First Look at Munchkin Zombies

Flames Rising has a sneak peek at the upcoming Munchkin Zombies game from Steve Jackson Games:

First Look at Munchkin Zombies

Included in this preview is a playtest card drawn by artist John Kovalic.

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01.09.2010. 15:20

Shadowrun Missions: #9 Something Completely Different

It's Not Just a Show, It's a Happening

As any artist will tell you, the art scene can be brutal, especially in a high-octane setting like Manhattan. There are plenty of horror stories to go around—but none of them can touch what’s about to go down at the Guggenheim.

In this Mission, Shadowrun players will find themselves in the middle of an art opening unlike any other, with chaos and screaming and dancing statues. Unless they keep their wits about them, the latest masterpiece in the museum will be painted in blood—and to make things worse, if they can’t defuse the situation, they might not get paid.

Something Completely Different is the latest Manhattan Mission, giving Missions players a chance to learn more about the creative spirit behind some of the city’s artistic masterworks while also giving them the opportunity to shore up their alliances with powerful megacorps.

Get all of the Shadowrun Missions at DriveThruRPG.com.

31.08.2010. 08:10

Deathwatch and other Reviews at Flames Rising

Recent reviews at Flames Rising include:

Deathwatch (Warhammer RPG) - Fantasy Flight Games
The Last Remnant - Square-Enix
Dark Sun Campaign Setting - Wizards of the Coast
Tracker #4 - Top Cow Productions
Our Ladies of Sorrow - Miskatonic River Press
Cthulhu Tales Vol 1 - Boom Studios
Curse of the Yellow Sign II - John Wick
Cthulhu's Reign - Darrell Schweitzer (Editor)

Flames Rising also has a new interview with author and editor Kim Paffenroth.

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29.08.2010. 14:56

Wild Cards: Aces & Jokers

With well over a dozen books and more on the way, the Wild Cards fiction series has a cast of characters too large to be covered in just one book. Aces & Jokers fills out the roster from the Wild Cards Campaign Setting with biographical and game information on dozens of aces, jokers, and nats from the series, everything you need to fill out the ranks in your own Mutants & Masterminds game.

As a bonus, you can use the character stats in this book for other settings as well, providing you with ready-made villains, heroes, and other characters. Get ready to double up with Aces & Jokers!

Available now at DriveThruComics.com.

27.08.2010. 08:07

[Exalted] Dreams of the First Age

Given the Mandate of Heaven to rule Creation following the Primordial War, the Exalted fashioned a Realm of unsurpassed power and glory from the world's war-ravaged remains. Though the seeds of its downfall were planted in the hearts of all the Exalted by the Great Curse, the Old Realm would stand for millennia, and its rulers would shape the future of the Exalted world. At last, the secrets of that lost time stand revealed, as you adventure as one of that era's Exalted masters.

Will you strive to preserve this halcyon time-or help to destroy it?

A boxed set for Exalted featuring:

• Lands of Creation, a 160-page setting book that details Creation as it was during the High First Age
• Lords of Creation, a character resource that includes everything players and Storytellers need to generate First Age Exalted characters, including high-Essence Charms for each Exalt type and stats for prominent Exalts from the period
• A 64-page guide to the city of Meru itself, jewel of Creation and capital of the Realm
• Unique First Age Exalted map, battlewheel and original box graphics
• Updated errata and new Charms incorporated directly into the text. (People just looking for the errata can check out the Scroll of Errata.)

Dreams of the First Age is now available at RPGNow.com.

26.08.2010. 15:23

Freeport Companion: Pathfinder Edition

For a decade now Freeport has stood as one of fantasy gaming's most distinctive cities. Home to pirates, foul cults, terrifying monsters, vicious gangs, crime lords, and corrupt politicians, Freeport is a dynamic setting that offers a unique blend of high adventure and cosmic horror. Now the City of Adventure returns to its roots with the Freeport Companion: Pathfinder RPG Edition, a rules supplement for the Pirate's Guide to Freeport.

Its 160 pages are packed with all the support you need to run a Freeport campaign with the Pathfinder RPG. In addition to giving game stats for all the city's major characters, the Freeport Companion provides new core classes like the corsair and monster hunter, new prestige classes like the musketeer and witch hunter, famous magic items, an insanity system, new spells and incantations, and an introductory adventure. Celebrate 10 years of the City of Adventure with the Freeport Companion: Pathfinder RPG Edition!

Check out all of the Freeport eBooks at DriveThruRPG.com!

25.08.2010. 07:19

Mega-City Sale at DriveThruSciFi!

Mega-City One - a vast metropolis where each of 360 million citizens is a potential lawbreaker. Patrolling these mean streets are the judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd, for he is the Law, and you'd better believe it creep!

Judge Dredd is a setting for the Traveller roleplaying game. Explore the Mega-City and bring the Law to the streets!

For a limited time enjoy an extra 20% Off of Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog products at DriveThruSciFi.com.

24.08.2010. 08:10

Interface Zero (Savage Worlds Edition)

Interface Zero hooks you up with everything you need to hack a computer network or derezz an enemy hacker in 2088. But watch out, omae; ghost into the wrong system and you'll get fried faster than your food vat can spit out NUTRIpaste!

Interface Zero is a game without barriers; a setting where you can be artificially intelligent robots, vat-grown simulacrum, transgenic hybrids or just plain old flesh and blood humans. You can jack into the world around you and program it to suit your needs. You can implant cyberware in your body, interface with machines, fly hover craft, golemmechs, jump bikes and even hover tanks and Low Altitude Vehicles complete with the latest weapons and cutting edge VTOL or anti-gravity propulsion systems.

You can assume the roles of shadow operatives who rage against the corporate machine, private detectives cut from a noir-inspired cloth, fearless, larger than life heroes piloting mecha in a futuristic, transhumanist Japan- even survivors gutting it out in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with mutant horrors or AI-spawned mechanical nightmares are viable concepts in Interface Zero. Interface Zero is more than just a game setting, it is a toolbox you can use, adding or dropping whichever elements you wish to create the sci-fi game world that you and your friends want to play in.

Interface Zero is available now at DriveThruRPG.com!

23.08.2010. 09:59

[Werewolf] Signs of the Moon

A new Werewolf: the Forsaken supplement. This book includes:

• Chapters devoted to each of the five auspices. In each, you'll find in-character artifacts discussing the histories and lives of those within the auspices, and you'll also find new weapons for your characters: Gifts, rites, lodges, as well as Auspice Aspects that characters can choose to hone in on how their characters best embody the auspice they represent.
• A Storytelling chapter dedicated to discussing how best to use auspice in your game from both a practical and theoretical perspective, as well as a frank discussion on creating new auspices and new Gifts.
• A series of Storytelling Adventure System scenes meant to serve as "auspice challenges" - these scenes are bound to different auspices and can be dropped into your games to highlight the importance of one's moon.

Signs of the Moon is available at RPGNow.com.

19.08.2010. 08:10

Cthulhu Week at Flames Rising!

Cthulhu Week is going on now over at FlamesRising.com with new Reviews, Essays and a Contest!

So far we have:

Win a Copy of Cthulhu 101 from Atomic Overmind
Top 20 Cthulhu Mythos Reviews
The Calling: Cthulhu Chronicles Review
A Note from the Editor at Innsmouth Free Press
Cthulhu’s Reign Anthology Review
Inmates (Trail of Cthulhu) by Robin D. Laws

Stay tuned for a Call of Cthulhu essay by Ken Hite, Realms of Cthulhu design notes by Sean Preston, new Reviews and more!

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18.08.2010. 15:48