Good news! Despite that Games Workshop frequently seems bound and determined to torpedo their own RPG products the Dark Heresy RPG (among other GW products) has found a new home at Fantasy Flight Games.

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Today I talk about my initial impressions of Infernal Contraption, a non-collectible card game published by Privateer Press.

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It looks like Gen Con’s in some hot water. Lucasfilm filed papers in January of 2008 asserting that Gen Con owes them $650,000, $150,000 of which represents the proceeds from a charity auction that were to go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Additional, on February 15th of 2008, Gen Con filed for Chapter 11. Are these two events related? It would seem so from my vantage-point. Here are some links:

Lucasfilm’s case filing Gen Con’s Chapter 11 press release

I’m not sure what happened with the audio quality on this episode but I’ll try and get it sorted out for the next show. Sorry!

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Today I talk about the AT-43 miniatures game by Rackham. I could go on and on about game mechanics but c’mon… it’s got apes with jet-packs! What else do I really need to say?

Click here for the thread on the AT-43 forums I mentioned in this episode.

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Amazon.com: “This lavishly illustrated 96-page book gives roleplaying game fans a unique, behind-the-screen glimpse into the making of the Dungeons & Dragons(R) roleplaying game.”

Wapcaplets: BALONEY!

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There’s nothing better than having a really good local game store but there’s also nothing worse than a not-so-friendly local gaming store run by guys like this:

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Same deal as below for Odeo.

My Odeo Channel (odeo/829822c89e77beb3)

Nothing interesting here… just posting the requisite info to claim this feed on Podcast Alley.

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This is hardly news anymore but I wanted to record some thoughts about Wizards’ D&D 4th Edition System Reference Document and OGL Designer’s Kit. The gist of it is that you have to either pay Wizards $5,000 if you want to publish 3rd party D&D materials in August of 2008 or you can wait until January of 2009 and not pay anything. Some pinheads think this is a “screw-job” and I’m going to tell you why it’s not.

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Games Workshop released the long-awaited Dark Heresy roleplaying game (set in the Warhammer 40K universe) on 25-Jan-2008 and it is one of the best roleplaying game products I’ve seen in years. Fan response was overwhelmingly positive and the book was entirely sold out within a few days. But this is a GW product and, true to form, within three days they completely nuked it.

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