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February 16, 2010Streamlining the SiteDue to very infrequent use other than by the spammers, I have removed the message boards from the site. I apologize to those few who did use them for their intended purpose, but the amount of maintenance which had to be done was prohibitive.
I am also working on removing some outdated links on the site. If you find any links which are broken, please let me know.
I am working on restoring some data I lost after a computer failure, and as soon as that is done, one way or the other, I will begin updating the RPG Database again. Sorry for the lack of updates for the past couple years.
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January 31, 2008 Origin of the Species: Classic Fantasy Released!Crafty Games is proud to release Origin of the Species: Classic Fantasy, your gateway to a new brand of adventure using the acclaimed Spycraft 2.0 system! This product features new Origins, Legendary Classes, and feats that let you play dwarves, elves, orcs, and lovable, mischievous pech! Quick-play character seeds are included, along with new NPC qualities and ready-made characters to populate your fantasy worlds. Pick up your copy today at http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=54334&affiliate;_id=2069
Also, our first product in the Origin of the Species line, the mythological Greek supplement Light of Olympus, has been upgraded with new art, new interior layout, the incorporation of all errata to date, and many tweaks throughout. If you already own a copy, stop by our web store to get your update. If not, you can learn more at http://www.crafty-games.com/node/48
Finally, in honor of this release, we’ve put together some Classic Fantasy wallpapers to decorate your desktop. To get yours free, swing by the Crafty Games Download page: http://www.crafty-games.com/downloads
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January 29, 2008 Thousand Suns available for pre-orderRogue Games is pleased to announce their next roleplaying game, Thousand Suns is now available for pre-orders through Indie Press Revolution.
Those ordering the book, receive a copy of the rulebook as a PDF free of charge. To order your copy, and get the PDF, you can click here.
Thousand Suns is due to hit stores mid-February, and will be supported both online and in print.
High Psionics Compilation: Volume I PDF AvailableDreamscarred Press, the definitive source for new psionics material, is very happy to announce that the PDF for High Psionics Compilation: Volume I is now available for purchase.
Containing the first eight of the High Psionics line of supplements, High Psionics Compilation, Volume I offers more than 100 pages of new psionic material. With over 100 new feats, 5 new prestige classes, 4 variant classes, 3 organizational specialty classes, 6 learning centers, one new anti-psionic organization, and rules for customized power displays, High Psionics Compilation, Volume 1 has something for any player or DM using psionics.
Explore the options available to psionic characters, or unleash those things that even the most powerful manifesters fear. The choice is yours
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January 28, 2008Hex Games Releases RASSLIN' Revised Edition PDFThis month, on January 28, Hex Games is proud to release the Revised Edition of Colin Thomas Presents RASSLIN'. Written by Carter Newton, Steve Johnson, and Colin Thomas and illustrated by superstar artist Gary Bedell, RASSLIN' promises to deliver more action, more gaming excitement, and more fun!
Think you can handle the bone-crunching, brain-smashing, senses-shattering world of the Universal Rasslin' League? Then jump into the ring and prove it! Face off against opponents like El Loco Gigantes or The Patriot. Survive the Cage Match, navigate the ocean of fans and groupies, and piledrive your opponents into the mat! Whatever you do, don't get on the wrong side of Mr. Colin Thomas, or your next match will be against the tag team of Mr. Spatula and the Deep Fryer in the kitchen of the Scuzzburger down the street.
The Revised Edition of Colin Thomas Presents: RASSLIN' has new characters, a new logo by fan favorite Josh LH Burnett, and all the bone-cracking action of the sold-out first edition. Also included are modified QAGS rules for wrestling, three different campaign styles, background information on the Universal Rasslin' League, GM tips, and art by the unparalleled Gary Bedell.
Colin Thomas Presents: RASSLIN' uses QAGS, the Quick Ass Game System, sold separately.
Colin Thomas Presents: RASSLIN' is available on Monday, January 28, 2008 from www.drivethrurpg.com, www.rpgnow.com, www.yourgamesnow.com, and www.paizo.com.
