In the earlier days of the tabletop RPG industry, computer game companies came knocking down the doors of RPG publishers, seeking licenses to port paper RPGs to electronic realms. But now the tide has turned, and RPG publishers often look to computer games for worlds they can bring to the gaming table. Green Ronin is taking their stab at this role reversal with the release of Dragon Age RPG: Set 1.

It has been hundreds of years since the last Blight ravaged the world of Thedas. Many believe that it can never happen again, that the Dragon Age will pass without the rise of such evil. They are wrong. Beneath the earth the darkspawn stir. A new archdemon has risen and with it a Blight that will scourge the lands and darken the skies. The nations of Thedas need a new generation of heroes, but who will answer the call?

Fantasy roleplaying goes back to its dark and gritty roots with the Dragon Age RPG, the latest game from the company that brought you A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying and Mutants & Masterminds. Based on the critically acclaimed Dragon Age: Origins computer game, the Dragon Age RPG brings the excitement of BioWare's rich fantasy world to the tabletop. Make your own heroes and control your own destiny as a Blight comes to Thedas once again.

Designed by award-winning author Chris Pramas (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Freeport), Dragon Age features an all-new game system that's both easy to learn and exciting to play. This boxed set includes a 64-page Player's Guide with an introduction to tabletop roleplaying, background on Thedas and the nation of Ferelden, a complete guide to character creation, rules for character classes and talents, a primer on magic, and the basic game rules; a 64-page Gamemaster's Guide with an introduction to this key role, advice on the art of game mastering, advanced game rules, and an introductory adventure that plunges the characters right into the world of Dragon Age; a beautiful poster map of the nation of Ferelden, the opening setting for the Dragon Age RPG; and 3 six-sided dice.

I have become immersed yet again in the new season of the TV show 24, where counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer rushes against the clock to stop some catastrophe or another. And in Pathfinder Adventure Path #30: The Twice-Damned Prince, the last volume in the Council of Thieves Adventure Path, adventuring groups will be facing obstacles and a fast-approaching timeline. Will they be able to wrest control of Westcrown away from the Council of Thieves before the Thrune family arrives to take matters into their own hands? Tick, tock... Tick, tock... Tick, tock...

Their deception revealed and their plans waylaid, two deadly and Hell-touched siblings make a desperate final play for control of Westcrown. With the city in chaos and its leaders fled, few stand to defend the beleaguered people when the plots of fiends turn upon them. At the same time, the rulers of Cheliax launch their own ruthless plot to retake control. Can the PCs return order and shatter the Council of Thieves' age-old stranglehold on Westcrown once and for all? Or will the former capital slide fully into the grip of a terrible new deviltry? It's up to the PCs to decide in the latest volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Path!

Pathfinder Adventure Path #30 also includes catastrophic new rules for running a variety of calamities, from fires to floods; new revelations on Mammon, the avaricious archdevil of Erebus; five new monsters to add to your GM repertoire; and a gut-wrenching conclusion to the Pathfinder’s Journal by Dave Gross, in which Pathfinder Varian Jeggare and Radovan face down devilish plots and the laws of Cheliax itself!

When I was in high school, I became a big fan of the southern rock band Molly Hatchet. A big part of my infatuation was the awesome Frank Frazetta painting, Death Dealer, that they used for their first album cover, and that's still the dominant graphic element on their website today. My D&D game at the time had a recurring death knight villain in it, so the creepy black knight on horseback was riveting to me!

32 years later, that amazing Frazetta art is still inspiring gamers with Goodman Games' latest 4E adventure, Death Dealer: Shadows of Mirahan. Death stalks the lands of Iparsia. Mirahan, Destroyer of Worlds, is reborn, unleashing an army of undead warriors. Citadels fall beneath the march of iron and entire kingdoms are laid to waste. The hope for salvation rests on an unlikely band of heroes discovering the ancient secret of the Druids: The Death Dealer.

An epic adventure of dark fantasy, magic, and horror, Shadows of Mirahan brings the savage world of Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer to life with setting details, rules variants, and pre-generated characters. When the armies of good have all fallen, and the last citadel burns in the night, will your heroes have the courage to rise against the shadows of Mirahan?

