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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7649300" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>[h=3]D&D News[/h]</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Today, WotC's James Wyatt talks about <a href="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20121211" target="_blank">Elementals</a>.<br /> </span> </li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>[h=3]Other RPGs[/h]</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Cubicle 7 has <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/109036/The-Ballad-of-Bass-Rock---Call-of-Cthulhu" target="_blank">released</a> <em>The Ballad of Bass Rock</em>, a 1920s Cthulhu Britannica scenario for <em>Call of Cthulhu</em>, written by Stuart Boon, ENnie and Origins award-winning author of Shadows over Scotland. </span> </li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>[h=3]Community News[/h]</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">EN World columnist Southern Oracle discusses <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?235-3G-Gaming-Gifts-and-Geek-Chic" target="_blank">Gaming, Gifts, and Geek Chic</a>.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Additionally, we have our <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?241-Pretty-Darn-Fun-(A-look-at-new-PDFs)" target="_blank">weekly look at new PDFs</a> (which we were unable to post last week on account of being dead) - so we have a double helping this week! Plus it mentions a PDF called DINO PIRATES OF NINJA ISLAND, which is not to be missed!<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Pathfinder SRD wiki d20pfsrd.com has opened an <a href="http://shop-d20pfsrd-com.myshopify.com/" target="_blank">online store</a> for Pathfinder PDFs from third-party publishers. They have over 15 publishers present.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Monte Cook posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/MonteJCook/status/278307760708395008/photo/1" target="_blank">picture of his Xmas tree</a>. Take a look and you'll see why.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Wil Wheaton talks about a <a href="http://wilwheaton.net/2012/12/a-map-of-a-dungeon-that-never-was-but-may-someday-be/" target="_blank">map of a dungeon</a> that never was.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Neuroglyph <a href="http://www.neuroglyphgames.com/mordenkainen-speaks-what-would-gygax-think-about-4e-pathfinder-dnd-next" target="_blank">asks</a> what Gary Gygax would think about 4E, Pathfinder, and D&D Next.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">Don't forget that the deadline for <a href="http://paizo.com/rpgsuperstar" target="_blank">Paizo's RPG Superstar 2013</a> is just over a week away.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">There's an <a href="http://www.jennisodes.com/podcasts/pathfinder-tales/" target="_blank">interview</a> with Paizo's James Sutler over on Jennisodes. </span> </li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>[h=3]The Mason of New Orleans[/h]</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I wouldn't usually promote a non-RPG book here on the news page, but I'm making an exception for Charles Ryan's <em>The Mason of New Orleans</em> for a couple of reasons - first, he used to be the D&D brand manager; second, he let me read a first draft of some of the book, and it was excellent. And third, he's a cool guy. The book is now available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AMJMCTQ/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk" target="_blank">Amazon for Kindle</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>Life in the Middle Ages can be tough. Nasty, brutish, and short, as they say. War, famine, torture. Plague and intolerance. People getting burned at the stake and all that. And nobody speaks English.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em></em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>All of which sucks if you’re from the 21st Century.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em></em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>Martin’s just a regular guy. A job that's going—well, not exactly nowhere, but not anyplace fast. A condo in the DC suburbs. A Ford Fusion. A couple of beers on a Friday night. But when Martin finds himself in the 12th Century—naked, unarmed, without a single friend or possession—things really take a turn for the worse.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em></em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>And as if the “medieval” (as in “Ima get medieval on your ass”) isn’t bad enough, he’s caught between the Holy Roman Emperor and a ruthless local overlord, the plottings of a satanic cult, and the machinations of a self-styled sorcerer bent on dominating the world—or what’s been discovered of it so far.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em></em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>Half the people he meets think he was sent by God or something to solve all those problems. The other half think he was sent from Hell. And a few don’t care—they just want him out of their way.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em></em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>And all Martin wants is to get home. If he can just survive the 12th Century long enough to figure out how—and why—he got there to begin with.</em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>[h=3]Kickstarters[/h]</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">I've mentioned Fighting Fantasy a few times in the news recently, what with it being the 30th anniversary and all. A new Kickstarter, <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/you-are-the-hero" target="_blank">You Are The Hero</a>, is for a coffee-table book which celebrates 30 years of the publishing phenomenon created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">The <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1675907842/pathfinder-online-a-fantasy-sandbox-mmo" target="_blank">Pathfindeer Online Kickstarter</a> announced a new reward tier - have your character painted by Wayne Reynolds.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 10px">A<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1643151566/adventurers-guide-to-terrath-for-shroud-of-the-anc" target="_blank">dventurer's Guide to Terrath</a> is a Kickstarter book for the Shroud of the Ancients RPG. </span> </li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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