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We're in transition to a new server for web and e-mail -- the result (between some configuration issues and new DNS entries propagating) may be e-mail messages bouncing, and right now to see our web page you need to point a browser at http://www.atlas-games.com/atlas-games ... but don't worry, it will all be sorted out soon.
In the meantime, if you sent e-mail to any of us here at atlas-games.com and it bounced back to you, please re-send it.
Cough, Cough ... Hack, Hack!
No, it's not SARS ... just my standard post-travelling cold. Though I've pretty much lost my voice completely, my fingers can still type just fine, luckily for our production schedule! Speaking of which, I thought I'd mention that we're finally wrapping up work on the Penumbra Bestiary ... we anticipate sending it off to the printer next week!
Unknown Armies in Czech
I'm pleased to announce that we've signed an agreement with Bob Koutsky for the translation of
Unknown Armies into Czech. Since the Czech-language market is not exactly huge, Bob's plan for the moment is to sell the book in PDF format. We'll post more details when we have them.
Dynasties & Demagogues is in and it looks pretty darn good, even if I did lay it out myself. Scott picked out a terrific new header font for this book and I'd forgotten about it (
Dynasties was two books ago to us here at the office) until now. It's pretty.
Gen Con UK was fun.
Visiting Iceland was a blast.
Dynasties and Demagogues was delivered today, and will ship to distributors all over the globe tomorrow.
But for now...time to go home. Darned jet lag! Michelle and I were in the office at 6:15 this morning.
So...that's it for now. Watch for
Dynasties in a store near you soon!
Preorders Now Accepted
Thanks to the help of
Warehouse 23, we're now accepting preorders for Atlas game titles before they even hit distributors or your local retailers. While we'd be delighted if every Atlas games player could stop by their local games retailer every week or so in search for new products, sometimes that's just not possible. If you don't have a local retailer, or if the titles you're eagerly awaiting always seem to be sold out when you get there, try ordering your books in advance from
our website. Just click on the
buy now button as usual, and as soon as the book reaches Warehouse 23, they'll send a copy straight out to you. We're currently accepting preorders for
Dynasties & Demagogues (which should begin shipping sometime after April 24th),
Uncommon Character, and the newest
Unknown Armies book,
Break Today.
Give it a try, and
let us know what you think.
GenCon UK
I was at GenCon UK yesterday, helping John Nephew and Jonathan Tweet talk about the past, present, and future of
Ars Magica. Jonathan talked a bit about the features of the game he thought were the most important, and fortunately we plan to keep most of them in Fifth Edition. Things like the magic system, the Stat + Skill + Roll vs. Ease Factor mechanic, and wizards as highly powerful characters.
It was also nice to meet a few more
Ars Magica fans I'd talked to online -- having faces for names is always good.
Gorillas and Holy Ground
I am so psyched to be working on
Gorilla Warfare right now. We've recently gotten to see the stellar cover by Steven Sanders, which Scott will be sharing with you before long, and soon I'll get to usher the book through layout. This is a fun one, if you like mechanized gorillas. If you don't like intelligent, belligerent simians then, quite frankly, you might have a screw loose. If you have a screw loose, you're sure to like
Gorilla Warfare, too.
Sacred Ground, the next book in our
Penumbra series of campaign sites sourcebooks (
Seven Strongholds and
Seven Cities) is going out the door to the printers, and I had a real good time wading through that book. (No one in the office will believe me, but it's true!) I'm looking forward to seeing what you all think of that book. Scott's map work is something wonderful, and we'll give you a taste of it on the website when the book becomes available for pre-orders through
Warehouse 23.
What's that, you haven't heard about online preorders? That's because it's not Wednesday yet, when you'll be able to secure your copies (or put your
e-dibs on them, if you will) of our forthcoming titles. So tune in tomorrow, folks, for the skinny on that!
A new
Feng Shui book is on the schedule: the long-awaited Jammers sourcebook! Details, which have just been sent out to distributors, are as follows:
Gorilla Warfare
The Jammers Sourcebook for
Feng Shui
by John Seavey
The Jammers -- outlaws from the future and renegades throughout time -- are out to build a better tomorrow, or at least destroy the one that already exists. If these fanatical saboteurs get their way, the history of the world will no longer be subject to the forces of feng shui and all chi will be burned from the planet. To the Jammers, destiny is dug from the rubble of revolution and the course of history always goes boom!
