Crafting Tall Tales to Tell: Fantasy Craft RPG Reviewed
Sep 9, 2011
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Jeff shares his thoughts on the second printing of Fantasy Craft from Crafty Games.
Jeff shares his thoughts on the second printing of Fantasy Craft from Crafty Games.
Well in advance of your October Halloween horror roleplaying, Steve Jackson Games is getting their latest GURPS release Infinite Worlds: Worlds of Horror into their online store. It has been said that an optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds, while a pessimist fears we do. Yet if we fear that ours is the best world, how fearsome must all those other worlds be?
Our friends behind the upcoming 2012 Vul-Con convention are throwing a charity event this October in Glendale, AZ. Back2Basic: A 70s D&D Experience – a combination 70s Costume Party and Dungeons & Dragons gaming event will be held at Imperial Outpost Games/ManaWerx in Glendale, AZ on October 29th, 2011.
Later this month, Wizards of the Coast will release a “heroic” level adventure for characters levels 6-10. Hack and slash your way to fantasy adventure in the latest title set in the relaunched Neverwinter setting, Madness at Gardmore Abbey.
Hunters Books won a Judges Choice award for their Zombie Role Playing Game Outbreak: Undead at this past Gen Con. If you haven’t heard it, you need to check out Jeff’s interview with Ivan Van Norman from Hunters Books.
Kenzer & Company is taking their RPG independence seriously with the release of the Hacklopedia of Beasts for the Hackmaster system. No longer a supplementary
Core D&D retailers will be stocking an exclusive supplement late in September: Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Emporium. Bring more magical one of a kind items to your adventures with this release which will retail for $29.95.
Remnants in a nutshell is similar to role playing with Battletech. Well, not really, the robots on the whole are not thirty feet tall, even though in theory they can grow to this height eventually.
Wizards of the Coast has launched a new contest in conjunction with the big D&D Neverwinter launch. Visit the contest page and enter for a chance to win a trip for two to Hawaii. I suppose that’s also a place where there’s never winter…
Luke Crane, designer of multiple role playing games, spends time on the first day of the 2011 Gen Con show talking about The Burning Wheel and Mouse Guard role playing games as well as some of his other titles.
The boxed edition of Mouse Guard was making it’s debut at the con and it certainly looks like a winner!
Acclaimed screen writer (Xena and Hercules) and game designer (Men in Black RPG and Star Wars D6 amongst many others) sits down with me for a discussion about his inspiration for writing and design as well as taking a look behind the scenes of his latest RPG, The Secret Fire.
As you’ll hear, it took some effort to draw George out of his shell. *Wink*
Todd Rowland, Brand Manager of Legend of the Five Rings from AEG, spends some time with Elliott and I discussing the brand new release of the Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan board game as well as the Emperor Edition of L5R CCG, Heart of Doom for Thunderstone, Blood Country for Nightfall, and all things L5R role playing.
Wizards of the Coast announced at Gen Con, the launch of an entire new series of products in the city of Neverwinter. I haven’t visited there myself since many sessions playing Neverwinter Nights on my PC many moons ago.
I’m not sure if this was common knowledge, but during our conversation with Charlie Krank of Chaosium Games at this year’s Gen Con, we learned that there will be a brand new Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition to be released in 2012. The classic RPG is alive and well and we’re excited to see what new horrors investigators will face in H. P. Lovecraft’s universe! This should be a reworking and update of the rules system as opposed to a complete revamp.
