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| New Reiner Knizia game, Battle for Olympus, coming to GameTable Online |
dullspork Reports: Sharpen Your Spear and Saddle up Pegasus - the Battle for Olympus is Coming
GameTable Online is teaming up with award-winning game designer, Dr. Reiner Knizia, to release his latest game, Battle for Olympus, this summer on GameTableOnline.com. This collaboration marks the first of its kind for both GameTable Online and Reiner Knizia as the game will be released online before the print version hits shelves.
Posted by: dullspork on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:11 AM PDT
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| Fear the Boot Interview Series #7 with guest Luke Crane released |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Fear the Boot gaming podcast continues its interview series with a conversation with Luke Crane. We talk about The Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Luke's design philosophy, and the future of the gaming industry. Running time: 69 minutes.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:09 AM PDT
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| Free CSUAC mapping art available again |
MarkOliva Reports: The CSUAC collection of free mapping symbols and fill graphics is available again with more than double the number of objects offered in the first release. In all, 5,600 objects are included. The CSUAC is an art collection created by users of the Dundjinni mapping program and compiled by Cecil Solomon of the Gamemaster's Apprentice web site. The graphics also may be used at no cost in commercial RPG maps and dungeon plans.
Posted by: MarkOliva on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:08 AM PDT
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| March Art Contest Winner Announced |
blackorcgames Reports: There were 12 entries for this contest. Judging is always a challenging task. We hope to post the subjects for the next contest very soon. Make sure you check out all of the great art that we have received for our previous contests. You can find all of the art on our Contest Archive page and the View Artwork page.
Posted by: blackorcgames on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:07 AM PDT
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| QUERP has a new game world |
stormbringer Reports: Greywood Publishing are expanding the QUERP game system. QUERP (QUick Easy Role Play) will feature as the system to the new Game World of HAMMERAX - THE ANCIENT WORLD.
Log on to http://www.greywoodpublishing.com for more details.
Posted by: stormbringer on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:05 AM PDT
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| White Wolf's Hunter: the Vigil preview at Flames Rising! |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Drop by FlamesRising.com for a preview of the new World of Darkness game from White Wolf Publishing. Hunter: the Vigil teasers include:
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:05 AM PDT
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| GAMA Newsbriefs for May 5 & 12 |
gamapress Reports: ORIGINS EVENT GRIDS ONLINE
You waited so patiently to see what Origins has in store for you for 2008 -- well, wait no longer!
You can download the event grids and see all of the Origins events for yourself! Check out the event grid files Excel files at www.originsgamefair.com. If the master file (4501 events!) is too big for you, that’s ok – we broke the master out by gaming genre. Enjoy!
Posted by: gamapress on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:00 AM PDT
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| Q-workshop dice design contest deadline incoming ! |
Q-workshop Reports: The deadline in Q-workshop Dice Set Design Contest draws near - participants have time up to 30th of May to submit their entries !
Many attractive prizes await the winners in two categories: Future/SF/Modern and Fantasy/History/Past. You can find all the relevant information HERE or email at contest@q-workshop.com
Posted by: Q-workshop on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 06:59 AM PDT
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| RPGnet Gaming Index Passes 10,000 |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: This month the RPGnet Gaming Index, already the largest listing of roleplaying games and magazines on the internet, surpassed 10,000 unique games and magazines in its listings.
RPGnet's online gaming index is a single source that details the entire roleplaying hobby. As of today it contains over 8,800 games and supplements, over 1,200 fully detailed magazines, and an additional 1,200 editions, for a total of 11,200 unique items.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 06:59 AM PDT
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| Origins event pre-reg opens May 15 -- event grids online NOW |
gamapress Reports: You waited so patiently to see what Origins has in store for you for 2008 -- well, wait no longer!
You can download the event grids and see all of the Origins events for yourself! Check out the event grid files Excel files at www.originsgamefair.com. If the master file (4501 events!) is too big for you, that’s ok – we broke the master out by gaming genre. Enjoy!
Posted by: gamapress on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 05:57 AM PDT
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| Playroom’s Cosmic Cows Abducted for UFO Fest |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Playroom Entertainment has consented to the abduction of its Cosmic Cows as part of a fun family tie-in with The 9th Annual UFO Festival, the nation’s second largest gathering of UFO fans and extra-terrestrial enthusiasts held at the infamous UFO sighting in McMinnville, Oregon.
In a unique Promotion, Playroom coordinated with Hotel Oregon McMenamin’s, the epi-center of the McMinnville UFO Weekend Festival, to offer a complementary copy of its cosmic cows game as a welcome gift in each room for the sold-out festival weekend guests.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 05:56 AM PDT
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| Monte Cook joins Pathfinder RPG team |
Joyce Greenholdt Reports: Paizo Publishing, LLC has annoounced that Monte Cook, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition and author of the Ptolus campaign setting, among other works, has joined the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game team as a rules consultant.
