D&D / RPG News for Tuesday, 4 January, 2011

Morrus

Well, that was fun
Staff member
So, the server move is done. That is - EN World is on the new server, but there are still issues and wrinkles to iron out. We'll be keeping a close eye on site speed over the next week or so in order to judge how beneficial this has been.

Plus, of course, we hit 100,000 members yesterday. That's two fairly significant simultaneous milestones for EN World!

This new server means our costs are going up, so if you've been thinking about subscribing, this New Year would be a great time to do so! Thanks to all our current subscribers without whom this upgrade would not have been possible. Plus it's a great deal - you get upwards of 20 PDFs per month, you get access to War of the Burning Sky, and it only costs the price of a cup of coffee!

The coming year looks to be a great one, with the launch of EN Publishing's new ZEITGEIST campaign saga, and some exciting new columnists. Plus we have some great site features planned, including an awesome Campaign Manager; more on that soon!

To celebrate these two major milestones, along with the New Year, for the ENTIRE MONTH OF JANUARY we are holding a massive $1 MILESTONE SALE. What this means is that all EN Publishing PDFs can be bought for only $1 for the entire month of January. You can grab 'em from RPGNow - stock up on new 4E stuff, or older 3.5 stuff. This includes bestselling titles, adventure paths, props and accessories, and more!

[title]ENnies Interviews[/title]

  • :pf: Have you been following the ENnies series of interviews with game publishers? The latest is with Erik Mona of Paizo Publishing; but there is a whole list of previous interviewees. You can find the full list here.

[title]Pathfinder / D&D 3.5 News[/title]
  • :3e: Mutant Locusts The RPG Examiner bugs out with a pest that's a threat to more than just crops.
  • :3e: Archon Adventures Necromancers of the Northwest designer Josh Zaback provides two plot hooks involving archons. The first involves a group of lantern archons who used their ability to fuse together...only to discover they couldn't come unstuck. The other involves a disguised hound archon, who befriends the PCs in order to test their worthiness.
  • :pf: Skyships of Nova Avalon (PFRPG) Louis Porter Jr. Design, has released Skyships of Nova Avalon for the upcoming gunpowder steampulp fantasy setting, Pirates of the Bronze Sky for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
  • :3e: d'Archon Designs Designer Alex Riggs discusses the difficulty of using archons, angels, and other "always good" creatures in your games, and provides a few suggestions for pitting your party against these administrators of truth and justice.
  • :3e: Draconic Constructs Four new constructs, each draconic in nature, which will give your players nightmares. Included are the clockwork dragon, the steamwork dragon, the dragonflesh golem and the lightning dragon golem.

[title]In Other News...[/title]
  • :cth: The Black Seal fanzine available in PDF After a lengthy absence, a failure to foresee the importance of the PDF market, and a catastrophic hard drive failure the Black Seal is back from the dead and now available in PDF. The survival of The Black Seal #1 and #2 is remarkable - all the Quark Xpress source files were lost in that catastrophic hard drive failure, but luckily two test PDF files were discovered on a flash drive and brought lovingly back to life. The Black Seal #1, #2 and #3 are available singly, or in a discounted bundle.
  • :trav: :gurps: :besm: Podcast Interviews with David Pulver, Marc Miller, Eric Gibson, and others In this special holiday interview episode of DiceCast, David Pulver (GURPS, BESM, Transhuman Space), Marc Miller (Traveller RPG), and Eric Gibson (formerly of West End Games, D6 System) are interviewed in their first ever podcast appearances.
  • Fantasy Craft gets the Database treatment With the "License to Improvise" approval from Crafy Games, the brand new Fantasy Craft Database is up and running to invite all fans of the Mastercraft system to add their own content. Like the Pathfinder Database, the site functions as an ongoing repository of the best fan-created content for the Fantasy Craft roleplaying game.
  • NGram results for role-playing games Google Labs just released a new too called Ngram, which searches through 500 billion words in the 5.2 million books archived on Google’s digital library to references and correlations between words. It has some interesting things to say about role-playing games.





 
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