Wednesday, 13 May, 2009

[Morrus]

Apologies for the lack of news for the last few days. It turns out that the hosting company had blocked a range of IPs which happened to include mine, resulting in my not being able to access EN World for the last four days or so. News now resumes as normal!

• [imager]http://enworld.rpgnow.com/images/87/62210.jpg[/imager]War of the Burning Sky 4E Campaign Guide A few weeks ago, the free WotBS 4E Player's Guide was released. Today, the equally free WotBS 4E Campaign Guide follows it. This FREE 24-page Campaign Guide contains information for DMs about to start running the War of the Burning Sky 4E campaign saga. This guide contains a narrative prologue, a complete campaign outline and overview, a campaign timeline, suggestions for abridged or variant campaigns and sidequest hooks, an introduction to the power groups of the saga, a new monster type (the Trillith), magic and equipment, and more.
• "A Song Of Ice And Fire" Games In Development French gaming studio Cyanide announced today that they're collaborating with A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin to create video games based on the medieval fantasy series.
• Win a Set of Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles Gnome Stew is one year old, and to celebrate they are throwing a contest.
• Where are all the gamer girls? "The Hartford Examiner tries to help a woefully underserved segment of the dating population find love: the tabletop role-player." His words, not mine.
• Monsters of Verdune A supplementary bestiary for Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved.
• Free Rune Soldier Heroic Tier Playtest 4E This free 15-page pdf contains all of the class features and runes of the rune soldier, as well as the entire heroic tier's worth of powers.
• Free Cartographic Collection Released The Vintyri Project has released the new free Symbol Set 1 of it's Cartographic Collection. This is a collection of 114 PNG raster files for fantasy maps, including town walls, gates, etc.
• 4E 3rd party Page Updated The most complete list of 3rd party 4E products in the world has been updated. You may need to re-login.
• Monday Monster: Dancing Tableware Kobold Quarterly presents a somewhat bizarre 3E/OGL critter.
• WotC mails out Village of Hommlet 4E Hommlet has grown up around a crossroads. Once far from any important activity the village became embroiled int he struggle between gods and primordials when the temple of elemental evil arose but a fe wleagues away...designed for 4th level characters.
• Spellbound Kingdoms Combat Primer SK is the new tabletop fantasy RPG from Frank Brunner, co-author of several 3.5e books including the Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords. The Combat Primer gives you a new combat system for fantasy RPGs, and it also provides a glimpse of what the full game will be like when it debuts in August at Gen Con.
• Review: Monster Manual 2 "If there’s one thing most DMs can agree on, it’s that having more monsters to pick and choose from is better than more options for players, so the Monster Manual 2 comes as a welcome addition to 4E. The MM2 expands on many of the monsters we’re already using as well as introduces a whole slew of new beasties to the mix. From front to back, this book really excites me as both a DM and a player, and it delivers a lot of excellent new content for the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons."
• Monster Manual 2 Identity Parade A list of the monsters found in the upcoming book:

[imager]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=40173&stc=1&d=1242235010[/imager]Abolethic Skum (ooze)
Abyssal Eviscerator (demon)
Abyssal Marauder
Abyssal Rotfiend
Adamantine Dragon
Ambush Vine
Angels
Ankheg
Arbalester
Arctide Runespiral Demon
Aspect of Demogorgon
Assassin Devil
Barghests
Behir
Beholders
Berserker Prelate of Demogorgon
Black Pudding
Bladerager Troll
Blood Hawk
Bloodseeker Drake
Bloodseep Demon
Bloodthorn Vine
Bone Golem
Bonecrusher Skeleton
Bristle Spider
Bugbear Wardancer
Bullywugs
Centaurs
Centipede Scuttler
Chain Golem
Chaos Hydra
Chillfire Destroyer
Clay Golem
Cockatrice
Copper Dragon
Couatl Cloud Serpent
Couatl Star Serpent
Coure of Mischief and Strife
Cyclops
Dagon
Dark Mantle
Death Shard
Demogorgon
Devas
Diamondhide Xorn
Dimensional Marauder
Dire Tiger
Direguard Assassin
Direguard Deathbringer
Djinn
Doom Flayer
Drakkoths
Dretch
Duergars
Dust Devil
Dweomer Eater
Earth Archons
Eladrin
Eldritch Giants
Erinyes
Fang of Yeenoghu
Fang Titan Drake
Fell Taints
Fey Lingerer
Firbolgs
Flame Shard
Flamespiker
Flesh Tearer Shark
Flux Slaad
Formorians
Frost Giants
Frost Hawk
Genasi
Geonid
Ghost Legionnaire
Giant Ants
Gnaw Demon
Gnolls
Gnomes
Goblin Acolyte of Maglubiyet
Gold Dragon
Goliaths
Gorechain Devil
Grey Ooze
Grey Render
Green Slime
Greenvise Vine
Half-elves
Half-orcs
Herald of Hadar
Hero Slayer Hydra
Hobgoblin Fleshcarver
Horned Drake
Humans
Ice Troll
Infernal Armor Animus
Iron Dragon
Iron Golem
Kazrith
Kazuul, Exarch of Demogorgon
Kenkus
Krinshars
Lolthbound goblin
Maruts
Maw of Acamar
Misfortune Devil
Mudlasher
Myconids
Needle Demon
Neldrazu
Neogis
Nothics
Nycademon
Nyfellar Mammoth
Oni
Phase Spider
Phoelarchs
Phoera
Pod Demon
Podspawn
Poisonscales
Primordial Colossus
Prismatic Shard
Razor Hydra
Remorhaz
Retriever
Rime Hound
Rockfist Smasher
Runespiral Demon
Rupture Demon
Rust Monster
Scion of Gibbeth
Scytheclaw Drake
Shadar-kai
Shardstorm Vortexes
Shocktroop Devil
Shrieking Cultist of Demogorgon
Silver Dragon
Skeletal Steed
Slaad Spawn
Slaughterstones
Son of the Spirit Wolf
Sphinx Mystery
Spriggans
Steel Predator
Stone Giants
Stonefist Defender
Storm Archons
Storm Shard
Stormstone Fury
Tempest Wisp
Thrarak, Exarch of Demogorgon
Tiger
Tomb Spider
Troglodytes
Troll Vinespeaker
Umbral Sprite Swarm
Warforged
Water Archons
Wereboar
Weretiger
Werewolf Lord
Will-o-wisp
Windfiend Fury
Windstriker
Winter Wolf
Winter Wolf Snowfang
Withering Devil
Witherlings
Wood Woad
Xorn
Yochlol Tempter
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