"This is going to be a lot of fun," said Cook. "Pathfinder is a fresh spin on a rules system that I love and the guys at Paizo are great to work with. They produce nothing but the highest quality products."
Posted by: Joyce Greenholdt on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 07:00 AM PDT
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| Cover Art Contest |
Deborah Reports: The Cover Art Contest for the Legends and Fairytales book has begun.
Check http://www.TheHobbyDragon.com on how to enter.
There will be cash prize for the winner and the runner up. And the winning art will be used for the cover art for the first book in the Legends and Fairytales series.
Posted by: Deborah on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 06:24 AM PDT
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| Troll and Toad purchases $150,000 Fonarow Collection |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: The Fonarow Collection is one of the largest private collections of board games known to exist, and includes several one-of-a-kind items, short print run games, concept games and other rarities. The collection consists of over 20,000 games acquired for $150,000. The collection was attained from Ken Fonarow, aka “The Weekend Warrior”, who has been an avid collector for over 35 years and also ran the Gen Con and Origins Auctions for several years. This collection includes many unique items such as handmade playtest kits (the initial design of a game before it is actually made), the first or second actual copy of some games, signed games, games from the personal collection of Charles Roberts (founder of Avalon Hill), games with only 2-5 known copies in the world, and shrink-wrapped perfect copies of some of the most valuable board games in the world.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 06:22 AM PDT
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| Highmoon Media Productions to produce True20 Ancients |
HighmoonMedia Reports: Highmoon Media Productions has reached an agreement with Green Ronin Publishing to produce the new True20 Ancients line of sourcebooks, bringing the critically-acclaimed historical Mythic Vistas settings to the True20 Adventure Roleplaying game. Highmoon Media Productions will act as a design studio for Green Ronin, performing the conversion to True20 of all the game material—done by True20 fan-favorite author Matthew Kaiser—as well as producing the finalized version of the product.
Posted by: HighmoonMedia on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 11:19 AM PDT
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| Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog, Launches |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Gnome Stew, the game mastering blog, is a new blog by GMs, for GMs. With 10 authors, Gnome Stew will cover system-neutral and system-specific topics ranging from GMing advice to campaign ideas and other support for game masters.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 07:15 AM PDT
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| [Devil’s Workshop] Sidetrek Adventure Weekly #11: Secrets of Trodoon Mountain av |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Louis Porter Jr. Design, in association with Devil’s Workshop, has released Sidetrek Adventure Weekly #11: Secrets of Trodoon Mountain at RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. Trapped on the Trodoon home world, the heroes finally find the key to bring them home…broken in half! Entering an ancient frozen magical station, they discover the power source behind the Trodoon’s artifacts and the secret to their world-spanning empire. Can they repair the artifact and return safely to their home world before the station’s latest inhabitant returns?
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 01:26 PM PDT
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| Gencon's Bankruptcy Filing Document |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Livingdice.com posted the complete bankruptcy filing document for Gencon, including a list of companies that are owed money. Surprisingly, Hasbro is owed more money than Lucasfilm!
Gencon Document
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 06:23 AM PDT
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| Small Keep with New Artwork |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Creative Mountain Games has completely revamped Small Keep with all new artwork from Steve Muchow of MythMerchant.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 02:36 PM PDT
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| Dreams of the First Age a Sold-Out Success |
AgentZero Reports: Atlanta, GA – May 9, 2008 – White Wolf Publishing announced today that Dreams of the First Age, the latest supplement to its award-winning Exalted game line, has sold through its entire print run. The official release date is May 14, but all copies of the box set are already committed to consumer or retailer preorders.
Posted by: AgentZero on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 02:35 PM PDT
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| New Information for Legends of Norrath $100K Championship at Gen Con Indy 2008 |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Sony Online Entertainment is getting ready to host the biggest Legends of Norrath event ever, to crown the 2008 Champion, starting Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 10 a.m. EDT! You must have qualified in either the Monthly Championship Qualifiers or the Gen Con Qualification Heats to be eligible to participate in this thirty-two player, single elimination event. See the
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 11:20 AM PDT
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| Spotlight on… John Ling, writer for Sidetrek Adventure Weekly 2 |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: John Ling broke into the freelance RPG design field in April, 2005, with his article in Dragon magazine entitled "Sorcerers are Special...ists Too." Since then, John has had a total of thirteen articles appear in Dragon, including eleven in the Class Acts section. John has also done work for Sword and Sorcery Studios on their World of Warcraft RPG line. John lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife, two children, two cats, dog, and a tank of fish. He
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 06:38 AM PDT
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| Digital Eel releases the Goblin Slayer! |
AnnetteBrooks Reports: Free fantasy board game available for download at Shrapnel Games
As everyone is well aware dwarves and goblins hate each other. This deep rooted hatred is believed to have begun when the dwarf Karl Bergerkingstein and the goblin Smellslikeoldpeople were roommates, and Smellslikeoldpeople washed Karl's favorite white tunic with the goblin's beloved red smock with predictable results. From that time forward dwarf and goblin have been mortal enemies.
