Update: Once Upon A Time Expansions
The latest word from our printer is that Once Upon A Time: Dark Tales (AG1003) and Once Upon A Time: Create-Your-Own Storytelling Cards (AG1005) will be shipping to us on June 2nd. That should mean the games are in our warehouse either next Friday, June 4th, or the following Monday, June 7th. In either case, I'll be working to ship out our distributors' orders ASAP. For consumers, this all means that the two games should be showing up on your local game store shelves in about the middle of June, maybe sooner.
Various Titles Now Out of Print
The following titles are now sold out and out of print:
AG2917 Blood Nativity (Vampire: The Masquerade)
AG3209 Beyond the Veil (Penumbra/D20)
AG3219 Uncommon Character (Penumbra/D20)
AG5020 Streefighting (Cyberpunk)
AG5040 All Fall Down (Cyberpunk)
AG5045 Thicker Than Blood (Cyberpunk)
AG5050 The Bonin Horse (Cyberpunk)
There are no plans to reprint any of these titles -- they're gone for good, at least in paper format. (Uncommon Character is already on RPGNow as a pay-download, and Beyond the Veil should be there soon. The licensed adventures, however, are probably not going to go PDF.)
Your Pick: Hardcover or Software-Cover
Speaking of PDFs for sale...if you've long wondered about Robin Laws' novel, The Rough and the Smooth, but have never been up to shelling out the bucks for the printed hardcover, you may be interested to know that we've made it available on RPGNow as a PDF e-book as well, for the very reasonable price of $5.95.
Get the Group Sheet
The record sheet for recording character group data from Friends of the Dragon is now available for download from the Feng Shui downloads page and from the Friends of the Dragon product page. In the interests of simplicity, you can also download the 88K PDF by clicking right here.
The record sheet for recording character group data from Friends of the Dragon is now available for download from the Feng Shui downloads page and from the Friends of the Dragon product page. In the interests of simplicity, you can also download the 88K PDF by clicking right here.
New Car
If you like to ride shopping carts around the grocery store, then you'll love rocketing around the racetrack on this baby:
The Satanic Pushcart isn't just dangerous for little children to play in, it's dangerous for children, adults, and pets who live nearby. Load it up with maddening texts, orange juice concentrate, and gasoline, then get ready for a fiery competition that'll smell great in the morning. Or, if you like, fill it with hooded cultists and go play bumper cars in the Alpha Beta parking lot while the sun sets. Available in pumpkin orange, with wheels guaranteed* to work even when you take it away from the supermarket.
*Not a guarantee. This is just a bunch of fanciful movie and music references, and not a promise of what the Satanic Pushcart is good for in the forthcoming game, Cthulhu 500.
If you like to ride shopping carts around the grocery store, then you'll love rocketing around the racetrack on this baby:
The Satanic Pushcart isn't just dangerous for little children to play in, it's dangerous for children, adults, and pets who live nearby. Load it up with maddening texts, orange juice concentrate, and gasoline, then get ready for a fiery competition that'll smell great in the morning. Or, if you like, fill it with hooded cultists and go play bumper cars in the Alpha Beta parking lot while the sun sets. Available in pumpkin orange, with wheels guaranteed* to work even when you take it away from the supermarket.
*Not a guarantee. This is just a bunch of fanciful movie and music references, and not a promise of what the Satanic Pushcart is good for in the forthcoming game, Cthulhu 500.
Only now have I learned that Tsui Hark was on Quentin Tarantino's jury at Cannes this year. This makes me happy. Now, back to work.
The Cars of Cthulhu 500, Part 1
Today we begin a new recurring series of dispatches presenting sample art from Cthulhu 500, our crazy cultish card game of mythos motorsports. The game's coming to you all this summer, in time for GenCon Indy. Each week, we'll show off another of the game's weird automobiles. We begin with my favorite racer: the Sport Cthulhity Vehicle.
Weird geometry, stylish fungus-purple paint job, and 4-wheel drive come standard on this rugged number. Specialized dashboard gauges are garaunteed to drive you mad! Plus, she's got a helluva turing radius.