In this blog, we aren't going to try to sell you anything. We won't ask you to spend even one thin dime. Instead, we are today going to revel in the glory of Wayfinder #2, the Pathfinder fanzine written by the fans, for the fans. And I have to say after browsing through my PDF that this issue may even be better than Wayfinder #1, if that's even possible! This group of Pathfinder fans has put together 82 pages of awesome content that will cost you nothing to peruse. Zero. Zilch. Nada!

There's a lot of good stuff in this edition of Wayfinder. There is the Ritual of Stardust, an encounter at a Desnan ritual, by Elizabeth Lieb. Our own Crystal Frasier designed and illustrated some cool beasties for those in the frigid north. An article on the berserkers of the Linnorm Kings by vagrant-poet gives you a few new feats and a new rage power. There are four sidetreks set in Northern Avistan. Then it's back to Crystal for an article about the Crystalhue, an annual celebration of the goddess Shelyn. Ryan. Costello gives us a cool article on Kellid festishes and Hal Maclean looks into drugs of Golarion. Jason Sonia gives us a bunch of new achievement feats. An article by Set about thematic channeling will give you a ideas for customizing your cleric's channeling ability based on the deity they worship.

Done? Not even close. zylphryx gives us the Gunslinger class, and David Fryer gives us the Svartalfar, a new race. deClench offers the Dawnfly, invoving a couple of CR20+ creatures for your epic level games. A cool article from Arazyr on Darkmoon Vale campaign traits follows, with a collection of sorcerer bloodlines right on its heels. Another new race from The Eldritch Mr. Shiny follows, along with two new beasties! Taste of Golarion includes five Golarion-inspired recipes to experiment with in the kitchen. Ask a Shoanti is back giving questionable advice, and a crossword puzzle by Tom Baumbach rounds out the features! This volume of Wayfinder ends with an excerpt from Fat Jozka's Burnt Offerings stage play, illustrated with photos! That's a lot... yet I didn't even mention the fiction and poetry!

So what are you waiting for? Download Wayfinder #2 now and see how amazing Pathfinder fans really are!

Every so often, messageboard regular yoda8myhead complains that I haven't updated him on which Paizo products are almost out of print so that he can purchase them. At last year's PaizoCon, Yoda had me traverse back to the office multiple times to pick up one item or another that, through casual conversation, he learned was almost sold out. So in order to help our poor Mr. Yoda—and you—keep a complete Paizo collection, I give you the Almost Gone list!

I've divided these nearly sold-out products into categories based on the number of copies remaining. While some might hang around for a few months, I expect that many will be gone much faster than that, so don't hesitate, or you may be looking on eBay to complete your Paizo collection!

Fewer than 500 Copies:
• GameMastery Map Pack: Haunted Mansion
• GameMastery Item Cards: Dragon's Trove Deck
• Pathfinder Adventure Path #4—Rise of the Runelords Chapter 4: "Fortress of the Stone Giants"
• Pathfinder Module D1.5: Revenge of the Kobold King

Fewer than 250 Copies:
• Dungeons & Dragons: The Dragon Compendium, Volume 1
• GameMastery Map Pack: Fortress
• GameMastery Map Pack: Dungeon Chambers
• GameMastery Item Cards: Adventure Gear Deck
• Pathfinder Adventure Path #6—Rise of the Runelords Chapter 6: "Spires of Xin-Shalast"
• GameMastery Flip-Mat: Woodlands
• Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Monsters Revisited
• Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting
• Pathfinder Adventure Path #13—Second Darkness Chapter 1: "Shadow in the Sky"—Alternate Cover

Fewer than 100 Copies:
• Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Age of Worms Art Print
• GameMastery Stainless Steel Status Card: Animal Growth

Heroes of the Jade Oath takes the choices and flexibility of Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved and adds an immersive, fully researched, and instantly playable Oriental background. So kick karma in the butt and choose your own destiny with Lands of the Jade Oath—the largest setting for Arcana Evolved ever published. Heroes of the Jade Oath includes detailed information on the new setting Lands of the Jade Oath; new marvelous player races like Bakemono, Mandragoran, Qahngol, Shenxue, and Yueren elves and 11 other variants; evocative new character classes like Demon Hunter, Enlightened Scholar, Kensai, Kusa, 7 different Monks, 6 new totem warriors, 4 new witch types, and two new champion causes; the new Fung Shui skill and 42 pages of feats including two new feat types Ch’I and Unbound feats; optional Rules for Cinematic Combat, New Combat Rites, Zodiac Signs, Oaths of Power and Villain points; spellcaster options for Sutra Casters, New Spell Templates, and Ch’I; a Huge selection of weapons, armor, and alchemic items from the Far East; and much, much more.

