This time I compare & contrast two of the incredible settings for the Savage Worlds roleplaying game: Solomon Kane and Deadlands Reloaded. Check out Pinnacle Entertainment Group’s website for more on these products and be sure to tune into The Game’s The Thing for in-depth coverage of all things Savage Worlds!

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I’m going to be running an RPG session over Skype for the first time this weekend. I’ve got a few concerns but, overall, I’m really jazzed about this new RP experience.

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Pazio Publishing made a bold announcement this week. They’re going to continue along the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 vector with their self-published Pathfinder RPG. The Alpha version of the rule is available as a free PDF download!

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The Dragonlance movie is here in all its jiggly-breasted glory! Fan-boys the world over are clamoring over each other to tell you why this movie sucks and I’m here to tell you that it’s not all that bad.

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The gaming hobby lost a true pioneer today. Venerable Dungeons and Dragons pioneer Gary Gygax passed away at the age of 69. Although I never knew the man personally I pay homage to him and the hobby he helped create in today’s epiosde.

Gary Gygax, Gaming Luminary (1938-2008)

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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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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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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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