Today we begin a new recurring series of dispatches presenting sample art from Cthulhu 500, our crazy cultish card game of mythos motorsports. The game's coming to you all this summer, in time for GenCon Indy. Each week, we'll show off another of the game's weird automobiles. We begin with my favorite racer: the Sport Cthulhity Vehicle.
Weird geometry, stylish fungus-purple paint job, and 4-wheel drive come standard on this rugged number. Specialized dashboard gauges are garaunteed to drive you mad! Plus, she's got a helluva turing radius.
Kung-Fu in Canada
While at the Great Canadian BayCon, I had the pleasure of meeting Zev, the founder and insidious mastermind of Z-Man Games. Zev, as you know, is the current publisher of the Shadowfist card game, sister to our own Feng Shui roleplaying game. Like so many sisters, they've grown apart over the years, met strange men (ahem), and only sometimes remember to call or write. So, seeing Zev's new Shadowfist expansion (the wonderfully titled Seven Masters vs. The Underworld) was something like get introduced to a niece. [Unnecessary Nephew-related pun cut for job security.]
What about you? Do you play both Feng Shui and Shadowfist? If not, how long has it been since you called to say hello?
While at the Great Canadian BayCon, I had the pleasure of meeting Zev, the founder and insidious mastermind of Z-Man Games. Zev, as you know, is the current publisher of the Shadowfist card game, sister to our own Feng Shui roleplaying game. Like so many sisters, they've grown apart over the years, met strange men (ahem), and only sometimes remember to call or write. So, seeing Zev's new Shadowfist expansion (the wonderfully titled Seven Masters vs. The Underworld) was something like get introduced to a niece. [Unnecessary Nephew-related pun cut for job security.]
What about you? Do you play both Feng Shui and Shadowfist? If not, how long has it been since you called to say hello?
Official Announcement:
Jeff Tidball’s
Cthulhu 500™
Mythos Motorsport Madness
The Cthulhu 500 card game puts you in the driver’s seat for a frenzied race that mixes the madness of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and the insanity of motor sports. Rev up your Satanic Pushcart’s Engine Of The Damned, mount your Radials From Beyond Space And Time, and take a Dreamlands Shortcut to win the race for your Sponsor That Must Not Be Named. The driver in the lead when the Checkered Flag card is drawn celebrates victory by devouring his opponents!
3 to 8 players • ages 8 and up • 30 to 60 minutes
110 cards plus rules sheet
Single Game: Stock No. AG1260, ISBN 1-58978-057-4, MSRP $19.95
Display of Five: Stock No. AG1261, ISBN 1-58978-058-2
Designed by Jeff Tidball
Art by Scott Reeves
Shipping to Distributors in August 2004
Jeff Tidball’s
Cthulhu 500™
Mythos Motorsport Madness
The Cthulhu 500 card game puts you in the driver’s seat for a frenzied race that mixes the madness of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and the insanity of motor sports. Rev up your Satanic Pushcart’s Engine Of The Damned, mount your Radials From Beyond Space And Time, and take a Dreamlands Shortcut to win the race for your Sponsor That Must Not Be Named. The driver in the lead when the Checkered Flag card is drawn celebrates victory by devouring his opponents!
3 to 8 players • ages 8 and up • 30 to 60 minutes
110 cards plus rules sheet
Single Game: Stock No. AG1260, ISBN 1-58978-057-4, MSRP $19.95
Display of Five: Stock No. AG1261, ISBN 1-58978-058-2
Designed by Jeff Tidball
Art by Scott Reeves
Shipping to Distributors in August 2004
Meanwhile, back on the vineyard...
While Will was traipsing about Canada, Michelle and I went down to Madison, Wisconsin, for the weekend. It was a mix of business and pleasure. On the business side, we visited ACD Distribution on Friday afternoon. (More on that later.)
