New EN World Features
There have been a lot of new features introduced at EN World recently (with more to come), so I thought I'd take a moment to summarise them quickly.
D&D 4th Edition News
Pathfinder/D&D 3.5 News
There have been a lot of new features introduced at EN World recently (with more to come), so I thought I'd take a moment to summarise them quickly.
- Friendly Local Game Stores This is our graphical directory of game stores. It uses an interactive map so that you can easily and quickly see stores near you (or near a location you're visiting). The map covers the whole world, and you're welcome to (in fact encouraged to!) add any game stores you know of.
- Social Newsfeed If you have "befriended" any other EN World members, their activity on the site shows up on your social newsfeed. From new threads and posts to blog entries, social groups, picture albums and more. Your profile also shows your own activity. You have complete privacy control over this - from choosing who you befriend to selectively allowing/not allowing specific types of actions to show up on your newsfeed.
- Mentions A bit like Twitter - if you "mention" someone in a post, they'll get a notification and a link to the place where you mentioned them. Also, your ingoing and outgoing "mentions" are displayed in a tab on your profile. "Mentioning" is a deliberate action - it doesn't happen just because you mention someone's name, rather - like Twitter - when you deliberately mention someone's name with specific formatting.
- Status If you're logged in you have probably noticed the green status section in the top right of the page. Here you can enter anything you like; kinda like Facebook. It shows up in your posts and in your profile.
- Twitter Integration If you enter your Twitter details in your profile, your Twitter feed will appear. A good way to keep your profile updated and interesting!
D&D 4th Edition News
- Heroic Friday Fight at Kobold Quarterly Need a side encounter between adventures? Take this heroic tier trek to the End of Roads-- defeat Mother Crone and her boys' ambush and escape.
- The Morkoth Out of the depths of editions past and into your game, the Morkoth surfaces to battle heroes and paragons...
- Key of the Fey Do you have what it takes? Think mercenaries are just scum who'll do anything for money? Of course they are but they still get into just as much trouble as heroes. The first mercenary adventure for levels 1-3 from Emerald Press is available now.
- The First One's Free Necromancers of the Northwest's Alex Riggs continues bringing Magic: the Gathering's Eldrazi over to Dungeons and Dragons with both a Pathfinder and 4e version of the Broodwarden in this week's Dark Designs, where he also discusses how NNW came to produce all of its content for free.
Pathfinder/D&D 3.5 News
- Bonus Bloodlines Set your sorcerer apart with the unusual (but nonetheless fun and effective) alternative bloodline options for sorcerers provided by Necromancers of the Northwest's Justin Holloway in this week's From the Workshop.
- Super Genius Games Releases Archer Archetypes This book includes five archer archetypes, ranging from Alchemical Archer to Sharpshooter, allowing any characters to change class features to addarcher abilities than improve over the course of their careers.
- Evocative City Sites: Bedlam Asylum Rob Manning (GM Gems, The Great City Player's Guide) brings you a location for your Pathfinder Rpg that is not conducive to anyone's mental health an insane asylum straight out of the mid 19th century. Lobotomies in aisle four, please pick up your straitjacket before proceeding, sadistic Nurse Ratched figures please report for surgery, slow descent from minor quirks to sitting in the corner mumbling cryptic phrases will begin after your four o'clock slop.
- Special Note: EN World Subscribers can get the 1st part of this series The Rogue's Gallery Tavern for free.
- Tuesday Traps at KQ The Trapsmith is back with his latest epic creations: the unwanted destination and squishing grab traps.
- Fairy Tales In this week's Grave Plots, Necromancers of the Northwest's Joshua Zaback provides two plot hooks that highlight the fey and their dangerous and otherworldly natures.
- Crumbler The RPG Examiner presents the Crumbler, a monster that will clean up those unsightly statues medusae leave behind.
- Interview with Jason Durall (part 1) He has been creating and developing game content for two decades, contributing to Amber Diceless Role-Playing, Babylon 5, Basic Role-Playing, Battlestar Galactica, Bureau 13, Conan, Dragon Lords of Melnibone, Elric!, A Game of Thrones, The Laundry, The Lord of the Rings, Serenity, Supernatural, and many others. So you might listen to what he has to say.
- Dealing with a hiatus in your role-playing game campaign With the arrival of the RPG Examiner's second child, his action horror campaign faces the most terrifying prospect of all: not playing for awhile.
- Tiamat Beta Goes Live A beta of RPGObjects' new on line Tile Mapper, Tiamat, has gone live.You can now export maps (miniature and adventure scale).
- Sample Sci-fi Plots from Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots The second sample from Engine Publishing's upcoming book, Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters, which features four complete sci-fi plots, is now available as a free PDF.
- New feats for Tier 2 perks The RPG Examiner conflates RPGs (role-playing games) with RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) with these new feats.
