Today's Tabbloid: More Stormbringer Awesomeness Reckless Adventure
Today's Tabbloid: More Stormbringer Awesomeness Reckless Adventure
Today's Tabbloid: More Stormbringer Awesomeness Reckless Adventure
Today’s Tabbloid
PERSONAL NEWS FOR [email protected]
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[2.3.1.1] Class Background if you wish. home for all information on our games. Megadunegon.net will be
kicked into gear. The Rogue Games site links these two sites together
However, those players who enjoy a challenge may get a to bring you the information you want. The site also will contain
special kick out of attempting to beat the system and win with information on a few other projects James and I have been planning for
a character who is blind, deaf, or partially crippled. Any two years. What project is this? Ask me at GenCon, or wait until next
triumphs won with such a character would be week.
correspondingly greater than those won by normal
characters. If you do choose to play a Beggar, you have my
condolences and best wishes.
Maybe it’s final, definitive proof that I’m as mentally deranged as some
have claimed, but I think that’s one of the more awesome bits of text I’ve ROGUE FEED
read in any gaming rulebook lately. Makes me want to run an all-beggar
mini-campaign set in Nadsokor. Repairing Game Books
AUG 10, 2009 11:34A.M.
Well, traffic on the Rogue Games website has gotten out of hand. This
is a good thing, but it has cost us due to the site going over the monthly
bandwidth the web host allows. This is a good thing, because it means
more and more gamers are finding our games, and enjoying what we are ROGUE FEED
doing.
Pulp Fantasy Library: Seven
This site, deals with all the games that we have put out, as well as plan to
put out. This site will grow as our games grow, and will work in Foot Prints to Satan
conjunction with the main Rogue Games site. All the content you are AUG 10, 2009 10:21A.M.
use to seeing is still here, just in new sections. We have a lot of things
planed, and this site will be the place to get all that information.
Once GenCon is over next week, we will be moving into our third year of
doing what we love — designing games. 12-degrees.net will be your
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the early days. There’s thus a lot in its pages to inspire referees looking
for a slightly different approach to dungeon design than is common
nowadays. Seven Foot Prints to Satan was adapted into a film in 1929. I
have never seen it, but my understanding is that it’s a fairly loose
adaptation. Just goes to show that Hollywood has been doing what
Hollywood does for a lot longer than any of us have been alive to curse
them for it.
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GenCon Plans
AUG 10, 2009 07:25A.M.
Rogue Games is once again attending GenCon. Here are a few things
you need to know.
Although Abraham Merritt’s 1928 novel (serialized the previous year in Other Products: The complete line for both games.
Argosy) is technically set in the “real world,” namely modern New York
City, much of its action takes place within the labyrinthine mansion of Demos: Colonial Gothic demos in the booth starting Friday. Why not
the crime lord known only as Satan, where the laws of reality seem, if not Thursday? Graeme Davis will not be in town early enough. Three cool
wholly in abeyance, at least more flexible than they are outside its walls. demos are planned, and if you want to play, stop by the booth.
Seven Foot Prints to Satan tells the story of James Kirkham, an explorer
who is kidnapped by thugs in the employ of the aforementioned crime There you go. Plan accordingly.
lord. Taken back to his lair — a D&D-style dungeon before the fact,
complete with death traps — Kirkham is forced to undergo a test at If you are not going to be at GenCon, have no fears. Like we did last
Satan’s hands, where he must walk upon seven glowing footprints. year, anything new being released at the show will be ready to buy and
Depending on which ones he walks upon, Kirkham will either be download from Drivethrurpg.com on Thursday. So if you
rewarded, executed, or bound to servitude to Satan for one year. want Thousand Suns: Foundation Transmissions before your
friends, you will be able to buy it and download it Thursday morning. In
Our hero avoids death but he does not escape servitude and so must addition, the PDF Guarantee is in effect forGenConas well. How? That
spend the next year engaged in a series of spectacular crimes at the is for me to know, and you to find out. Ok, that is not nice. Simply put,
behest of Satan, during which time he meets — and falls in love with — you buy any of the Rogue Games games at the show, after the show you
Eve, a young woman who shares his predicament. The crime lord is a will get the PDF.
disfigured man of astounding intellect and it’s initially not clear whether
his moniker is merely a nom de guerre or an indication of his true
identity. Regardless, he’s actually a fascinating character, in many ways
far more interesting than either Kirkham or Eve, both of whom possess
conventional pulp heroic personalities.
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ROGUE FEED Siebren Versteeg, Todd White, Sherry Wong, and Steve Zeiser. Also
contributing are the old school game illustrators Pixie Bledsaw and the
GenCon Plans renowned Erol Otus.
AUG 10, 2009 07:25A.M.
