[h=3]EN World News[/h]
[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]
[h=3]Pathfinder News[/h]
Hey, it's a picture of the Pathfinder card game!
[h=3]RPG News[/h]
[h=3]Community News[/h]
- EN Publishing's Ryan "Rangerwickett" Nock appeared on the excellent Metagamers Anonymous podcast a week ago, talking about the ZEITGEIST: The Gears of Revolution adventure path amongst other things.
- Don't forget to check out our recent videos: The 15 Best D&D modules Of All Time [HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338153-The-15-Best-D-amp-D-Modules-Of-All-Time[/threadcm][/HI] and The 10 Most Anticipated RPGs of 2013 [HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338106-10-Most-Anticipated-RPGs-of-2013[/threadcm][/HI]
- We have a boardgame review for you of Augustus, which we think could take the fourth place in the gateway games pantheon of Carcassonne, Settlers of Catan, and Ticket to Ride.
- Radiating Gnome presents 8 rules for DMs helping DMs. "This week, I came across an article called "Should Authors Help Other Authors." And, as usual, I consider applying the same question to DMs."
- Game Design 116 tackles Attack Matrixes. Matrices?
- New ENnies Dream Dates! Gaming Paper and Agate Editions!
[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]
- WotC held a live-streamed D&D Next game on Friday. The D&D R&D team (Peter Lee, Greg Bilsland, James Wyatt, Rodney Thompson) played A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity, converted to the latest playtest rules. You can watch it at the link. [HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338123-Mike-Mearls-live-streaming-of-DnDNext-with-R-amp-D-superstars[/threadcm][/HI]
- Dungeon #215 -- This month, a dead pharaoh's pyramid is slowly making its way across the desert to its new home. Plus, the Slave Lords are dead, yet one survives! Journey to a remote monastery to end the vile threat once and for all. We proudly present for your gaming pleasure, Dungeon 215!
- Art and Maps: Dungeon 215 -- This month, a dead pharaoh’s pyramid is slowly making its way across the desert to its new home. Here now are a full set of illustrations and maps from Dungeon 215!
- The Many Worlds of D&D. The cosmology of D&D has morphed over the years. If you’re at all interested in how D&D Next plans to address this, this column is definitely one you’ll want to read. And below is my attempt to draw what Mike described in what ends up looking a lot like the USS Enterprise. Personally, I'd rather each setting had its own unique cosmology.[HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338165-L-amp-L-1-7-2013-The-Many-Worlds-of-D-amp-D[/threadcm][/HI]
Hey, it's a picture of the Pathfinder card game!
[h=3]RPG News[/h]
- Firefly RPG lead writer and brand manager for Margaret Weis Productions, Monica Valeninelli, reports on Twitter that "I am pleased to announce that the GenCon Exclusive for the Firefly RPG is full color, 8 1/2 x 11, and over 260 pages of SHINY AWESOME FUN."
- Cubicle 7 wants to tell you about their upcoming game ROCKET AGE! "It's an alternate history pulpy retro-sci-fi space opera planetary romance. It's throttled up rocket packs burning radium on the long blast to the farthest reaches of the Solar System. It's hunting thunder lizards in the upland jungles of Venus. It's battling Ancient Martian killing machines piloted by the Deutsche Marserkorps across the baking red deserts of Mars. It's exploring the deadly skies of Jupiter under the constant threat of Europan disintegration. It's RAY gun wielding heroes bulls-eyeing mutants in the blasted ruins of Io" -Ken Spencer, Rocket Age Line Developer.
- FFG has posted some sample play for Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.
[h=3]Community News[/h]
- Sly Flourish talks about lazy game prep through handouts.
- Game Knight Reviews has interviewed Brian Cooper of QuestKick.com, a new web application for GMs.
- Kobold Press discusses how actor prep can level up your RPGs.
- "You aren't playing that character correctly!" is the topic of the day at Gnome Stew.
- Tabletop Explorer has a 13th Age article on Unique Things, Icons, and Awesome Characters.
- RPG Geek reviews the First Doctor Sourcebook for Cubucle 7's Doctor Who RPG.
