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New Releases In Stores This Week : 27th March 2017

A rundown of the New Releases that should be hitting games stores this coming week! Board games, card games, RPGs, Wargames, Miniatures and collectible games... hopefully something for everyone! For more information about any of the products please contact your local games store.

Pros and Cons: I-CON 32

I-CON, short for Island CONvention, has been a staple of geek culture on Long Island for decades. I-CON disappeared for five years, but it returned this year with I-CON 32 to a new venue. I had the pleasure of being a guest last weekend once more and I'm happy to report the con is back on its feet.
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The Fugitive Scholar: It's TRAILseeker's 100th Issue!
It's TRAILseeker's 100th issue! A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure from Mike Myler for 5th level characters - The Fugitive Scholar. Can the party help find out who framed Kanral Bodache, save a missing prince, defeat an evil diabolist, and save the walled city of Rettikus? Master of Evaluations Kanral Bodache is on the run from his arcane college in the city of Rettikus. He has been framed for a royal “murder” by one of the settlement’s head merchants; the missing prince has been kidnapped and hidden with abyssal power. Illustrated by Ellis Goodson; cartography by Ross McConnell.
[UPDATED] WotC & Goodman Games Partner To Reprint Classic Modules for 5E
At Gary Con, Goodman Games and WotC announced a partnership, as reported by Brett B over on Google+. They'll be reprinting classic modules, including B1 In Search of the Unknown and B2 The Keep on the Borderlands in a hardcover with both the original adventures and 5th Edition information. More information if and when I hear it!

(KS) The Folio #14: Part 1 of The White Ship Campaign for 1E & 5E

Scott Taylor and Art of the Genre have launched their latest Folio Kickstarter, for 1st and 5th edition adventures, featuring Part One of The White Ship Campaign.

Lankhmar Box Set for Dungeon Crawl Classics!

Goodman Games have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a Lankhmar Boxed Set for Dungeon Crawl Classics. The set, due for release in August 2018 if successfully funded, will explore the fantastic swords & sorcery world of Nehwon created by Fritz Leiber through his series of classic novels.

(KS) Join the hunt and fight the void in the Dhovaine science fantasy RPG

One-hundred and fifty years ago, something appeared in the Dhovainian sky. An object, tiny at first but over the years growing into a massive black orb larger than our own sun, or any of our three moons. It brought with it catastrophe that plagued us in many forms. The first catastrophe came as a rain of fire and rock that pelted our landscape and destroyed our cities. As the object grew, it began to influence the already dangerous creatures of our world, turning them into stronger, more bloodthirsty monsters that ravaged our lands and killed our people. They say that a third catastrophe is coming. They say that the black sun in our sky signals the waking of the Void.
Finally In Softcover - [WOIN] Universal Upgrades
This book of advanced character options for those playing N.E.W. The Science Fiction Roleplaying Game is now available in softcover. "This essential manual for sci-fi themed What's OLD is NEW games introduces a range of new alien races, universal exploits, and advanced rules for your WOIN game. 11 new races, nearly 30 new universal exploits, and expanded rules for aging, making the most of your REPUTATION score, and more, make this an essential handbook. Straight from the pages of EONS, the official patreon for the WOIN roleplaying game system. Requires the use of a What's OLD is NEW core rulebook."
Behold The STARFINDER Core Rulebook Cover!
Last night, Paizo revealed the final cover for its upcoming Starfinder Core Rulebook! Starfinder, based on the Pathfinder rules, is due for release this August. A 582-page book, with a cover illustration by Remko Troost.

(KS) 7 Days of ‘Cold Warning’ for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition

Cold Warning is a 1920’s scenario for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition by Golden Goblin Press (Cthulhu Invictus; Tales of Crescent City). It’s a quick fire 7 day campaign so if you want in you’d better be quick about it!
Gale Force 9 Comments On Brazil Translatorgate
In the wake of Brazil Tanslatorgate, Dungeons & Dragons licensee Gale Force Nine has made a statement regarding the dispute between Fire on Board and FMR about the rights to translate D&D 5th Edition into Portuguese for he Brazilian audience. They have put translation plans for Brazil on hold pending an investigation. As yet, WotC has issued no comment.

Sean's Picks of the Week (0320-0324) - Adventures Week! SW, D&D, Cypher!

It started out as an accident, as many of my Theme Weeks often do. I just noticed I was focused on adventure-related Picks about halfway through, so there you go! Of particular excitement was the discovery that DriveThruRPG is now carrying back-issues of the Paizo-run of both Dragon and Dungeon magazines; I believe I can claim to have broke that particular piece of news, as a matter of fact. Add to that some Cypher system support, an Adventurer's League release, and a couple of Savage Worlds adventures full of fantasy action, and you've got scenario support in every direction. As my sign off always says, "The Adventure Continues!."

Planescape WOTC Teasing Planescape?

Was just about to post this.
Brazilian D&D Translators Fall Out Over Translation Rights
Things are afoot in Brazil, in what will no doubt become known as "Brazil Translatorgate" or something similar - as a dispute breaks out between the Brazilian company Fire on Board for the recently announced Dungeons & Dragons translations and three other companies who claim they had an agreement with Fire on Board to undertake the project as a joint venture. The dispute has been reported on various sites, with the gist being that the CEO of Fire on Board was appointed to act as spokesman for the group in negotiations with Hasbro (or Gale Force 9, which is overseeing all translations) but instead signed an agreement for just his own company. Fire on Board announced on Facebook on 21 March that it had the license and remains the current licensee for D&D translations in Brazil. Fire on Board, for its part, appears to deny any wrongdoing and says that it notified the other companies that it was withdrawing from negotiations with them, and that at no point was any formal agreement made.
Yawning Portal's Disclaimer; Plus New Monsters
As always with D&D 5th Edition books, Tales from the Yawning Portal has a humourous disclaimer at the front. Here's a quick peek at it (courtesy of Shane Plays). Plus read on for the list of new monsters in the book!
WotC's Irwin, Tanji, and Crawford on Tales from the Yawning Portal's Art Direction
The YouTube channel Dungeon Life has posted a video featuring WotC's Kate Irwin (senior art director), Emi Tanji (senior graphic designer), and Jeremy Crawford (managing editor). It talks about designing Tales from the Yawning Portal. One of the themes discussed it how the adventures in the book were kept the same at the core, updating the stats and wording to make them feel like 5th Edition - "What would you do if you redesigned the adventures to be more like a modern D&D design? And the answer is, we didn't. What we did is we took Tomb of Horrors, and it's still Tomb of Horrors that Gary Gygax wrote..." Tales from the Yawning Portal hits preferred game stores tomorrow (ask your local store!) and everywhere else 11 days later.

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