Butt-Kicking Feng Shui 2 Bundle of Holding!

We've got a very special Bundle of Holding sale going on right now. Other Bundles have featured our classic RPG line Feng Shui, but this is the first one to offer the bestselling update, Feng Shui 2!

For just $14.95, you can get our Feng Shui 2 releases in PDF, and for just $10 more, you get some of the greatest books from the original edition. That's over $120 of high-flying kung fu action for just $24.95.

As an additional bonus, you can feel good about your support of The National Film Preservation Foundation's work with your purchase. You'll be contributing to make sure the best of Asian action cinema will inspire generations to come.

Run with the speed of a thousand feet to Bundle of Holding to get your books of mystical wisdom!

Need To Know: Feng Shui 2 Factions

In Feng Shui 2, control of Chi power and Feng Shui sites drives conflict across space and time. Factions seek to dominate access to magic and the Netherworld to pursue their own agendas. For some Factions, their motives are easy to understand. The evil wizards of the Eaters of the Lotus, those wuxia masters who dance across the treetops and shoot lightning from their hands, want infinite power for their nefarious plans. The monks of the Guiding Hand, however, want to impose their moral order for the betterment of society, even if it costs people their freedom.

Some Factions are driven by the need to change history after their own actions proved too damaging. Both the Jammers and the New Simian Army seek to control power of other points in time to correct the devastation they caused in the future by dropping the Chi Bomb, though they're not too careful about the other eras where they go for that power.

Only one Faction has been wiped out completely, but that's where the players come in. Those Maverick Cops, Bodyguards, Everyday Heroes, and Gamblers are the new Dragons, and it's up to them to stop the other Factions before they destroy all of time and space. In the quickstart adventure Hong Kong Task Force 88, now available in PDF format, your team of Dragons fights the Guiding Hand as they distribute drugs on the streets of Hong Kong.

Learn more about all the Factions in Feng Shui 2 from designer Robin D. Laws!

Need To Know: Feng Shui 2 Junctures

The First Edition of Feng Shui introduced the concept of Junctures. These are fiercely contested points in time and space that have the greatest potential to change history. Chi Warriors can travel through portals in the Netherworld to the four main Junctures to join the struggle for control.

The award-winning new edition Feng Shui 2 adds a new concept: Pop-Up Junctures. These can take you to any place and time, but their portals are less stable than the established Junctures. The window may stay open for a week, or even only an hour, putting real pressure on the characters to make an impact before they must leave. For example, our Feng Shui 2 quickstart adventure Hong Kong Task Force 88, now available as a PDF, takes place in the Contemporary Juncture, but with Pop-Up Junctures, you can launch your team of top cops through a portal to fight crime in any setting imaginable.

Feng Shui 2 designer Robin D. Laws gives you even more information in this video about these portals through the Netherworld.

Feng Shui 2: Hong Kong Task Force 88 adventure now available in PDF

Lucky participants in this year's Free RPG Day festivities may have received a glossy, full-color quickstart adventure for Feng Shui 2. But not everyone lives near a Friendly Local Gaming store, and some stores have more participation than they have games to give away.

So we're excited to bring Hong Kong Task Force 88 to everyone in digital format! It's a classic buddy cop adventure, with the best of the best police officers from around the world gathered to solve the mystery of a deadly new drug hitting the streets. Characters clash as they seek to be top cop, but eventually come together to take down the dangerous forces behind the public menace.

Hong Kong Task Force 88 comes with quickstart rules for Feng Shui 2, giving new players and long-time fans an easy introduction to the updated rules. And the adventure has all the crime-solving, high-kicking, guns-blazing action of a Hong Kong action movie. Get your PDF for just $4.95 today!

ENnies Voting is Live! Feng Shui 2 Nominated in Five Categories!

It's that time of the year again: Gen Con is right around the corner, and that means ENnies voting is live! For your consideration, we submit Feng Shui 2, representing with a quintet of nominations:

A glance at the other nominees and you can tell, the past year was a good one for games and gamers. We're thrilled to be a part of it! Robin, Cam, and the whole Feng Shui 2 team created a game that's fast, fun, and (in our humble opinion) raises the bar on action RPGs. To celebrate their ENnies achievement, we've dropped the price of the Feng Shui 2 core rulebook PDFs to $9.99 from now until voting ends on Thursday, July 21st. If you've been on the fence about Feng Shui 2, or just haven't had a chance to pick up your copy, now's a great time to take that leap. The sale is happening at DrivethruRPG, Paizo, and Warehouse 23, so you can shop at your favorite electronic retailer.*

And if you're a Feng Shui 2 fan, don't hesitate to have your voice heard by joining in the ENnies voting. No sign up or registration is required, just click the link and cast your vote!

