Paizo Publishing has announced that it will be developing the new Pathfinder Online MMO in partnership with Goblinworks, a new company headed up by Ryan Dancey. You can find out more information on the Paizo announcement page.
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Bits and Mortar giving away free PDFs
Like D&D Nexus, Bits and Mortar is a fairly new project that is still growing in size.
The members of Bits and Mortar are RPG publishers. These publishers have gathered together to try to find a way to support the local RPG stores (bricks and mortar stores) who stock their products.
The “Bits” in “Bits and Mortar” comes from the fact that the support comes in a digital form. The deal is this. Buy a physical copy of a book and they give you the PDF version of the same book for free.
The store has to sign up to the Bits and Mortar scheme for you to get a free PDF, and you can only get free PDFs of products made by one of the publishers that support the Bits of Mortar scheme, but if you are thinking of buying a RPG product, it is worth checking to see if you can get a bonus PDF thrown in.
Publishers supporting the Bits and Mortar scheme are:
- 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming
- Arc Dream Publishing
- Bully Pulpit Games
- Cellar Games LLC
- Cobweb Games
- Contested Ground Studios
- Cubicle 7
- Dig a Thousand Holes Publishing
- Engine Publishing
- EOS-Sama
- Evil Hat Publishing
- Galileo Games Inc
- Interaction Point Games
- Jon Brazier Entertainment
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- Mongoose Publishing
- Nevermet Press
- Pantheon Press
- Pelgrane Press
- Rogue Games
- Sceaptune Games
- Two Scooters Press
Bits and Mortar are still looking for other publishers to join the scheme, so if you are a publisher and would like to take part, see their How Do I Join? page.
Retailers can also find out how to join the scheme on the same page.
D&D Nexus is also on Facebook
One of the primary aims of D&D Nexus is to connect various D&D based projects to D&D fans who might like them.
Facebook is one way that some D&D fans chose to communicate with other fans and share information about the things they are interested in. If you like D&D Nexus and you also like Facebook, you don’t have to choose between the two because D&D Nexus is on Facebook too.
So come to the D&D Nexus page at Facebook, “Like” us and then you can follow our updates and interact with other D&D fans on Facebook.
Zeitgeist Player’s Guide and Campaign Guide avaiable now
You may have seen our earlier stories on the Ten Zeitgeist Previews or the Zeitgeist Trailer.
ENWorld have finished the Zeitgeist Player’s Guide and the Zeitgeist Campaign Guide for both 4th Edition D&D and Pathfinder.
The Player’s Guide is for both players and GMs and can be downloaded from ENWorld’s Zeitgeist Player’s Guide page.
The Campaign Guide is for GMs only and can be downloaded from ENWorld’s Zeitgeist Campaign Guide page.
Both books are completely free to download.
For those who prefer printed versions of books the Player’s Guide and Campaign Guide are also available as Print on Demand (PoD) products from RPG Now.
4th Edition:
- Zeitgeist Player’s Guide (40 pages softcover colour)
- Zeitgeist Campaign Guide (17 pages softcover colour)
Pathfinder RPG Edition:
- Zeitgeist Player’s Guide (37 pages softcover colour)
- Zeitgeist Campaign Guide (17 pages softcover colour)
Given that the PDF versions are free, you may wish to download those first before you buy the PoD versions.
Super Genius Games to sell print versions of PDF products
Super Genius Games who publish material for Pathfinder RPG, Savage Worlds, Call of Cthulu and 4th Edition are about to start offering printed versions of products that were previously only sold as PDFs.
The first product will be Loot 4 Less: Things That Make You Go Boom, which is going to be a compilation of the first three Loot 4 Less PDFs. However, Owen Stephens from SGG is asking for help to work out where they should go with the line.
He has posted a thread on the Paizo forums and is asking for you to go over and let him know what your favourite SGG products are. There is also a press release about the survey at the Super Genius Games website.
Oh, and by the way, if you help Owen out, he says he will get you a free PDF.
Free RPG Day 2011 is on Saturday 18th June
This year’s Free RPG Day is just nine days away now.
