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e23 News Archive: March 20062005 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec2006 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec 2007 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec 2008 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec 2009 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov ( oldest first | newest first ) March 31, 2006: Don't Forget The Relief EffortIt's not too late to help out by picking up a product that is also a good cause. Sword's Edge Publishing has collected some disaster relief-related writing from the roleplaying community, and put out a collection called Relief Effort, with 100% of the proceeds going to the International Red Cross.
This particular drive is in specific response to the recent earthquake in southeast Asia, but the International Red Cross (www.icrc.org) is pretty much saving somebody's bacon somewhere 24/7, so if this particular set of miserable wretches aren't deserving of your $2.25 for a PDF of cool gaming stuff, then some other bunch will be hurricaned or tsunamied or earthquaked or mudslided to within an inch of oblivion soon enough, and if you buy Relief Effort now, you'll be covered. How about it? March 30, 2006: ComStar Busts OutThe good folks at ComStar Media broke loose in a big way, sending us a pile of roleplaying goodness for roleplaying gamers of all stripes.For the military maven, there's Combat!: A Military Action Game that covers all aspects of military roleplaying in ComStar's Action! system. There's two sets of Anime Girls Paper Miniatures for those of you who go shoujo, and there's the complete fantasy d20 world of Eldoria, presented in the Encyclopedia Eldoria. And then there's all the goodies for Traveller. Published in partnership with Avenger Enterprises, ComStar's products have full stats for both T20 and Classic Traveller, plus they're easily convertible to all other flavors of Traveller (GURPS Traveller, anyone?) and most other science-fiction RPGs. There are seven Golden Age Starship supplements detailing classic craft, complete with deck plans, crew, and adventure ideas, and two Special Supplements with tons of information on robots in the Traveller universe and adventures featuring them.
March 29, 2006: Wishing For WritersWe've put up a new page for people who want to write for e23, but want to do something that we're specifically looking for . . .
Check out our e23 Wish List. March 28, 2006: Milestones, Milestones800! Another notch in the old bedpost, uh, I mean, holster, er, belt. Whatever.
Thanks, everybody. March 27, 2006: Who Needs Another Game Magazine?If it's a game magazine from Silven Publishing, maybe you do.
Silven Trumpeter is Silven's very own magazine, and this is their first professional issue – that is, they finally figure they're good enough to charge money! And with a complete card game, an exclusive sneak peek at Monte Cook's Ptolus plus a Monte Cook interview, previews of upcoming Silven product, original fictional, and discounts for Silven releases, they might just be right. March 26, 2006: The Geeks Fight OnGeek Wars Deck 2: Miniatures Wargamer adds another set of cards to the Geek Wars card game.
Geek Wars Deck 2: Miniatures Wargamer continues the battle for Jim Con with cards like "Clicky-Base Clique," "Wargizard Min-Maxer," and "Little Wars Veteran." Check out the preview, and give it a try! March 25, 2006: The Seven Avengers RideØone's latest products wrap up the Seven Avengers epic started in the adventure The Legend of the Steel General. First up are the next two adventures in the trilogy, The Twenty Sides of the Evil and Warriors of Dream.But Øone also has Brotherhoods, a sourcebook on powerful holy orders in the world of the Seven Avengers that can also be used in any other fantasy roleplaying world.
And rounding things out is The Siege of Draman Del, a boardgame of the epic battle that starts the Seven Avengers story arc. It's all from Øone Games and e23! March 24, 2006: GURPS BanestormMid-Day UpdateGURPS Banestorm is posted and available for download. You know what to do.*** The PDF version of GURPS Banestorm will be posted later today – 240+ full-color pages of fantasy goodness for Fourth Edition GURPS! GURPS Banestorm updates the original Yrth of GURPS Third Edition Fantasy and Fantasy Adventures. It provides GMs with a complete world background – history, religion, culture, politics, races, and a bonus collection of 16 detailed, full-color maps from throughout the book - everything needed to start a GURPS campaign. Phil Masters (GURPS Discworld and Hellboy RPG RPGs) and Jonathan Woodward (Hellboy RPG and GURPS Ogre) have added new peoples, places, and plots, as well as lots more on magic and mysticism, all of which conforms to the just-released GURPS Fantasy and GURPS Magic. So prepare to make your own mark on Yrth. Plunder elven ruins while evading the desert natives. Play a peasant-born hero . . . an orcish pirate . . . a Muslim double agent commanded to infiltrate the Hospitallers. Yrth awaits the legend of you!
