• Book of Rituals Preview Goodman Games has posted a PDF preview of the upcoming Azagar’s Book of Rituals. It includes the table of contents, introduction, and excerpts from the binding rituals chapter.
• Review of Medieval Bestiary: Orc Culture Get some Orc Power in your Campaign by checking out this review of the new supplement for the Feudal Lords Setting by Alea Publishing Group.
• Review of Combat Advantage #14 Add some savagery to your Campaign with CA #14’s articles on Role-Playing Mercenary Characters, a new Barbarian-Beastform Paragon Path, and conniving Goblin Crimelords. [Note - CA14 is available to EN World subscribers].
• Review of the Iron Gazetteer The book for 4E dwarves, reviewed at the Neuroglyph blog.
• Hump Day Hazard The tricks and dangers of the Magnet Stone hazard.

• A Coward's Life The Friday Funny provides feats for the less heroic hero.
• Spell and Blade New spells for fighting spellcasters.

• Interview with Ben McFarland (Pt.3) Rite Publishing continues with their interview of this ENnie award wining designer (Kobold Quarterly, Tales of Zobeck) as he talks about what makes a good Pathfinder product, his favorites, and what role his newest project Breaking of Fostor Nagar will playing the PFRPG community.

• Real American H.E.R.O.es For Spycraft 2.0, by Crafty Games. Fight for freedom — or crush it — in this brand new world of four-color military fantasy where the good guys wear green, the bad guys wear blue, and great notions like democracy and justice prevail over evil in half-hour segments! Recruiting starts today!
• Review of EXPO - The Magic of White City The RPG Examiner reviews the perfect setting for a turn of the century campaign: The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
• Review of Kobold Quarterly #11 The word from Mobius Adventures.

• Non-lethal weapons for your RPG: Barriers ‏ From caltrops to spike strips to sticky foam, the RPG Examiner takes a look at modern barriers.

• Combat Advantage #14: Savages

The nights are getting longer and a chill seeps through the window. Winter looms in the sky, instilling a sense of dread in your heart. Dark times call for dark characters and Combat Advantage delivers.

CA14 brings you the darker side of 4E. Try your hand as a merc and work for the highest bidder (but leave your morals at the door), tap into your inner beast with the Beast Warrior multiclass barbarian/druid paragon path, and take on the fortitude of Blades, a Goblin Warlord with a penchant for spilling blood... your blood.

COMBAT ADVANTAGE is a bi-monthly supplement for the 4th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game produced by Emerald Press.

• King of the Monsters Contest The arena is open! Kobold Quarterly is holding a monster design contest.
• Tiny Drake Monday isn't Monday without a tiny bit of monster love from the Kobolds. And in this case, it's literally tiny.
• Pathfinder Drake The second Pathfinder Drake by Mike Welham is now available for free at KQ.com.

• Reign of Discordia for the Traveller Game system Reign of Discordia is the core setting book in line of the same name by the celebrated game designer Darrin Drader and Reality Deviant Publications. RoD gives you what you need to know about the galactic civilization following the fall of the Stellar Imperium. Future sourcebooks and adventures will further add to the dynamic space opera setting presented in this core setting book.
• Plan Change for Dave Arneson's Blackmoor Blackmoor licensing is looking like it's going to end as Wizards of the Coast does not appear inclined to renew the license come the beginning of the year.
• Ingredients for a perfect horror gaming session The RPG Examiner reviews the perfect action horror game session to determine what went right.
• The Power Source #7 Skill ... Guidelines. Podcast.
  

The Riddle was old, for it was as old as the Gate, and the Gate had guarded the head of the Valley since men first walked upon the World. The words of the Riddle were an ancient secret, passed down from father to son, from grandfather to grandson, from uncle to nephew, and – in at least one case – from the most distrusted old man in the village to his worryingly young “friend”.

For more than five hundred generations a succession of Gatekeepers had kept their lonely vigil, climbing the steep winding valley each day to arrive at the Gate before sunrise, returning home to the village below only once the sun had set. Seasons came, and seasons went and still the Gatekeepers sat, and waited, through scorching sun and biting hail.

Waiting.

Eridu had been guarding the Riddle for fifty-two years now, ever since it had been entrusted to him by his father, as the old man lay dying from the cancer in his bones.

“The Visitors will come,” his father had told him. “As it says in the Prophesies, so shall they come.”

For fifty-two years Eridu had sat by the Gate, and in that time there had been no Visitors. Visitors, yes: curious children from the village; lost travellers; roving tax collectors convinced he was running some kind of scam. But none who greeted him as the Prophesies foretold.

Soon his vigil would end. He would pass on the secret of the Riddle to his great-nephew Pannon, and the five hundred and seventh Gatekeeper would be replaced by the five hundred and eighth.