In case you don’t know what it is, Free RPG Day is a day for you to go to your local participating store, play demo games and get some free stuff.
Not all stores join in, so check with the retailer locator to make sure you know where to find the closest place that is joining in.
Every store can do the Free RPG Day differently. Some may choose to run lots of games and some may just give away the demo games as freebies. It is totally up to the store how they run their own event.
All you have to do to get one of the freebies is turn up at your local store and ask. But make sure you get their early or the freebies you want may all be gone.
The Free RPG Day kit contains the following booklets:
- Starship Aldo Prime Directive Adventure from Amarillo Design Bureau (duel stat d20 System/GURPS)
- Laser Squid Nemesis XDM Adventure from BlackWyrm Games
- All Flesh Must Be Eaten Quickstart & Adventure from Eden Studios (5 copies)
- Hollow Earth Expedition Quickstart & Adventure from Exile Game Studio (3 copies)
- Black Crusade Quickstart and Adventure from Fantasy Flight Games (10 copies)
- Rescue Mission Tunnels & Trolls Solo Adventure from Flying Buffalo
- Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Quickstart from Goodman Games (5 copies)
- DragonAge Quickstart from Green Ronin (10 copies)
- We Be Goblins! Pathfinder Adventure from Paizo (15 copies)
- Arcanis RPG Quickstart & Adventure from Paradigm Concepts (3 copies)
- The Wild Hunt Savage Worlds Quickstart & Adventure from Pinnacle (3 copies)
- Aspect Quickstart Adventure from Stone Tablet Games (3 copies)
- Castles & Crusades Quickstart and Adventure from Troll Lord Games
- Stellar Horizons Quickstart from Valkyrie Games
- World of Darkness Quickstart from White Wolf Publishing
- Domain of Dread: Histhaven The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond SupplementWizards of the Coast (4th Edition – 15 copies)
- Settlers of Catan Catanimal Variant rules (single page) from Mayfair Games
There are also a few other items in the kit:
- A dice tower from Blue Panther
- Four commemorative dice (for the store owner) from Chessex
- Five elven-themed dice from Q-Workshop
If a store is running a demo game, they will be giving a copy of the product away to the GM who will be running the game, so that will be one less available on the day.
Please also bear in mind that while these products are 100 percent free to you, the publishers have paid the full cost of printing them and the stores have paid the full cost of collating and shipping the Free RPG Day kits. So don’t forget to say thanks.
Dungeon Alphabet Wins Three Castles Award!
Goodman Games had the following announcement:
“At the North Texas RPG Convention last weekend, The Dungeon Alphabet received highest accolades when it won the Three Castles Award for outstanding RPG design! The Three Castles judging panel included renowned RPG luminaries such as Rob Kuntz, Tim Kask, and Paul Jaquays. Congratulations to author Michael Curtis and all the other outstanding contributors to this essential RPG resource!”
Congratulations to author Michael Curtis and to Goodman Games on the award!
Goodman Games Releases Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Playtest Rules
Cover of the DCC RPG.
Goodman Games has released the beta playtest of the upcoming Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG!
“Return to the glory days of fantasy with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game. Adventure as 1974 intended you to, with modern rules grounded in the origins of sword & sorcery. Fast play, cryptic secrets, and a mysterious past await you: turn the page…”
The DCC RPG is coming to you this November!
Happy Birthday Dragon Magazine!
The Dragon, issue #1.
Dragon Magazine is celebrating a double-anniversary this month with their 35th year and issue #400! The latest issue has a look back to classic Dragon content. Plus, you will find interviews with former Dragon editors, such as Kim Mohan and Wolfgang Baur, on the regular D&D site.
Congratulations on 400 issues!
Adapting “The Lich-Queen’s Beloved”
If you’re a DDI subscriber, then check out Adapting “The Lich-Queen’s Beloved” by Rodney Thompson. This article takes the 3rd edition adventure from Dungeon magazine and converts it to 4th edition. And check this out – there are conversion notes for 1st and 2nd edition as well!