Rite Publishing is celebrating this unique PDF/preorder launch by having a $0.99 Arcana Evolved PDF sale! Eight different PDFs are on sale until the end of the month!

Hollywood loves sequels! When a movie has a big enough following, the folks in Tinseltown are quick to try to repeat their success. We at Paizo are not immune to the idea, so this month we have not one, but two sequels for the Pathfinder Society!

In Pathfinder Society Scenario #41: The Devil We Know—Part III: Crypt of Fools, another kidnapping spree erupts in Cassomir and the Pathfinder Society sends you to the notorious Swift Prison to interrogate a captured cultist about the recent disappearances. With clues gathered there, you must explore Old Cassomir and find secret locations that lead you to the source of the spree: the long lost Crypt of Fools. Part I and Part II of The Devil We Know can be played in either order, but parts III and IV must be sequentially after parts I and II. (Look for Part IV in April!)

Our second sequel, Pathfinder Society Scenario #42: Echoes of the Everwar—Part II: The Watcher of Ages comes from Paizo's star adventure writer Greg Vaughan. Hundreds of years ago a once mighty fortress in Cheliax sank into the earth and was forever destroyed. You are sent there to catalog the ruins, known as the Collapsed Halls, and to find the rumored hidden tomb of an Osiriani concubine. After clearing the ruins of hideous beasts, you explore deeper into the ruins than anyone before you and uncover a malevolent intelligence that has watched Golarion for more than 5,000 years. Worse, he knows you're coming. Parts I, II, and III of Echoes of the Everwar can be played in any order, while part IV must be played last. (Look for Part III in February!)

In previous years, T-shirts have been among the most popular items on paizo.com—especially the ones from Offworld Designs. In fact, they've been so popular that we've often had trouble keeping them in stock. So we had to get creative.

We're pleased to announce that we're now able to offer a vast selection of Offworld Designs T-shirts—currently, 167 designs, with sizes for most ranging from Small to 5XL, and even a few designs sized specifically for ladies and children! Now, it's not feasible to stock what amounts to more than 1,150 different combinations of styles and sizes, so in order to handle this dizzying assortment of apparel, we had to add a new type of product listing to the store: Special Orders. We'll be placing special orders with Offworld Designs every few weeks, so orders containing Offworld T-Shirts can take notably longer than our usual turnaround times. We think you'll find Offworld's clever designs are worth the wait, though.

Of course, we don't have room here to discuss all 167 styles, so we asked our customer service team to pick out some of their favorites for this blog. Sara Marie is a stylish, witty lass, so she selected Celtic Fairy, Goddess, and Ember for their artistic flair, and Canned Lunch, Cthulhu Saves, and Girl Genius Gear for the statements they make. (I see she actually added those, along with a few others, to her paizo.com wishlist!)

Cosmo, on the other hand, picked out shirts that made him "LOL": Edward and Bela, Epic Mount, I Put the RAGE in Average, and Fools! I Will Destroy You All!

I bet you'll find a few Offworld Designs shirts you like too!

As you can probably tell from our GameMastery Map Packs and Flip Mats, I'm a sucker for a good-looking printed map! Every Wednesday, I adventure in Golarion with my Pathfinder group, and I love to throw down a neat map to with visuals that draw the players into the game. So I was jazzed when I saw that Chris West's Maps of Mastery line has been expanded with Poster Map #2—Forsaken Lands (Swamp Caves & Desert Sanctum).

Journey into the remote wilderness! This high-quality, double-sided poster map presents two very different natural environments for use in any genre of game, be it sci-fi, fantasy, or even modern horror! Designed and illustrated by veteran cartographer Christopher West, the poster measures 22" by 34" when unfolded, and features a 1-inch grid for play with most miniatures game systems. Various objects and natural elements printed in the maps feature fine colored lines to mark the boundaries of different kinds of terrain, like walls and obstacles; these are easily ignored if your game of choice doesn't need specific designations for terrain types, but useful if it does.

