[h=3]EN World News[/h]
[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]
[h=3]Roleplaying Games News[/h]
[h=3]Community News[/h]
[h=3]Boardgaming News[/h]
- Don't forget the EN World 7 Day RPG Contest with its $1000 prize!
- We have a new board game review: Horus Heresy from Fantasy Flight Games -- "Horus Heresy is certainly a good game, but it’s far from an easy beast to tame."
- Game Design 107 from Challenger RPG deals with formatting.
- Radiating Gnome takes a look at five iPad apps you might be able to use in your game prep.
- The EN World Gamer Search/Find A Gamer/Gamer Seeking Gamers system has been upgraded. It now shows gamer search classifieds, along with a few other tweaks.
[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]
- So What Is a Subclass? by Mike Mearls -- This week, Mike explores the topic of subclasses and the role they play in the game.
- Art: Dragon 422 -- "Dying is easy; comedy is hard." Those words weren't penned for roleplayers, but they could have been. This month: satyrs, tinker gnomes, and unique character backgrounds! Here now are a full set of the illustrations from Dragon 422.
[h=3]Roleplaying Games News[/h]
- Pelgrane Press has posted its current playtesting opportunities for Trail of Cthulhu and 13th Age. They're also putting together a 13th Age Organized Play program and want help choosing a name for it.
- Aces & Apes, from Hex Games, has WWI flying aces and intelligent apes. "Aces & Apes is a game of thrilling aerial escapades designed for use with the QAGS Second Edition rules. The game includes rules for a wide variety of PC types (orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo, and even human), historical background, rules for biplanes and dogfights, the sample adventure “Masque of the Black Death,” and much more."
- And if flying aces and gorillas aren't enough for you, Pirates and Dragons is sure to be!
- Monte Cook talks more about Numenera - specifically about adventures. "There’s a well-accepted “truism” in the tabletop industry nowadays: Adventures don’t sell. There’s only one problem with this bit of truth–it’s not true at all. Many, if not most, of the bestselling tabletop products of all time are adventures–Keep on the Borderlands, Ravenloft, etc." He goes on to explain his plans for adventure support in the Numenera RPG.
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[h=3]Community News[/h]
- I missed this - Dave Noonan (who used to write for D&D) wrote about "The Power of Subtractive Design" in which he talks about how less can be more. "I’m part of a worldbuilding collaboration at the moment, and we’re getting significant mileage out of the power of subtraction: taking some things out of the world so that other things have more room to flourish. Seems obvious when you type the sentence, but it’s so easy to forget."
- The latest article in The Kyngdoms' exploration of the city of Blackfen continues with a look into arcane magic, the arcanist guild and the Longstaff Wizards.
- Sly Flourish has compiled a list of great miniature painting resources. Especially useful to those who are receiving their Reaper Bones miniature Kickstarter rewards!
- Sarah Darkmagic uses the 1960 movie 5 Branded Women as inspiration.
[h=3]Boardgaming News[/h]
- DriveThruCards has opened; there's an opening sale for the launch. Print-on-Demand card games!
- Play Board Games has reviewed Mythic Battles. Mythic Battles simulates the epic clashes between Athens and Hades. You must recruit your army and use smart tactics to defeat your opponents.
- The Faith and Steel Battle Pack for the Warhammer LCG and The Search for Skywalker Force Pack for Star Wars: The Card Game are now both available for purchase at your FLGS.
- BoardGameGeek TV has posted a 10 minute video of game play for the controversial Emperor's New Clothes from Pax East:
[video=youtube;XDyPLftOLoE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XDyPLftOLoE[/video]