ENnies Voting Booth!

Congratulations and good luck to all of our co-nominees. It's a pleasure and a privilege to be among such esteemed company!


* If the sale prices aren't reflected at one of these sites when you arrive there, that's because in our excitement, we jumped the gun a little bit with this post. The discounted price is in the process of being rolled out and will be available shortly.

HKTF88 Free RPG Day: The Buddy Cop Movie

When a badass team of international super-cops arrive on the scene in Hong Kong for Hong Kong Task Force Double Eight, a Free RPG Day QuickStart for Feng Shui 2, the bad guys know it's all over. But for the cops on this special Task Force, it's not just a matter of justice, it's about the friendships and rivalries forged in the process.

Only the choices they make in life separate the heroes from the villains in this adventure. The good guys have made all the right choices to be the best of the best... or have they? How much really separates them from the victims and criminals?

In Hong Kong-style cop movies, showing off and good-natured competition are the order of the day. Who is the bluest of the blue? What nation's cops has the best stuff? Can a quirky Maverick Cop from Istanbul work with a serious-minded Mystic Cop from Tokyo? It'll take a Task Force in Hong Kong to answer that question and many others.

Which of your fellow cops will rise to the challenge, and which ones will end up as dead weight? Grab your copy of HKTF88 from your participating local retailer on Saturday June 18 and play to find out!

Hong Kong Task Force Double Eight Adventure for Feng Shui 2 is coming on Free RPG Day

When an international drug corporation comes to Hong Kong and floods the black market with a dangerous drug, only an international team of super-cops can put a stop to threats both mundane and supernatural. Secret anti-magical conspiracies and wizards out of control lurk behind the scenes. Hong Kong Task Force Double Eight are the only ones who can restore the balance.

Hong Kong Task Force Double Eight is a Free RPG Day QuickStart for the Feng Shui 2 roleplaying game with everything you need to start playing a fast-paced, melodramatic, kung-fu cop drama. With four pregenerated characters, you can start playing in no time flat! Show those bad guys in Hong Kong the difference between right and wrong with fists of iron and a kick of sweet, sweet justice!

You can get your copy of Hong Kong Task Force Double Eight this Saturday, June 18, at your participating Free RPG Day retailer. Stick around to play games and kick butt!

Hong Kong Task Force Double Eight was written by Filamena Young, developed by Cam Banks, and edited by Colleen Riley. Artwork is by Britt Martin, Christian N. St. Pierre, and Carlos Villa.

Golden Geek Award Nominations!

One of the epicenters for all things tabletop on the Internets is BoardGameGeek.com, home to the 10th annual Golden Geek Awards.  This year we're going cyber-ape over the nomination of Feng Shui 2 for the categories of Game of the Year and Best Artwork & Presentation! The slate is packed with worthy opposition, so we urge all Chi Warriors to attune themselves to the BGG site and vote for the most action-packed, both-guns-blazingest, aerial-flying-leapiest RPG of the last 12 months, Feng Shui 2!


Voting ends March 22nd.

Feng Shui… Everywhere!

Be alert, Chi Warriors! Later this week, Feng Shui 2 and the Feng Shui 2 GM Screen: A Fistful of Fight Scenes will start to appear in retail stores. (When exactly? Our distributors who've placed orders will have both products on September 1st. When they finish their journey to your FLGS depends on who the store's distributor is, where they're located, how often they receive shipments, and so on. Want to know when your favorite store will have these two products? Pretty much every store in the country would be delighted to have you call them to ask how soon you can bring your business into their shop!)

Today, to help promote these product launches, we're making PDFs of the GM Screen — both the screen itself and the Fistful of Fight Scenes booklet — available via our online sales channels. In addition, we're sending a free PDF copy of the screen to all of our Kickstarter backers.

That's not all, of course. Veteran Chi Warriors know that nothing is as simple as it first appears. Because the FFoFS writers went above and beyond the call of duty, there was one fight scene that didn't fit in the print version of the screen's booklet. So we're making the Bazaar/Marketplace fight scene available here at the Atlas Games website as a free download. We hope you'll grab a copy.

And finally, we're delighted to make our summer convention demo scenario, Red Packet Rumble, available here as a free download. Feng Shui 2 fans can run a two-hour demo of the game for their friends or at their local hobby retailer or games club. The scenario also includes a dozen ready-to-play archetypes, reference sheets, and a shot counter!