The Swamp Caves side offers a marshy landscape complete with dense foliage, murky water, dank earthen caves, and a secret hovel carved from the roots of some massive tree. This map has countless places for PCs—or any number of lurking horrors—to hide. Included for free with this poster is a 5 by 7-inch terrain card that you can place over the empty clearing of this map, seamlessly turning it into a starship crash site on some remote planet!

The Desert Sanctum is a ruined temple lost in the drifting sands of some distant wasteland! Shimmering portals of blue energy block the four main entrances, but someone—or something—has broken through the walls in several places, allowing access to the enigmas within! What lies within the great pit at the center of the Chamber of Echoes? Who carved the great obelisks? What forgotten ruler once sat on the misplaced throne? These mysteries are yours to unravel!

Our good friends at Reaper are releasing another pair of Pathfinder Miniatures! One is brand-new, and the other is a reissue from the original Crocodile Games line. Clearly, they like the adage "Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other is gold!"

The all-new mini is Lem, our iconic halfling bard—the eighth figure in our Pathfinder iconics series. Lem comes loaded with short sword and musical instrument, all set to inspire courage in your adventuring group. The smug look on his face is priceless!

The reissued product is actually a two-pack, Nualia & Erylium. This gruesome twosome from Pathfinder #1—Rise of the Runelords Chapter 1: "Burnt Offerings" are queens of a couple of that Adventure Path's main locations, the Catacombs of Wrath and Thistletop. The way these two baddies are ready to mop up do-gooders must make mama Lamashtu very proud!

You might also want to take a look at the cool pictures of two painted miniatures that we just got from Reaper. Harsk looks ready for action, while a new picture of a painted Ezren, our ever-so-cranky iconic wizard, is a sight to behold! (Pathfinder Miniatures are unpainted metal, of course, but hopefully these pictures will inspire you to create your own little works of art!)

If you really want to immerse yourself into your game world, you should try setting the scene with sound... and Sonic Legends is here to help you out! Sonic Legends soundscapes are a blend of music and sound effects designed to enhance roleplaying games. The music provides an emotive backdrop that helps your players get into the right mood, and the sound effects give you a realistic sonic environment to set your scene. Each soundscape is approximately eight to ten minutes in length, and shifts to naturally follow a dramatic storyline. The best part is that each soundscape is seamlessly loopable, so there's no limit to how long your scene has to be! Just download your Sonic Legends soundscape to your mp3 player or laptop, put it on repeat play, turn up your speakers and GAME ON!

They've got 16 different soundscapes to choose from, covering themes from an Elven City to a Zombie Apocalypse, from a Dungeon Prison to the Wonders of Space. There's a FREE sample MP3 for each soundscape, giving you about a minute of the full track, so you can try them before you buy them!

Liven up your next gaming session with Sonic Legends Soundscapes !

Growing up, I had an awesome book that covered the classic monsters of Hollywood: Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon... I read that book over and over, absorbing every detail and scanning the TV Guide to find them in movies airing in the late, late, late-night movie slot! So you can imagine my enthusiasm when the R&D gang told me that we would be doing Classic Horrors Revisited as the next Pathfinder Chronicles book!

Born of myth, legend, and even modern film and literature, monsters such as the mummy, vampire, werewolf, and zombie are the stuff of nightmares—and frequent foes of heroic adventurers! Along with flesh golems, gargoyles, ghosts, ghouls, hags, and the mysterious derro, these monsters are staples of horror fiction and the bane of countless would-be heroes.

This 64-page book explores the origin of these creatures (in both the game world and real-world history), as well as their creation, habitat, society, motivations, and role in a campaign. Each creature also includes information on new and deadly creature variants, such as nosferatu vampires, corpse chill mummies, gemstone gargoyles, host corpse zombies, and phantasmagoric ghosts. What’s more, each chapter provides several new and notable examples of each creature, as well as a fully statted and ready-to-run sample monster, whether it’s a flesh golem barbarian, a derro magister, a ghoul necromancer, a hag water-witch, or a lycanthrope-hunting werewolf.

