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Save vs GenCon News Blitz
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August 16th, 2010 |
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My body's stupid, my stereo putrid, spilling out music into raw sewage. I'm reaching my threshold. Staring at the truth 'till I'm blind.
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Real men fight with dice!
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Welcome back.
I could carry on some more about my bitterness for not having gone to GenCon, but now that I've spent all this time tracking down and compiling the news that came out of the show I'm pretty burned out on the whole subject. Besides, I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World which is absolutely the most fun I have had at the movies all year. This movie is so awesome that I can't feel bad about anything else. So yeah, you should go watch it. Also filling me with inordinate glee is that I got a press pass for FanExpo, I feel so journalist-y now.
Today's feature has me recommending books that might give a little burst of inspiration during character creation and campaign design, and a whole lots of news that came out of GenCon.
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Many books were released at GenCon but I'm going to give special mention to are to the Dark Sun Campaign Setting, this was the coolest setting AD&D had to offer but suffered under the horrendously broken psionics rules of 2nd Ed, Space 1889: Red Sands, because retro-futurism plus Savage Worlds equals awesome, and Noir Knights, a supplement for Suzerain written by a friend of the site. Check the details on that last book here.
GenCon played host to the ENnie Awards and you can view the winners list. For the most part cool stuff won awards they deserved to win and Margaret Weiss Productions won nothing. This week has been very pleasing for me indeed.
Wizards of the Coast always likes to do a lot of talking during GenCon, this year is no different. The Tome Show has audio of their announcement of their release schedule for next year: check out part 1 and part 2 or text version on the WOTC blog. The big thing to take out of this is that they are not sticking to their stated '3 books per setting' rule, which isn't surprising considering how much money Forgotten Realms fans throw into the setting, and that next year's setting is Ravenloft, a cool setting that is terrible for D&D, as it is nigh impossible to incite fear in players whose characters are demigods.
Taking a cue from the '4e plays like a board game' crowd; Castle Ravenloft is being released as a Descent-esque board game, check out the unboxing video here.
If anyone out there considers themselves old school and is enjoying the D&D Encounters program should get excited for Keep on the Borderlands next season, check out the announcement and the first details on later season here.
D&D designers Mike Mearls and Rich Baker got interviewed about 4e Essentials in text for Neuroglyph and in audio for the Critical Hits Podcast.
The guys over at The Bearswarm podcast interviewed a number of small press game designers over the course of GenCon including Jared Sorensen of Inspectres and Freemarket, Daniel Solis of Happy Birthday Robot, Embargo, and Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, Gregor Hutton Gregor Hutton of Best Friends, Remember Tomorrow, and 3:16 Carnage Among the Stars, Vince Baker (no relation) of In a Wicked Age, Poison'd, Mechaton, Kill Puppies for Satan, Apocalypse World and Dogs on the Vineyard, and Keith Baker (also no relation) of Eberron and Gloom.
Eden Studios announced Band of Zombies, a supplement for the survival horror game All Flesh be Eaten set during WWII. I have stated before that beating on Nazis makes any game better, but beating on Nazi Zombies makes a game better by a factor of 2. So get excited about this one.
The Smallville RPG promised to be an average game based on a poor-to-middling quality TV series, but now we know it has a neat idea: ranked stats for your character's values and relationships, check out a PDF preview here.
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If you're like me and missed GenCon, there's a metric buttload of video from the con on the Fear the Boot YouTube Page. Huzzah for living life vicariously through your internet connection!
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As much fun is it might be for you to add to the list novels for the Saving Throw Bookshelf or complain about me overlooking some major series (or any comments at all, really), but I'd rather you talked about Scott Pilgrim with me. Next Time: I review something!
Keep those dice rolling.
Scott Wachter, proprietor of the Black Lemur Inn.
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