Coupons and Feats 2! Free!The Le Games is happy to announced the release of Coupons & Feats 2! This fabulous new book is completely FREE and gives you 5 new feats to choose from, and lots of coupons to get our books at a serious discount! Don't take my word for it, check it out now!
http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=372
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January 22, 2008 Jim Ward joins Troll Lord GamesTroll Lord Games welcomed James M. Ward to the Troll Dens today. Mr.Ward of METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA and TSR fame has come onboard as Managing Editor for the CRUSADER magazine. With his arrival, CRUSADER becomes a monthly magazine with lots of interesting changes in style and content.
“We are very excited about James joining us here,” remarked Stephen Chenault of TLG. “I’ve known James for several years and we look forward to working with him. CRUSADER has languished on the back burner for too long, we are confident Jim can bring it up to speed.”
James designed the first science fiction role-playing game, METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA in 1976 and took part in the design of the second CCG, SPELLFIRE and the DRAGON BALL Z CCG. With lots of game and novel credits he brings a great deal of talent to the Troll Lord team. He will be helping a little bit with issue eight and move to make issue nine and up all his.
"I look forward to helping CRUSADER magazine grow even more interesting to hobby game consumers everywhere. With lots of feedback from the great Troll Lord fans, the magazine can grow to be even more fun. Who knows, I might have time to put together a product or two for Troll Lords as well."
To check out more about this and TLG’s latest product releases visit us on the web at www.trolllord.com.
Colonial Gothic: SecretsThey hide in the shadows of the hallows. They lurk in the alleys of New York. They slink along the docks of Charleston. What are they?
Secrets.
From societies, to hidden magic, secrets beat through the veins of the colonies.
Some may think they know everything that has transpired in the colonies, but they are wrong. There are dark things afoot. There are those with vengeance in their heart who seek to unleash it. There are creatures prowling the shadows awaiting to entangle the unsuspecting in their maws. There is evil flowing in the wind.
Secrets.
Secret history. Secret plots. Secret agendas.
These are the secrets of Colonial Gothic.
All is revealed May 2008.
Colonial Gothic: Secrets
120 pages, b&w;, softcover
RGG 1710, $12.99
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January 15, 2008Classic Spycraft: Triple Release (and a freebie)!Crafty Games has just released three Classic Spycraft books in PDF - the Faceman/Snoop Class Guide, the Fixer/Pointman Class Guide, and the Gentlemen's Agreement Season Book - each saved from the original work files and extensively bookmarked! We've also released the original Control Screen in landscape and portrait editions for free! Come enjoy some Spycraft the old fashioned way!
You can find these and all our other great products here...
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?cPath=562&affiliate;_id=2069
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January 08, 2008Claw/Claw/BiteClaw/Claw/Bite is a resource for storytellers and gamemasters to help create thrilling worlds of adventure for your players to test their mettle in. In each issue, you'll find new characters, creatures, magic items, encounters, and locations for use in your campaigns. We also include little nuggets that will enrich your world with cool details and intriguing features.
Our goal is to be a "one-stop shop" for you, the gamemaster. With little or no tweaking on your part, you will be able to drop any game element from Claw/Claw/Bite into your adventure setting and run it how you see fit. All of our creations are designed for d20 fantasy rules. And of course, all of our everything is carefully reviewed and balanced to fit into your game without disrupting your play balance.
This issue of Claw/Claw/Bite includes
* Five new creatures
* A new campaign location -- the town of Junction
* Six new weapons, magic items, and special materials
* Three new spells
* Twelve new NPCs, including the cadre of heroes at 5th level
* One new race
* A new feat
Previews are available here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=51668
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January 03, 2008Master at Arms: ShieldbearerBlackdirge Publishing has released the next installment of the Master at Arms series: the Shieldbearer. This 3-level prestige class focuses on the use of the shield, and presents a number of new and innovative ways to use the shield, both offensively and defensively. A skilled shieldbearer can use his shield to stop a giant’s club cold, resist the effect of a dragon’s breath, or simply bash his opponent’s to flinders.