Whether your campaign is a standard fantasy monster hunt, a gothic romance, or an exercise in terror, Classic Horrors Revisited provides both historical insight and fresh new spins on these traditional icons of fear!

The dark side of the Force has always beckoned to Jedi, and this month, there's twice as much darkness to tempt you. Whether you're exploring the dark times in the history of the Star Wars universe when the Jedi's fire had gone out of the universe and evil ran unchecked, or you're checking out the dark side of the human soul and the sly characters who inhabit it, this month's Star Wars products should be right up your alley!

For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. But the Jedi have fallen, and sinister forces control the galaxy. The dark times are here! With the Dark Times Booster Packs, you can reenact and create your own battles nestled between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope with the likes of Chewbacca, A'Sharad Hett, Major Veers, IG-88, Boushh, and other gritty heroes and ruthless villains from the Star Wars universe with this 40-figure Star Wars Miniatures expansion set offered in boosters containing seven random, prepainted, plastic miniatures complete with stat cards.

The galaxy far, far away is rife with treachery and intrigue, from the machinations of Darth Sidious and the Bothan SpyNet to the secret agendas of the Rebel Alliance and the Empire. The Galaxy of Intrigue sourcebook for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game provides new options and gear for nobles and other sly-minded characters, as well as a host of adventure hooks and campaign seeds that can be used to inject elements of intrigue into campaigns of all eras.

One of the more iconic aspects of fantasy roleplaying campaigns, especially at the lower levels, is the fight with bandits. Usually, the scruffy ruffians jump out of the trees on a dark forest path shouting something like "Your money or your life!" Once they make off with their loot, the PCs will want to track down the outlaws and have their revenge... which is where Bandit Outpost, our latest GameMastery Flip-Mat, comes in.

From the look-out tower to the prison cells to quarters for the goons, the Bandit Outpost is a perfect set-piece for any campaign, and easily doubles as a suitable home for the heroes after they have rescued it from evil. The flip side consists of a dirt road through a green background, perfect for setting up that ambush that relieves characters of their hard-earned gold.

As always, our Flip-Mats are 24" x 30" unfolded, and fold down to a convenient 8" x 10". Its coated surface can handle any dry-erase, wet-erase, or even permanent marker.

There is something that most Americans really like about plucky rebels fighting off the evil empire. I'm talking about the Revolutionary War, of course, not Star Wars: A New Hope (though personally, I like the latter a bit more). Perhaps that's why Andoran, Spirit of Liberty, our latest Pathfinder Companion, channels Patrick Henry, Luke Skywalker, George Washington and Princess Leia. Of course, when you are fighting Cheliax, death may not be the release that it was in the other two wars!

Unwilling to bend a knee to the devil-worshipers of Cheliax, the people of Andoran declared themselves a free country where all men and women had the right to choose their own rulers. Unique among the lands of Golarion, Andoran is a representative democracy; foreign nobles declare it a doomed experiment, yet simultaneously fear that the power of its philosophy may cause peasant uprisings in their own lands. True Andorens believe in self-determination at all costs, and hate slavery with a passion, even going so far as to send their glorious Eagle Knights on dangerous missions to undermine the slave trade in other lands and spread far and wide the call of freedom.

Inside this Pathfinder Companion you’ll find details on the people of Andoran—how they live, how they govern, their relationships with neighboring countries and former nobles, their spiritual outlook, and their deep national connection with birds of prey; the Steel Falcon prestige class, representing the branch of the Eagle Knights devoted to battling slavery; an in-depth history of Andoran, from humble beginnings as a logging territory to the current glorious Republic; descriptions of the major and minor cities of Andoran; potent new magic items and spells; and new traits to customize Andoren characters.

A year or so ago, our friend John Kovalic had a dream. He dreamt of a cute and cuddly Cthulhu figure that would be loved the world over, and totally wouldn't tear at the roots of man's sanity even a little bit. To make his dream a reality, John enlisted the help of my friend Dov Kelemer and his company, Dreamland Toyworks. The result has been a successful line of My Little Cthulhu toys that have become favorites here on paizo.com. And this time around, My Little Cthulhu glows in the dark!