Thanks again for your support, Atlas Games fans! We hope you enjoy Feng Shui 2!

Feng Shui 2 Makes the List of 6 Blockbuster RPGs at Gen Con!

While we recover from our hugely successful Gen Con convention attendance, where we staged panels, hundreds of demos, card game tournaments, and dealer hall exact change dances, we learned that our fresh-from-the-printers Feng Shui 2 core rulebook was counted among a list of six must-buy games for Gen Con.

Here at Atlas we're proud to be a part of such a thriving and successful renaissance in tabletop gaming, and equally proud to join such worthies as Green Ronin, Paizo, Monte Cook Games, Wizards of the Coast, and Fantasy Flight Games in producing fun, player-friendly RPGs in addition to our award-winning card and board games. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our game panels, played in our demos, and battled in our Three Cheers for Master and Gloom tournaments last week.

The full list and descriptions of each of these games can be found here!

Play on!

Sylvan Master, the Feng Shui 2 app for iOS!

The Guiding Hand's ultra-zen Shaolin warriors gather on your left. The New Simian Empire's legions of cyborg ape-soldiers amass on your right. Coming up the middle is a horde of supernatural abominations led by a Lotus Eater eunuch sorcerer flying on the wings of dark magic.

This is going to take a while.

Don't let the numbers drag you down, Chi Warrior! Sylvan Master for iOS devices automates most of the mechanics of a Feng Shui 2 fight scene. You, the GM, can now focus on the descriptive details of the action and making your players shine like the badasses they are. Get it now for the low introductory price of $4.99 at any Contemporary juncture iTunes store!

MAKE YOUR GAME AWESOME!

Features:

• Manage multiple campaigns and characters
• Roll attacks for bosses, featured foes, and mooks with ease
• Track the action using the built-in automated Feng Shui 2 shot counter
• Stay on top of damage across all combatants with Wound Point tracking
• Use the QR codes and hyperlinks in published adventures to take you straight to the action in the app
• Enemy stats from the core rulebook and supplements built-in and expanded by DLC

Feng Shui 2: Action Movie Roleplaying now available in PDF

Grab your bag full of guns, rev up the muscle car, sharpen your butterfly swords, and summon your sorcerous energies — FENG SHUI 2 is now on sale! You can find it in electronic form at our online vendor partners:

Warehouse 23
Paizo Online Store
DriveThruRPG

Look for the printed book to hit shelves later this summer, together with a host of additional bonus items & accessories, including Robin D. Laws' Blowing Up the Movies and the Secrets of the Chi War PDF!

$163,000: Online Mook Sheet Generator

Our amazing backers unlocked more than 40 stretch goals during our Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter campaign.

At $163,000 raised, we promised to put a mook sheet generator online. With the crack assistance of butt-kicking web developer Steven Hammond, we're releasing that today.

The Feng Shui 2 online mook sheet generator randomizes a snappy, easy-to-download PDF covered with hundreds of pre-randomized mook attacks. With such a magnificent reference in hand, a Feng Shui GM can resolve the attacks of dozens of faceless foot soldiers in no time flat.

KI-YAAAAH!

Appreciation, Acknowledgement, & Action-Packing

Here at Atlas Games, we want to start by thanking every single one of you who supported, backed, shared the news, tweeted, blogged, status-updated, and play tested FENG SHUI 2 as it gathered sufficient Kickstarter chi energy to power a thousand pagodas. As a result of this combined effort, FENG SHUI 2 will be a gorgeous full-color hardcover book packed with so much awesome that, in the end, it has burst through its traditional casebound borders and beyond.

What's the upshot of gaining 3402 backers and $185,137 in pledges? Aside from the core rulebook — with a full slate of 36 archetypes, color art throughout, resilient binding, and six pop-up junctures — this campaign unlocked a GM screen that includes 15 ready-made fight locations; Blowing Up the Movies, Robin's treatment of action movie favorites with game-ready notes; the online mook generator; and Secrets of the Chi War, a bonus PDF product that includes a selection of tremendous bonus content for all FENG SHUI 2 campaigns.

You can see the full list of unlocked goals here: http://atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/FS2_Stretch_Goals.pdf

Once again, thank you, thank you, and thank you again for joining us in bringing back FENG SHUI for a new generation of Dragons! You do, in fact, have mighty kung fu.

