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Dungeoneer Reaches the Atlas Games Warehouse ...
Special Ops Demo Team Rejoices!
The much-anticipated second edition of Thomas Denmark's Dungeoneer: Tomb of the Lich Lord, and its first sequel Dungeoneer: Vault of the Fiends, have arrived at the Atlas Games warehouse, and should be shipping to US distributors on Monday, October 27th. That means Dungeoneer will be in stores at the beginning of November, right in time for the holiday gift-giving season. Hurrah!
In celebration of Dungeoneer's arrival, John Nephew has gone crazy and loosened up the purse strings. Any Special Ops demo team member who runs a demo of Dungeoneer between now and December 25th will receive DOUBLE the normal Hazard Pay points ... that's 10 points per hour of demo time rather than the normal 5 points that Special Ops members earn for running Atlas card games, board games, and RPGs. To join Special Ops, fill out and return the Special Ops Application form located at www.atlas-games.com/specialops . To request that a demo of Dungeoneer be held in your store, fill out and return the Demo Request Form at the bottom of the same page.
Also, look for an exclusive interview with Dungeoneer designer and artist Thomas Denmark in December's issue of Game Trade Magazine, and for our Dungeoneer ad in the fall 2003 Games Quarterly catalog.
Dungeoneer on the Way!
We just got word:
Dungeoneer is shipping from the printer today! Depending on how long the trucking company takes to get it here, we may see it as in our warehouse as early as Friday or Monday.
For Review
Hello again. I'm in the midst of revising our
Penumbra review page, so what you'll find on that page is somewhat complete, somewhat incomplete. If you have a site with reviews of Penumbra, Ars Magica, Feng Shui, or Unknown Armies products
and you expect those reviews to be in place for the life of your site, please drop me a line
at this address with the URL(s) and I'll include your review in our archive. Thanks much!
Atlas Moves Downtown
So, we've finally hit the point where no amount of rearranging skids can make our warehouse big enough to house the new products coming in -- like the two Dungeoneer sets and Dork20 decks we're expecting any time. It's time to expand, and has been for quite a while, actually.
So, we're teaming up with the Source Comices & Games -- our sister company, actually, since Atlas' co-owner Jerry Corrick also has a majority stake in the Source. The Source is Minnesota's largest game store, and likely one of the largest in North America, too. If you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth a trip. They also run the Atlas Games, Steve Jackson Games, and Dork Storm Press booths at big conventions like Origins and GenCon, and they do fulfillment for Dork Storm Press. That means they've got warehousing needs, too, that they can't house in their store space.
So, Atlas Games and the Source Comics and Games will be moving into an ENORMOUS shared warehouse with attached office space (the Source is just moving their warehouse, not their store ... calm down, already). We're doing some preliminary work in the next few weeks -- painting, carpet, etc. -- but we're anticipating the move will be pretty much complete by the end of November. So, if we're a bit behind in answering emails and updating the web site in the next few weeks, please bear with us. It's a big change -- we've been in our current space for more than 10 years! -- but it'll make us better able to produce the games you love in the long run. Thanks for making it possible!
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Hi there. A few new things around the website over the last few days. A new
preview PDF for Crime & Punishment is available, with feats and crunchiness. A new
5MB preview PDF for Ancestral Vault is also available, with even more crunchiness but no feats. Changes have been made to the site's general organization, and in some places that means new graphics. More changes are on the way, but not until well after we move. Has no one mentioned that? Someone better suited to the task than I should clatter some keys about that, I say.
On other fronts, the imminent release of
Dungeoneer draws near (as imminent things do), but is still not imminent enough. Soon, though. Likewise, the return of
Once Upon a Time (now with working links!) and the cartoonishly bloody first appearance of
Dork20 (now with fewer embarassing typos!). I can tell you're excited. So are we.
I'm off now to some
Feng Shui-type work. I'll give you a hint. It starts with
I and ends with
Ron & Silk. More later.
Golden Comeback Now Out of Print
We just sold out of
Golden Comeback, the best-selling
Feng Shui supplement we've done. A number of distributors just restocked this book with the recent release of
Ancestral Vault (or
Sanctuary of Ice before it), so now is the time to check your local game store and make sure you get it while you can. We do not have any plans to reprint in the near future.
Good afternoon, internet folks. All manner of things are keeping me busy here at the workshop, but I'm delighted to say that I have something to show off today. I've been dying to talk about this book, and now here it is. Anything else I have to say can wait until tomorrow. Back to work!
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Iron & Silk
The Feng Shui Player's Guide to Improvised Fight Scenes
by Chris Jones and John Seavey
Chinese restaurant. Night. Dinner is over; the ninja are here. But your guns are in the car. Do you get to the kitchen to find some knives or just make do with your chopsticks? Do you throw plates or drag that decorative gong off the wall and use it as a shield? There's a hot pot of soup you could use to scald the hoods off their heads and a stone pagoda lamp that'll stop their throwing stars. All around you are the tools you need to defeat these mooks, if you know where to look.