In Other NewsCheer Up The Overlord! Tabletop Adventures Spring SaleSpring has come again, with sunshine, bright flowers and singing birds. The Evil Overlord is unhappy! When he is unhappy, the minions are VERY unhappy. Please help cheer up the Overlord by making a purchase from Tabletop Adventures! (Increased sales always makes him happy.) Through April 4 receive a 25% discount on all Tabletop Adventures products, including our newest item, Bits of Darkness: Dungeons II, because the minions would REALLY like the Overlord to be cheerful again!March 23, 2006: Origins Awards, PDFs, And InfinityThe Origins Awards nominations came out last week at the GAMA Trade Show, and there's some interesting news for those of us following the PDF industry: For the first time, a PDF-only product got a nomination! BTRC's Infinite Armies is the very deserving product, nominated for a Vanguard Award for Unique Game Products. Congratulations are in order to Greg Porter and crew over there in Blacksburg. Infinite Armies is on sale right here at e23, of course, along with Infinite Armies: Image Set 2. Check 'em out.
One SJ Games product also got an Origins Awards nomination, and as coincidence would have it, it's also available here on e23: GURPS Infinite Worlds received a nomination for Role-Playing Game Supplement of the Year (must be that "Infinite" in the title . . .). We are of course honored to be nominated, and hope you will take the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design's recommendation to heart and give these two products a closer look if, for some reason, you have passed these two fine products by in the past. March 22, 2006: Coming SoonJust a teaser or two . . .Those of you who have been paying attention know that this Friday should be the day we release the PDF version of GURPS Banestorm. That's still on schedule, amazingly enough.
Our next original product looks to be Toon Munchkin, complete Toon stats for all the crazy stuff from the original Munchkin card game. Look for it next week. March 21, 2006: The Latest And GreatestThe good folks at Sword's Edge Publishing have added another product to their Modern Medieval line with The Mercenary Advanced Class, treading that line where d20 Fantasy and d20 Modern meet. Don't forget their free primer Modern Principles for a jump-start on the rules you'll need.Speaking of FREE STUFF, Khepera Publishing has sent us two freebies for their GODSEND Agenda superhero RPG. Mother's Milk is a FREE adventure that's a little on the cheesy side, just to show you that not everything in the GA game is earth-shattering cosmic battles for the eternal fate of the planet. And the GODSEND Agenda Booster Deck is a deck full of potential bonuse that can help your hero in play – but if you blow it, each one carries a dangerous penalty!
Oh, and did I mention they're FREE? Go get 'em! March 18, 2006: The Newest From ØOne Games, And MoreJust posted some more Øone Games products, including three brand-new items they just sent us:The latest two in their Blueprints line are The Great City, Residence Ward and The Great City: Trades Ward. Match them up with The Great City: Dock Ward and the central product, The Great City (both already available here at e23), and you are well on your way to having the fantasy city of your dreams in the handiest format imaginable for your roleplaying campaign. Also new is the latest in their Battlemaps Lairs line, Orc Sighting Tower, a bargain-priced set of maps with great customizable features built into the PDF, plus some roleplaying stats and adventure stuff included. There's more goodies, of course, including some straight-up d20 goodness from Øone on the subjects of villainesses and devil worship, and a new volume in Silven Publishing's Monsters of Twilight line covering Curse Monsters – no, not the ones with a limited vocabulary, the ones that come and give you a hard time when you are cursed.