The “Great Cute One” has risen from beneath the ocean’s surface to give humanity tentacle hugs and gaping maw kisses! This 8" vinyl toy, created by John Kovalic (Dork Tower) also comes with two Little Victims that fit in My Little Cthulhu’s snuggly grasp—and also pull apart to show their yummy red insides! This edition features a Glow-in-the-Dark phosphorescence, perfect for instilling insanity in your friends and loved ones at all hours of the night!

Check out the full line of Dreamland Toyworks' My Little Cthulhu toys!

Our friends at Green Ronin Publishing love having sales. Over the last few years, we've run different versions of their Green Ronin Apocalypse Sale, and we've also been selling some of their backstock that we have in the warehouse at 50% off for a year or so now. And in their latest sale, you can pick up Mutants & Masterminds books at 40% to 50% off MSRP!

Start with the Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Edition Rulebook—the most complete, detailed, and fun superhero RPG yet! Based on the popular Open Game License, Mutants & Masterminds has everything you need to create your own superheroes and villains. It offers more than a dozen ready-made superhero archetypes and even more ready-to-use supervillain archetypes, so you can start playing right away! Included are two introductory adventures, one providing an introduction to the award-winning Freedom City campaign setting.

Five of the books, Time of Crisis, Nocturnals, Gimmick's Guide to Gadgets, Lockdown, and Foes of Freedom are on sale for 50% off MSRP, and the rest of the M&M line is being offered at 40% off MSRP.

This Mutants & Masterminds Sale only lasts until February 18, so hurry, or these prices will pass you by like a speeding bullet!

The Conan RPG from Mongoose Publishing was one of the most successful OGL products produced during the heyday of the 3rd edition of D&D. Chronicling the exploits of Conan the Cimmerian, the brainchild of author Robert E. Howard, the Conan RPG line gives you everything you need to launch your own adventures in the lands of Hyboria. Mongoose's license to produce the Conan RPG ended, and their loss is your gain! Mongoose has dropped the prices on their remaining Conan books by $10 to $15 per book!

• Conan RPG—2nd Edition was $39.95—NOW $29.99!
• Return to the Road of Kings was $34.95—NOW $19.99!
• Bestiary of the Hyborian Age was $29.95—NOW $19.99!
• Secrets of Skelos was $29.95—NOW $19.99!
• Adventures in the Hyborian Age was $29.95—NOW $14.99!
• Player's Guide to the Hyborian Age was $24.95—NOW $14.99!
• Trial of Blood was $34.95—NOW $19.99!
• Cimmeria was $29.95—NOW $19.99!
• Cities of Hyboria was $24.95—NOW $14.99!
• Khitai was $24.95—NOW $14.99!
• Betrayer of Asgard was $29.95—NOW $19.99!
• Warrior's Companion was $24.95—NOW $14.99!
• Catacombs of Hyboria was $24.95—NOW $14.99!

These awesome deals aren't going to last forever, so if you'd like to bring a little Cimmerian might to your OGL game, pick up some of these sweet Conan deals before they are gone for good!

A couple months ago, Goodman Games announced that they'd be lowering the prices on a number of upcoming products, dropping many of them to a recession-busting $9.99 MSRP! Well, the first of these "Great Price" products has rolled into paizo.com!

The Dungeon Alphabet compiles twenty-six classic dungeon design elements in one place to assist the game master in creating subterranean challenges. A is for Altar, B is for Books, C is for Caves... The Dungeon Alphabet has advice, hints, and tables that bring new life to your adventures. The entries are accompanied by outstanding art from classic fantasy illustrators including Erol Otus, Jeff Easley, Jim Roslof, and Jim Holloway, with a foreword by noted game designer Zeb Cook. Best of all, every GM can use The Dungeon Alphabet, because this supplement is system neutral!

Kobold Quarterly #12 is a great example of how Wolfgang Baur's company Open Design is courting all flavors of the world's most popular roleplaying game. For players of the 3.5 edition, Wolf has a new creature in the Inevitable of Death; six new Lords of the Abyss, and the Fallen Elves feature. If you prefer the 4th edition of D&D, you'll want to check out Zobeck's Winter Court, boon traps, combat skill challenges, relics of Zobeck, and plagues and diseases. And if your love is the Pathfinder RPG, you'll be happy to see the Ecology of the Frogemoth (with really funky life cycle artwork) and an article on specialty priests. There's even an article written by our own James Jacobs about the Burnt Offerings stage play, with pictures and all! Of course, there's a bunch of system-neutral content, like Monte Cook on game balance, historical ninjas, war wagons for Zobeck, and a dragon's lair map! Trust me: no matter what flavor(s) of your favorite sword-and-sorcery RPG you like to play, there's a lot of good stuff in Kobold Quarterly #12 to catch your eye.

