Halloween is now the second most popular holiday in the US, right
behind Christmas. And, as we learn from South Park, the true meaning of Halloween is costumes and candy. Or is it? Could there be a Sinister Force behind it all? Of course there could. Read the rant at this site.
-- Sean Punch,
GURPS Line Editor
The Angelic Player's Guide is full of stuff players and GMs alike will want to better understand and play angel characters. Expanded information on all seven choirs, the lowdown on angelic reproduction, more about Dissonance and Falling, special cases like very young or very old angels, more on Relievers -- this book is a must-have.
Look for the Angelic Player's Guide in a store near you at the very end of November, or possibly the first week in December.
-- Scott Haring
Robert Anton Wilson, I'm sure, needs no introduction. Out soon at your local bookstore is the culmination of a lifetime's study on his part: 'Everything is under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-Ups - Real, Unreal and Surreal'. No need to wait however, since online you can find more than just a flavour at his Black-Ops page. Working with Miriam Joan Hill , All Is Revealed.
--Number 2, Illuminated Sitekeeper.
Derrick Blady, Jo Hart, Paul Heaver, Jacob Holcomb, John Ickes, Kjeld Johansen, ALex Karls, Daniel Kwon, Martin Leuschen, Kingsley Lintz, Walt Mazur, Tyson Neumann, Patrick O'Duffy, Christopher Paul, Andrew Rafferty, Jason Reynolds, Leath Sheales, Alexander Shearer, Joseph Whelan, Kurt White and Ed Wisniowski. Congratulations to all!
Oh, and one more thing. We've lost the address for Daniel Kwon. If you know him (or if you are him), please send us an address. Thanks.
-- Scott Haring
Mystically potent? That's YOUR call. In Nomine and Illuminati jewelry is now available. We now have bronze and silver crosses for In Nomine (Angelic or Demonic, your choice). Available soon will be silver and bronze "eye in the pyramid" pins. (The colored cloisonne pins will be available again soon, but these new ones are all metal, a tiny bit larger, and very classy looking.) All these treasures can be ordered from our web catalog.If you like the designs, but want some special treatment, like 14k gold, or the pyramid pins as a pendant, or whatever, contact the artist directly.
Special note: coming soon, In Nomine and Illuminati keyrings. As always, if you have any comments on these products, or have suggestions for ancillary products you'd like to see, send me a note. Thanks.
For the complete press release, click here.
-- Scott Haring
You can download the Acrobat reader direct from Adobe.
Dino Hunt is reviewed in Kulkmannīs G@mebox (Reviews of English and German Games and Boardgames and Collectibles Corner). This review includes a discussion of the German version, which uses a gameboard.
And our own Dr. Kromm was interviewed by RPGnet; you can read the interview here.
On or around 5/5/2000 there will be global choas. You knew that, right?
Richard Noone definitely wants you to know. You see, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, not to mention the Sun and Moon will all
'line up' on one side of the Earth to produce 'major stress on Planet
Earth'. All hell will break loose: earthquakes, polar ice cap movement, tidal waves, East and West Coast USA under water - lordy. What can we
do? Well, buy Rick's book of 'Basic Preparedness', that's what. It's
amazing what you can do with a sheet of tarp and some plastic on your
windows in situations like this. Just for the record, I'm one of those those rash dissenters who doubts that Earth will be pulled apart by tidal forces
raised by the other planets. But then again, what the hell do I know?
--Number 2, Illuminated
Sitekeeper (site submitted by Grog).
Book IV of The Revelations Cycle will be called Fall of the Malakim. The Malakim, purest of the angels and Heaven's ultimate weapon in the War, have never Fallen. Most believe they *can't*. But in Los Angeles, a demon-controlled cesspool of selfishness and cruelty, something awful has happened and the truth might shatter the millenia-old balance between Good and Evil. Fall of the Malakim contains expanded writeups on David and Lilith, an in-depth description of Los Angeles as a setting for the In Nomine roleplaying game, and the adventure Fall of the Malakim. Look for Fall of the Malakim in late 1997.
Book V of The Revelations Cycle will be called The Final Trumpet. The earlier events in The Revelations Cycle, from Night Music through Fall of the Malakim, have convinced the more militant Superiors on both sides that the time is right for the final battle -- Armageddon. As the flames of war spread across the world, the angels and demons prepare for battle. Can you save the world from total destruction? More important, *should* you? The Final Trumpet has expanded writeups on Michael, Baal, Kobal and Malphas; two new Superiors -- Khalid, Archangel of Faith, and Magog, Demon Prince of Cruelty; the largest adventure yet published for In Nomine, The Final Trumpet; and rules for combining all five books of The Revelations Cycle into a single mega-campaign. Look for The Final Trumpet in early 1998.