Concurrent with the exhibition at theIndianapolis Museum of
Rogue Games is once again attending GenCon. Here are a few things Contemporary Artwill be a related booth at GenCon, a yearly gaming
you need to know. convention hosted in Indianapolis. GenCon is the most important game
event in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors and acting as a
Booth Number: 2038 platform for major industry releases and premieres. This year, GenCon
runs August 13 – 16, more information on the convention is available
New Products: Colonial Gothic Revised($24.99) andThousand atwww.gencon.com.
Suns: Foundation Transmissions($12.99).
iMOCA is free to the public and open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Thursday
Cool Things for GenCon Only: Colonial Gothic eBook CD ($2.50) through Saturday and is located in the Emelie Building at340 North
and 12 Degrees Dice Pack ($6.00). Senate Avenue.
Other Products: The complete line for both games. Opening August 14
6-9PM
Demos: Colonial Gothic demos in the booth starting Friday. Why not
Thursday? Graeme Davis will not be in town early enough. Three cool Exhibit runs August 14 – September 26th
demos are planned, and if you want to play, stop by the booth.
If you are not going to be at GenCon, have no fears. Like we did last
year, anything new being released at the show will be ready to buy and ROGUE FEED
download from Drivethrurpg.com on Thursday. So if you
want Thousand Suns: Foundation Transmissions before your Cursed Chateau Art Show
friends, you will be able to buy it and download it Thursday morning. In AUG 10, 2009 07:24A.M.
addition, the PDF Guarantee is in effect forGenConas well. How? That
is for me to know, and you to find out. Ok, that is not nice. Simply put, Artist/curator Timothy Hutchings has collected a disparate band of
you buy any of the Rogue Games games at the show, after the show you contemporary artmakers, including performance artists, digital artists,
will get the PDF. sculptors, painters, musicians and various in-betweens, all united by a
direct or indirect relationship to role playing games such as Dungeons
and Dragons. Hutchings has shoved these artists into the unaccustomed
role of illustrators for the role playing game adventure book “The Cursed
Chateau”, written by James Maliszewski.
ROGUE FEED The participating artists include Chris Bors, Olaf Breuning, Jeffrey
Brown, Kitty Clark, Alex DeMaria, Don Doe, Giovanni Fenech, Andrew
Cursed Chateau Art Show Guenther, Ketta Ioannidou, Josh Jordan, Matt Lock, Fiona Macneil,
AUG 10, 2009 07:24A.M. Chris Patch, Jason Phillips, Owen Rundquist, Rebecca Schiffman,
Siebren Versteeg, Todd White, Sherry Wong, and Steve Zeiser. Also
Artist/curator Timothy Hutchings has collected a disparate band of contributing are the old school game illustrators Pixie Bledsaw and the
contemporary artmakers, including performance artists, digital artists, renowned Erol Otus.
sculptors, painters, musicians and various in-betweens, all united by a
direct or indirect relationship to role playing games such as Dungeons Concurrent with the exhibition at theIndianapolis Museum of
and Dragons. Hutchings has shoved these artists into the unaccustomed Contemporary Artwill be a related booth at GenCon, a yearly gaming
role of illustrators for the role playing game adventure book “The Cursed convention hosted in Indianapolis. GenCon is the most important game
Chateau”, written by James Maliszewski. event in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors and acting as a
platform for major industry releases and premieres. This year, GenCon
The participating artists include Chris Bors, Olaf Breuning, Jeffrey runs August 13 – 16, more information on the convention is available
Brown, Kitty Clark, Alex DeMaria, Don Doe, Giovanni Fenech, Andrew atwww.gencon.com.
Guenther, Ketta Ioannidou, Josh Jordan, Matt Lock, Fiona Macneil,
Chris Patch, Jason Phillips, Owen Rundquist, Rebecca Schiffman, iMOCA is free to the public and open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Thursday
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through Saturday and is located in the Emelie Building at340 North ROGUE FEED
Senate Avenue.
Coming December 2009
Opening August 14 AUG 10, 2009 07:21A.M.
6-9PM
For decades, stories have circulated about the Cursed Chateau: the
debauched entertainments and depraved experiments that took place
within its walls while its master, Lord Jourdain, yet lived and the terrible
ROGUE FEED hauntings that followed in the wake of his mysterious death.
Coming December 2009 Now you find yourself trapped inside the Chateau, cut off from the sanity
AUG 10, 2009 07:21A.M. of the world outside. Only by braving its terrors can you hope to find the
key to your escape — if you survive.
Now you find yourself trapped inside the Chateau, cut off from the sanity The Cursed Chateau
of the world outside. Only by braving its terrors can you hope to find the RGG 6000
key to your escape — if you survive. 6×9 96 Pages BW Softcover
ComingDecember 2009.
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