Cool stuff, which you should check out between basketball games this weekend. (This is where I say "Go Aggies!" Texas A&M has already bounced Syracuse, and now has their sights set on LSU for a Sweet 16 berth and a shot at . . . Duke. Oh, well.) March 17, 2006: Welcome To Khepera PublishingThe newest company on board e23 – our 37th, for those of you who are keeping track – is Khepera Publishing, the folks behind GODSEND Agenda, the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink superhero RPG that includes a secret war between ancient gods, fallen angels, mystics from Atlantis, alien fugitives, superscience experiments, secret societies, and even more.Khepera is kicking things off with their core game, GODSEND Agenda D6, along with the first supplement, GODSEND Agenda: Mythos, and GODSEND Agenda d20 Conversion for you d20 fans out there. They also have D6 Powers, the definitive superhero character creation sourcebook for West End Games' D6 system, the system of all GODSEND Agenda products.
There will be more from Khepera soon, so keep watching the skies! And this announcement space, of course . . . March 16, 2006: Another MilestoneYeah, that was 750 we passed a week or so back. Our vendor partners deserve most of the credit, along with you, the faithful customers. Thanks, everybody.– Scott Haring, e23 Manager e23@sjgames.com March 15, 2006: Doing That Digital AlchemyPercolating those 1s and 0s until the most interesting brews come bubbling forth is the latest company to join us here at e23, Digital Alchemy. They're kicking things off with a blast from everyone's gaming past, Hack-n-Slash: Fantasy Roleplay, a complete pick-up-and-play fantasy roleplaying game with a focus on ease of play over a multitude of options. Tons of heroic roleplaying action, without tons of rulebooks!
Also new today is the latest from The Kyngdoms, Adventure Minis 1: Ambush!, a ready-to-go encounter for your RPG, plus four more state-of-the-art battlemap products from Øone Games. Just hit the What's New? button to see our latest releases, anytime. March 14, 2006: Check Out The LatestJust posted a few short hours ago:Etherscope: The Lemurian Candidate is the latest adventure for the Etherscope RPG from Goodman Games, produced under license by Steampower Publishing. More cool stuff for a tres cool game.
We also just posted Silven Publishing's Secret Societies, chock full of d20 knowledge on everyone from Mossad to the Templars to the Illuminati themselves; Future: 13 Robotic Devices, more low-cost mecha mayhem from Ronin Arts; and two more pieces of PDF wizardry from Øone Games, Battlemaps Lairs: White Dragon's Lair and Øone's Battlegrounds: Minotaur's Hold. Give 'em a look! March 13, 2006: Music Soothes The Savage . . . Beast?Or is it breast? I never got that quote right. But whichever it is, e23 now has the music.Silven Publishing has expanded into music, and their first product is now for sale right here. It's Fantasy Music Set 1, four mp3 files of original music ready to be downloaded and either burned to CD, transferred to a portable device, or kept on your computer.
This is part of e23's ultimate goal, to branch out beyond PDFs and find more digital products that gamers want. This could be the start of something big March 12, 2006: More Gonzo GoodnessGot a few more new products just before the weekend started, and they're all kinda out there, one way or another. Yeah, as if a new edition of the Ninja Burger RPG isn't out there enough . . .Let's start with the latest thing from James "Grim" Desborough, '45 - Psychobilly Retropocalypse. I told this guy to stay on his meds, because this is what happens when he doesn't . . . it's a post-apocalyptic pastiche of cliches from the '40s, '50s, and '60s, with Nazis, hot rods, Rock 'n' Roll, giant mutant insects, zombies, trench-coated detectives and dames with a past, nuclear wastelands, flying saucers, cycle gangs, mad scientists, guitars, mutants . . . oh, just buy it, won't you? Let's not forget Geek Wars, the first deck in a series in this new card game from Goodman Games. The idea in Geek Wars is to take over Jim Con, and each deck will feature a specialized "army" of con-goers for that task. Deck 1 is RPG Gamers, and features cards like "Always Plays the Cleric," "Didn't You Know There's a 5th Edition?," and "The Lake Geneva Sucker Punch."
