Atlas Dispatches

Atlas in the 100 Best Family Games

2010-03-15T13:04:00.002-05:00

We're pleased to note that Atlas Games has TWO products in Green Ronin's new book Family Games: The 100 Best. First is Gloom by Keith Baker with art by Scott Reeves, and second is Pieces of Eight by Jeff Tidball with art by Jeff Menges. Congrats to our designers and artists, and thanks to Green Ronin authors Monica Valentinelli and Nicole Lindroos!

Site Upgrades ... RESUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED NOW!

2010-03-11T18:15:00.006-06:00

We're doing some upgrades to the Atlas-Games.com website at the end of next week, which will require our old Atom, Feedburner, and LiveJournal feeds to be discontinued permanently at that time. If you're signed up for any of these, please re-subscribe to our new site feed now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Gloom Tarot

2010-03-11T12:45:00.003-06:00

Ever wondered what would happen if you asked the characters of Gloom to tell your future? Now's your chance to find out! The folks over at CreepyHollows.com have developed a method of using the cards from Gloom to do spiritual readings.

Site admin Magnolia says, "It's an absolutely hilarious game, and the first time I used the deck for reading I did it on myself and the cards that were returned to me made sense to my question. It piqued my curiosity so I did another question & reading and it was accurate. I've found that doing a 2-part reading with the deck works the best; one character card, and one situation card. After that I did readings for myself [...] and others just spontaneously and it's worked well. There's just a really great energy from the deck which I think lends it to being a great tool."

Check out their discussion and sample readings now!

Ars Magica T-shirts Now Available!

2010-02-16T12:10:00.002-06:00

Show off your fan fervor for the art of magic with the new Ars Magica RPG t-shirt! Visit Cafe Atlas now to pick up yours, in a variety of colors.

OffWorld Designs Sale

2010-02-09T22:00:00.004-06:00

We thought we'd pass along the tip to our fans that OffWorld Designs, the makers of those great Lunch Money, Gloom, and Cults Across America tshirts you keep seeing at cons, is having a huge sale!

Use code: presdaysale (case sensitive) at checkout to receive 25% off any order over $20 between now and Feb 28th. As a special bonus, most Atlas Games items have already been marked down to $5.00 for this sale, so your cost is only $3.75 each ANY SIZE with the coupon!

Check out the Atlas Games selection now!

Rarities at Warehouse 23

2010-01-11T14:19:00.002-06:00

I just received the year-end inventory report from Warehouse 23, which handles mail order on our behalf. Something I noticed is that they still have copies of a number of books that are out of stock or out of print. Not very many copies, mind you (sometimes just one or two), but here are direct shopping cart links to all the non-D20 titles, in case you want to try and nab any of them before they're gone:

A Medieval Tapestry
Kabbalah: Mythic Judaism
The Return of the Stormrider
The Dragon & The Bear
Triamore
Realms of Power: Divine
Houses of Hermes: Societates
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Winter's Tale
Twelfth Night
Tribunals of Hermes: Rome
The Stormrider: Jump-Start Kit
Mistridge
Mythic Places
More Mythic Places
Cthulhu500
The Rough and the Smooth
Trial by Fire
Dystopia
Enter the Viking
Streetfighting
Chasing the Dragon
The Bonin Horse
Hell Bent
Lawyers, Guns & Money

Updated Ars Magica Indexes

2010-01-04T13:30:00.001-06:00

Once again, we have UPDATED the spell indexes available for Ars Magica 5th Edition... download the Spell Index by Form and Spell Index by Technique! Our thanks once again to Erik Tyrrell, who maintains these indexes.

A Dungeoneer Christmas Card

2009-12-27T20:45:00.005-06:00

Dungeoneer designer Thomas Denmark has created a new kind of Christmas card this year ... the kind you can actually play with! Our thanks to him for bringing a little cheer to what was a perilous Christmas for many of us caught in the Midwest blizzard. And best wishes to everyone for the new year, from Atlas Games!

