In the world of darkness your character may come equipped with fangs, claws, immense strength or dark sorceries with which to engage in combat, but there will always come that time when the weapons and equipment you carry are going to save your life (or unlife as the case may be). This book purports to provide all the supplies that you might need.

It starts with an evocative description of a gunfight when some cops investigating a murder have a run-in with someone decidedly more than human, demonstrating both the strengths and weaknesses of gunplay in the World of Darkness. Then, the Introduction talks about the roles of equipment and weapons - not as a substitute for your own intelligence and skills, but as an adjunct to them. Wise words for any character venturing out into the World of Darkness, human or not.

As we continue to break into new shadowy depths for 2009, Flames Rising needs your help. For over five years we’ve poured through books, games and a few films to talk about horror. This year, we want to continue that effort, but also want to reach out to all the fans that have made Flames Rising possible. Our goal is to build a supportive community of minions and hellions that share in our passion for the things that lurk in the dark. We’ll share with you articles, posts and trailers beyond what we have here on Flames Rising. From contests to breaking horror trailers, join us on Twitter and Facebook and stay on top of your favorite genre.

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Happy New Year to the Horror and Dark Fantasy fans of Flames Rising!
We had a great 2008 that included:
Winning a Silver ENnie at GenCon.
October’s monstrous Halloween Horror series.
A collection of fantastic Design Essays from several creators.
The launch of the Reviewer Rewards Program.
Tons of Reviews, Interviews and a whole lot more!
Thanks to everyone who made 2008 [...]

Get your jack o’ lanterns ready and turn out your lights, Flames Rising has reached into the haunted minds of some very creative folk with monstrous results.
We’re going to scare you, thrill you and chill you with a daily monster dose that ranges from E.E. Knight’s Cob’s Ladder to Todd Cash’s Jimmy Sparks. Some of [...]

Show your true black-and-red colors by picking something up from our Flames Rising Cafepress shop.
We’ve updated our merchandise to reflect the new Flames Rising logo; check out our new women’s and men’s t-shirts, environmentally-friendly canvas bags for only $13.99 and more!
Remember, Halloween is rapidly approaching — what better way to say “I love horror” than [...]

If you’ve checked out our submission guidelines, you may have noticed that we mentioned our Flames Rising Reviewer Rewards program. As our site continues to grow, our reviewers and content providers are a vital part of Flames Rising. We’d like to light a match and shed some light on what this program actually entails.

Flames Rising Reviewer Rewards Program

Once our reviewers show a commitment to the site by submitting a minimum of (5) reviews, we will then provide the review material for them. From indie films to pre-released copies of fiction novels and new games, we receive tons of review material we’re more than happy to provide free-of-charge to our reviewers. (We’ll even cover the postage.) What’s more, our reviewers can keep the material as a “thank you” for spending the time to contribute to the site.

Over the past five years, we at Flames Rising have fed our fires, bringing you news, reviews and interviews for the horror, dark fantasy and dark sci fi genres. We started with gaming and (as our flames got bigger) we quickly expanded into music, TV/film, comics and books.
As our content shifted, so did our [...]

The Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (the “ENnies”) are an annual fan-based celebration of excellence in tabletop roleplaying gaming. The ENnies give game designers, writers and artists the recognition they deserve. It is a peoples’ choice award, and the final winners are voted upon by the gaming public at EN World.
This year’s ENnies are [...]

As you know, Flames Rising burned the midnight oil to ensure that the site redesign was more user-friendly for you. We’ve been proud to feature several options of Flames Rising RSS feeds to work with your preferences.
After dozens of requests, Flames Rising is happy to announce that we are now recommending an easy way [...]

We now have a Preview Page on Flames Rising. A spot to check out all of the sneak peeks and product previews we have been posting on the site. The latest addition is an early look at the new Hot War RPG coming up from Contested Ground Studios:
Hot War Preview
Coming up in the next few [...]

The new Review Guidelines have been posted on the Flames Rising website. We are currently seeking a few good reviewers to help us expand our collection of horror and dark fantasy reviews. RPGs, fiction, movies, video games and more are all welcome on the site…
What do you get out of it?
Beyond helping out fellow Flames [...]

We’re proud to announce the first Flames Rising Fan Appreciation contest. Some of you may remember that Flames Rising hasn’t always been a horror and dark fantasy webzine; it started out as a Live Action Role-Playing Site devoted to those dark and brooding vampire clans from White Wolf’s Mind’s Eye Theatre system. Through a love for gaming and other things that go bump in the night, Flames has evolved to its current incarnation, a horror webzine that shines the spotlight on up-and-coming authors, horror artists, game designers, and more!

To celebrate the new site launch, we want to show our appreciation to the fans who make Flames Rising possible by returning to our dice pool and pencils. Prizes include a variety of products from Abstract Nova, Apophis Consortium, Bob Goat Press, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, Eden Studios, Evil Hat Productions, Monolith Graphics, Neoplastic Press, Rogue Games, Snarling Badger Games, Talisman Studios and 12 to Midnight.

Lots of updates to the Flames Rising Amazon Store today. Horror & Dark Fantasy fiction, games, movies and more. Included in these updates is the option to pre-order:
Ventrue: Lords Over the Damned (Vampire the Requiem)
Battlestar Galactica (Season 3)
Small Favor (Dresden Files)
Purge the Unclean (Dark Heresy)
Over at FlamesRising.RPGNow.com you can check out a ton of new [...]

Visit the RSS Page to check out the available Flames Rising news feeds. Stay up-to-date on the latest Flames Rising Horror & Dark Fantasy product Reviews, author and artist Interviews and more!
You can also find Flames Rising on MySpace.com:
http://www.myspace.com/flamesrising
Other updates include new books and games at the Flames Rising Amazon Shop and tons of new [...]

Do you enjoy fright in your InBox every morning? Do you jump with glee when blood splatters all over your web page?
Well, new to Flames this year will be reviews of the good, the bad, and the horrific in new media formats that we haven’t covered before. We couldn’t think of a better place [...]

We are still working on a few of the details behind-the scenes on the new site. However, here are a bunch of new Reviews to dig into!
Neil Gaiman’s “Two Plays for Voices” Audiobook
Doctor Strange Animated Movie
Changeling: the Lost RPG
In the Serpent’s Coils Novel
30 Days of Night Movie
Kitty and the Midnight Hour Novel
Dresden Files Season One
Serenity [...]

Welcome to the redesign of Flames Rising! The last, few months has been an exciting time for us and we hope you’ll stick around.
Over the next, few days we will be working behind-the-scenes to ensure all technical issues are resolved from transferring to this new site. So please, pardon our soot.
We’re happy to announce that [...]

You can now search by publisher at the Flames Rising eBook Shop.
This includes lots of fiction and comics (in addition to all of the RPGs). Basically all of the publishers from the various OneBookShelf sites are now listed in one handy spot.
For example, all of David Moody’s Autumn tales from Infected Books and Simon Green’s [...]