Sometimes I am so sick of being me, but there's no opportunities for transfers in this business.

Gah.

I totally lost my grip on my freelancing career of late, after my last project.  But I wish I'd managed to get a stake in Eclipse Phase, because now it's becoming a movie...

Neat!

http://www.examiner.com/x-7710-Seattle-Hobby-Games-Examiner~y2009m7d8-Eclipse-Phase-RPG-to-become-a-film?cid=exrss-Seattle-Hobby-Games-Examiner

Again, review at Game Cryer. 

http://gamecryer.com/2009/06/30/arkham-horror/

They're becoming increasingly irrelevant, but Go Pandemic!  Woo!

BOARD GAMES
Pandemic
Published by Z-Man Games, Inc.
Designed by Matt Leacock

CHILDREN’S, FAMILY, AND PARTY GAMES
Say Anything
Published by North Star Games
Designed by Dominic Craphuchettes and Satish Pillalamarri

HISTORICAL BOARD GAMES
Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear
Published by Academy Games
Designed by Uwe Eickert

CARD GAMES
Dominion
Published by Rio Grande Games
Designed by Donald X Vaccarino

COLLECTIBLE CARD GAMES
Magic the Gathering: Shards of Alara 1
Published by Wizards of the Coast
Designed by Bill Rose and Devin Low

FICTION
Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons Volume 2
Published by Devil’s Due
Edited by James Lowder & Mike O’Sullivan

NON-FICTION
Tour de Lovecraft: The Tale
Published by Atomic Overmind Press
Written by Ken Hite

MINIATURE FIGURE GAME RULES
Classic Battletech: Tactical Operations
Published by Catalyst Game Labs
Designed by Randall N. Bills and Herbert A Beas II

MINIATURE FIGURE OR LINE OF MINIATURE FIGURES
Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars
Published by Wizards of the Coast

HISTORICAL MINIATURE FIGURE GAME RULES
There was a tie in this catagory...

Fields of Glory Miniature Rules
Published by Osprey Publishing / Slitherine Software
Designed by Richard Bodley-Scott

and

Song of Drums and Shakos
Published by Ganesha Games
Designed by Andrea Sfiligoi

HISTORICAL MINIATURE FIGURE GAME RULES SUPPLEMENTS
RISE OF ROME (Fields of Glory Supplement)Published by Osprey Publishing

HISTORICAL MINIATURE FIGURE OR LINE OF MINIATURE FIGURES
SS-Panzerdivision ‘Das Reich’ Panzerkompanie (GEAB06) [15mm Line]Published by Battlefront Games

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
Mouseguard Role-Playing Game
Published by Archaia Studios Press
Designed by Luke Crane and David Petersen

ROLE-PLAYING GAME SUPPLEMENTS
Serenity Adventures
Published by Margaret Weis Productions
Designed by Alana Abbot, Billy Aguiar, James Davenport, Ted Reed, and James M. Ward

GAME ACCESSORIES
D-Total die
Published by Gamescience
Designed by Dr. A. F. Simkin, Frank Dutrain, and Louis Zocchi

I am interviewed for an email WFRP fanzine - wooo!  There are hints about what FFG is doing, maybe.

Download it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jzdzknneluo

After my Mage: The Awakening game imploded due to massive lack of interest on my part, I had a bad taste in my mouth. So despite the fact that it wasn't my players fault, I've discarded them along with the system and the idea - sorry guys. I went into the wilderness and found a new concept, a new system, a new game, and new players.  And it got my juices going again.  And I threw some pitches at some players and in the wonderful way of RPGs, they threw the ball right back.  And now, the blogging begins...

http://agentsoffear.blogspot.com/

So, Mr G threw down the gauntlet: he made up a Shaman for 4E whose spirit companion is Frumpton, his butler.  And all his powers are appropriately themed - he puts in phone calls to the Spirit Dancer, and summons W.G. Grace to aid with combat.

So my Invoker is reskinning all his powers as if he's a fashionista ala Bruno. "Okay now walk avay from me, now turn, wonderful! Now, be dazzled by Enrique's fabulous creations! Oh yes!" Visions of Paradise doesn't even need to be reskinned...

It should be cool.

Your laptop is trying to kill you.  Find the truth here:
http://www.rpg.net/columns/campaigntoybox/campaigntoybox18.phtml

Every new edition of D&D adds new words to our vocabulary. Once we didn't know what a pluswun sword was. We thought AC was something electrical, Dex was a man's nameand Hit Points were things the Beatles collected.  Then we learnt about the wonders of THAC0 - the To Hit Armour Class Zero number - and the world was never the same again. 3rd ed gave us Attacks of Opportunity which have now transformed into the much simpler Opportunity Attacks.  But 4Es real new addition is the pig-like squeal of EOINT, which of course stands for End Of It's Next Turn.  It is of course completely different from EOYNT - End Of Your Next Turn, and both are the opposite of (save ends), which, thanks to the brackets, I always imagine in sotto voce.

Maybe you're not supposed to pronounce it, but I do.  And now you can too.

10. Earthdawn
9. Living Steel
8. Taiga
7. Midnight
6. Dust Devils
5. Forgotten Sands
4. Mountain Witch
3. Cold City
2. Dark Sun
1. Shadowrun


(Note that Amber, Greyhawk, Delta Green, Blue Planet, Blue Rose and Run Robot Red etc are actual colours, so could never be paint names)