Fans of D&D 4E will also want to check out two new Zobeck Gazetteers from Open Design. The Imperial Gazetteer lets you to travel deep within the palatial crypts of deep realms where death fears to tread. Vampires and spectral knights long ago claimed the country of Morgau & Doresh as their own, while leaving the ghouls their empire deep beneath the earth. Both nations are fully detailed in this volume by award-winning Open Designers Wolfgang Baur and Scott Gable. You get a history of the undead nations above and below the earth; a giant cast of undying antagonists and allies; a new undead race of necropolitan ghouls for PCs to join the unliving; the subterranean realms of the Emperor of the Ghouls; undead-themed gods and magical items; and more original, inventive undead than you can shake a stake at.

The Iron Gazetteer is a primer on the history and lore dwarven of the cantons, and more, all fully compatible with 4th Edition D&D. This handbook for heroism includes descriptions of all the dwarven cantons—even those fallen into ruin; an overview of dwarven society; new races and class builds; paragon paths, and epic destiny; perils of the Ironcrag mountains; new locales, traps and skill checks; enough new monsters to dull even dwarven-smithed steel; and a treasury of dwarven lore, campaign and character ideas, and secrets of the high peaks sure to improve your game.

All three of these Open Design products are available now both print and PDF versions.

Our partners at Reaper Miniatures have just released two more Pathfinder Minis. First up is our most famous iconic, the sorceror Seoni, in a brand-new sculpt based on her appearance on the cover of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. Combine her with Reaper's recent Core Rulebook version of our iconic fighter, Valeros, and you're two-thirds of the way to recreating Wayne Reynolds' fantastic cover scene! And in April, Reaper plans to release the red dragon to complete the spread. Reaper hasn't finalized the price for the dragon yet, so we can't take preorders, but you can check out a photo of the original sculpt by Julie Guthrie. Keep watching this blog for updates as we get more information!

The other release this week is Xanesha, the lamia matriarch from Pathfinder #2—Rise of the Runelords Chapter 2: "The Skinsaw Murders"—coincidentally, the very volume that introduced Seoni to the world! Xanesha was originally released by Crocodile Games, but has been unavailable for a bit.

You know what they say about the enemy of my enemy... well, when your city is facing its most dire moment, it shouldn't be too surprising that in Pathfinder Adventure Path #29: Mother of Flies, your PCs might have to ally with creatures and factions that they might well be fighting on any other day. But times are dire, so maybe the PCs need to put their usual preferences in mothballs for a bit. What did you expect from veteran Adventure Path writer Greg A. Vaughn?

Leaderless and disorganized, the city of Westcrown reels after a terrifying incursion from the infernal realm. Yet while fiends stalked the streets, a more insidious rebellion unfolded below. Now a new power rises to lay claim to all of Westcrown! Only the insight of a crazed witch might aid the PCs in curtailing this dastardly coup. But can they hope to stand against the true masters of a city poised on the brink of ruin?

This latest Pathfinder Adventure Path volume continues the Council of Thieves Adventure Path. It also includes the newest chapter of our series on the gods of Golarion with a soul-staining glimpse into the infernal faith of the archfiend Asmodeus, by Sean K Reynolds; we have an investigation of the methods and organization of thieves’ guilds, by Kevin Carter; a new chapter of the Pathfinder’s Journal, by Dave Gross; and six new monsters, by Adam Daigle, James Jacobs, Tim Nightengale, and F. Wesley Schneider.

One of my favorite gaming memories is an RPGA tournament at Gen Con the year that Oriental Adventures hit the scene. It was really fun being immersed in a totally different culture. We played up the whole idea of bushido, the samurai moral code which stresses frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, and honor unto death. At the end of the session, my friend Rich's character actually committed seppuku because of a disgraceful act during the game! We were all blown away by the powerful story we were telling together. And now Fantasy Flight Games is bringing those concepts to the tabletop in their latest board game, Bushido!

