New for Colonial Gothic in February

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Jan 302012
 

Colonial Gothic: The Grimoire

Magic is a Force of Nature, whose Secrets all may uncover with Time and Wisdom. Yet Magic is also a Danger to those unwilling to treat it with the Respect such a Force deserves. Despite the Danger, some still dare to take up the Study of Magic and to use its Power. Even in this Modern Age, new Discoveries are made about the Workings of Magic. New Insights reveal Power many deemed impossible. Those Discoveries can be found here: spells, witchcraft, talismans, & relics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pathfinder Character Creation Walk Through

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Jan 262012
 

We have gone ahead an made a character with the tools in the Pathfinder Beginner Box.  Just to show you how easy the process is. Ryan has chosen to make a cleric.  Well sort of, he rolled a die to determine class and race.  Here are the Results Ryan has come up with.

 

 

 

There you have it Pathfinder Character creation is as easy as A,B,C.  Hopefully in the near future we get you some more Pathfinder content.

 

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Savage Worlds Beasts & Barbarians Golden Edition

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Jan 252012
 

Welcome to the dangerous Dread Sea Dominions, a place where mighty barbarians do combat with hideous monsters, dark warlocks whisper terrible sorceries in forgotten temples and noble amazons duel in the sun scorched arenas of Faberterra, capital of a decadent empire! In this book, you will find: Thirty new Edges. Three arcane backgrounds, Lotusmastery, Sorcery, and the Path of Enlightenment Dozens of new weapons, armors, and mounts A simple but elegant system to develop your character between adventures and to manage the enormous riches you’ll find! Rules for Heroic Incapacitation Henchemen and Right Hands to support your villains Twenty dreadful monsters Fifty-one Non Player Characters An adventure generator explicitly tailored for Sword and Sorcery to create a great plot in no time. A fully fledged adventure in the Dominions And much, much more! Gird your loins, get your broadsword ready and prepare to face the threats of Beasts and Barbarians, the new sword and sorcery open setting from GRAmel.

 

Requires the use of the Savage Worlds core rules.

 

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Paizo Announces RPG Superstar Finalists

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Jan 252012
 

From the Paizo Pres Release

 

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anuary 24, 2012 (Redmond, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing today announced the finalists for RPG Superstar, the largest open-call tabletop roleplaying game design contest in history. Judges Ryan Dancey, Clark Peterson, Sean K Reynolds, and Neil Spicer selected the Top 32 from hundreds of submissions in an initial contest to design a wondrous item using the rules from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, available in stores and in electronic form on paizo.com. The Top 32 wondrous items are now on display at paizo.com, complete with judge commentary and additional comments from 2011 RPG Superstar finalists Sam McGowan, Jerral Toi, and winner Sam Zeitlin. Gamers are invited to contribute their own comments to the entries.

“RPG Superstar is a unique opportunity for gamers to become professional designers and for Paizo to discover new, talented writers,” said judge and Paizo game developer Sean K Reynolds. “As a developer who regularly works with about a dozen notables from previous competitions, I look forward to seeing these designers grow and improve over the next four challenges. Congratulations to this year’s Top 32!”
The Top 32 finalists (and their winning wondrous items) for RPG Superstar 2012 are (in alphabetical order):
Chad Bartlett
Gloves of Reconnaissance
Alexander Bennett
Dustings of Darkness
Jim Callaghan
Cloak of the Swashbuckler
Will       Cooper
Ghostvision gloves
Adam Donald
Flask of Liquid Sunlight
Bob Drouin
Figurine of Familiar Power
Anthony       Guillotte
Bottled Time
Mark Hart
Spellblight Cage
Dan Jones
Claw of the Crawling Spell
Mikko Kallio
Vexing Spirit Lamp
Jacob Kellogg
Cloak of Energy Reversal
N. Edward Lange
Sunblossom
Thomas LeBlanc
Metamorphosis Saddle
David Ludwig
Basilisk’s Eye Sight
Andrew Marlowe
Cayden’s Cup
Jacob Michaels
Haunting Glass
Steve Miller
Night Monarch Vardo
Greg Monk
Shadow Box
Eric Morton
Boots of the Phantom Staircase
Joshua Murphy
Gloves, Charlatan
Jason Neals
Binder of Unbound Forms
James Olchak
Rajah’s Silhouette
Tom Phillips
Feywhisper Crown
Sam Polak
Moonlight Flute of the Ghost Hunter
James Raine
Spellbreaker Gauntlets
David Ross
Clockwork Conscience
Daniel Rust
Elixir of Resurgent Flame
Chris Shaeffer
Scent of the Savored Sting
Ian Studebaker-Grey
Silhouette of the Phantasmagoria
Jacob Trier
Sunrise Shawl
Russell Vaneekhoven
Chimaeric Mantle
Mike       Welham
Raptoring Gloves
2012’s alternates are Benjamin Medrano, Andrew Newton, and Alex van der Kleut.
The Top 32 will now be required to design a concept for a new organization to the specifications of the RPG Superstar judges and submit that concept by 2:00 PM Pacific time on Friday, January 27. These round two submissions will be revealed to the general public on January 31 with judges’ comments and the public will then get to discuss the entries and vote for their favorite. Voting ends on February 6 and the Top 16 by votes will move on to round three.
The ultimate winner of RPG Superstar, announced April 3, 2012, will write a Pathfinder Module to be published in early 2013. The 2011 RPG Superstar champion module, Sam Zeitlin’s The Midnight Mirror, releases in April 2012.