Atlas Games announces
Gorilla Warfare, the first no-holds-barred excursion into the secret, underground lairs of the Jammers, from the demon-infested past of 69 A.D. to the dystopian tomorrow of the Buro. The Jammers hold sway over no single era but instead charge screaming from the Netherworld into any time frame. Now, with technologically altered soldiers, spies, and informants positioned underneath every major front in the Secret War, the Jammers are ready to ignite the fuels of rebellion and blow the Secret War wide open.
Gorilla Warfare examines the bombs, bunkers, tactics, and mechanized apes that make up the Jammers. Inside, you'll find the resources that players and GMs need to bring the noise to their own
Feng Shui games: new platoons of simian soldiers, from submersible units to aerial units; the Ape Factory, where new Jammers are made; the all-new hardware schticks, so you too can be horribly mutiliated in the name of military superiority; and battle-plans for the next stage of Jammer operations all over the globe. Whether you work with the Jammers or against them, this book gives you access to the bomb before it goes off.
Stock Number AG4009, ISBN 1-58978-038-8, SRP $29.95 (US)
Cover Artist Steven Sanders, Description 128 pages, hardcover
Shipping to Distributors in July 2003
Looking for players?
Rob Placer at The Gamer's Realm out in New Jersey told me about a cool feature on their website --
http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/wanteds.php -- where players can get together. I see listings from all over and as far afield as Australia. (Be sure to scroll down the page if all you see are blank entries -- it appears that web crawling bots have been giving them blank form entries, a glitch they are working on fixing.)
Out the door
Well, today we helped all the NPCs in our new Penumbra title
Uncommon Character get on their rain slickers and booties and then sent them out the door. They will arrive either at the first grade, or they will arrive at the printer, I suppose. With them out the door, it should just be a matter of mere weeks before you, the reader, get a chance to meet them. By that time, they'll all be grown-up characters of many different character levels and Challenge Ratings. Some of them will turn out to be good people, and others will end up as miserable, untrustworthy scum. Many will land somewhere in the middle.
Now, only the afore-mentioned website update stands between me and the completion of
Sacred Ground! As for that site update, keep your eyes peeled for some goodies from
Dynasties & Demagogues, which will be appearing at the end of this month. In the meantime, John and Michelle will be in Iceland, because
The Land of Fire & Ice makes it seem so wonderful. We swear, no part of that book was paid for the Icelandic Tourism Board.
Today it's official:
Sanctuary of Ice is back on the schedule. This long-awaited sourcebook for the Tribunal of the Greater Alps has had a, shall we say, complex life history. But there's a final edited manuscript in hand, I've actually roughed out the layout, most of the artwork is already complete (and much of it paid for more than a year ago), so we are pretty confident that we can hit the new release date target of shipping to distributors in August 2003.
Here's the revised descriptive text (which will be in the proper place on our website when Will does another update):
Sanctuary of Ice
The Ars Magica Sourcebook of the Greater Alpine Tribunal
For hundreds of years the magi of the Greater Alpine Tribunal have maintained Hermetic peace. Not for them the squabbles of the border tribunals, the petty incursions, the little animosities. In the valleys of the Alps, Hermetic culture and Hermetic magi have flourished. Covenants which knew the voices of the Founders nurture ancient magi here, magi whose powers caress the edges of the possible. Only those things sanctified by time survive the harshness of the mountains. Everything here is armored with the strength of centuries.
This supplement takes familiar elements of Hermetic culture and rebuilds them, without the scrimping and compromises of life at the edge of the Hermetic lands. Redcaps and Order-endorsed hedge traditions blossom under the aegis of Hermetic justice, justice enforced by the cunning and the ruthless. Hermetic trade and intrigue weave strands of interdependence between bitter rivals, so that Wizard’s War seems a refreshingly rustic way of settling disputes. Sanctuary of Ice describes the Hermetic quest for longevity, and the magi who cheat death as ghosts. It considers the plans of the Primi of House Jerbiton and House Criamon, and the schemes of magi more faerie than human. It describes Hermetic culture at the apex - the tribunal where moonlight is woven into every stone.
Product Number: AG0267
ISBN: 1-58978-001-9
Description: 128 pages, hardcover
Suggested Retail Price: $29.95 US
Author: Timothy Ferguson
Shipping to Distributors Worldwide in August 2003
Ars Magica Prints from Jeff Menges
One of our long-time favorite artists, Jeff Menges, has some cool prints of
Ars Magica cover art that he's done. He dropped us a line to say that this month's Skaircrow Graphics/ebay print special is ArM based. Check it out at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3511209849!
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