In Bushido, players take on the roles of daimyos, feudal lords in medieval Japan, and compete to become the next shogun of the empire. The main goal in this game of resource management and conflict is to earn honor, which can be achieved in different ways: by holding provinces, winning battles, or through influential ceremonies. The first Daimyo who earns 50 points of honor wins Bushido!

For the last several years, WARMACHINE has been among the most popular miniatures games in the industry. And now Privateer Press is powering it up with a new edition of their core rules, WARMACHINE Prime Mk II!

The game takes place in the Iron Kingdoms, a setting that combines traditional fantasy with gunpowder and steam power. Players take the role of elite soldier-sorcerers known as warcasters, who magically control mighty warjacks—fifteen-foot-tall steam-powered combat automatons that represent the pinnacle of military might in the Iron Kingdoms. A game is fought with a warjack's thundering cannons, ripping iron claws, and crushing hammer blows, as well as devastating spells wrought by the warcaster.

With the advent of WARMACHINE Prime Mk II, the game plays faster, easier, and more aggressively than ever before. This gorgeous full-color book contains the rules for the game; detailed profiles and game stats for powerful characters, warjacks, and soldiers; histories of the nations of the Iron Kingdoms; and an instructional hobby guide that will help bring your tabletop battlefield to life.

If you're an old hand at WARMACHINE, there's something new here for you, and if you've never played before, now's a great time to jump into the fray!

Growing up, I was a ravenous science fiction reader. Vance, Van Vogt, Lieber, McCaffrey—the list went on and on. And one of the authors that I developed an affection for in college was Piers Anthony. Of course, I enjoyed his light-hearted Xanth books, but I really dug the Phaze books which bridged the gap between fantasy and science fiction while playing on my love of gaming. So I was ecstatic when Erik told me that Piers Anthony was allowing us to reprint a couple of his out-of-print novels in our Planet Stories line, starting with our latest release, Steppe.

After facing a brutal death at the hands of enemy tribesmen upon the Eurasian steppe, the 9th-century warrior-chieftain Alp awakes in a world of “demons”—sinister businessmen who have brought him fifteen hundred years into the future to make him a soulless pawn in a ruthless game that spans the stars. Based on secret records of Earth’s past, the Game sets players in the roles of historical figures, pitting them against one another in a decadent and deadly fight for supremacy. For Alp, however, war is never a game. With his own execution imminent, Alp must adapt quickly to both his new century and the strange rules of the Game world, facing off in bloodthirsty battles against the most notorious figures in history. For if Alp doesn’t emerge victorious, he’ll never live to claim the woman he loves...

You know that ad for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: two great tastes that go great together? Well, that must have been the genesis for Battle for the Underdark, the first Dungeons & Dragons-branded HeroScape set. I can just imagine the scene at Wizards of the Coast: the HeroScape brand manager and the D&D Miniatures brand manager knock into each other as they turn the same corner from different directions. HeroScape figures and D&D minis go flying, and in the process of sorting out whose minis are whose, D&D HeroScape is conceived! And the result is a HeroScape Master Set is chock full of D&D goodness, including 4 hero minis, 4 drow minis, a black dragon and a troll mini! You also get 50 terrain pieces to build scenarios, including rock outcroppings and water features. You could buy this set to use in your regular D&D game, or run the HeroScape scenarios included in the set to get your D&D fix in an entirely different way. In either case, this marriage of D&D and HeroScape really is two great tastes that go great together!

The hordes of evil must be stopped! The Valkyrie Generals representing the forces of good have summoned brave adventurers to embark on a quest to defeat the black dragons and their wicked allies. Who will prevail and who will perish? Iconic characters and monsters from the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons joins forces with the ultimate build and battle miniatures game to bring new dimensions of fun for everyone, all compatible with other HeroScape figures!

Battle a troll, a band of drow, and ultimately face the evil black dragon as the fifty configurable terrain pieces ensure hours of replay to design your own battles. Choose one of the five customizable game scenarios included or create a scenario of your own—in Battle for the Underdark, it's all up to you!