Master at Arms: Shieldbearer is available at RPGNow and DriveThruRPG
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January 01, 2008Kobolds: An Encounter Sourcebook - 3rd-Level BarbarianThis series of five encounters make use of a cunning 3rd-level Kobold Barbarian and his trap-making ability in a woodland setting near three small communities.
This new 18 page pdf features high-resolution Playouts (maps to be printed up for game table usage) for five separate encounter areas plus a bonus blank map with extra bits and pieces so that you can design limitless additional areas in the same style, or to expand the areas already detailed.
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=51605
1948: Lost LanguagesBloodstone Press has recently released 1948: Lost Languages, a new d20 Modern supplement covering 17 indecipherable languages and the cultures that used them. With this supplement you can build adventures featuring the lost languages of Easter Island, Atlantis, Rama, the Etruscans and many others. Uncover the ancient secrets of the Veda texts. Search the ruins of Mesopotamia for relics of Classic Cuneiform and learn about the secrets of forgotten civilizations as your players delve into the deep and mysterious history of 1948.
Get your copy from RPGnow right here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=51589 for only $1.50!
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December 29, 2007World on Fire and a free missionCrafty Games is proud to release print and PDF versions of World on Fire, the premiere espionage toolkit setting for the award-winning Spycraft 2.0 game line! More than just another world book, this release contains a comprehensive, exhaustively researched tradecraft chapter, hundreds of new character and game options to bring your spy sagas to brilliant life, and a modular campaign backdrop that lets you easily dive right into the action!
For more information about this book, visit its product page at http://www.crafty-games.com/node/81
For more information about Crafty Games, visit www.crafty-games.com
And for those of you looking for a fast and free way to kick off your World on Fire fun, check out Twas the Night Before Christmas, a single-scene holiday mission! You can download it at http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=51586&affiliate;_id=2069
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December 28, 2007From the Frozen Lands of the North to Your Adventure!Born from a partnership between Conclave Publishing and Secular Games, Vikings - Midgard is the English version of the core book in the series that became a bestseller in Brazil, and contains all the information necessary to start a campaign in a setting that draws its inspiration from the mythology and culture of the ancient norse. In 140 pages, Vikings - Midgard will bring you the following:
* Optional Rules, such as feats and prestige classes for viking characters.
* New races and monsters, based on the Scandinavian myths.
* Mass Combat rules.
* Renown and Exploit Points.
* A rich description of the Midgard setting, starting point for the adventures in the universe of Vikings.
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 Suzerain and The Great BelowTalisman Studios is proud to announce the launch of our Suzerain rule system and its first setting book - The Great Below.
Powered by an elegant rules system that lets you pick whether you play using the quickfire basic system or more detailed advanced rules, Suzerain is all about flexibiity. Character creation is simple, yet the options are infinite. The gameplay can be fast and furious or more involved and slower paced, as suits your gaming style. You can play in any setting in any genre - Suzerain handles cyberpunk as well as high fantasy, modern horror as well as historical drama.
To showcase the Suzerain system, we are delighted to release The Great Below, an adventuring toolkit set in a world of piracy and plunder. Full of world detail, rules for shamanic magic, and 75 new options for character expansion, each page is packed with good value. Sail the seas in a submersible, search for treasure on uncharted islands, or fight off fierce monsters with broadside attacks... the ocean's as broad as your imagination.
All Talisman Studios books are illustrated in full color throughout, with beautiful artwork and design by superstar artists like Jason Engle and Aaron Acevedo. Visit us at www.talisman-studios.com today.
The Mind Unveiled: MorpheanDreamscarred Press, the definitive source for new psionic material, is pleased to announce that The Mind Unveiled: Morphean is now available for download from RPGNow - http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=51558 - as well as DriveThruRPG - http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=51558
There are some people who, when faced with a nightmare, relish the fear, finding a deep connection to the very essence of their souls. Those who learn to tap into the nightmares of others and use them as weapons are known as morpheans.
Presented within the pages of The Mind Unveiled: Morphean is a new psionic base class - the Morphean - as well as a variety of new feats, powers, items, and a new prestige class aimed at this new base class. In addition, several variety of qael, nightmare creatures that exist within the Dreamscape, are also presented for use with the morphean base class.