On the pleasure side, we visited Michelle's family, and on Saturday drove out to Prairie du Sac for an afternoon of wine tasting at Wollersheim Winery. Don't laugh! There are in fact some darn good wines native to Wisconsin (and Minnesota for that matter -- bring a designated driver if you ever get a chance to visit the Northern Vineyards co-op over in Stillwater, or Winehaven on the way up toward Duluth). Last summer was hot and dry here in the upper midwest, which is very good for the grape vines (it results in concentrated sugars and flavor, as I understand it). If Wollersheim's samples of the 2003 vintage are any indication, we're really going to enjoy hitting some of the other regional vineyards over the course of this year. We were especially pleased with the Domain Reserve 2003, which they make from their oldest Marechal Foch vines on the estate's steepest slopes. They haven't bottled this vintage yet (they are about to transfer it from the American oak barrels its been in since the fall, into French oak barrels for another 6 months of maturing), but they had samples from the barrels, and they were really, really good. We were sold; Michelle and I plunked down our money for advance purchase of a case, which we'll pick up when we're down for the family Thanksgiving this fall.
But enough about viticulture. While at ACD, one of the things I did was check on their stock of items. As usual, they do a good job of stocking our whole line, which also means that they have things around that we've sold out of. If you're a retailer, here are some of the items that are out of print, but which you can get from ACD (or at least from one of their two warehouses). If you're a store, give 'em a shout if you've been looking for one of these; or if you're a consumer, let your local store know to ask ACD, if they have not been able to locate one of these items for you:
AG0204HC Ars Magica 4th Ed Hardcover
AG0503 Twelfth Night
AG3020 The Sorcerer's Slave
AG3100 Furry Pirates
AG3207 En Route
AG3211 The Ebon Mirror
AG3500 Dystopia
AG3505 Foxbat Unhinged!
AG4002 Golden Comeback
Naturally, they can supply all of our in-print titles as well.
While Will was traipsing about Canada, Michelle and I went down to Madison, Wisconsin, for the weekend. It was a mix of business and pleasure. On the business side, we visited ACD Distribution on Friday afternoon. (More on that later.)
On the pleasure side, we visited Michelle's family, and on Saturday drove out to Prairie du Sac for an afternoon of wine tasting at Wollersheim Winery. Don't laugh! There are in fact some darn good wines native to Wisconsin (and Minnesota for that matter -- bring a designated driver if you ever get a chance to visit the Northern Vineyards co-op over in Stillwater, or Winehaven on the way up toward Duluth). Last summer was hot and dry here in the upper midwest, which is very good for the grape vines (it results in concentrated sugars and flavor, as I understand it). If Wollersheim's samples of the 2003 vintage are any indication, we're really going to enjoy hitting some of the other regional vineyards over the course of this year. We were especially pleased with the Domain Reserve 2003, which they make from their oldest Marechal Foch vines on the estate's steepest slopes. They haven't bottled this vintage yet (they are about to transfer it from the American oak barrels its been in since the fall, into French oak barrels for another 6 months of maturing), but they had samples from the barrels, and they were really, really good. We were sold; Michelle and I plunked down our money for advance purchase of a case, which we'll pick up when we're down for the family Thanksgiving this fall.
But enough about viticulture. While at ACD, one of the things I did was check on their stock of items. As usual, they do a good job of stocking our whole line, which also means that they have things around that we've sold out of. If you're a retailer, here are some of the items that are out of print, but which you can get from ACD (or at least from one of their two warehouses). If you're a store, give 'em a shout if you've been looking for one of these; or if you're a consumer, let your local store know to ask ACD, if they have not been able to locate one of these items for you:
AG0204HC Ars Magica 4th Ed Hardcover
AG0503 Twelfth Night
AG3020 The Sorcerer's Slave
AG3100 Furry Pirates
AG3207 En Route
AG3211 The Ebon Mirror
AG3500 Dystopia
AG3505 Foxbat Unhinged!
AG4002 Golden Comeback
Naturally, they can supply all of our in-print titles as well.
