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Interview with author Peter Wacks: The Caller of Lighting

June 23, 2020 by Paco G. Jaen

This is an interview with renowned author Peter Wacks about his recent book The Caller of Lightning.

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BOOK THREE IN THE ARCANE AMERICA SERIES

When Halley’s Comet blazed across the sky in 1759, onlookers saw a sight far more spectacular—and disastrous—than they ever could have imagined. Destroyed in a magical battle, the comet is rent in two and appears to strike Earth. The event is known as The Sundering, the moment in which the Old World is separated from the New, perhaps permanently isolating the Americas. What’s more, The Sundering has brought magic into the world—creatures from folklore and fairy tales come to life, along with wizardry and magework unlike anything seen outside of legend. The New World is now far stranger than before, and the Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous peoples on the American continent must forge new bonds if they are to survive.

So, when magic returns to the world of the 1700s, who does the world turn to for help? None other than the father of electricity himself: Benjamin Franklin! But Franklin is in for a shock if he thinks his knowledge of science will prepare him for the world of magic. The master once more becomes the apprentice. But Franklin must learn his spells fast, for he is far from the only one studying magic.

In point of fact, he’s late to the race and almost out of time . . .

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RPG Publishing . Why do you want to do it? Be honest.

June 21, 2020 by Paco G. Jaen

RPG publishing is a dream for a lot of people. In this show, I am going to cover some of the issues to think about when is about getting your game to the public.

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You should think very carefully when you decide you want to do it and be honest with yourself about the reasons.

Because if you are not, you can get a very unpleasant surprise!

Depending on why you truly want to publish your game, you can set some expectations that will be met. Or not. And that can be pretty daunting!

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Dungeons and Dragons colouring book: monsters and Heroes of the Realms review

April 22, 2020 by Paco G. Jaen

This Dungeons & Dragons coloring book from Candlewick Press is not the first Dungeons and Dragons colouring book, but is it worth the amount of money you have to pay to get your hands on it?

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The art of D&D has contributed immensely to make the game as iconic as it is. From the Erol Otus covers to the unique art of DiTierlizzy, without forgetting Larry Elmore, Clyde Caldwel, Wayne England, Wayne Renolds, Jason Engle and Todd Lockwood and so many others who have grazed and blessed so many books and adventures.

Nowadays, the therapeutic properties of book colouring are well studied and thousands of colouring books are published every year. From simple mandalas to professional level painting books of all sorts of topics.

With the current COVID19 crisis and so many of us staying indoors and far away from their gaming friends, this could be the perfect bridge to bring our hobby a bit closer and help remain sane during this pandemic.

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Music in my early RPGs

March 27, 2020 by Paco G. Jaen

Today I was listening to Cinemix at work. For those of you who don’t know, Cinemix is an online radio station that plays soundtracks from movies and some series. All-day. You can get a premium account to get rid of the advertising but it doesn’t have a lot of advertising in any event.

Anyway, sometimes I have it in the background.

Often it happens that, before I notice, I have an enormous feeling of nostalgia. A sense of yearning for the days when I used to play Dark Sun or any other AD&D game with my friends some 25 years ago. I am overflowed with memories of me in my bedroom, setting my Amiga computer to render a complex 3D image created in Lightwave, reading or writing an adventure, memorising the monster manual or using a very rustic drawing tablet (God it was expensive!) to create vector clipart from the illustrations in the monster manual.

Those were some of the happiest moments of my early 20s.

And I am thinking about how much I used to enjoy going to the cinema and how much I used to enjoy soundtracks. If I liked the score, I would probably go to the cinema once more just to listen to it and, then, shoot to the record shop like a rocket and buy the CD. It would happen also when I played a game on my computer, a wonderful Amiga machine. The music would always stand out.

The funny thing is that even though I am aware of my love for music and I use sound and music a lot when I run my games – DnD or any other – I had never really associated music with the happy memories I have from that time of my life.

Music meant as much to me as RPGs but in a parallel way. They didn’t seem to mix or even complement each other.

And yet, today I am not sure I would be able to remember happy memories from my RPG years without also bringing happy memories of sounds to my head.

And I am OK with that.

Interview: Darren Pearce and Judge Dredd RPG

March 11, 2020 by Paco G. Jaen

ENPublishing released Judge Dredd after a successful Kickstarter campaign and the game has seen some interesting releases added to it. So why aren’t more people into it?

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Judge Dredd has been a referent in the world of comic books since it came out over 40 years ago. Its criticism of social systems, the way it treats characters and some stunning scripts and artwork gained it some hardcore fans that love it.

And it has seen some very interesting #RPGs in the past too, including a metal bound hardback that was sold for a ton of money in eBay a few years ago.

I wanted to talk to Darren Pearce, since he has done a ton of work on the game and knows it rather well, and find out more about what the universe has to offer and why everyone should be more aware of this game.

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