And the folks at Misfit Studios have gone even further out into the realm of the eerie with Metahuman Mystics & Supernatural Supers 2, following hot on the heels of Vol. 1. This'll show those mutants and techs what real power is! March 11, 2006: Welcome To Aethereal FORGEIf you're primarily a Steve Jackson Games fan, you might know the righteous gaming goodness that is Ninja Burger . . . but you might not know that it got its start as a silly idea on the web, and then a roleplaying game. And now Aethereal FORGE joins the e23 family with the hot off the motherboard Second Edition of the Ninja Burger RPG, completely revamped with an all-new game engine and all-new ninja content.Chad Underkoffler joins the team with his PDQ System, which he uses in his Dead Inside RPG, as well as Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot and Truth & Justice.
It's a new company making its e23 debut with a great new edition of one of our favorite games – this is my kind of day around here! March 10, 2006: Coming Later Today: GURPS Infinite WorldsFriday Afternoon UpdateIt's posted and available for sale, so go get it already.*** Posting later today to e23: GURPS Infinite Worlds, the third Fourth Edition supplement for GURPS to be released in PDF form! GURPS Infinite Worlds is the core setting of GURPS Fourth Edition Every other GURPS setting is on one of the Infinite Worlds timelines . . . whether they know it or not! GMs can use this to create a whole meta-campaign, or just as an excuse to move characters between worlds when the plot requires it. Compiled by Kenneth Hite, the master of alternate histories, GURPS Infinite Worlds is the complete genre book on both alternative-world gaming and time travel. It offers detailed advice on the unique challenges of running this kind of campaign, and on designing and playing characters who regularly cross between settings. It also provides a wide variety of suitable threats and hazards -- from evil cross-time Nazis and cosmic conspiracies to "ordinary" monsters and disasters. And it gives guidelines for building alternate worlds from the perspectives of the setting, the story, and the rules.
Whether you're playing accidental travelers or the hardened troops of the Infinity Patrol, this book is your gateway to adventure. Infinite adventure. March 9, 2006: More New GoodiesJust keep hitting that What's New? button. You never know what you'll find . . .Like seven more products from 01 Games, including the other two levels of that giant Skirmish Tiles, Castle System, and two new sets of Battlemaps, two sets of Battlemaps Lairs, and a set of those amazing Customizable Battlemaps. Like a new d20 adventure from Silven Publishing with embedded sound files, so when you get to the box where it says, "Read this text to the players," instead you click on the icon on the screen and the PDF on your computer . . . Reads The Text To The Players! Is that cool or what? There's also sound effects, and a hyperlink to a download on the Misfit site for background music files (too big to attach to the PDF directly). Like a new book for Etherscope from Goodman Games, or a cool book of supervillain teams for M&M Superlink from TPK Productions.
Like seven new products from Misfit Studios, including a cool RPG setting called Odyssey Prime where you play parts of two different teams -- the group searching for the alternate dimension to evacuate Earth to before the end of the world, and the group trying to keep the lid on the secret back home. Plus two new rules mods for Mutants & Masterminds. And new stuff from Politically Incorrect Games and Ronin Arts. It never stops, I tell ya . . . March 8, 2006: Sword's Edge FreebieThe folks at Sword's Edge Publishing are offering a FREE primer for their new Modern Medieval line. Modern Principles is everything you need to know to get you started incorporating modern rules into fantasy games. It's the perfect companion to Modern Medieval: Gunpowder Plots, now on sale here at e23. But best of all, it's free! Such generosity should be rewarded with many, many downloads. So get to it!– Scott Haring, e23 Manager e23@sjgames.com March 7, 2006: Relief EffortIt's a product and a good cause. Sword's Edge Publishing has collected some disaster relief-related writing from the roleplaying community, and put out a collection called Relief Effort, with 100% of the proceeds going to the International Red Cross.
This particular drive is in specific response to the recent earthquake in southeast Asia, but the International Red Cross (www.icrc.org) is pretty much saving somebody's bacon somewhere 24/7, so if this particular set of miserable wretches aren't deserving of your $2.25 for a PDF of cool gaming stuff, then some other bunch will be hurricaned or tsunamied or earthquaked or mudslided to within an inch of oblivion soon enough, and if you buy Relief Effort now, you'll be covered. How about it? March 4, 2006: Alive And Kicking At Postmortem StudiosI'm very excited about the latest company to join us here at e23. Postmortem Studios is the unruly child of James "Grim" Desborough, a fellow who does very nice work when he's in a good mood, and very, uh, not nice work when he's in other moods. He can also be really, really funny. He co-wrote The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming for us a few years back, and you know all the trouble that started.
