Article: RPG News for Thursday, 20 Dec, 2012

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[h=3]Pathfinder News[/h]

• Paizo's site is having problems. I know exactly how that feels. Anyway, they say: "We're having issues with the Internets office-wide and are working on getting it back up and running asap. Stay tuned, and thanks for your patience!"
  • Update - back up and running!
• Paizo says "The Land Rush is ON over at the Pathfinder Online Kickstarter! Register your guild affiliation and get to recruiting its members. The guild with the highest membership total will get to draft first, the second highest membership will draft second, etc." I don't really know what that means, but it sounds exciting! The Kickstarter is here.
• Meet Jiang-Shi, from Blood of the Night. “Whether you want to play a vampire or slay a vampire, The Blood of the Night player companion is your go-to resource for incorporating the blood-sucking undead into your Pathfinder game,” says Erik Mona, Publisher.
• It's the last day to pitch your adventure design to Kobold Press' Valhalla Calling competition - an adventure design contest for both Pathfinder and AGE.
• Mystery Monsters Revisited is a new campaign setting sourcebook for the Pathfinder RPG, out today.

Every culture tells stories of strange beasts that haunt the edges of civilization. Seldom corroborated, the accounts of those who have encountered such creatures are brushed aside, or at best turned into colorful local legends. But always lurking beneath such myths are more than a few shreds of doubt—for what if the stories were true?

Mystery Monsters Revisited presents 10 elusive creatures inspired by real-world folklore. Each monster entry investigates the types of evidence the cryptid leaves in its wake, the creature’s bizarre and secretive ecology, eyewitness accounts of the beast and its strange powers, advice on how to integrate it into your game, how the monster fits into the world of Golarion, and more.
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[h=3]D&D News[/h]

• Have you defeated the perils of the Temple of the Sky God? Check out the D&D Lair Assault (this one is Dec 1 - Feb 28).
• The D&D 4E version of the fifth adventure in the ZEITGEIST adventure path -- Cauldron Born -- has been released to subscribers. You'll find it on the subscribers content page. The Pathfinder version was released just before we were hacked at the beginning of the month, and is on that page also. Alternatively, you can just grab it from RPGNow.
• Wanna play D&D with Rothfuss, Brett, Sykes, and other fantasy authors? Get out your wallet and check out the charity auction!
• Tomorrow's disaster foretold in D&D Lore? Nebiru the Apocalypse Dragon is coming! Unless the MoonCatchers can stop her. DDI subscribers article.

[h=3]RPG News[/h]

• Check out the second half of EN World's review of Crafty Games' Mistborn Adventure Game. If you missed it, we posted the first half last week.
• Steve Kenson reports "Just two weeks to go for the ICONS: Great Power Kickstarter and very close to our final stretch goal!"
• Doctor Who - The Time Traveller's Companion is now available in PDF format.
• I can't remember if I've mentioned The Lazy Dungeon Master yet. If I haven't - check it out. "Written in the style of Sly Flourish's Dungeon Master Tips and Running Epic Tier D&D Games, The Lazy Dungeon Master shows a new approach to game preparation, one that takes less time and gives your game the freedom to grow at the table. This book will help dungeon master prepare awesome games for any version of D&D."
• James Mishler's Magnificent Miscellaneum from Troll Lord Games is an ongoing series of supplements for Castles & Crusades, Amazing Adventures, Harvesters, Tainted Lands, Star Siege, and Fields of Battle games, for both players and game masters. "This first issue includes three new spells for Castles & Crusades, a crazy and weird monster in classic B-Movie style from the Cold Depths of Space, five new monsters in the quick and easy format used in the Castles & Crusades White Box Set, and a mysterious NPC for Amazing Adventures."

[h=3]EN World News[/h]

• As part of our project to rebuild EN World, we have now managed to restore the blogs. If you had a blog here, you should find it there intact and waiting for you. If you didn't - why not start one?
• We're half way through the week's voting for the final round of BATTLE OF THE BARDS, our RPG song competition. Voting ends on Sunday, so don't miss out - pick your favourite song! The winner gets a custom-made music video!
• Contest: stat Santa in any RPG system of your choice. Win a prize!

[h=3]Community news[/h]

• Making a Great Villain Part 1 of 3 – The Mastermind is a new article over at Campaign Mastery.
• Gnome Stew takes a look at Santa's Logistics.
• Forum thread highlight: Place yer bets: how will the world end on Friday?, How many RPGs do you own?, Recent board games and what I thought [add your own capsule reviews].

[h=3]Other News[/h]

• Kenzer's Knights of the Dinner Table Bundles of Trouble 10 & 11 are now available in PDF format.
• A Planescape: Torment followup is happening. "The original game’s lead designer, Chris Avellone, has given his blessing to the followup, according to a Eurogamer interview with Colin McComb, the writer-developer of InXile’s Wasteland 2. McComb will write the game not as a direct sequel, since he and Avellone believe working with the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Planescape setting rights holder, Wizards of the Coast, will invite too many headaches."
  
• Did you back that massive Reaper Miniatures Bones Kickstarter a while back? If you did, prepare to squee! The unboxing video is below.

[video=youtube;t1T_DoWqb4w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1T_DoWqb4w[/video]
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