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RPGNet #70; Atlas Obscura; Omni; TOR.com; Piranha Games
SOCIAL
How Did Norman Rockwell Know What Being A Woman on the Internet Would Be Like?
Astrology is NOT Astronomy. It’s not even scientific
Help Get School Kids Copies of Fahrenheit 451.
Erin Brokovitch Chemical in US Waters Everywhere
Killer Robots Attacking Wildlife
ENTERTAINMENT
Eeenie, Meenie. Minie. Walking Dead
Mel Brooks Tries to Pants Obama
Terry Jones Diagnosed with Dementia
Lost in Space Reboot (“The horror. The horror….)
INDUSTRY
Space Art May Be Going Dinosaur
We don’t need no stinkin science
New Release: The Peregrine Omnibus
Get Ready Kids! It’s the Boooooooook Train!
New Release: Tarzan on the Precipice
SCIENCE
PRESS RELEASES & NEWSLETTERS
RPGnet Newsletter #70
September 20, 2016
New Columns
The last two weeks brought us – unsurprisingly – two new issues of Christopher Cecil’s Fuzzy Thinking: “Mr. Fuzzy Suitcase” and “Healer!”
Christopher Herde also continued Our Story – a column about using history in roleplaying – with “Revolting, Part One,” for those groups who want to add some verisimilitude to their overthrow of a fictional government.
New Reviews
We’ve got two busy weeks of reviews to cover in this issue, so let’s do a bit of a lighting round.
- Antonios S reviewed several expansions for the Campaign Cartographer 3+ mapping software:
“Symbol Set 1: Fantasy Overland / Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans / Symbol Set 3: Modern /Symbol Set 4: Dungeons Of Schley,” four high-quality collections of map symbols and styles;
“Character Artist 3,” a character-drawing add-on; and,
“The Cartographerís Annual 2015 / The Cartographerís Annual 2016,” a subscription service to keep you up-to-date on CC3+ expansions. - Speaking of mapping products, Antonios also took a look at “Fractal Terrains 3,” which does for world-building what CC3+ does for mapmaking.
- Antonios also reviewed several supplements for Achtung! Cthulhu:
“Terrors of the Secret War,” a bestiary that is content-packed enough to qualify as a full sourcebook;
“Secrets Of The Dust,” a sourcebook introducing a crossover with the Dust miniatures game;
“Guide To The Eastern Front,” which is what it says on the tin;
“Guide To The Pacific Front,” a solid addition to the Mythos-infested WWII world of Achtung! Cthulhu; and,
“Guide to North Africa,” one of the best sourcebooks of the line. - Antonios S reviewed “Mare Nostrum: Empires,” an abstract, shortish civilization-builder with quite a few novelties.
- Matthew McFarland took a look at “Headspace,” a cyberpunk RPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse system and found it to be quite well done.
- Endzeitgeist reviewed “Crimson Dragon Slayer 1.11,” an ultra-light version of the Crimson Dragon Slayer RPG.
- Endzeitgeist also reviewed the “Lamentations of the Flame Princess Player Core Book: Rules & Magic,” and found the horror/dark-fantasy centric take on OSR-rules to have some awesome rules modifications.
- Shane Mclean rounded things out by reviewing the Delta Green “Agent’s Handbook,” a stunning product that easily fulfils its aim of delivering a player-facing rules set for modern conspiracy and horror.
Threads You Might Have Missed
For a great question from the cavemen vs. astronaut school, check out “Which period is better for adventure: 1893 or 1936?”
If you’re looking for some reading material, do yourself a favor and stop by “Rec a novel that you love and that is underrated [+].”
For some discussion of an interesting media phenomenon, head over to “Shows where the finale “doesn’t count” [Spoilers I guess].”
And, last but not least, “Petty uses for time travel” is just good old-fashioned RPGnet fun.
Sign Off
Have a good week, everyone.
- Iustum
Newsletter Editor
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