---------------------------------- ATL@S UPDATE 20 January 2000 For More Info: www.atlas-games.com ---------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Atlas Games Hires Mythic Perspectives Publisher Roseville, MN -- Atlas Games is pleased to announce that it is adding Damelon Kimbrough to its full-time staff. Fans of Ars Magica already know Damelon as the publisher of Mythic Perspectives, the Origins award-winning Ars Magica magazine. Damelon is currently an employee of Cheapass Games of Seattle. He will begin his employment at Atlas (and residence in Minnesota) on March 2. Damelon has been hired, in part, to take on some of the responsibilities that currently fall to Jeff Tidball, Atlas Games' Director of Creative Development. Jeff will be leaving Atlas this summer to attend graduate school in Los Angeles. Damelon's primary task will be developing the Ars Magica product line. That will certainly not be the end of it, though. "Atlas is a small company," said Atlas Games President John Nephew, "and there's more than enough work to go around. I'm sure Damelon will be doing everything from shoveling snow to updating our web pages." # # # For more information, call or e-mail Atlas Games at 651-638-0077 or info@atlas-games.com. GOLDEN COMEBACK SHIPS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Golden Comeback, the Feng Shui Player's Sourcebook, shipped to distributors on Tuesday, January 18th. PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: ORDO NOBILIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ordo Nobilis: Mythic Europe's Nobility For Ars Magica Fourth Edition "Kings belong to a select caste separated from the commonality of man by birth and by God's anointment. A powerful rebellious subject may hold his king prisoner -- and may even have him murdered -- but will never stoop to treating his monarch publicly with anything less than the utmost respect and courtesy." Ordo Nobilis is a survey of Mythic European nobility. It looks behind the stereotypes, presenting a detailed picture of the noble life by defining what a noble is, what various noble ranks and titles mean, how nobles interacted with each other, and how they interacted with broader society. It examines their concerns and interests, how they lived, what they did with their time, and how they did it. Ordo Nobilis includes a number of new mechanical options for combat (especially knightly combat), introduces a new system for monetary record-keeping based on the Mythic Penny, contains a system for resolving legal conflicts, and presents three scenarios that take full advantage of these options. Product Number: AG0263 ISBN: 1-887801-82-0 Length: TBA Suggested Retail Price: TBA Authors: Micha‘l deVerteuil, Ian Hargrove, and Robin Steeden Editor: Jeff Tidball Cover Artist: Jeff Menges Shipping in March, 2000 PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: ELEVATOR TO THE NETHERWORLD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elevator to the Netherworld The Inner Kingdom Sourcebook for Feng Shui * Level Four: Hardware, Pet Supplies, Sporting Goods * Time moves in a line, but not a straight line. In the Inner Kingdom, time is as hopelessly snarled as a child's scribble. Nomads and refugees from two millenia cross paths, purposes and swords over access to the past, present and future. They reside in the trash of a thousand collapsed timelines, far from the prying eyes of ordinary folks. * Level Three: Sale Items, Food Court * If the Netherworld is the dustbin of history, it's crawling with roaches. Psychopaths from the future roam with guns the size of totem poles. Shaolin monks mix it up with giant firebreathing infants. Four deposed sovreign sorcerers scheme with and against one another, while speed freak hitmen and homeless robots just try to get by from day to day. * Level Two: Real Estate, Organ Donation * Need to stage a live-ammo war exercise on a recreation of Catherine the Great's beside table, scaled up to a thousand times its actual size? Talk to Thurston White -- or, at least, talk to his head. And don't miss the Inner Kingdom's suspiciously useful jungle, the hotel where the decor is fabulous but the gravity's unreliable, and the forest haunted by the ghosts of every war ever fought -- and every war that could have been fought. * Level One: The Gateway to Hell * Watch out -- the Inner Kingdom can turn into a free-fire zone without warning. After all, it's the key to time travel, and time travel is the key to the Secret War. Going Down? Product Number: AG4003 ISBN: 1-887801-83-9 Length: 128 Pages Suggested Retail Price: $19.95 (US) Developer and Editor: Greg Stolze Contributors: Tim Dedopulous, Bryant Durell, David Eber, Geoff Grabowski, Mike Lee, Mike Mearls, Chris Pramas, Greg Stolze and Tim Toner Cover Artist: Heather Hudson Illustrators: Andrew Baker, Paul Carrick, Thomas Manning, Richard Pace, Jim Pavelic and David White Shipping in April, 2000 PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: STATOSPHERE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Statosphere The Invisible Clergy Sourcebook for Unknown Armies Never Bet Against the House From the flip of a coin to a glance in a bar to the trajectory of a bulletÑevery step we take is a function of all the steps we took before and the infinity of choice that lies between. But free will carries a price. The Invisible Clergy, humans ascended into archetypes, reside in the Statosphere where probabilities large and small flow like water through their fingers. Oppose them and coincidence itself can turn against you . . . not to mention the terrible agents of the House of Renunciation, where they take you to become your own worst enemy. Deal the cards if you're ready to play: New Archetypes * Rules for Godwalkers * GMC Avatars * Invisible Clergy Lore * Secrets of the House of Renunciation * and a pack full of trouble. Product Number: AG6004 ISBN: 1-887801-84-7 Length: 128 pages Suggested Retail Price: $19.95 (US) Developer and Editor: John Tynes Shipping in May, 2000 ---------------------------------- You're reading ATL@S UPDATE, Atlas Games' periodic electronic newsletter. It's published whenever there's newsworthy information from Atlas Games to report, and whenever someone at Atlas has time to assemble and mail it out. To subscribe to this list, send an e-mail to jtidball@atlas-games.com with the subject line "E-Mail Announcement List". 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