Lunch Money Sold Out

2009-12-21T12:59:00.002-06:00

The latest printing of Lunch Money has sold out. We'll be reprinting it again early in the new year, but there may be some supply interruptions as wholesalers and retailers sell through their current inventory and are not able to restock immediately.

Lords of Men

2009-12-18T09:55:00.004-06:00

A new product, Lords of Men, is in the pipeline for all you Ars Magica 5th Edition fans. This book contains complete rules and background for the nobility of Mythic Europe, ranging from the details of their lands to their entertainments, political struggles, and dealings with the Order of Hermes. And, of course, it presents special rules for combat, whether at a tournament or during a desperate siege. It also describes the hard lives of the peasants, who make the rich existence of the nobility possible by providing the food at their feasts, the labor for their buildings, and the soldiers in their armies.

Ren Faire Makes Christmas Gift Guide

2009-12-04T17:40:00.004-06:00

We're pleased to note that Ren Faire has made it onto the OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide 2009 list, in the Twelve Stocking Stuffer Games category. Check out the list now (it's about half way down the page), and be sure to follow their link to hear the interview OgreCave did with Ren Faire's designer Michelle Nephew at this year's GAMA Trade Show.

Ren Faire Has Arrived!

2009-11-16T14:02:00.001-06:00

Our new transparent card game, Ren Faire, just arrived at our warehouse today. It's on track to be in stores at the beginning of December. Keep your eye open for it!

New Banner Ad for Ren Faire

2009-11-14T15:23:00.002-06:00

Check out the new banner ad on the Ren Faire product page.

Download the web banner for your own site!

Gloom in the News!

2009-10-30T13:00:00.001-05:00

Rick Teverbaugh, Sports Editor of the Herald Bulletin writes a column called Rick's Rec Room and Gloom made it for a review. Read the full story on the Herald Bulletin website.

New Releases at Warehouse23

2009-10-16T07:52:00.002-05:00

Magi of Hermes, The Antarctic Express, and Gloom: Unfortunate Expeditions are now available for purchase from Warehouse 23. Sorry for the delay and enjoy the new Releases. Thanks.

Turn Off the Firehose

2009-10-12T10:07:00.001-05:00

Jeff Tidball asks that we post an update to the call for UA submissions:

Three pitches have now been accepted, and are in development. A thousand thank-yous to everyone who pitched. We received many, many more submissions than expected, and many perfectly fine submissions were not accepted due, essentially, to volume alone. As always, the official Unknown Armies site (recently relocated to http://ua.johntynes.com/) is an excellent place to vent your creative Unknown Armies obsession.

New Ars Magica 5th Edition Errata

2009-10-10T09:09:00.002-05:00

The Ars Magica 5th Edition Errata has been updated. Check it out!

Special Ops Drawing

2009-10-05T19:17:00.001-05:00

Atlas Games is pleased to announce that Megan Becker of Jacksonville, Florida is the winner of this quarter's Special Ops prize drawing. Megan will get to choose a prize from among the rare and and one-of-a-kind Atlas Games items reserved for the Special Ops drawing.

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 special Atlas items. The next drawing will be December 30th, and will feature a choice of prizes such as press sheets and original art from our popular Ars Magica, Feng Shui, Penumbra D20, and Unknown Armies RPGs, and from card game favorites like Dungeoneer, Lunch Money, and Once Upon a Time.

Atlas is also happy to announce that the following Special Ops members have gone up in rank this quarter:

Sheila Thomas (Avatar, 200 HP)
Megan Becker (Grog, 50 HP)

Congratulations to all of you, and keep up the great work!

Also, we'd like to welcome the following new recruits:

Toshi Casey
Pedro Sanz Baena
Deborah Winslow
Guillaume Alvarez
Megan Becker
Walter Croft

Thanks for being a part of Special Ops!

If you're interested in joining Atlas Games' Special Ops demo team, just fill out and send in an Application Form. There's no obligation.