Anyway, Grim has taken his pen to such subjects as pretentious Goth live-action roleplayers (Bloodsucker: The Angst) and how the traditional woodland creatures of myth have adapted to the modern age (Urban Faerie). But he also has some wonderful, more serious products, including the 100 Adventure Seeds series, the Autopsy occasional magazines, and my favorite, the very political, very thought-provoking @ctiv8 roleplaying game. At less than $5 and 50 pages, I recommend it if only to read and think about – playing would be a bonus. Check it out. March 3, 2006: New Products Everywhere!Got new stuff all over the place. The surest way to see it all is to hit the What's New? tag that's on nearly every page. But here's some highlights:Two supplements for the uber-twisted Godlike RPG are finally available in PDF form, thanks to the guys from Arc Dream. Check out Combat Orders No. 1: Donar’s Hammer and Talent Operations Command Intelligence Bulletin No. 2: Talent Operations Groups. We've got more World War II with a twist from Battlefield Press: Ted Nomura's Luftwaffe 1946 Role Playing Game is based on the famous alternate history comic that puts you on the flight deck of revolutionary jet fighters and on covert missions for the OSI.
Plus eight more great products from 01 Games, including the latest set of Blueprints, four more sets of Explore files (you must have Quicktime for these!), Volume IV of Dungeon Battlemaps, and the first two sets of Skirmish Tiles that will let you eventually build a four-level, 30+ square-foot-per-level castle, custom-designed one tile at a time. This stuff just boggles my mind. Check it all out. March 2, 2006: Tabletop Adventures: New Products And A Sale!With Tabletop's new Bits of the Wilderness: Into the Open, you can move your adventures into the wide open spaces with their usual quality descriptions. Here you will find word pictures of the grasses and wildlife you need to augment your imagination and enhance your players’ experience of the wide open prairie or high steppes. Never again will you have to say, “Nah, nothing special, just more open terrain.” With Bits of the Wilderness: Into the Open you can show your adventurers just how dangerous and unique a bit of grassland can be. Available now on e23 so you can Buy it Today, Play it Tonight!And coming soon: Tabletop Adventures presents Bits of Darkness: Dungeons II with more descriptions to add to your Bits from their last dungeon product and specialized rooms and encounters that you can just drop into the dungeons that you are creating. In this product for the first time, they are introducing adventure “Bricks” – the building blocks of an adventure. In Dungeons II, they have two types of Bricks. The first is “Encounter Bricks,” which are fully detailed Dungeon encounters for a GM to place into his or her dungeon. The second type is “Room Kits,” detailed descriptions of complete dungeon rooms that a GM can just drop into place. Examples include “The Tomb,” “Cell Block,” “Volcanic Workshop,” etc. Add to that some stairs, doors, and a few more Dungeon Bits for good measure, and this will be a very exciting product for game masters.
Also, catch the GM’S DAY SALE starting March 1st – All Tabletop Adventures products are discounted, so here's your chance to get them cheap! Augment your imagination with more products from Tabletop Adventures! March 1, 2006: Welcome To Silven PublishingOur newest publishing partner comes to us all the way from Sollentuna, Sweden. Silven Publishing is another example of the Open Gaming License opening up imagination and creativity from all parts of the world. The eight d20 products they have sent us are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, but there's plenty here to get you started. For the serious roleplayers there's the Races of Twilight line, there's books on psionic NPCs and everything you ever wanted to know about curses, and for the silly among you there's The Pun is Mightier than the Sword, which actually has to be read to be fully appreciated. And then burned.
And then there's my current favorite game title of all time: 50 New Ways to Blow Things Up. With a name like that, you just have to check it out, don't you? 2005 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec 2006 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec 2007 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec 2008 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov • Dec 2009 News: • Jan • Feb • Mar • Apr • May • Jun • Jul • Aug • Sep • Oct • Nov |
