WotC on Binding Elementals; a slew of 13TH AGE Resources; FIREFLY RPG News; PLus New RANDOM GENERATO

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

• Bound Elementals -- Let’s continue the exploration of elementals by going over three that could be bound into service: invisible stalkers, water weirds, and elemental myrmidons. Come see what James reveals about current thinking on these creatures. [HI][threadcm]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?339778-07-30-2013-Wandering-Monsters-Bound-Elementals[/threadcm][/HI]

[h=3]RPG News[/h]

• Simon Rogers reports on Pelgrane Press' upcoming releases, including 13TH AGE, DOUBLE TAP for NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS, adventures for TRAIL OF CTHULHU, supplements for ASHEN STARS, and the d20 fantasy/western game OWL HOOT TRAIL.
• TABLETS & TITANS is an upcoming Kickstarter for "a full tabletop RPG experience contained in an app". It'll be launching on August 6th by Steve Radabaugh, who already has a couple of apps - Fate Core Folio and LWRPG Character Sheet.
• Monte Cook and Shanna Germain were interviewed again on the Transmission from the Ninth World podcast, covering the setting of Numenera and life in the Ninth World.
• There's been some FIREFLY RPG news over the last week:
  • MWP's latest post on Firefly talks about assets and complications. See what is coming in the Firefly Gen Con release.
  • Listen to an interview with Margaret Weis and Monica Valentinelli of Margaret Weis Productions at Dungeon Crawler's Radio.
  • Have a look at the Small-Time Trader, one of the game's archetypes.

[h=3]13th Age News[/h]
Shamelessly stolen from Pelgrane's Page XX:

• 13th Age News: Through the Scrying Glass 13th Age is released
• The Call of Chicago: Re-skinning, Genre-Drifting, and Triskaidekasizing – Kenneth Hite skins some Mythos critters as 13th Age Icons
• The Hectoralle – Ryven Cedrylle introduces us to the mouthy monster of the month
• Fungaloid Kingdoms, New Template, and a New Playable Race - ASH Law talks about the first new playable race for 13th Age
• Eldritch Knight – Lawrence Augustine R. Mingoa has writen up a mash-up of melee and magic
• Is “good at everything” a background in 13th Age? – Wade Rockett tackles one of the the most F of the 13th Age AQs

[h=3]Community News[/h]

• The RPG Examiner has interviewed a whole bunch of ENnies nominees! 22 of them! Well worth checking out if you're still unsure who to vote for (and remember, you only have until TOMORROW!)
• In Recruiting the Reluctant, Roibin D. Laws talks about how to get your players to try new stuff.
• EN World member MerricB has reviewed Cubicle7's The First Doctor Sourcebook for DOCTOR WHO: Adventures in Time & Space.

[h=3]Random Generators[/h]
Over the last few months I've been intermittently creating random generators using OGRE, the Online Generic Randomizer Engine funded via the Rebuilding EN World Kickstarter easrlier this year. Here's some I've made recently (you need to be logged in to run them):

• Random Space Radio Chatter -- As the PCs' ship approaches the space station, they open radio frequencies and listen to the space traffic controller handling the various ships in the vicinity.
• Random Mixed Name -- A contemporary name (first-last) calling on a variety of nationalities with equal weight, both male and female. First and last name are determined randomly and separately, creating mixed nationality combinations.
• Sherlock Holmes Case Generator -- Create a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery or case name!
• James Bond Movie Title Generator -- James Bond will return! Generate a quick 007-style movie title!
• Secret Society and Motto -- A secret society, plus it's motto.
• Martial Arts Style Creator -- Creates a simple martial arts name.
• Fantasy Coin Creator -- Generates a quick fantasy coin - its basic shape, metal, engraving and optional value (usually more than it would be if it were a typical coin of that type).
• Spaceship Creator -- Generates a quick human-owned spaceship, along with its captain, first officer, and cargo hold. The ship itself may have any origin of manufacture, depending on the franchise you choose, but the captain will be human. Best used to quickly generate a list of ships at a docking port, space station, or similar.