For a complete schedule of RPG Superstar, including rules and a FAQ, visit paizo.com/rpgsuperstar.”

Congratulations to all the contestants and good look in the upcoming rounds.

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Castle Builder Volume 2 From Skirmisher Publishing

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Jan 192012
 

Press release From Skirmisher Publishing LLC

Skirmisher Publishing LLC is proud to announce the release of “Castle Builder Volume 2: Manor Houses”! This is the second installment in a 10-part series designed to help Game Masters and players plan their ideal fortifications in a step-by-step format from the ground up. It reveals how being lightly fortified does not mean a building is unsuitable for use as a defensive structure. This volume’s contents include:

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New For Savage Worlds in March Agents of Oblivion

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Jan 192012
 

Ready for horror-fueled espionage action? Agents of Oblivion wants you! Agents of Oblivion is the highly anticipated Savage Worlds setting book we like to call “The Perfect Cocktail of Horror and Espionage”. The pages within are graced with everything you need to play the style of spy game you want to play from “The Company Line” where every nightmare and conspiracy you can imagine is real and you can wield the powers you need to drive back the darkness to “Spy versus Spy” where you can take things on in a gritty brutal fashion.

 

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Silvervine Character Creation

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Jan 182012
 

Danny and Ryan have taken the time to make a character for the Silvervine Game system.  It is one of the easiest character creation systems out there.  It is also a good demonstration of the freedoms you have while creating a character in the Silvervine System.

 

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The Empty Throne From Pathfinder in February

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Jan 162012
 

Chapter 6: “The Empty Throne” by Neil Spicer War has come to Minkai! As resistance rises against the Jade Regent’s tyranny, the PCs must escort their friend Ameiko to one final site—the Imperial Shrine on a hidden island in the capital’s harbor. Here, Ameiko and the PCs must seek the blessing of Minkai’s dead emperors if they hope to have a chance to liberate the nation, but even here the Five Storms and the Jade Regent have their influence, and hungry demons and ravenous ghosts must be defeated before the ancestor spirits of the empire will give their blessings. Only then can the PCs take the battle to the Imperial Palace and confront the Jade Regent and his allies in the Five Storms. “The Empty Throne” is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 14th-level characters. This volume concludes the Jade Regent Adventure Path, a sweeping quest that takes the heroes from familiar territory in Varisia all the way across the ice fields of the Crown of the World to distant Tian Xia, the land of the Dragon Empires. This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path also features a gazetteer of the sprawling city of Kassai, capital city of the nation of Minkai. Extensive suggestions and support for GMs eager to continue their Jade Regent campaign beyond the end of the adventure are included as well, plus several new monsters drawn from Japanese mythology in the Pathfinder Bestiary, new adventures of Varian Jeggare and Radovan (stars of the Pathfinder Tales novels Prince of Wolves and Master of Devils) in the Pathfinder’s Journal, and much more!

 

The Empty Throne has an expected release of February 15th and an SRP of 19.99.

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Matt’s Response to Dungeons and Dragons 5th ed

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Jan 142012
 

First if you haven’t read Ryan’s post you should start here.  It contains links to the information that we base our reactions on.

Before we get too involved here is my brief D&D history.

I started playing in 1981.   I took a break in Middle School.  Started back again in ’86.   The play experience carried me into 2nd edition.  I remember that the transition was a simple one and I enjoyed proficiencies.  I stopped playing again sometime in the mid 90’s.

2002-ish I started to play again.  This time it was 3.5.   Again it was a simple step into the the new edition.  Oddly enough I didn’t miss the  things that were changed.  I missed the things that were used for background, like the GM description chart, and the random dungeon building chart from the DMG.

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D&D 5th Ed Announcement Reaction

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Jan 122012
 

In case you missed it, Wizards of the Coast is working on a 5th – that’s right, Fifth – edition of Dungeons & Dragons.  You can read the announcement articles from the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/video-games/dungeons-dragons-remake-uses-players-input.html?pagewanted=all and Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2012/01/09/wizards-announce-new-dungeons-and-dragons-an-inside-look-at-the-game/, as well as the press-release from lead designer Mike Mearls http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20120109.

We here at Through Gamer Goggles, however, would like to share our initial reactions and thoughts to this news, and gather your input as well.  Is this a good thing or a bad thing? for D&D? for WotC? for the RPG industry in general?  Would you buy the 5th edition?

No matter your answer to those questions, I believe that the BIGGEST QUESTION is this: Will a new edition unite the players, or will it divide them even further? Continue reading »

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