Introducing: Savage Worlds Online!
By Flames | May 11, 2008
Digital Adventures, LLC and Pinnacle Entertainment Group are proud to present Savage Worlds Online, a new community designed to support and bring together gamers using the Savage Worlds Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds II to play their favorite Savage setting online with friends across the globe!
At the moment Savage Worlds Online (SWO) supports a forum for everything Savage World and Fantasy Grounds, and a gaming calendar for linking up with other SWO members to find or host a game. There will also be product giveaways from Savage Worlds licensees, gaming and development blogs, officially sponsored PEG events, product support, gaming advise, and all great geekness associated with the Savage Worlds setting from Australia to Denmark to England to Arizona!
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Flash Fire Mini-Reviews! (Hunters & Slayers)
By Matt-M-McElroy | May 9, 2008
Since we’ve started posting some teasers for the Hunter: the Vigil RPG this week I figured I would keep up with the theme and post about a few of the other monster hunter items that have caught my eye recently…
Comics, games supplements and fiction make up the mix this week…
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Semi-Finalists Announced for 34th Annual Origins Awards
By Flames | April 23, 2008
Retailers at the GAMA Trade Show will select finalists this week
The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design (AAGAD) and the Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) proudly announce the semi-finalists in all categories for the 34th Origins Awards.
“It was a good year for the Origins awards,” said Phil Lacefield Jr., chairman of the AAGAD. “We had plenty of contenders across the board. The jury members did a great job.”
“The Origins Awards give our industry a chance to reward excellence in all facets of gaming,” said Anthony Gallela, GAMA’s executive director. “The award categories recognize games of all types, as well as fiction, non-fiction, magazines, comics, and more.”
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Contest Prizes Spotlight!
By Flames | February 27, 2008
Have you entered the Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest?
Well, if you’ve been following the recent Flash Fire Mini-Reviews, you’ve just seen a small glimpse of what we have to give away. So far, in Contest Edition and Contest Edition 2 we’ve highlighted new games, like Thousand Suns and supplements like All Tomorrow’s Zombies. With over 12 publishers sponsoring our contest, our prize pool is getting so huge we just had to blog about more of the great prizes that are perfect for any horror fan.
Here are just a few of the great prizes available in the Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest.
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Flash Fire Mini-Reviews! (Contest Edition 2)
By Flames | February 22, 2008
Welcome to the second set of “Contest Edition” Mini-Reviews.
These are just some of the products offered by the sponsors of the Flames Rising Favorite Horror Game Contest. This week we sci-fi adventure mixed with medieval horror, zombies, pirates and more!
If you missed out on the first “Contest Edition” from last week, be sure to check out that mix of great games from other sponsors.
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Interview with Martin & Aaron at Talisman Studios
By Matt-M-McElroy | February 19, 2008
Talisman Studios - the home of Gamescapes, Shaintar and Suzerain.
In this interview Martin Klimes and Aaron Acevedo tell us how the studio came together, give us a peek into their gaming habits and share some of the design ideas that they’ve used to create the Talisman Studios products.
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Haring & Rosenberg enlist with Talisman
By Matt-M-McElroy | February 12, 2008
There is a lot of creative energy coming out of Talisman Studios. With products ranging from Suzerain to Shaintar: Immortal Legends you can find amazing art, great writing and a lot of talent. It looks like these games are going to even more interesting from here on out:
Talisman Studios Adds Industry Veterans
Talisman Studios is delighted to announce that it has added two veterans of the adventure games industry to its team. Together with the dynamic group already in place, they aim to bring the finest games to today’s players.
Scott Haring, an editor and designer with 25 years’ experience in the industry, has joined Talisman Studios as an editor and coordinator, focusing on Talisman’s Shaintar line of roleplaying products.
Aaron Rosenberg is a game designer and novelist with an astonishing pedigree of writing wonderful material. He becomes a key member of the team for Talisman’s Suzerain RPG, but will also write for Shaintar.
Both of these guys have pretty impressive resumes and I’m looking forward to seeing what they add to the mix at Talisman. Savage Worlds fans should be especially happy with more Shaintar products in the works.
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Savage World of Solomon Kane Review
By Flames | September 6, 2007
I was one of the lucky few, thanks to the sharp attention of the wife and her amazing persuasive abilities, to pick up an early release volume of The Savage World of Solomon Kane by Pinnacle Entertainment. Like a great many other game designers I am afflicted with a great love of the pulps and related ‘trash’ forms of fiction such as B-movies, exploitation cinema and so forth. Alas for us game designers the appeal that these genres have for us don’t often translate into good sales or successful games, with the notable exceptions of Mongoose’s Conan and, perhaps, Spirit of the Century (which has plenty of industry kudos but I’m not so certain on their sales).
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Bloodlines RPG Review
By Flames | July 27, 2005
Bloodlines is a handy pdf for d20 Modern from the folks at 12 to Midnight. This adventure is written with 5th Level characters in mind, but is not a requirement. With a little prep, a GM can do just about anything with this material. Bloodlines uses the OGL Horror magic system from Mongoose Publishing, but has everything you need included. Coming in both “Printer-Friendly” and “Full versions as a set. The Full version is packed with handouts, bookmarks and is one of the best looking pdfs I’ve seen on the market.
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For A Few Dead Guys More (Deadlands) Review
By Flames | September 20, 2004
The combination of Horror and Westerns does take a little getting used to. The Foreword to this volume, written by Joe Lansdale, explains the appeal of both genres and how they might work when mixed together. Deadlands explores these themes, mixing elements from TV shows, movies and comic books in a bizarre, but workable, adventure. The fiction in this volume explores the living and the dead, good and evil, drama and humor.
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