Hosted Sites
* Three additions have been made to the Duskwebsite.
o The Coats of Arms of the Noble Houses have been added.
o Larger maps have been added to the Cartography section to supplement the interactive atlas
o Links have been provided between the Dusk site and related threads on the messageboards.
D20 System News
* Troll Lord Games have posted the cover art for their upcoming Book of Familiars.
* One year after the initial release of Librum Equitis volume 1, it has been taken down at RPGnow. In it's place, Ambient Inc. has released Librum Equitis Compiled, a collection of 50 Prestige Classes, including the full contents of Librum Equitis volumes 1 and 2 as well as classes from other Ambient Inc. products and two previously unpublished prestige classes. "Free copies of the 114 page Librum Equitis Compiled PDF are being sent out to all of our customers who have purchased both Librum Equitis volumes 1 and 2 over the next week."
* Green Ronin have posted a Denizens of Freeport art gallery.
* MonkeyGod Enterprises have posted updates on several upcoming products. Two adventures, the Maze of Screaming Silence and Hero Snare, are now available for direct purchase and will be in hobby stores shortly. MEG's upcoming sourcebooks From Stone to Steel and Frost and Fur have been delayed, and should be available in late March or April. The first book in their new Legendary Lands series Cataclysm on Cloudholme has just gone to press and should be available in February. Finally, several of their older adventures have been archived and put for sale at RPGNow.
* The Ravenloft Gazatteer 2 is appearing in stores now, according to the official d20 Ravenloft website. You can read about it or post comments at their messageboards.
Community News
* Emerald Night has a new, handy little spell: Magnus Beinleichen's Dull Blade.
* The Official d20 Dragonlance website will be conducting an interview with Dragonlance author Margaret Weis in the next couple of weeks. You can submit a question to be asked.
* The Wanderers Guild, a new d20 community, has added several new d20 monsters to its Archives.
* To celebrate the arrival of Dragon 304, a new open source Prestige Race has been posted at the Enkwell and a whole load of updates to boot! Get the scoop on all that's new here.
* Monte Cook has updated his site with a new Line of Sight about logic in the real world and the second Design Diary on Magic for his upcoming book Arcana Unearthed.
Reviews
* New D20 reviews at RPG.net -- Galactic Races (Fantasy Flight Games), The Dark Side Sourcebook (Wizards of the Coast), Blood and Space (RPG Objects), and Ultimate Feats (Mongoose Publishing)
* Staff reviewer Psion has posted reviews of Secrets of the Mantis (AEG), Green Races (FFE) and Crimson Contacts: The Assassin's Manifesto (Ambient).
Magazines & Periodicals
* Sword and Sorcery have posted a free magazine called Sword and Sorcery Quarterly (3.1 MB PDF). The 50-page PDF has a complete catalog of products from all White Wolf/Sword and Sorcery lines as well as numerous articles, previews, and interviews.
Other News
* The following ESDs of classic D&D/AD&D products have been corrected: Ravenloft, The Awakening, DA1 - Adventures in Blackmoor, G1, G2, & G3 - Against the Giants, GAZ8 - The Five Shires, Greyhawk Supplement 1, Hall of the Fire Giant King Klick Clack, and M3 - Twilight Calling. They are for sale at SVGames.
* SVGames have posted 10 more corrected ESDs. The PDF versions of these classic D&D products, for sale at SVGames, had previously had mistakes such as missing or torn pages. The corrected ESDs are: (Read more...)