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.
I talk with Ivan Van Norman from Hunters Books about the zombie apocalypse simulation RPG, Outbreak: Undead. Yes, it’s true your zombie survival plan will fail! But don’t worry, I’m sure mine will fail too…
Elliott and I sit down with Shelly Mazzanoble, Brand Manager of Dungeons and Dragons from Wizards of the Coast. Shelly shares with us a lot of exciting details about the launch of the Neverwinter for the venerable RPG.
Listen in as I detail my ignorance of all things D&D from the last 20 years…
Elliott and I had the opportunity to speak with Charlie Krank from one of our favorite companies of all time: Chaosium Games, publishers of Call of Cthulhu. Give a listen as we talk about the 30th Anniversary of CofC!