To request a Special Ops demo at your convention or retail store, send in our Demo Request Form .

Call for Unknown Armies Pitches

2009-10-05T09:00:00.001-05:00

As an experiment, Atlas Games will release a series of at least three short, commercial PDFs supporting Unknown Armies in the coming months. Veteran RPG writer and developer Jeff Tidball will develop and produce them.

Each release will be like a pit bull: fast, mean, and something you damn well better pay attention to.

These releases need writers, and this is a call for pitches. Are you the writer? Can you pitch us a pit bull?

Here are the outlines:

* Each release will be wholly self-contained. No multi-part adventures, no epic trilogies.

* Each release must be widely accessible to a broad audience of UA fans. Advanced, supplemental rules for the avatar played by three gamers in North America are not welcome. For the big win, pitch concepts useful to both players and GMs.

* Each release will be 6,000 words long.

* The pay is $.02/word. Pitch something because Unknown Armies compels you, not because you intend to become rich.

* Material previously published, such as at the official Unknown Armies website, may be submitted, as long as substantial extensions or revisions from the original format are envisioned.

* Other than that, USE YOUR IMAGINATION, OR WHY ELSE DID GOD GIVE YOU ONE? Adventures are fine, locations are fine, group write-ups are fine. NPC collections might be fine if they're compelling. But even better, blow our minds with your crazy idea, why don't you?

Pitch it to us like this:

* Send a one-sentence summary of your idea to jeff [at] jefftidball -dot- com. (Yes, seriously. One sentence. When you're retailing PDFs, you've got about one sentence to blow a potential customer's mind. Therefore, you've got one sentence to blow ours.) Read about effective high-concept movie loglines if you're at a loss as to how to pitch a compelling idea in a single sentence.

* Send a one-sentence summary of your qualifications.

* If this material has been previously published, indicate where and how.

There's no limit to the number of pitches you can send.

Awesome pitches will be greenlit and assigned instantly until we have three. Don't let your jaw-dropping idea be the fourth one we get.

There is no deadline, but at two sentences, why don't you brainstorm five ideas right now, let them stew overnight, and send us the best three tomorrow morning?

UPDATE: The three pitches for development have been chosen -- thanks to everyone who submitted.

Dungeoneer & Ren Faire Updates

2009-10-02T19:45:00.002-05:00

The reprint of Dungeoneer: Tomb of the Lich Lord is actually physically in our warehouse at this very moment, and we've started shipping it to our distributors. It should be in your local games store in the next week or so. Sorry for the really extremely long delay with the printing.

Also, Ren Faire has been sent to press. We expect it back before Christmas, so keep an eye open for it!

New Downloads for Ren Faire

2009-09-30T11:21:00.002-05:00

Get more for your money with these downloads on the Ren Faire product page.

Check out the Ren Faire rules.
Download the Ren Faire cardlist.

Sticks and Stones in Japanese

2009-09-28T12:33:00.003-05:00

Check out the Sticks & Stones rules in Japanese now posted on the Sticks and Stone product page, with our thanks to Atsushi Moriike.

OUAT in Hebrew

2009-09-25T13:31:00.002-05:00

It's my pleasure to announce today that Atlas Games has finalized a licensing agreement with Israeli publisher Silver Stars Publishing Limited for the Hebrew edition of Once Upon A Time. Johnathan Aloni of Silver Stars reports that he expects to have the printed games available for sale by December or January.

New Feng Shui character sheets posted

2009-09-22T10:11:00.002-05:00

New Feng Shui character sheets courtesy of Jason Patterson are now posted on the Feng Shui page. Available also in Papyrus and Jade

Airport Showdown

2009-09-21T09:43:00.004-05:00

Those who have visited D'Aubainne International Airport on Al Amarja (setting of Over the Edge and On the Edge) may be interested to hear that there's serious competition in the "surreal and disturbing air travel experiences" department. The Onion News Network reports...

Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport