Savage Mondays – May 16, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

Here is the news from the last week:

Pinnacle Entertainment Group

The Path of Kane now available for Pre-Order

Pinnacles big announcement this week was the pre-order of The Path of Kane for the Savage World of Solomon Kane.  With over 50 new Savage Tales this is surely an book worth picking up for any Solomon Kane fan.

From Pinnacle:

You have seen the path to redemption, a road paved in the blood and bones of the evil you must defeat to save the world from its unholy taint. Face that which prey on men’s dreams, their fears, and their very souls. Walk The Path of Kane.

Your enemies span the globe, reaching out from every shadowy corner of all four continents. Men, magick, and monsters of the darkest hearts and basest desires threaten the very world you tread. Humanity is lost without the will and steel of good folk like you.

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Savage Mondays – May 9, 2011

War of the Dead Chapter 3

After a long silence Daring Entertainment is back!  Chapter 3 of the War of the Dead is now available for pre-order.  Coming in June will be 13 weeks of thrilling terror! Daring Entertainment is offering a pre-release special for their book, a $26 value is on sale for $14.99.  Which means you can get it for a little over $1 an adventure.

From RPGNow:

In the months since the first Outbreak of the Living Dead, the survivors of the Pinnacle Cruise Ship have faced all manner of horrors. From the Shamblers to the Infected Newborns, from the Living Dead Generals to the Ragers, they have survived against insurmountable odds. Now, an early winter has hit, and with it heavy snowfall and cold. Forced to find safe haven and fortify against the elements, can the characters withstand the greatest threat of all . . . their fellow survivors?

Chapter Three continues the saga as the characters are forced to uncover sinister plots within their own camp. A serial killer is on the loose, the Living Dead are mysteriously appearing within the walls of their safe haven, and not everyone is who they appear to be. Can the characters unravel the mysteries around them before it is too late?

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Savage Mondays – May 2, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

Here is the news from the last week:

Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Weird Wars 2 Vehicles!

We all know you like free stuff, we’ve got data to back that up those claims. So it’s always awesome to see Pinnacle releasing more of the stuff we crave.  Kicking out a some fine figure flats this week for Weird Wars 2.

From Pinnacle:

Reinforcements: Vehicles features vehicles for the Americans, British, Germans, Japanese, and Soviets, including more cars and trucks, planes and gliders, self-propelled guns and artillery, and even amphibious vehicles! There are also two additional vehicle qualities to apply to your new equipment as well as to the machinery already available in Weird War Two!

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Savage Mondays – April 11, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

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Hellfrost Region Guide #40: The Vale

In this slow news week we can always count on Triple Ace Games to make a release.  This week they kick out region guide for The Vale a small settlement in Hellfrost.

A land of green hills and gentle valleys, of small settlements and cheery inhabitants, the Vale is widely regarded as an idyllic land. Yet all is not well in this paradise. Refugees from Vestmark cross the border in growing numbers, bringing with them disease and banditry, and within the peaceful valleys lie many dark secrets.

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Savage Mondays – April 4, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

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Adamant Announces “App Prices a Failed Experiment”

Today Adamant announced with a heavy heart that the “app pricing” model has now been scrapped.  While they reported an increase in overall sales for January and February their March sales took a huge nose dive.  While the sales were up they cross-referenced their release schedule and noticed more releases during the time.  So while the percentage was high it wasn’t as much money as they had been previously making.  It’s worth the read over on GM Skarka’s blog.

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Savage Mondays – March 28, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

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Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Savage Worlds Wild Die Now Available

Previously these were only available were only available in a Deadlands Dice Set but now they are available for all the regular games as well.  These dice, available from Q-Workshop, are available in packs of five for your savage dice rolling needs.

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Savage Mondays – March 21, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

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Face of Mars | Adamant Entertainment

Personally I’m excited to see Adamant releasing more products, with their new “app price” model they’ve been releasing all new products at the $1.99 price point.  I’ve been interested in seeing if they can sustain that model and continue to release new products.  While I’m sure they are far more familiar with the math than I am, I’m glad to see them continuing to produce new work.

[From RPGNow]

Adamant Entertainment is pleased to present Face of Mars, an adventure for our Savage Worlds setting of swords and science beneath the moons of Mars!

The garrulous old bargeman waited until his listeners were gathered on the deck, then he began to recount the ancient legend: “Once, before the canals were built, this was a great nation, a coastal nation, whose sea-ships fared far and wide across the world. It was ruled by mighty and wise leaders. The greatest of these Coast Lords was Noldes Bartarigan, called the ‘Emperor Who Turned His Face Skyward’, and the ‘Lord Whose Voice Becomes the Sun’. He was entombed up there, on the plateau, in an ageless tomb, provisioned for all Eternity.”

