Monday, 16 March, 2009

[Morrus]

• Keith "Doc" Herber Passes Away Keith "Doc" Herber, who wrote material for Call of Cthulhu, With Chaosium, White Wolf, and finally Miskatonic River Press, passed away on Friday.
• Morrus Reviews Monte Cook's Dungeonaday.com For the price, well worth checking out. It may not be to everyone's taste, but if you enjoy old-school dungeons and Monte Cook's flair for the evocative, you'll definitely get a lot out of Dungeonaday.com.
• Officially Licensed Call of Cthulhu Gaming Terrain Fat Dragon Games has signed an agreement with Chaosium to create 3D gaming terrain sets for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game.
• Farland's March Update:
  • New fiction in the Darmon saga: “Good Eye”
  • A new magic item: Wyvernslayer Armor
  • A new monster, the Wolfspider
• RedBrick Joins Flaming Cobra at Mongoose
• Friday Funny at Kobold Quarterly Worst gaming night ever: come listen to one poor sod's tale of the most humiliating gaming night ever...the "winner" of the KQ and Atomic Array contest.
• Official D&D Updates:
  • [sub] Codex of Betrayal: Alloces The Butcher of Nessus Learn about one of Asmodeus's most powerful servants as another of the Nine Hells unique and feared archdevils is described.
  • Excerpts: Arcane Power Rituals In today’s Arcane Power preview, we introduce a new set of feats -- including a close look at Unseen Servant, Guards and Wards, and Imprisonment.
  • [sub] The Deva In last month's column, I gave you an inside look into the back-and-forth within the R&D department -- among design teams, development teams, and management -- that led to the final form of the gnome and the half-orc in Player's Handbook 2. This time around, I'm going to do the same thing for the deva -- a "new" race that appears in PH2 this month, but which is the spiritual descendant, as it were, of a different race: the aasimar.
  • Three Game Days for the "Twos" This month, the first of three Worldwide D&D Game Days launches to celebrate the release of Player's Handbook 2. If you've been to the past Game Days, you're probably wondering what's changed and what you can expect this year. If you've never been to a Game Day before, it's a worldwide community event hosted at a gamer-friendly location near you (like a retail store, a gaming convention, or possibly a library) on the event date. Whether you're a 5-year veteran to the event or someone interested in giving it a try for the first time, read on!
  • [sub] The Brood of Alloces Many archdevils inspire fear among devilkind, but even the most hardened of devils speak only in whispers of Alloces. None want to catch is mad eye, for fear of winding up on his laboratory table, subject to a thousand agonies as flesh and bone are warped and rent. Learn more about Alloces, the faithful servant of Asmodeus who lives to discover the next war beast to serve in the armies of the Nine Hells.
• RPGObjects Expands its Line of WW2 Heroes and Villains for M+M Superlink RPGObjects has just released two more pdfs with heroes and villains for a WW2 M+M Superlink game -- Pearl Harbor December: Japan's formidable team of super-soldiers, and Vigilance Force: America's heroes of WW2.
• New Monday Monster at Kobold Quarterly The original Monday Monsters series continues at Kobold Quarterly! This week? The Doomsayer Hag, a controller certain to give a 4E party nightmares until their next extended rest.