Posted by: AnnetteBrooks on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:13 AM PDT
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| Blackdirge Publishing releases Blackdyrge's Templates: Greater Half-Dragon |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Greater half-dragons are the progeny of powerful dragons of age category ancient and older. Due to their great power and magical nature, these mighty wyrms are able to pass on more of their draconic traits to their half-dragon children. The resulting greater half-dragon is a potent hybrid that can easily rival true dragons in strength, ferocity, and power.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:08 AM PDT
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| ZUZZY Moorlands Gaming Mat Release Date and Advance Ordering |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: The folks over at ZUZZY Miniatures have been working hard to get their new Terra-Flex gaming mat, The Moorlands, ready. And it won't be long now. They've completed the mold and have started production. Now they're painting up the first of them to take photos for the website and creating the packaging, etc. The current expected release date is May 20.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:04 AM PDT
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| New Release: 2 Zombies; Painted Young Bloods |
blackorcgames Reports: We have received a lot of interest and positive feedback for our Mini-sculpt program. We have just released the next 2 figs in this line. This is another installment in the Zombie horde that we received from Darren Greenaway. This is just the beginning of the Zombies that Darren sent to us. We have also received some figs from other artists that we are currently working on as well. Look for some announcements on the release of these figs soon.
Posted by: blackorcgames on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:03 AM PDT
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| Sidetrek Adventure Weekly #10: The Mogur and the Monkey available |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Louis Porter Jr. Design, in association with Devil’s Workshop, has released Sidetrek Adventure Weekly #10: The Mogur and the Monkey at RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. Still trapped on the strange dinosaur infested world of the mysterious Troodons, our heroes find themselves on the edge of a majestic mountain range. Having survived the depredations of a dinosaur eating spider, and the onslaught of stampeding dinosaurs, the PCs arrive at the base of the eastern peaks, where a small village of primitives worship a massive termite spire.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:01 AM PDT
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| Corporation PDF now available for download at DrivethruRPG |
An Anonymous Reader Reports: Corporation, the brutal hard sci-fi RPG is now available for download at DrivethruRPG. There are also a number of free accessories available. See http://www.corpgame.com for more information about Corporation.
Posted by: An Anonymous Reader on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 06:26 AM PDT
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Past ArticlesWednesday, May 07
· Goodman Games and Free RPG Day (0)
Tuesday, May 06
· Return to the Blue Planet (0)
· The Rifter 42 has shipped! (0)
· [GTS 08] Winning Moves adds 2 games to line-up (0)
· UK launch event for 4E at The London Dungeon (0)
· [LPJ Design] RPG Publishing Gauntlet New Episode Available (0)
· [GTS 08] Flying Frog announces A Touch of Evil (0)
· Introducing: Savage Worlds Online! (0)
· Last releases from Eslo Terrain (0)
· Two new Heroscape sets coming in June (0)
Monday, May 05
· Gamer's Haven Episode 31 - Character Death (0)
· Gamer's Haven Actual Play (0)
· Bad Baby May Preview (0)
· Gamertell Review: Dungeons & Desktops by Matt Barton (0)
· [Postmortem Studios] Hentacle - 4/Play (0)
Sunday, May 04
· A D&D Article (0)
· Animalcast Ep. 46 The RPG Pitch Show (0)
Saturday, May 03
· New World Disorder miniatures skirmish rules now available (0)
· [LPJ Design] Announcing new imprint, Devil’s Playground and new game (0)
· Award selections for Talisman Studios and printing news. (0)
Friday, May 02
· Crime Scene and Fright Night (0)
· The Escapistcast Episode 2 (0)
· Spotlight on: Tim & Eileen Connors, writers for Sidetrek Adventure Weekly (0)
· APE Games announces duck! duck! Go! Rubber ducky bathtub racing game (0)
Thursday, May 01
· 100 Dark Places Now Available! (-1)
· Rogue Games August Releases (0)
· Reload your winSP arsenal today with new patches! (0)
Wednesday, April 30
· Bankruptcy: The Card Game an Origins Finalist (0)
· Redesigning the D&D Website (0)
· Sail away with The Galley (0)
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