Review

 The premise behind Homicidal Transients is a boiled-down parody/satire distilation of just about every (pseudo-) fantasy RPG ever made. You play a homicidal homeless person, bent on killing things and stealing their stuff. This game reduces that to it's most fundamental level.

Gangworld is a series of short supplements for D&D 3x (OGL d20), each describing a criminal organization. They are both low on crunchy mechanics, high on usable story items. The supplements are short, but well worth the $0.99 each for the PDFs.

Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. (API) API calls itself “An action horror RPG… with a twist of humor.” Reading it reminds me of movies like Men in Black, where the action and weirdness are so over the top that you can’t really take it seriously; where the dark evil things in the universe are fought with magic, big guns, snark, and sarcasm. The PCs work for API, a business whose mission is to keep humanity safe from the things that threaten the planet – plagues, demons, aliens, etc.

  This weekend, I had the opportunity to take part in a beta test for BioWare's upcoming MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR). This was a stress-test for them, seeing if their servers could handle the capacity.

I got an awesome ghost story today in my email! Written by Deborah Teramis Christian and illustrated by Emily Vitori and set in her' Qua-lun world (found in her Dragonsword novels), the ghost story is an awesome tale of how ghosts might interact within a world where their existence is real.