He glanced around, and beckoned for his listeners to draw closer. “But the legends say that, just as Emperor Noldes was great in his power and wealth, like many great men, his appetites were equally vast. He sought far and wide across all of Mars, and partook of every pleasure imaginable. The finest foods, wines, and women were his to sample at his leisure – but also the finest arts and poetry, and the conversation of the wisest and wittiest courtiers.”

“As he grew old on the throne, Emperor Noldes tired of pleasure. His appetites were unsated, yet he found no novelty anywhere, for he had experienced all. It was plain to him that final perfection had been attained. Thus he gathered his most valued and rarest goods together, and commanded his most noble and valued courtiers to attend him. He declared, by decree of his own Imperial will, that the magnificence of his court would live on beyond mortal death. His court itself would become eternal! He had a grand tomb built, fashioned in his own image, and when he breathed his last, he was interred there with all his goods — and all his courtiers, sealed in with him, alive!” The bargeman cackled at his listener’s shocked expressions.

Like most legends, there is a core of truth to the tale – but more has been lost than has been retained, and the truth of Emperor Noldes Bartarigan’s tomb is far stranger than the legend that is told! Can your heroes brave the perils and uncover the ancient secrets of the Face of Mars?

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Savage Mondays – March 14, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

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More Deadlands One Shots! | Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Last week Pinnacle hinted, nay teased, at an announcement coming from the bowels of the Emerald City Comic Con. They attempted to entice us into showing up the Friday panel in which they were going to be announcing a secret. While this personally took me by surprise the location of their announcement was only befitting. Pinnacle announced they would be releasing more Deadlands One Shots, in fact a whole series of ‘em. The details on the Pinnacle page are a bit sparse, but if you mosey on over to Comic Book Resources you can get the full interview with Ron Marz and C. Edward Sellner giving you the full low down on all the releases coming your way.

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Savage Mondays – March 07, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

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Deadlands: The 1880 Smith & Robards Catalog | Pinnacle Entertainment Group

Have you decided that your Deadlands game is need to get some new guns, armor, or even some early cyberware?  Yup, you’ve read that right Pinnacle is adding some weird science cyberware into the already weird west.  Read on to find out more of the weapons and gizmos on pre-order from Pinnacle.

From Pinnacle:

Are you sick and tired of needing something they just don’t make? Well, they don’t, but we do! Inside our 1880 Smith & Robards Catalog, you’ll find a variety of wonders
brought to you by the most modern scientific, engineering, and manufacturing processes known to man! With one mail-order form, untold marvels can be in the palm of your hand faster than you can recover from a Hellstromme Industries mishap! Flip through our pages of delight and discover conveyances to cross any obstacle, handy
elixirs, potent patent tonics, powerful weapons, wondrous clothing, and stalwart armors. Rail cars and accessories, ghost rock and boilers, the odd and miscellaneous—nothing is without representation in the incredible 1880 Smith & Robards Catalog.

The 1880 Smith & Robards Catalog includes a wide variety of gadgets and supplies for your Deadlands game, as well as the complete Smith & Robards story with all their
secrets. With expanded rules for mad science and new rules for steam augmentations, the early cyberware of the Weird West, take your game where it’s never been—to Science!

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Savage Mondays – February 28, 2011

Each week we update you regarding everything Savage Worlds, including news from Pinnacle, the licensees, and the community, as well as the Forum Top Five.

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Beasts & Barbarians Heroic Tale #1: The Cliffs Queen’s Court | GRAmal Publishing

Wydawnictwo Gramel (aka GRAmel Publishing) has released their first English language release, and even better it’s free.  Its the first adventure in their new sword and sorcery setting Beasts and Barbarians which will hopefully be in English as well.

From RPGNow:

The heroes were crossing the Cairnlands as part of a caravan, either working as hired guards, or as passengers traveling from the Marquees to Valkheim. This morning the caravan was ambushed by a band of Cairnlander marauders, and only the heroes escaped. And then, the real adventure begins!

The Cliffs Queen’s Court is the first freebie for the upcoming Beasts and Barbarians, a Sword and Sorcery Savage Worlds setting by Umberto Pignatelli.

Welcome to the dangerous Dominions of the Blood Sea, a place where mighty barbarians fight against hideous monsters, dark warlocks whisper terrible sorceries in forgotten temples, and noble amazons duel in the sun scorched arenas of Faberterra, capital of a decadent empire!

Thirty new Edges will allow you to play a classic Sword and Sorcery legend. Become a bare-chested barbarian and fight to save magnificent courtesans from a fate worse than death. Or a cunning rogue and plunder treasures hidden in crumbling cities.

Three arcane backgrounds, Lotusmastery, Sorcery and the Path of the Enlightment, will make you able to dispatch the ancient evil that lurks in jungles of the south.

Dozens of new weapons, armors and mounts will grant your hero the best gear that can be imagined!

A simple but elegant system to develop you character even outside the adventure and to manage the enormous richness you’ll find!
And much, much more!

Are you brave enough to face the threats of Beasts and Barbarians?

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