For years, Wayne Densley’s world of Arborell has been growing through the online publication of gamebooks and fiction at www.arborell.com. Today, the latest addition has been unveiled: Quest for the Orncryst, the first in the Torchlight series of card-based gamebooks. Through a combination of a 101-page book and several decks
Please stand by…
Just to let you all know, my dead computer has made progress on the site difficult. I’ve called for more knowledgable reinforcements to assist in recovery efforts, and hope to be up and running soon. Meanwhile, updates – including several reviews, a lengthy article from Demian, and more – will
RPGNow/RPGShop hacked, customer info obtained
Here’s the discussion thread that’s seeing the most action. Just a heads up to any of our readers who might have stored their credit card info with RPGNow or RPGShop – you might wanna keep a close eye on your account. If you never asked either site to hold onto
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 4
It’s panic time, and our OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2006 is here one more time to help. Time has run out to ship products to friends, so we suggest getting electronic with An Aetheric Guide for Christmas, our quick list of a few standout downloadable products you can have emailed
Margaret Weis to launch Battlestar Galactica RPG
Though leaked a while ago, the announcement finally came down from Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd., and just in time for Christmas: yes, Virginia, there is a Battlestar Galactica RPG in the works. A quickstart guide is planned for early 2007, and the main game should be a spring release. The
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 3
Okay, let’s face it: at this point, the only gift shopping left to provide suggestions for is the last week of panic shopping. Or post-holiday gift certificate spending! Either way, OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006 has more great gift ideas for gamers, in Twelve Games Around the d20. Oddly enough,
Let the BattleLore modding begin!
A bunch of dudes in Antwerp have taken BattleLore, kept the cards and the hexes, and wound up with a compellingly different game anyway. Warning: not for those who fear PDFs. Or tables (like, the kind you look stuff up on).
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 2
Through rain and snow (or jury duty and computer issues, in my case), the OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2006 continues. Our sixth annual guide to what should bedeck your Christmas haul gets into the meat of the matter in 12 Games Under the Tree – our picks for your larger
Nothing’s as Christmasey as biting the heads off Meeples
Ladies and gentlemen, Gingerbread Carcassonne.
This is not a drill: Monte Cook’s World of Darkness announced
Um? This certainly has potential to be interesting – like the celebrity WoD remixes in the Requiem Chronicler’s Guide but on a much grander scale – but as a final project before retirement? To follow Ptolus? Monte Cook’s WtF is more like it. Timeframe is next summer.
Mongoose looks ahead to 2007
With the Thanksgiving holiday tearing through your schedule recently, you may have missed the highlights of Mongoose Publishing’s State of the Mongoose 2006 for RPGs, for miniatures, and other projects. Mongoose’s Matthew Sprange was kind enough to reveal the tidbit that sales in the USA are down 20-25%, while they’ve
OgreCave’s Christmas Gift Guide 2006, part 1
Just hand over that entire carton of egg nog, because the OgreCave crew is here with its Christmas Gift Guide 2006. Over the next few days, we’ll complete our sixth annual guide to all things gamers want to sink their teeth into. Starting things off is our first list, 12
For Christmas, reenact scenes from The Godfather
We’ll have much more on the holiday gift front for you shortly with our Christmas Gift Guide [now available! – ed.], but in the meantime, my wife came across this gem – the Furreal Friends Butterscotch Interactive Plush Pony, a 2.5 foot tall animatronic pony toy meant to be the
Audio Report: go forth and buy things with your dollars
It’s the holidays again, and aiding and abetting our forthcoming Gift Guides is this episode of the report. Featured at the top, though, is lengthy incredulity at the fact that the WoW CCG is okay. Also, D&D Worldwide Game Day and how it could work better. Join us!
Audio Report: wow, someone bought a CCG
The WoW news leads off this show, followed by another trip into the bad neighborhood that is the RPG PDF market, and some final thoughts about Gen Con SoCal before we charge into some thorough and fascinating RPG play reports from the last Endgame MiniCon. Check it.