Not today though. Not today.

Eridu waited.

• Pre-Order Azagar’s Book of Rituals Pre-Order the print edition Azagar’s Book of Rituals at a specialty game store or the Goodman Games online store and get a free e-book edition as well.
• New at the World of Farland: the latest chapter in the Darmon saga, “Strife on the Northern Banks”; a conversion of the Lord of Pride (15^th level solo soldier); and an update of the Farland metaphysics, planes, and genesis story for 4E rules.
  
• Virtual Combat Cards v1.0 Virtual Combat Cards has just released version 1.0.0. with new features. Virtual Combat Cards is a Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition combat tracker that runs on any computer and keeps track of all the information so that you, the DM, can focus on making your game more fun for everybody.
  

• Monster Madness: The Harvestman What looks like a six-fingered giant hand with an evil face? The Harvestman: part hand, part spider, all ventriloquist’s nightmare.

• Ashton Sperry's Paper Minis‏ Rite Publishing has released its first set of paper miniatures by artist Ashton "N'wah" Sperry (Pathfinder Paper Minis). This set contains monsters and NPCs from the adventure "A Witch's Choice" part I of the Rituals of Choice adventure path, and includes all the statblocks for their use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
• A theatrical adaptation of Paizo's Ennie-winning adventure "Burnt Offerings" has gone on stage at a middle school in Portland, OR.
• Paizo has started the open playtest for the Cavalier and the Oracle, two of the classes that will appear in the upcoming Advanced Player's Guide. Additional classes for playtesting will follow at two week intervals.
• The Snail is last in Remarkable RaceThe Zif, the last of the Remarkable Races by Alluria Publishing is now available for Pathfinder.

• Jonathan Roberts Tutorial Jonathan Roberts' latest map, The Dragon's Lair, is the subject of a tutorial series he is writing for readers of newbiedm.com.

• Updates from Critical Hits:
  • Convention Report: DC Game Day 2009
  • 5 Tips For Running Dungeon Delves
  • Preview: "Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons"
  • Preview & Review: "Primal Power"

• Fantastic Maps: The Dragon's Lair "There are times when a company pointing out a specific product isn't advertising - it's doing everybody a favor. This is one of these times." [Their words, not mine!]
• Check out the first trailer for SPACE FIGHT!^TM, the fast-paced starship combat game coming from EN Publishing!

• Book of Rituals at the Printer Azagar’s Book of Rituals has gone to the printer, on track for a late December release date. This is the first of Goodman Games’ Great Price books, featuring 300 rituals crammed into 160 pages for only $14.99.
  

• Trap Tuesday at Kobold Quarterly The Trapsmith returns, bringing swinging blocks of crushing OGL death to obliterate unsuspecting rogues...
• Paths of Power Coming Soon 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming is set to release Paths of Power: A Sourcebook of Base and Prestige Classes on Novermber 27th. Paths of Power details five new base classes (Anti-paladin, Gladiator, Samurai, Voyageur & Witch), three prestige classes (Child of Bast, Crypt Stalker & Envenomed), and four class options for player characters (Air, Earth, Fire & Water Elementalist “schools” for Wizards). Also included are three classes that are designed specifically for non-player characters, but that can be used for player characters as well (Captain, Courtesan & Sycophant).
• New OGL Monster Looking for a clever foe to taunt new parties or an alternate familiar for your evil wizard? Try the crimson drake, an OGL cousin of the psuedodragon.
  

• Dragon Age Design Diary Green Ronin's Chris Pramas has posted a design diary for the upcoming Dragon Age RPG.

• The Goblin Hulk A 48 page 4e Dungeons and Dragons campaign sourcebook as a free PDF download from Role Playing Public Radio. The Goblin Hulk is over 17,000 words, contains 5 new monsters, 2 new templates and 7 major areas. It is usable in most campaign settings and can easily be converted for any fantasy RPG system.
• Zone Effects In Use Clint has posted a short report with photos on how he used the Zone Effects and how well they worked in play.

• Monster Madness: Golcodulus The RPG Examiner introduces the Ondoculi guard dog, dangerous beasts who breathe two different kinds of breath weapons.

• Interview with Ben McFarland Rite Publishing has released the first part of their interview with the ENnie award winning game designer Ben McFarland (Tales of Zobeck) as he discuss his latest project Breaking of Fostor Nagar (for Pathfinder), what attracted him to the project, his design philosophy, and his opinion on the cartography of Jonathan Roberts.
• Add a Little Chaos Alluria publishing released the Remarkable Xax PC race for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game today.

• The Power Source Podcast #6 - Rule Zero B XVII.