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The current (May 28, 2003) issue of d20 Weekly will be the last. We're glad we tried it, and we published quite a few articles that we're very proud of, but in the end it just didn't find its audience. We'll put the effort, and the money it was losing, into other projects.
Current d20 Weekly subscribers will have three options:
- A rollover of their subscription to Pyramid, our original online game zine. (If you are already a Pyramid subscriber, this will just add to your subscription.) The 583 articles in the d20 Weekly archive will be combined with the Pyramid archives, so those who take this option will still have archive access (plus, of course, access to the 3,400+ articles in the Pyramid archives). Pyramid will also have its budget increased to cover one extra article a week specifically about d20. Half of these will be a biweekly column from Owen K.C. Stephens, one of d20 Weekly’s most popular contributors. And yes, we will continue to host playtest for any d20 publishers who wish!
- Or subscribers can roll their subscription over to the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society instead. We figure somebody will ask about this option, so we're including it.
- Or a pro-rata refund, by check, for all issues remaining on their subscriptions.
For questions about this announcement, please contact Andrew Hackard, Managing Editor, at andrew@sjgames.com.
To Dale Donovan and Steve Miller, who worked hard as d20 Weekly editors; to Pyramid editor Steven Marsh, who put in effort far beyond the call of duty to help the "little brother" zine get off the ground; and to everyone who contributed material to d20 Weekly . . . thank you. It was a good zine, and the archives will stay online.
And to all of our d20 Weekly subscribers: thanks for your support. We appreciate it; we appreciate YOU. We hope you'll stick around and read Pyramid, both for d20 material and for coverage of the whole game hobby. But if not . . . well, thank you for giving us a chance!
Current Subscribers: Click here to tell us what to do with your subscription.
-- Steve Jackson
ends June 1, and it's not clear from their site whether that means votes on June 1 count, or whether you have to vote by midnight May 31. If you haven't voted, you can do so online.
Lots of good nominees this year, including several of ours :-)
Three unique roleplaying games from Clockworks: enter the world of Asylum, where the United States has been reduced to a collection of walled Wards; Chosen is a combination of mythology and stellar exploration, focusing on the notion of legendary creatures come to life again in a futuristic world; and Spookshow merges the world of espionage with the mystique of the supernatural.
May 29, 2003: Warehouse 23 Welcomes The Painters' Guild
Warehouse 23 is very proud to announce that it will now be the official online store for The Painters' Guild. Painters' Guild joins Issaries, Atlas Games, Citizen Games, and Dork Storm Press in selecting Warehouse 23 to handle its retail presence on the Web.
The Painters' Guild is devoted to the wonderful hobby of painting miniatures. Their first product line is The Painting Wizard's Workshop, a two-volume set available on DVD and VHS created to help new painters get a good start and experienced painters learn new tricks and have more fun.
-- Michelle Barrett
Memorial Day has come and gone, and summer has officially begun in the good ol' US of A. And nothing says "summer fun" like staying inside, away from the sun, bugs, and falling meteorites, and playing these fine products currently on their way to distributors everywhere. Look for them at your friendly local game store any day now:
GURPS Vehicle Builder
GURPS Vehicle Builder is the official vehicle-creation program for GURPS.
Like the GURPS Character Builder before it, GURPS Vehicle Builder lets you design, optimize, store, modify, and print out vehicles of all types, from an oxcart to a space station! All the system's features are supported, with complete vehicle creation rules from GURPS Vehicles, as well as GURPS Vehicles Expansion 1 and GURPS Vehicles Expansion 2.
Lots of extras, including a die roller, round out this package.
(For Windows only. Sorry, Mac fans.)
CD in DVD case.
Stock #5403,
ISBN 1-55634-699-9.
$24.95.
GURPS Psionics
(Reprint)
Spies and police who can read your thoughts. New Age mysticism merged with
ultra-technology. Psychic vampires. Mass minds of terrible power. Telepathic
computers. Gifted children killed or kidnapped by a power-mad government.
This is the world of GURPS Psionics.
Psionics is the ultimate sourcebook for psi powers. It
includes a complete world background - and the GM can use it as a resource for
campaigns in any background.
