Release Monsters & Magic: the verdict!; How to be Evil; PLUS Paizo June Releases; and last chance to vote Mo

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

• Check out our review of the latest Old-School Rennaissance RPG -- Monsters & Magic! It's not your grandad's D&D game! [HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338090-Monsters-amp-Magic-This-Ain%92t-Your-Grandad%92s-D-amp-D-Game![/threadcm][/HI]
• The voting for most anticipated RPG of 2013 closes very soon. Get your vote in! Tomorrow I'll be releasing a video countdown of the top 10 as voted here, and elsewhere where I've asked.[HI] [threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?337985-Vote-for-your-quot-most-anticipated-quot-RPG-of-2013[/threadcm][/HI]
• How to Be Evil! Kamikaze Midget tackles gaming villains in his latest article. Sauron, Vader, Voldemort - but what about the great villains of D&D? [HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338092-How-To-Be-Evil[/threadcm][/HI]
• Rel's been clearing house. Here are some of the awesome RPG books he's keeping around![HI] [threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338076-Experience-Point-Textual-Triage-(Part-1)[/threadcm][/HI]
• In our regular boardgaming column, Do Not Pass Go, Fiddleback continues to discuss sexism in gaming.[HI] [threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338060-Do-Not-Pass-Go-That-s-What-She-Said[/threadcm][/HI]
• We’re going to try a slightly different format in our presentation of the PDFs this week in Pretty Darn Fun (a look at new PDFs). We’re going to start off with our Spotlight of the Week. Then we’ll rank the rest of the new releases in order of how impactful and interesting the rest are; basically a top 10 of the newest releases. We’ll do this from #10 up to our #2 PDF. We’ll follow this with a brief mention of the PDFs that didn’t make our top 10 but still might be of interest to someone. As usual, we’ll follow this all up with WotC’s rereleases for the week and a look at what Adventures were released for which systems. If you agree or disagree with our week’s ranking let us know. Also, as always, if you have purchased some of these PDFs, let us all know in the comments as to what you thought of it. [HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?338052-Pretty-Darn-Fun-(a-look-at-new-PDFs)-On-the-Non-player-Character[/threadcm][/HI]

[h=3]Pathfinder RPG News[/h]

• Paizo June Releases Available! Including Rasputin Must Die!, the 5th of six adventures in the Reign of Winter adventure path.
• Chapter One from Ed Greenwood's The Wizard's Mask, is up now on the Paizo blog.
• Creative Director James Jacobs gives us an art preview of The Worldwound.

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

• Blades of the Unicorn by Ed Greenwood -- Mysterious power groups fill the Realms, and Ed has focused on providing you with a new one for your game. Come find out what makes the Blades of the Unicorn such an enticing group for those seeking to level the playing field in the Realms.
• Magic Item Compendium Excerpts: Weapons -- Asking a warrior to enter battle without his most trusted blade is like asking him to give up his right arm. A sturdy suit of armor might keep a fighter or barbarian alive, but without a good weapon in his hand, he can’t win the battle.
• The Companions Excerpt -- As Drizzt's fate hangs in the balance, he reflects on the lives of the trusted allies who stood by his side throughout his early life -- the friends now known as the Companions of the Hall. Meanwhile, the first stirrings of the Sundering begin.

[h=3]13th Age News[/h]

• How to add the escalation die to Roll20.
• Rob Heinsoo has recieved the first printed copy of 13th Age! In the meantime, while you wait for yours, check out this video of the binding process in action.

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[h=3]RPG News[/h]

• Following the successful 20th Anniversary Kickstarter for Werewolf: The Apolocalypse, Onyx Path has launched a follow-up Kickstarter for Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Changing Breed.
• RPG Geek lists a number of noteworthy RPG recent releases.
• Check out this review of Numenera novel Tales of the Ninth World.
• Pre-order The Heart of the Wild for The One Ring - the region guide to Mirkwood and the Vales of Anduin.

[h=3]Community News[/h]

• Kobold Press has posted 13 Zobecker Character Traits; and looks at Companion Treasure in the latest Old Hat Monsters column. Both are for Pathfinder.
• Gnome Stew continues brainstorming the Dot-Dash-Dash-Dot scenario for Fate Accelerated; this time with Creating Characters.
• Campaign Mastery tells you how to break thouight writer's block. Well, first it tells you about writer's block.
• How does food impact games? Mandarific asks that very question!
• Ten Ways to Make a D&D Movie Not Suck!

[h=3]Boardgaming News[/h]

• Play Board Games has posted their review of Commands & Colors: Napoleonics, a new addition to the C&C system of games that includes Ancients, Battlelore, Battlecry, and Memoir '44. Napoleonics adds a couple of new elements to the Ancients rule system while still retaining the games playability.
• Did you run out and buy all the expansion sets for the Dominion constructable card game? If so, you'll probably want a handy way to carry them around. Fortunately, someone has thought of you and begun a Kickstarter project for a nice wooden case that can carry all those cards. With 29 days to go and over half of their goal already pledged, this looks pretty promising.
• Reaper Miniatures reports that 689 of its Kickstarter orders have shipped, and that they are over halfway done.
• RPGnet reviews the 3012 deckbuilding game.