Iron & Silk is the player's toolbox for Feng Shui fight scenes. Inside you'll find clever and exciting ways to use everyday items in the daring and reckless action sequences Feng Shui is known for. From the elaborate temples of Imperial China to the space stations of the dystopian future, from the gas stations of the modern day to the train stations of the 1850s, the key to a thrilling brawl is in the details. Those details are in this book. Breathe new life into your fights and find new use for your fu. With Iron & Silk, you'll never be stumped for a stunt again.
This all-new sourcebook is the first of its kind for Feng Shui: a companion book that's meant to be used at the game table. Iron & Silk is a reference book of new equipment as well as a guidebook on fun and effective fight scenes for new and old Feng Shui players alike.
"In the right hands, everything is a weapon."
Stock Number: AG4011 • ISBN 1-58978-047-7 • SRP $17.95 (US)
Cover Art: Kagan McLeod • Description: 72 pages, perfect bound softcover
Shipping to Distributors in January, 2004
Dork20 Proofs
The proofs for Dork20's tuckbox just came in yesterday ... Will did a fantastic job designing the box, which you can now see on the
Dork20 product page. Sample cards from the deck are also up at
www.atlas-games.com/dork20.
Ancestral Vault On the Road
Despite a miserable cold that has been settling in on my respiratory system, I did manage to ship out
Ancestral Vault yesterday, so it's now on the way to distributors all over the world. Ask for it today at your local game store!
Today we received and approved the card faces for
Dungeoneer: Vault of the Fiends. Boy it looks cool! The hour of release is fast approaching...
Check out the very detailed, and quite positive,
review of Crime & Punishment recently written by Simon Collins over at ENWorld. If you've been wondering what the book is about, and exactly what kind of crunchy goodness fills its pages, Simon provides a really detailed breakdown of its contents.
Further Proofs
The proofs of
Blood of the Valiant have come in from the printer and gone right back out again. Things look good and I'm really excited to get the book back from the printer and into the hands you, the customer. More than that, I'm eager to get talking about the next
Feng Shui book on the schedule, but one thing at a time, I guess.
I've just about wrapped up my proofreading pass of
Sacred Ground II, which means we're on schedule there. That book's got some terrifically vivid locations and rich characters that I think you all will really enjoy. Plus, Michelle melted her brain turning high-level characters into v3.5-compliant high-level characters and it's the least you can do to give one or two of them an appearance in your own campaign. :-)
More on all things Atlas here as they happen. I'm off to prepare the
Sanctuary of Ice web enhancement for y'all. Now go play.
Atl@s Update Update
The newest e-issue (?!) of the Atl@s Update has been sent rocketing through the electronic communications networks of this planet's most technically advanced species and should have already reached its subjects at the time of this writing. If your electronic mailbox does not contain the message referenced here, then you have not subscribed, or successfully subscribed, to the list. The list decides who does and does not receive the update. I obey the list, and do only what it says. You may gain audience with the list by sending an email to
info@atlas-games.com.
Game Design Seminar in Northampton, MA
Author and game designer Chris Aylott (
Dynasties & Demagogues) is also a game retailer. His spacious and much beloved store,
The Space-Crime Continuum, is located in Northampton, MA. (If you're like me and have never been north of Pennsylvania without also being west of Ohio, that's somewhere near a town called Boston, and should not be pronounced "North Hampton.") On October 12th, Chris Aylott and The Space-Crime Continuum are hosting a game design seminar with author Mike Mearls (
In the Belly of the Beast). Get your copies of
Dynasties & Demagogues,
Last Hero in Scandinavia, and
In the Belly of the Beast signed, take in some advice from these experienced game designers, and generally have a good time.
Check out
The Space-Crime Continuum website for more information.
Special Ops Drawing Winner!
Atlas Games is pleased to announce that Matt Ryan of Ithaca, NY is the winner of this quarter's
Special Ops prize drawing. Matt has chosen a limited-edition
Ars Magica t-shirt as his prize.
Special Ops is Atlas Games' corps of loyal fans who organize and run demos and tournaments at retail stores and conventions across the country and around the world. At the end of each quarter, Special Ops demo team members who have run a game in the last three months are entered into a prize drawing for rare and one-of-a-kind Atlas items. The next drawing will be December 31st, and will feature an all-new prize list with items like press sheets and original art from our popular
Ars Magica, Feng Shui, Penumbra D20, Over the Edge, and
Unknown Armies RPGs, and from card game favorites like
Dungeoneer, Lunch Money, and
Once Upon a Time.
To join Atlas Games' Special Ops demo team, just fill out and send in the application form on our
Special Ops page.
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