128 pages.
Stock #6040,
ISBN 1-55634-196-2.
$22.95.
GURPS Age of Napoleon
Once in a great while, one man defines the time in which he lives. One such man was Napoleon Bonaparte, and his ambition shaped the face of a continent. From humble beginnings in Corsica to ignominious defeat in Russia and at Waterloo, Napoleon was the sun around which Europe revolved.
GURPS brings the age of Napoleon to life. It focuses on 18th- and 19th-century Europe, including the beginning of the end of colonialism. Here's a wealth of roleplaying information about commoners, soldiers, nobles, spies, privateers . . . and revolutionaries. Filled with the superb research which roleplayers expect from a GURPS historical supplement, GURPS Age of Napoleon breathes life into bloody battlefields . . . and the equally bloody political intrigue of Napoleon's Europe.
128 pages.
Stock #6539,
ISBN 1-55634-451-1.
$22.95.
Warehouse 23 News: An Excellent Double Issue
This double issue of The Excellent Prismatic Spray, Volume 1, Issue 4/5, is your well-nigh irresistable invitation to discover the Dying Earth's heartlands for yourself.
If you enjoy the random fnords that appear on our home page and elsewhere . . . they can be yours. The fnorder program exists in several versions. You can download them, play with them, and . . . if you think they're fun . . . send us a shareware donation. The fnorder page is now set up to take PayPal, too!
-- Steve Jackson
Warehouse 23 News: Full Metal Fantasy
In the Iron Kingdoms roleplaying and miniatures setting, adventurers encounter steam power and gunpowder almost as often as swords and sorcery.
May 26, 2003: Memorial Day, Office Closed
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a national holiday set aside to remember those who gave their lives in defense of freedom.
The Steve Jackson Games offices are closed today. We'll be back tomorrow.
Warehouse 23 News: Nightmares And Guilds
Earthdawn: Scourge Unending is a sourcebook covering the Tainted entities that can be found in Barsaive. Xcrawl: The Guild Sourcebook presents some of the most important organizations in the North American Empire and the Xcrawl Games.
May 25, 2003: The Star THEY Didn't Want You To Find
Astronomers have discovered a new red dwarf a little less than 8 light-years from Earth . . . making it the third-closest star (after the Alpha Centauri system and Barnard's Star) to our own.
Why didn't we know about a star that close before now? Read the Space.com story for one theory, although of course we blame the Illuminati. And start rewriting all those "20 Stars Closest to Sol" tables . . .
-- Andrew Hackard, Managing Editor
Warehouse 23 News: Thrilling Adventures In The Modern Age
The Mutants & Masterminds roleplaying game propels you into a high-octane world of four-color comic book action and adventure!
Is this cool, or what? I've always liked Cosmic Encounter, and there's a new online version. Verrrrry pretty.
Even cooler: you can play a limited version of the game for free, to try it out.
Coolest of all: us Mac-heads aren't left out. It is written in Flash, and runs fine in IE (ugh) under OSX (yea!). In fact, the folks at Apple gave it a droolingly glowing review which is fun to read.
-- Steve Jackson
Warehouse 23 News: And If It Catches Your Fancy . . .
. . . be sure to check out the offline version, the Cosmic Encounter board game from Avalon Hill.
May 23, 2003: Illuminated Site of the Week: Lost Classics Of Literature
Need a book, take a book. Have a book, leave a book. BookCrossing.com turns the entire planet into a library. Page through a few selections and see what hidden treasures may lurk near you.
-- Suggested by Trent
At last . . . finally . . . our giant-scale (1/60) Paneuropean GEV "macrotures" are ready to ship. Check out the Macrotures page for lots of photos.
These are hybrid castings; the body is resin, but the detail parts are metal. We plan to do more Ogre Macrotures. The more of you that like this one and buy it, the sooner the next vehicle will be out. How's THAT for a subtle hint?
The main use for the first few will be as display pieces, but when we get enough of them done . . . can you say GIANT MINIATURES GAME?
The guys at Sci-Fi Supply have a home-built set of giant Ogre minis, and their games are fantastic. Eventually, you'll be able to do the same. (And you know something? 1/60 minis are MUCH easier to paint . . .)