Countdown to Save The World

The big Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter concludes tonight at a minute before 11:00 Central Time.  As things accelerate in the final hours, the stretch goals have been falling like over-acting mooks, but there are plenty more to mow down in the next seven hours!

Due to the many the stretch goals already achieved, the rewards for backing even at the "Everyday Hero" level are amazing.  A mere $10 now scores you a PDF of the new core rulebook, the Fistful of Fight Scenes PDF, the Blowing Up the Movies e-book, a PDF of the adventure Burning Shaolin updated for the new edition, and the still-growing PDF sourcebook Secrets of the Chi War.  If the full printed hardcover exceeds your budget today, jump on this crazy deal now -- and grab the physical book next year at fine game stores worldwide!

If you haven't backed it, be sure to visit the Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter page before it's too late -- and if you have, now is the time to send up a flare to call in heroic reinforcements from among all your gamer friends!

Blowing Up... Everything!

If you're one of over 2600 backers of the FENG SHUI 2 Kickstarter, you've no doubt already been apprised of the deluge of dynamic stretch goals we unleashed this morning. As the chi energy surges into the Netherworld and out into all times and places, one series of goals shines out: The Blowing Up City Guides!

Packaged with the separate SECRETS OF THE CHI WAR book that everyone gets in PDF format if they back the Kickstarter at the Everyday Hero level or higher, these city guides are packed with pulse-pounding fist-smacking time-crossing goodness. Backers have already unlocked Blowing Up Canton, but in the pipeline are ten more city guides tied to the various prime junctures  — from the mysteries of Macao to the horrors of Apeworld. Here's a sample:

Blowing Up Chang'An: The capital city of Tang Dynasty China bustles with energy as the imperious Wu Zetian, first and only female Emperor, cranks up her building spree. Her gleaming pagodas channel chi energy as envious Lotus sorcerers lurk in the fringes, looking for weaknesses to exploit. This city guide gives you all the glamor, glory, and paranoia of the Ancient juncture’s political lodestar.

With your support, you can help us unlock even more wild wuxia secrets until the SECRETS OF THE CHI WAR is a truly monumental supplement for everyone!

Final Stretch on the Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter

We're going into the last few days of the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Feng Shui 2.  The response has been tremendous so far, and as we move into the blur of the last remaining hours, we've unveiled a huge list of stretch goals in the latest update (read it here).  Like in any action movie, we're hoping for a grand finale of explosions, blowing away one stretch goal after another right up until the credits roll.

Join the mayhem by backing Feng Shui 2 before the timer hits zero!

Unleashed: Pop-Up Junctures in Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter!

A new crop of temporary Netherworld portals, opening up willy-nilly to other times, now salts the chi wars with an extra sprinkle of crazy. Unlike the time-gates leading to the four main junctures, these unstable holes in reality stay open only for brief periods, and then slam shut again. Innerwalkers have taken to referring to the times one can travel to through untrustworthy temporary portals as pop-up junctures.

Expanding the Feng Shui 2 corebook with every pop-up juncture that gets unlocked, this is one explosive new addition that demands your attention!

Check back in to the Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter page for each and every pop-up juncture stretch goal, and let's see if we can pack the book with as many as we can!

Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter is Live!

As you’ve probably heard by now, Feng Shui, the classic game of Hong Kong-inspired cinematic action, is back in all its explodey, chi-blasting glory!

Robin D. Laws has refurbished this 90’s classic RPG of martial arts mayhem and cinematic guns-blazing action with a fresh bag of ammo for a new roleplaying generation! Feng Shui 2 is Kickstarting right now, and Atlas Games wants your help to make it as awesome as possible.

The Kickstarter page can be found HERE, with preview graphics, details on backer levels and rewards … and if you back the project at $10 or above, you get immediate access to the current draft of the rules! 

Keep up with all the Atlas Games social media feeds between now and October 17th, 2014 for details on the campaign’s progress as we make Feng Shui 2 explode! 

East Meets West at Grand Tribunal UK 2014

Fans of Atlas Games' roleplaying games convene this weekend in Cheltenham, England to celebrate this year's Grand Tribunal UK, the premier gathering of Ars Magica aficionados outside North America.

While the event focuses on Mythic Europe, GT UK organizer, Ars Magica author, and Special Ops demo team member Chris Jensen Romer will also run some special playtest events using the new Feng Shui 2 rules. He also built a five-foot-tall model of the Mistridge covenant for a magical adventure at this year's convention.

Everyone at Atlas Games wishes those gathering in sunny England a fun and successful Tribunal weekend!