ENnies Dream Dates; Diana Jones Award Shortlist; plus SHADOWRUN 5E preview!

[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]

• Art and Maps: Dungeon 214 -- "We get to explore one of the first D&D dungeons ever created and experience it in a whole new light, featuring the Dungeon! Fantasy Board Game. Plus, the Elder Elemental Eye. Here now are a full set of illustrations and maps from Dungeon 214!"
• Into the Pit of Madness #1 by Jason Thompson -- "To help celebrate the conclusion of this program, the group tries their hand at the final Lair Assault: Into the Pit of Madness. In this first episode, however, the group looks back at their original gathering together…"

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

• Every year, prior to Gen Con, the ENnies auctions off Dream Dates with publishers. This entails a fan bidding to have the honor of hobnobbing with publishers before the ceremony (Friday evening, August 16) and sitting with them during. Publishers also offer prizes such as signed goods, books, etc to sweeten the pot. All of the proceeds, of course, go to help the ENnies.

[h=3]Diana Jones Shortlist[/h]
The Diana Jones Award is a gaming award presented at GenCon. The shortlist for 2013 has been announced. [threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?337237-Diana-Jones-Nominees-for-2013[/threadcm]

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[h=3]Roleplaying Games News[/h]

• Monte Cook writes about The Spirit of Numenera.
• Extra-Dimensional Publishing is a new RPG company which has licensed the Spanish RPG product line "Aventuras en La Marca Del Este" as "Adventures in the East Mark".
• Check out this preview of Shadowrun 5th Edition. "The third preview gets a little flavor and a little mechanics–it has the short story (written by Patrick Goodman, author of Another Rainy Night) leading into the Character Creation chapter, along with the first few pages of that chapter, giving you a taste of how character creation works in Fifth Edition."
• Also for Shadowrun fans a new PDF, Euro Wars Antiques, is now available.
• You can see some artwork and sample pages from Gnome Stew’s fourth book, Odyssey: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Campaign Management, will be available for preorder on June 3rd.

[h=3]Community News[/h]

• Midgard Icons presents some of the Midgard Campaign Setting’s major NPCs as icons for use in 13th Age. In this case, The Glittering King.
• Gnome Stew talks rules shifting - shifting a campaign from one set of rules to another.
• Game Knight Reviews takes a look at Rite Publishing's Haiku of Horror: Autumn Moon Bath House for Pathfinder.
• Grumpy RPG Reviews discusses the Call of Cthulhu RPG:

[video=youtube;PmSlPTZGHAo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSlPTZGHAo[/video]
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[h=3]Boardgaming News[/h]

• WizKids has previewed two more of the BioShock Infinite HeroClix figures. The Vox Populi and Daisy Fitzroy are now available for your viewing pleasure.
• Catalyst Game Labs has posted a discussion of the development of the Shadowrun: Crossfire Constructable Card Game. Jim Lin talks about the character types and statistics that will be in play.