Fulfilling the role of scout, sneak, and even assassin, the morphean instills fear into his enemies and, sometimes, even his allies. Unleash the darkest of nightmares in this new release from Dreamscarred Press.
With 27 pages of new material for both players and GMs, The Mind Unveiled: Morphean details everything you need to play or use the morphean class, as well as offering several new psionic creatures to use in your campaign. The Mind Unveiled: Morphean is written by Andreas Rönnqvist, whose other works include High Psionics: Psicrystals Expanded and High Psionics: Sequestral Feats.
The Mind Unveiled: Morphean builds off the free release The Mind Unveiled: Dreamscape. While The Mind Unveiled: Dreamscape is not required for use, it is strongly recommended.
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December 22, 2007Betmal - The Gate of TrishulaBetmal – the afterlife, the most sought-after and feared place known to those on Earth. The way to get there is easier than you think…all you have to do is die.
Betmal, Game of Souls is the game of the afterlife. It is a place where the souls of those who live life in The Game return once their turn is done. It is also the place where those same souls live between sessions in The Game. It is a world of potential and will, a place where anything and everything is possible if one has the time and the willpower to see it through to completion.
The Gate of Trishula introduces the new 4-Point System method of gaming in a comprehensive primer that covers combat, effigia, an explanation of a starting character and rules for healing.
The fully bookmarked 162-page pdf includes a text-only rules primer, character sheets, full-color maps, plain hex grid for printing and an excerpt from the fictional piece, Blur of Shadows.
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December 21, 2007Arc Dream's 'Monsters and Other Childish Things' shipping March 2008Arc Dream Publishing, which produced the tabletop roleplaying games “Wild Talents” and “Godlike”, has released its newest roleplaying game, “Monsters and Other Childish Things: The Completely Monstrous Edition.” Now at press, “Monsters” will ship as a 184-page hardcover book (MSRP $29.99) in March 2008.
A PDF edition, on sale now at www.arcdream.com/monsters, gives players a taste of what they’ll see in print. In its first day of release it already saw a glowing reception among fans. Expansions, sourcebooks, demo kits and beautiful promotional posters are now in development for simultaneous release in March, and “Monsters” games and demos will take place at GenCon, Origins, DragonCon and other conventions in 2008.
“Monsters and Other Childish Things” first appeared as a short supplement for Arc Dream’s superhero game “Wild Talents,” but enthusiastic fan response led the creators to expand it into a full-fledged roleplaying game.
In “Monsters and Other Childish Things,” players take the roles of ordinary children whose best friends are horrifying monsters from beyond time and space, and who face threats from other monsters, suspicious teachers, exasperated parents, the Monster Investigation Bureau (M.I.B.), and — shudder! — report cards.
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December 20, 2007The Lazy GM: Dungeon BeastsOver 40 classic D&D; monsters get the Lazy GM treatment in this 146 page PDF for only $9.99.
From Ankheg to Wyvern, from the CR1/3 Dire Rat Zombie to the CR 48 Purple Worm Paragon, we present over 400 pre-generated statistic blocks for instant use in your game.
All creatures advenced by HD and most are also available with templates applied, including the phrenic, paragon and pseudonatural template. There are even monsters with character levels, from the Mimic Rogue to the Blink Dog Paladin, not forgetting the Otyugh crime lord.
All this is topped off with a fully clickable index so that you head straight to the creature that you want, plus a guide to monster tactics and customising the stat blocks. Fully Open Content for use in your games or products.
For more, visit http://www.creativeconclave.co.uk
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December 18, 2007Order of EudeusWritten by Christopher Urinko, the Order of Eudeus is a fully illustrated, 71 page E-book which provides players and GM’s with a detailed holy order complete with new base classes, prestige classes, 51 feats, new magic items, spells and new creatures allied with and against the Ordeur of Eudeus, including the dreaded Apocalyptic Balor, Denziel. Also in these pages you will find a streamlined mass combat system for use in your OGL-based fantasy campaigns!
This product is fully bookmarked, with a clickable table of contents, for ease of use.
Grab your copy today!
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