves were thinking? Read all about it in the first of what are sure to be many OgreCave interviews. (Peep Colin’s fly new corner graphic while

Just as surely as that dead wrestler has a posse, Brave New World author Matt Forbeck’s upcoming hybrid fantasy/sci-fi world for d20 now has a web site. There’s also a new page for Reiner Knisia’s Lord of the Rings board game, now that FFG is its new publisher. More Vortex

Just in time for Gen Con, for Allan to get on the plane and not be able to post about it, and for hell to freeze over, it’s Sven’s review of Sack Armies – technically, of the first set, Expeditionary Forces, which is now available in a store near you