-- Scott Haring
What does it all mean? Darn good question. We'll definitely keep you informed . . .
-- Scott Haring
Mania is a pretty cool web site, by the way, with lots of stuff on movies and TV shows and comics and toys and SF and other interesting things. If you want to avoid the long and graphics-heavy front page and go to Hite's column directly, click here.
-- Scott Haring
GURPS Black Ops is a wild new sourcebook for GURPS set in a modern world where every urban legend -- the Greys, gargoyles, vampires, slimy things in the sewers, werewolves and more -- is true. As a Black Op, you're trained for two missions: Eliminate the threat, and make sure the public never learns the truth. The guns are big, but the monsters are bigger.
Heaven and Hell is Book III of The Revelations Cycle for In Nomine. It details both Heaven and Hell (duh...) and the Celestial Realms in general, has expanded write-ups for Dominic, Asmodeus, Yves and Kronos, introduces two new Superiors and has a complete adventure, too.
And Pyramid #27 is also on its way to stores, with a look at the Heavy Gear computer game, a short fantasy RPG adventure, a study of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller, a solitaire variant for INWO and more.
Look for all this neat stuff at a game store near you in the next week or two.
-- Scott Haring
"I was at our local Border's Bookstore the other day, and it occurred to me to ask (since we've recently lost the local gameshop) if I could order GURPS books and whatnot through them. The info desk girl looked up "GURPS" in her database (apparently just an electronic copy of Books In Print), and sure enough, she said that they could order GURPS books. She showed me the screen.
"And I boggled.
"There I was, listed as the author of Warehouse 23. There Pulver was, listed as the author of Mecha, Reign of Steel, etc.
"There Dan Smith was, listed as the author of both of the GURPS Compendia!
"[Boggle.]
"As it turns out, the full listing for the books credited them correctly
(only in "browse" mode does Smif come up as the author), but it was a
priceless expression on my face, according to the friend with me
at the time."
Hard times indeed, mes enfants.
-- Steve Jackson
It doesn't take a Justified Ancient of Mu-Mu, or rather, Moo-Moo, to suspect the true mission of the The Cow Liberation Front. Did I hear someone say 'Illuminated Cowspiracy'? Surely not.
-- Number 2, Illuminated
Sitekeeper
Thanks, Eric!
You can read more about the auction on the Sotheby's website, as well as on the Field Museum's site.
So now we have the official inventory report for the number of copies of The Marches that came in --
We got 6,606.
Contemplation on the ramifications of that fact are left as an exercise for the reader.
-- Scott Haring
We've had several other cartoonists in the history of Murphy's, including a Pulitzer Prize winner (local editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent), but none have drawn as many Murphy's as John. Congratulations!
-- Scott Haring
There will also be a newsgroup (io.games.sjg.in-nomine.relics) available soon for discussion of what you find. I'll be passing your comments on to book editor David Edelstein, or you can contact him directly.
This is the first In Nomine book we've put on the web for public playtest -- we're all very interested to see how this goes. Thanks in advance for your help.
-- Scott Haring
Well, I always knew I was going to die. Eventually. We all do, well, most of us, anyway. It's just that now I know exactly when it will happen. Friday, 26th June, 2020. I don't know the circumstances. Maybe peacefully in my sleep; maybe violently, screaming as I tumble into the abyss. The Secret Masters were happy to let me worry about that, once they had revealed the date. It's a curse, believe me. You wouldn't want to know your death date. So just stay away from The Death Clock. You'll be glad you did.-- Number 2, Illuminated Sitekeeper (site submitted by Grog ).
A ham radio set. You can slice bits off and make sandwiches, but that diminishes its AM/FM reception.
Yes, we should be ashamed of ourselves for encouraging this.
But we're not.
-- Steve Jackson
Discussion of the new draft is taking place in io.games.sjg.gurps.discworld (also available only to IO members). That's the best place to post your comments and hash things out with your fellow playtesters. We'll try to get Masters and the book's editor, Steve Jackson himself, to join the fun.
One thing we'd like to know fairly quickly -- the current draft is very, very long. What parts of it can you live without? Because we're gonna have to cut something . . .
-- Scott Haring