We're selling these for $20, which seemed to us to be a fair price but doesn't leave enough profit to go through distributors and stores. So they're a Warehouse 23 exclusive.
-- Steve Jackson
May 21, 2003: Warehouse 23 Becomes Official Online Sales HQ For Dork Storm Press
Warehouse 23 has announced an agreement with Dork Storm Press that makes Warehouse 23 their official online sales headquarters.
"I'm thrilled to have all the great Dork Storm comics in Warehouse 23," manager Michelle Barrett said. The current Dork Storm lineup includes Nodwick and PS 238 by Aaron Williams, Snapdragons by John Kovalic and Liz Rathke, and the Origins award-winning Dork Tower by Kovalic. Warehouse 23 will also carry the trade paperback
compilations of the comics, and whatever else Dork Storm comes up with in the future.
Dork Tower is a gaming phenomenon today, and Kovalic and SJ Games go back a long way . . . Pyramid was one of the first publications to run Dork Tower, and Kovalic's illustrations for Munchkin and Chez Geek contributed to those games' success. Aaron Williams' Nodwick has been a mainstay in Dragon Magazine for years, and his new PS 238 is a runaway hit. "I'm enormously happy with this agreement," said Kovalic. "This being Steve Jackson Games, I feel like we're keeping this all in the family." Dork Storm joins Atlas Games, Issaries, and Citizen Games as companies that use Warehouse 23 as their online sales site.
May 20, 2003: But Does This Exploit The Monkeys?
Everybody talks about large amounts of monkeys, and large amounts of time, and the complete works of Shakespeare. Very occasionally, someone actually puts a monkey in front of a keyboard . . . but we have not yet gotten so much as "To be or not to QEWRIQER#$%@$%" out of the hairy litttle shirkers. Clearly we need more monkeys, or more typewriters, or more money. Yes! More money!
Indeed, progress marches on, and the Arts Council of England, bless their little hearts, has financed a milestone of sorts: the first politically correct monkey-Shakespeare experiment. Not only can you read some very advanced thinking about the meaning of monkeys and who REALLY wrote the plays (they don't take seriously the idea that it was a guy named Shakespeare) . . . but you can send them YOUR money and get your very own copy of the simian scribbles, on your choice of media. And if you do send them money, what do you think they'll spend THAT on?
-- Steve Jackson
Warehouse 23 News: Fast, Furious, And Fun
Brand-new from Pinnacle, Savage Worlds is a cinematic and cross-genre roleplaying and miniatures game.
May 19, 2003: One Step Closer To Transhuman Space
Having recently spent a good deal of time on the Transhuman Space supplements Transhuman Space: Deep Beyond (now available!) and Transhuman Space: High Frontier (coming soon), I've taken a lot of interest in the tiny steps we're taking today to get closer to the plausible, yet fantastic future of the 22nd century.
According to this New Scientist article, the first probe specifically designed to explore an asteroid just launched. If all goes according to plan, the Japanese satellite Muses-C will return in 2007 from asteroid 1998 SF 36 with a host of data, including samples.
-- Scott Haring
I just finished reading a book. I hadn't intended to read the whole thing tonight . . . actually, I just wanted to make sure the PDF was good, and see how long it was, so I could decide where "Read Wil's Book" would go on The List. But when I opened the PDF . . . well, why not read a bit?
So I read a few pages, and it was a good story. Sad, but good. It was real. And I knew how he felt, not because I've had that experience . . . no doubt I will someday, but I haven't yet . . . but because this guy is a good storyteller.
So I read the next one. And the next one (which is about when he was 15, and has the Car Wars Deluxe Edition in it). And the next. And then I was in the last story, which is the long one about a SF convention. And there was no way I was going to quit reading at that point.
And then I was done. And you know something? When I started reading, I was pretty used up. It had been a long day, and not a good one. But when I finished, I felt better. (OK, I'm a geek, I'll say it: I got some hit points back.) Because this is a real guy, with a real life, and he tells good stories.
If you read wilwheaton.net, you know what I'm talking about. For the rest of you: Wil Wheaton . . . who long ago, as a kid, played a kid named Wesley on TV . . . is still acting, but he's also writing. A lot of people read his blog at wilwheaton.net. He's also written two books: the autobiographical Just A Geek, which will be out soon, and Dancing Barefoot, which is the one that made my day. It's out now. You can get it from his publishing site, Monolith Press. This is me saying you should read it. There are a lot of bad books out there. This is a good one.
-- Steve Jackson
7th Sea: Strongholds and Hideouts contains a plethora of exciting Théan locations suitable as settings, dungeon crawls, or adventure seats in any campaign.
Thanks to the ingenuity of some MIT students, You're In Control. (Be sure to check the streaming video.)
I will never mock a video game controller again.
-- Andrew Hackard, Managing Editor
Warehouse 23 News: Destiny Has Failed
Dark Inheritance is a d20 Modern campaign setting of mythic horror, where the mysteries and terrors of the supernatural world collide with the crises of modern events and technology.
May 16, 2003: Illuminated Site of the Week: Pray Only To The Ones You Like, Excommunicate Any Time
It's a veritable buffet of deities. Don't like the Norse gods? Try the Greek pantheon at the next table. Sample a side order of the Egyptian divinities. Why settle for one mythology when the God of the Month Club lets you take them all for a test-worship?
-- Suggested by WmM
Warehouse 23 News: Deadlier Than Ghosts Or Demons
Legend of the Five Rings: Secrets of the Scorpion explores the most sinister Great Clan, illustrating their customs, holdings, and way of life.
The SJ Games home office will be closing at 3 p.m. Friday. We all have 3:30 tickets to The Matrix Reloaded, you see . . .
Please do not call or e-mail the office after 3:00 CDT and expect to get an answer before Monday.
-- Andrew Hackard, Managing Editor
Tangoes is based on the 4,000 year old Chinese tangram puzzle. Use all seven pieces to solve hundreds of shape puzzles. Perfect for solitaire, cooperative, or competitive play.
May 14, 2003: It Is A Far, Far Better Brick I Build . . .
And if you recognize the source of that misquotation, then you are (probably) ready for Block Death.
Probably.
WARNING: This site is definitely not for the squeamish! People with underdeveloped senses of sick humor should steer clear. The rest of us can enjoy this for them. (Be sure to click on the arrows to rotate the pics -- and, sometimes, provide a bit of animation.)
Warehouse 23 News: A Universe To Explore
The Classic BattleTech Companion offers advanced and alternate rules for players and gamemasters. Classic BattleTech: Record Sheets - MechWarrior: Dark Age I provides filled-out record sheets for the new infantry, vehicles, and BattleMechs in the MechWarrior: Dark Age game.
May 13, 2003: The Ultimate Trash To Treasure
OK, so it might be right up there with cold fusion and other technological flim-flams . . . but it might not.
In this Discover magazine article, scientists (and more importantly, businessmen) believe they can turn just about anything -- waste from poultry processing plants, manure, plastic bottles, old computers, garbage, you name it -- into fuel oil, and do it cheaply. Read the article and decide for yourself.
Update: The article discusses a full-scale plant in Carthage which was to be running by the end of April. A spokesman for the company now says "The Carthage plant will be fully operational later this spring, by end of June we hope."
-- Scott Haring
Warehouse 23 News: Ten Fathoms Deep On The Road To Hell
Welcome to Freeport, the most larcenous city in fantasy (or so its inhabitants claim). One of the earliest d20 lines, Freeport is still actively supported by Green Ronin Publishing.
Woo hoo! The Munchkin Fu cards have gone to press! Here are four samples of Greg Hyland's art. The man has very strong kung fu indeed . . .
This evil puppy is currently scheduled for a July release, but if all goes well at the printer, you might see it in June.
Warehouse 23 News: Roleplaying With An Edge
The Riddle of Steel combines a realistic combat system with limitless use of sorcery and magic and an immense campaign world.
May 11, 2003: Over Five Million Illuminated
The hit counter on our home page at www.sjgames.com is, as of midnight, only a few hits short of 5 million. And, of course, that vastly understates the traffic we get, because regular visitors usually bypass the home page once they know their way around. Woo, as they say, hoo!
-- Steve Jackson
Warehouse 23 News: Tentacled Horrors And Magical Diversity
New for the Legends & Lairs line of d20 fantasy titles, School of Evocation contains everything you need to give evocation magic the diversity it deserves, while Twisted Lore contains more than 30 new aberrations, oozes, and shapechangers.
May 10, 2003: Transhuman Space Wins The Grog D'Or
The Grog d'Or is a Roleplaying Game of the Year award voted on by the staff of the Guide du roliste Galactique, a large French gaming website. And Transhuman Space won their 2003 award!
We appreciate the honor, especially given the competition and the company. Transhuman Space beat out fine games like Spycraft, Warhammer, Dying Earth, Godlike, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, and others. Previous winners of the Grog d'Or are Nobilis in 2002 and Blue Planet in 2001.
Thanks again, guys!
Warehouse 23 News: Behold The Power Of The One-Word Title
The d20 Topics line from AEG provides vast amounts of useful information for d20 fantasy campaigns while maintaining economy of language.
May 9, 2003: Illuminated Site of the Week: The Internet Brings People Together
We're not so different, Americans and North Koreans. It's the Russians that spoil all the nuclear disarmament talks. Watch international politics unfold in Kim Jong Il's Journal.
-- Suggested by Erik Wilson
Warehouse 23 News: Heroes And Starships
The exhaustive Lord of the Rings: Hero's Journal gives you a place to set down everything related to your character - his attributes, skills, spells, traits, background, and history. Over two centuries' worth of starship engineering comes together in the comprehensive Star Trek: Starships.
May 8, 2003: A New Rock In The Neighborhood
An asteroid discovered in 1993 has been renamed for the late Fred "Mr." Rogers. Here's the CNN story.
Virus Alert! is a fast-paced card game of quick decisions and killer strategy. The Fading Suns: d20 Character Codex is an invaluable expansion to the Fading Suns d20 rules.
The programmers of the forthcoming GURPS Vehicle Builder have put together a slide show, using screen shots from the program, to illustrate how the program works.
It requires a modern browser capable of showing PNG images and a resolution of 800x600 or larger. It should take about 10 minutes to go through.
-- Andrew Hackard, Managing Editor
Warehouse 23 News: Welcome Goodman Games
We now stock all currently available Goodman Games lines, including Broncosaurus Rex, Complete Guides, Wanderers Guild, and Dungeon Crawl Classics.
The animation you see to the right (if you're reading this via e-mail, you'll have to go to www.sjgames.com/ill/ to see it) was created by Alex Fernandez, the cover designer for GURPS Shapeshifters. What relevance does it have, aside from the obvious wolfman theme? You'll just have to wait and see . . .
Need some dice or counters for your game? We now stock the full line of Chessex translucent dice (polyhedral sets and blocks of d6 in nine colors) and gaming stones (in thirteen colors).
The latest minions of the office have arrived, escaping the somewhat scenic vistas of Lawrence, Kansas, for Austin, Texas . . .
Kim Bernard is an editorial assistant, writing, editing, or screaming at text as Andrew requires. A life-long gamer, she didn't discover SJ Games or GURPS until meeting her husband in '97. Outside of gaming, her interests include computer games, weird stuffed animals, Japanese cooking, and 17th-century British literature. She is VERY happy to be here rather than working as a technical writer at a mundane computer company. She looks forward to lots and lots of books in her future, both those she has to edit and those she gets to read for fun.
Kayn Bernard is a production assistant, working on layout, artwork, and other related materials. He, too, is a life-long gamer, who met his wife at a gaming club meeting at the University of Kansas. He is a rabid GURPS player. His other hobbies include card games, computer games, giving his wife trouble, and fencing. He is thrilled to have an interesting job, with the added benefit of being able to work in the same office as his wife.
May 4, 2003: GURPS Character Builder 3.0 Upgrades
GURPS Character Builder version 3.0 will be released later this year. We will make a free 3.0 upgrade patch available to previous registered owners of GURPS Character Builder. As with prior patches to the software, you will have to sign in with a valid serial number and e-mail address to get the updater.
GCB 3.0 includes a GUI template creator, as well as several new data sheets -- and, of course, lots of bug fixes and other upgrades!
The updater should be available at the same time as, or shortly after, GURPS Character Builder 3.0 ships to retail outlets.
Warehouse 23 News: Space Colonies And Futuristic Cities
The Jovian Chronicles: Cislunar Space Sourcebook covers the complicated relationship between Earth's oldest space colonies and the world spinning below. Millenium City is a high-tech,glittering metropolis built on the ruins of old Detroit - and the perfect city for Champions superheroes and their arch-enemies!
May 3, 2003: Illuminated Site of the Week: You've Got To Know The Rules Before You Can Break Them
So before you begin a career as an Illuminated Seer, start by seeing how everything is related. Go to Lexical FreeNet and use their connected thesaurus to find all manner of disturbing, amusing, or just plain unexpected ties between words, phrases, and their myriad uses. There may be a test later.
-- Suggested by Peter Joyce
Warehouse 23 News: Monsters And Secrets
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Monster Smackdown details the vamps, demons, nasties, and Big Bads wandering around the Buffyverse. Eden Odyssey: Secrets of the Ancients presents a series of vignettes that can be used individually or together to enrich any fantasy campaign using the d20 system.
May 2, 2003: We Don't Need No Stinkin' . . .
Oh, come on. You knew we were going to say it . . .
![[Highlander Badger Piper]](http://www.sjgames.com/miniatures/otwa/img/piper.frnt.sm.jpg)
After an absence of almost 20 years, Highlander Badgers have returned, kicking off the re-release of the
Off The Wall Armies line of bizarre fantasy miniatures.
Sculpted in 28mm scale, each army features anthropomorphic animal figures with weapons and gear from different historical periods. These figures are the delightfully strange creations of Richard Kerr, who sculpted all the figures and developed the bizarre universe they come from.
The Highlander Badgers are based on the North American badger (Taxidea taxus), with a culture from the 16th- thru 18th-century Scottish Highlands. Currently available are the Sergeant, the Longbowman, the Humbly (Commoner) with Axe, the Bagpiper, and the Chieftain. Future releases for this group will include the Highlander Cavalry and claymore-wielding warriors.
The Highlander Badgers are brought to you by Gray Cat Studios and Steve Jackson Games, and are available exclusively through Warehouse 23.
The entire Off The Wall Armies line will eventually be available
again, and Kerr is busy sculpting another generation of great new
figures. Armies will be released approximately every other month. The
Otterman Empire is due out next, followed by the Semi-Colonials,
Something Fishy, the Snakes of Wrath, and Kat-anas.
Warehouse 23 News: Political Intrigue In Iceland?
Penumbra: Dynasties and Demagogues is a toolkit for running and playing in political adventures in any d20 System campaign setting. Land of Fire & Ice is the Ars Magica sourcebook for mythic Iceland.
The following products have been scheduled for an August, 2003 release:
Munchkin 3: Clerical Errors
You wanted more Munchkin, so here it is! Created by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic . . . Munchkin 3: Clerical Errors has 112 more cards for the best-selling game of killing monsters and taking their stuff. Play a new race: Gnomes! Try on the Bard class. Face the Tequila Mockingbird, the Bad Ass, and the dreaded Auntie Paladin! Equip yourself with amazing items like the Chainmail Bikini and the Stab-A-Matic . . . and show them who’s the mightiest, munchkinest dungeon delver of them all.
And this set has a special treat. We asked five of our favorite Comic
Guys to do one card each. So in this set you'll find:
112 cards.
Stock #1416,
ISBN 1-55634-713-8.
$16.95.
Target: Iraq
How did the U.S. take Saddam down? Could we have done it sooner? And what could have gone wrong?
The "new" Iraq conflict wasn't new. It started in 1990, and "slow war" continued, in the skies over Iraq and in the U.N., for 12 years.
Target: Iraq explores both the "slow war" and "fast war" against Iraq. A political game covers the 12 years of Saddam's recovery and buildup after the first Gulf War. It sets the stage for the coalition attack in April, played out as a fast-moving wargame.
Target: Iraq was created by Austin Bay. His Arabian Nightmare, a simulation of the first Gulf War published by 3W in 1990 and updated in 1991, is still used as a war-college training tool.
With full-color map, die-cut full-color counters, and detailed rules, Target: Iraq is a classic military simulation game taken straight from today's headlines.
Boxed game with full-color map and full-color die-cut counters.
Stock #1900,
ISBN 1-55634-711-1.
$24.95.
GURPS Ultra-Tech 2/er
(Reprint)
Welcome to the Future!
GURPS Ultra-Tech is a sourcebook for science-fiction technology, from the 21st century to the farthest reaches of the future. From the vacuum of interstellar space to the murderous intrigue of the court of the Galactic Empire, to the lowest dives of the asteroids, an adventurer is no better than his gear. GURPS Ultra-Tech, Second Edition Revised has been reorganized for ease of use -- equipment is now sorted by type, not by Tech Level.
128 pages.
Stock #6032,
ISBN 1-55634-315-9.
$22.95.
Transhuman Space: Under Pressure
As humanity reaches to the planets, a last frontier remains on Earth . . . the oceans. Governments, corporations, political idealists, and outlaws are staking their claims in this realm. There are oceans on other worlds too: Europa, Mars, Titan -- all unique and full of possibilities.
Transhuman Space: Under Pressure describes the oceans of the 22nd century, from the teeming seas of Earth to the icy ocean of Europa. Ocean arcologies . . . mining operations and terrorist foes . . . adventure and intrigue in an environment far more hostile than mere space.
This book also includes new character templates -- including new parahumans, bioroids, cybershells, and uplifted animals designed for aquatic existence -- and modular design rules for aquatic vehicles, compatible with the system in Transhuman Space: In The Well.
160 pages.
Stock #6709,
ISBN 1-55634-678-6.
$26.95.
GURPS WWII: Blitzkrieg
In the spring of 1940, German forces swept through Holland and Luxembourg and set their sights on France. The French forces made their stand at the Maginot Line, confident that the Germans could not attack through the Ardenne Forest. It was a fatal miscalculation that nearly cost the Allies the war.
GURPS WWII: Blitzkrieg covers the invasion of France, with a special emphasis on the GURPS WWII roleplaying opportunities this crucial episode provides. From the initial attacks on the bridges and fortresses, through the evacuation of British forces at Dunkirk and the beginnings of the French Resistance, GURPS WWII: Blitzkrieg is modeled more along the lines of an adventure module. New rules are kept to a minimum, while the actual history presentation is sprinkled with references to game play.
Bring a dark chapter of history to life . . . if you can withstand the Blitzkrieg.
48 pages.
Stock #8006,
ISBN 1-55634-637-9.
$11.95.
Transhuman Space Miniatures
It's the year 2100. Humans have colonized the solar system. China and America struggle for control of Mars. The Royal Navy patrols the asteroid belt. Nanotechnology has transformed life on Earth forever, and gene-enhanced humans share the world with artificial intelligences and robotic cybershells. Our solar system has become a setting as exciting and alien as any interstellar empire. Transhuman Space is cutting-edge science fiction adventure that begins where cyberpunk ends.
And now, Richard Kerr has created the first set of miniatures for this exciting roleplaying line! Transhuman Space Miniatures has six gorgeous figures, including Felicia, Tennin, and Aquamorph parahumans, an uplifted Post-Canine, and more. They're perfect for Transhuman Space gaming, of course, but the figures also go with other science-fiction, superhero, and modern-day games.
Add the third dimension to Transhuman Space – with Transhuman Space Miniatures.
6 miniatures in video box packaging.
Stock #13-0300,
ISBN 1-55634-701-4.
$24.95.
I S S A R I E S
Hero's Book
Designed especially for new players, Hero's Book is a 64-page book that presents the basic rules for HeroQuest in a streamlined manner. Additional tips and examples help players get the most out of HeroQuest. Hero's Book also contains two sample cultures, each with six sample heroes and a hero band to help players get started right away. Hero's Book is by Mark Galeotti.
64 pages.
Stock #ISS1002,
ISBN 1-929052-13-8.
$12.95.
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