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  1. JamesM

    James Maliszewski joins Zeitgiest Games

    I'm still "settling in" to the position and getting up to speed on everything, but I can answer your questions. First, the Zeitgeist Games website is currently under going significant renovation. The Traditional Games division (under whose banner Dave Arneson's Blackmoor is published) doesn't...
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    Why _DON'T_ You Buy Dragon Magazine?

    My primary reason for not purchasing Dragon is its presentation. I don't like the way it looks and I don't like the way it reads. As so many others have said, it's bland and esthetically uninteresting. I'd like to see articles written with a lot more "flair" and a layout and graphic design that...
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    Ronin Arts -- Fourth Millennium Releases Today

    Depends on what you're looking for, I guess. The Fourth Millennium Campaign Model is intended to kick off the line and, as such, has a mix of background, rules tweaks, and new rules. Future releases, like the upcoming Parahumans and Future Warrior, Volume One will be more rules heavy and...
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    Ronin Arts -- Fourth Millennium Releases Today

    How about meeting an American currently living in Canada instead? ;)
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    Ronin Arts -- Fourth Millennium Releases Today

    Thanks for the kind words. That's strange. That you'd call me a superstar, I mean. :lol: I'm just another minor laborer in the gaming field, especially now that I'm doing much less freelance work than I had been in the past few years. FWIW, I wasn't at GenCon this year, as I had too many...
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    Ronin Arts -- Fourth Millennium Releases Today

    Take a look here for an overview of the setting. Here is the table of contents (with page numbers): WELCOME TO THE END OF HISTORY….............4 THE LASTMILLENNIUM......................................................4 ABOUT FOURTHMILLENNIUM PRODUCTS.........................5...
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    Ronin Arts -- Fourth Millennium Releases Today

    Thanks, Steve. That's very kind, especially coming from someone whose talents I admire (and envy a little too). You can expect more or less weekly additions to the Fourth Millennium line, varying in size and subject matter. By year's end, that'll be quite a lot of material and we hope it'll be...
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    Ronin Arts -- Fourth Millennium Releases Today

    What would you like to know? I'd be glad to provide answers to questions both general and specific. As an overview, though, let me say that Fourth Millennium is a "transhuman space opera" setting, which is to say, that it uses fairly hard science to tell an epic story: the struggle between...
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    d20 Future Supplements?

    The Fourth Millennium Player's Guide is an overview of the setting as a whole, with notes on how to use standard D20 Future rules and equipment with it. It does include new material, in the form of feats and advanced classes primarily. However, I'd think, if you already have your own setting...
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    d20 Future Supplements?

    It's hard to map it on to the D20 Future PL system perfectly, since Fourth Millennium uses its own technological progression. Up to about PL6, the standard system fits well enough, except that there's no gravity control. After that, it gets trickier, as there are elements of PL7 and PL8 tech in...
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    d20 Future Supplements?

    Ronin Arts will be releasing the Fourth Millennium line of D20 Future products, with the first release, Fourth Millennium Player's Guide coming out in PDF form as soon as the new OGC is added to the Modern SRD. Although the line will include lots of setting material, almost all of it will be...
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    d20 Future Supplements?

    I'll be producing an entire series of support material for D20 Future through Ronin Arts beginning mid-August. This material will include both rules expansions usable in any SF setting and optional information on a specific setting. Details will be announced shortly before GenCon, including...
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    "Power of the Jedi" is a mighty fine book

    I'm glad you like it, since I wrote that chapter. :) It's one of my favorites as well. Plus, it gave me a chance to pay homage to a friend and colleague who's among the best gaming authors out there today by naming the head of the duelling school after him.
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    When Iron Kingdoms?

    I've got a small section to write on the book at the moment, but, as everyone else has said, it's in the final stretch now. The pieces I have to work on are small ones, filling in holes primarily, so I'd expect that we'll be seeing the project wrapped up very soon. When I cannot say, because I...
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    (Closed) Morningstar Give-away winner ARGENT SILVERMAGE! Try again tomorrow..........

    There is no such thing as a Golden Age, but there's always plenty of nostalgia.
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    Paradigm Concepts?

    Anyone had any contact with anyone from PCI recently? I've been trying to get in touch with someone there since GenCon and haven't had much luck, so if anyone has any insights into what they might be up to these days, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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    Any Iron Kingdom Campaign Setting news

    I also recently worked on this book and can confirm, as others have, that it's rolling along quite nicely and will be every bit as good as it has to be after so long a wait. Heck, just reading some of the chapters I've been given as research material for my own sections made me want to play in...
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    Toronto Gamers! (Or Ontario Gamers) Introduce Yourself

    I too am always amazed at how insular the Toronto gaming scene seems to be at times. I live in the Scarborough area, out near the Zoo, and have been playing in two regular D&D 3E campaigns, one of which (a Planescape campaign) just wrapped up after over two years of more or less continuous play...
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