---------------------------------- ATL@S UPDATE 28 June, 2000 For More Info: www.atlas-games.com ---------------------------------- CONTENTS ~~~~~~~~ 1. Origins Awards Nominations 2. Recent Releases 3. Product Announcement: Four Bastards 4. Product Announcement: Letter Head 5. Product Announcement: The Rough and the Smooth 6. New Discussion Forums ATLAS ORIGINS AWARDS NOMINATIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown Armies has been nominated for the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game of 1999, and "Roll Your Bones," from Lawyers, Guns and Money, has been nominated for Best Game-Related Short Work of 1999. Our congratulations to John and Greg for their excellent work! The Origins Awards are determined by public balloting, which is available online for the first time this year. Make your voice heard: http://www.gama.org/academy In order to allow as many people as possible to read "Roll Your Bones," we have made it available as a PDF download. Roll Your Bones PDF, with images (1.3 MB) http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/roll_your_bones.pdf Roll YourBones PDF, no images (107K) http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/roll_no_images.pdf Our congratulations also to Mythic Perspectives, the Ars Magica magazine, which has been nominated for Best Amateur Game Magazine of 1999. RECENT RELEASES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elevator to the Netherworld The Inner Kingdom Sourcebook for Feng Shui AG4003, $19.95 Statosphere The Invisible Clergy Sourcebook for Unknown Armies AG6004, $19.95 Triamore: The Covenant at Lucien's Folly A Covenant Sourebook for Ars Magica AG0264, $20.95 Additionally, the Ars Magica Fourth Edition rulebook is once again back in stock in hardcover format. It is AG0204HC, $45.00. PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: FOUR BASTARDS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Four Bastards A Scenario Sourcebook for Feng Shui A callous orphanage attack... A gigantic conspiracy, crossing junctures and factions... And four fatherless men, each related to the others by blood. Air, Earth, Fire, Wood, Water -- the cornerstones of an abominable plot to control the world's chi. To stop it, our heroes must wage a kung-fu campaign across time, from modern-day Hong Kong to 1850s Canada to 2056 Containment Site DS4S. The missiles-flying, choppers-exploding, bullet-riddled climax brings them to Three Gorges Dam, a colossal structure that will divert the flow of the hallowed Yiangtze River. Can your players stop the nefarious plot of the Four Bastards? Shipping in July 2000 Product Number: AG4004 ISBN: 1-887801-86-3 Length: 32 pages Suggested Retail Price: $8.95 (US) Author: Robin D. Laws Editor: Jeff Tidball Cover Artist: Andrew Baker Interior Illustrator: David White PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: LETTER HEAD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LETTER HEAD The Dynamic Word-Forming Card Game Letter Head is a dynamic word-forming card game that's engaging, interactive, challenging, addictive, and above all, fun. Players create words using a special deck of cards that have letters instead of numbers and points instead of suits. Missing a crucial letter? No problem! Canny players can bluff their opponents into thinking they've got every letter they need. Social skills and "emotional intelligence" are just as important as spelling ability. But Letter Head isn't just one card game, it's an expandable game kit. Rules for fourteen additional games that can be played with the 124-card Letter Head deck are included. Games like: * Word Slam: A raucous party game requiring a quick mind and quicker hands. Be the first to recognize a word using the shared cards and slam your word on the table before anyone else. * Vultures: Every word you play becomes tasty carrion for the player following you to feast upon. And if you don't like your cards, you can always call for Fresh Meat. * Red Handed: Players race desperately to earn cards they can use to catch the opposition red-handed. But beware: The more cards you collect, the more you'll be penalized if an opponent forms a word before you do. * Seven-Letter Stud: The classic poker game with a twist: The best-scoring word wins the showdown. * Take a Letter: A wicked variation of the old parlor game Concentration. Players must not only remember the locations of dozens of hidden cards, but must also manipulate them mentally to form words -- before their opponents do. * Letter Head Solitaire and Crosswords Solitaire: Stranded on a desert island? You can even play Letter Head by yourself! The Atlas Games web site (www.atlas-games.com) will be a source of even more games as Letter Head grows in popularity. This word game for the new millennium proves once and for all that word games aren't just for eggheads. Tired of twos, fives, and (yawn) the nine of clubs? Once you try Letter Head, you'll never be satisfied with a deck of standard playing cards again! Shipping in August 2000, in time for GenCon Product Number: AG1230 ISBN: 1-887801-87-1 Contents: 132 cards and rulebook Suggested Retail Price: $19.95 (US) Designers: Kristan Lawson and Herbert R. Lawson Graphic Designers: J. Scott Reeves and Jeff Tidball PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: THE ROUGH AND THE SMOOTH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daring heroics, narrow escapes, passionate affairs . . . these things just don't always come easily to a weak, wrinkled, arthritic mole rat like Drolen. Blessed, or perhaps cursed, by an unerring instinct for human politics, Drolen returns to a place of past regrets, the city of Orem, where he begins to groom young Nua to claim the throne left open by her father's untimely death. But meanwhile, Drolen's last protege -- the deposed mole rat king Utak -- starts to draw followers for a bloody rampage that may destroy the city before Nua's own coup d'etat can come to fruition. Drolen's scheming might just land him between an angry mob and the palace guards, with nowhere to run this time. Trident, Inc. (better known to game fans as Atlas Games, publishers of card games and role-playing games) is proud to present this, the second novel by Robin D. Laws, as a print-to-order hardcover. The book is available via mail order direct from the publisher, and in selected retail outlets around the world. Shipping in July 2000 Product Number: AG2701 ISBN: 1-887801-88-X Length: 244 pages Suggested Retail Price: $25.00 (US) Author: Robin D. Laws NEW DISCUSSION FORUMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In cooperation with The Gaming Outpost (www.gamingoutpost.com), we have recently added web-based discussion forums to the Atlas Games web site (www.atlas-game.scom). Please drop by and say hello! ---------------------------------- You're reading ATL@S UPDATE, Atlas Games' periodic electronic newsletter. 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