Atlas Guy Loses Driver's License, Hears About It All Weekend
Last night, my trip to Ontario for the Great Canadian BayCon came to a sickening close as my seat (and, I suppose, the rest of the plane) swerved, tipped, and dove in landing maneuvers over Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. The convention, however, was great fun. This weekend I got to play Dungeoneer more often than I had before in 2004, so I am now geekily awaiting this summer's Den of the Wererats expansion just like everyone else. Lunch Money: Sticks & Stones seemed to be the most eagerly anticipated product at the show, and quite a few people asked for demos of that. Good times, natch.
Although I'm sure you all have heard this already (was it on the internet or something?), I lost my photo ID at the airport within just a few feet of the plane that was meant to take me to Buffalo, NY. Fortunately, it turned up later on so I was able to get to New York just a few hours late, but seemingly everyone in attendance had heard of my numbskullery and, so, made fun of me about it. If you'd like to make fun of me for losing my ID, go ahead and put your joke in an email to me so I can delete it.
My favorite thing about shows like BayCon isn't getting to see new cities (in this case: Buffalo, Niagra Falls, and Hamilton, ON) -- though I love seeing new cities -- but meeting new people. Everyone (seriously, every person) I met from Lion Rampant Distribution was happy and friendly. Meeting retailers from as far apart as Nova Scotia and Alberta was a delight, but I've got to offer great thanks again to Erik and Rob from Yggdrasil Games in Waterloo, Ontario. If you're in the Toronto area, go and ask them for a Sticks & Stones demo or a game of Dungeoneer.
Finally, too, I've been able to get a look at the cards in the new Shadowfist card game expansion, Seven Masters vs. The Underworld, from Z-Man Games. Artist Michael Komarck has done up a stellar image for the box and the booster packs (it's the same image in the back of Friends of the Dragon), and the cards have a slew of handsome new art, too. Find it and get a good look for yourself.
Just as good, I've come back to find a nice new review of Friends of the Dragon on RPGnet, which makes it easier for me to forget how nauseous I feel today.
Now, it's back into work at the deep end. Tonight, then, maybe I'll try to relax with a nice bottle of port. Anyone seen my ID?
Last night, my trip to Ontario for the Great Canadian BayCon came to a sickening close as my seat (and, I suppose, the rest of the plane) swerved, tipped, and dove in landing maneuvers over Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. The convention, however, was great fun. This weekend I got to play Dungeoneer more often than I had before in 2004, so I am now geekily awaiting this summer's Den of the Wererats expansion just like everyone else. Lunch Money: Sticks & Stones seemed to be the most eagerly anticipated product at the show, and quite a few people asked for demos of that. Good times, natch.
Although I'm sure you all have heard this already (was it on the internet or something?), I lost my photo ID at the airport within just a few feet of the plane that was meant to take me to Buffalo, NY. Fortunately, it turned up later on so I was able to get to New York just a few hours late, but seemingly everyone in attendance had heard of my numbskullery and, so, made fun of me about it. If you'd like to make fun of me for losing my ID, go ahead and put your joke in an email to me so I can delete it.
My favorite thing about shows like BayCon isn't getting to see new cities (in this case: Buffalo, Niagra Falls, and Hamilton, ON) -- though I love seeing new cities -- but meeting new people. Everyone (seriously, every person) I met from Lion Rampant Distribution was happy and friendly. Meeting retailers from as far apart as Nova Scotia and Alberta was a delight, but I've got to offer great thanks again to Erik and Rob from Yggdrasil Games in Waterloo, Ontario. If you're in the Toronto area, go and ask them for a Sticks & Stones demo or a game of Dungeoneer.
Finally, too, I've been able to get a look at the cards in the new Shadowfist card game expansion, Seven Masters vs. The Underworld, from Z-Man Games. Artist Michael Komarck has done up a stellar image for the box and the booster packs (it's the same image in the back of Friends of the Dragon), and the cards have a slew of handsome new art, too. Find it and get a good look for yourself.
Just as good, I've come back to find a nice new review of Friends of the Dragon on RPGnet, which makes it easier for me to forget how nauseous I feel today.
Now, it's back into work at the deep end. Tonight, then, maybe I'll try to relax with a nice bottle of port. Anyone seen my ID?
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