Free System Friday: BattleTech RPG Quick-Start Rules
Boots on the ground, soldier! The universe is a-flame with war and you need to do your part. Welcome to BattleTech.
It is a universe at war. Even as mankind reached out to command the stars, the human lust for conflict and conquest could not be overcome as easily as the distances of light years. Driven by the dream of one day ruling all of humanity, mighty empires formed, fell, and rose again. From the chaos of war arose the Star League, the pinnacle of human civilization, a Golden Age where a lasting peace and time of prosperity seemed possible at last. But greed, ambition, and treachery combined to tear it all down once more, plunging all of the worlds humans called home into centuries of simmering conflict.
Yes BattleTech, the old-standby. Well for this Free System Friday, we’re hooking you up with the BattleTech RPG Quick-Start Rules! It’s got everything you need (short of players and dice) to suit up and take the war among the stars to your living room. Why, it’s even got purdy pictures!
So? What are you waiting for? Grab some friends, grab your dice, grab the rules, and fight the good fight!
New System Thursday: Star Wars Roleplaying Game
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The game, based on WEG’s earlier Ghostbusters RPG, established much of the groundwork of what later became the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and their sourcebooks are still frequently cited by Star Wars fans as reference material. Lucasfilm considered their sourcebooks so authoritative that when Timothy Zahn was hired to write what became the Thrawn trilogy, he was sent a box of West End Games Star Wars books and directed to base his novel on the background material presented within.
By the end of the game’s run around 140 sourcebook and adventure supplements were published for the game during its run through three editions.
In addition fifteen issues of a magazine series, the Star Wars Adventure Journal, were published between 1994 and 1998. The Adventure Journal was published in novel format of around 280 pages, and consisted of adventures and articles for the game, plus short stories intended to provide inspiration for gamemasters and news relating to Star Wars.
WEG’s license to produce Star Wars material was lost after the company declared bankruptcy in 1998, and the license was later picked up by Wizards of the Coast, who held the license until 2010.
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Thoughts on the new DDI Character Builder
Since everyone else is pontificating about the new web-only character builder, I thought I’d jump in and give my totally unqualified opinion. I don’t even have a DDI subscription, mainly because I’m on a Mac. But, I do know a little about running a tabletop gaming web application, so I’ll weigh in from that perspective.
November’s Featured Campaign: Cthulhu Supremus Est
If there’s one thing scarier than roving bands of sugar addled children clawing at your door for candy at all hours of the night, it’s when the elder gods come a-calling. This month’s featured campaign is Cthulhu Supremus Est by DM FrankSirmarco!
Q-Workshop contest winners!
Last week, we asked the question: What was your most important dice roll? And you answered! Boy did you answer. Well we had our entrants, and all we needed now was to pick the winners. And pick we did! Lets see what we got here.
Fifth Place: Joshua M.
Congrats Joshua! We felt that you nailed it on the head when you called out that there was something magical about that very first dice roll. I remember mine well!
Joshua, for your effort, you’ll receive a set of promotional dice from Q-Workshop!
New System Thursday: Flashing Blades
Get your outrageous French accents ready, because this week we’re traipsing through 17th century Paris as Musketeers!
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Ok. Not that kind of Musketeer. The kind from the movies that buckles swashes and swings from chandeliers. That’s right kiddos, this week we’re adding Flashing Blades by Fantasy Games Unlimited!
“It was a question of honor, and honor was always foremost in the minds of the men who strode through the age of the Sun King. A deserted courtyard on the edge of Paris was the stage on which they met with… FLASHING BLADES.”
So? What are you waiting for? Grab some candy, grab some friends, get the rules, and create a Flashing Blades campaign now!
