December 2013 news

Several interesting news for the month of December:

Wizards of the Coast announces the launch of Dungeons & Dragons for summer 2014

Wizards of the Coast had announced the sale of the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons for summer of 2014.

Desde el Sótano reaches its 115th edition

The online magazine Desde el Sótano reaches 115th edition with the following articles (Note: The magazine is writen in Spanish):

Editorial

• Editorial: a word from the maker.
• Credits: Those who are behind this (and make it possible).
• Index

Fandom

• Basement Answers: Questions from the fans and the best of our responses.
• The Voice: Conferences, meetings and events for the coming days and months.
• Basement exterior: Section with interesting news from the outside world.
• Bibliography: Battle of Verdun. We go inside a book about First World War.

Setting

• Groups: Tribe of the Red Hands. This Entrovian tribe is a good NPC group to find in Pangea.
• Rites: The rite of the Great Wukran Hunting. A very thuggish custom of Pangea males.
• Systems: Muci System, inside the Thalamir Route beggining to be unveiled to Exo navigators.
• Kaukirinas: Grakin Legends, those stories told in the warmth of fire from mouth to mouth in the savage world of Pangea.

Rules

• Fauna: Dead Eye. A creature for Pangea in Entrovia.
• Fauna: Woolly Lion. A solitary parent of the common lion of Pangea living in Entrovia.
• Combat: Grenade for Interiors for Comandos de Guerra. For those happy with them.
• Combat: Group attacks. From bee swarms to zombie hordes, how to quickly resolve them with sistema Sombra

Equipment

• Weaponery: Force Club. A little homage we have not wanted to avoid, for Exo.
• Robots: Tyran Robominer. When those whithout caste are, actually, expensive, Tyrans resort to their specialized robots (Exo).
• Ships: Tempest Class Corvette. A powerful ship in hands of the RFP.(Exo)

Events

• Chronology: the war every day, December 1940.
• Runes: news of Pangea.
• The Truth: Cunia news of the day. December 2013.
• A.D.E.G. '69: Lopeku 3469. News of the Exo galaxy.
• Chronology: December 1808.

Adventures

• Exo: Una noche en la estación espacial de Alvar el Honesto. An adventure for Exo where we do homage to a classic adventure of Aquelarre.
• Pangea: Savarti. An ancestral mistery story about Tantolamis settlements where PCs decide to spend overnight...
• Rojo y Oro: 1x03 - La Paloma. Synopsis of a new chapter in the series of 1808.
• Ojos de Clara: 1x02 - Silencio a Gritos. Synopsis of a new chapter in the series of Rol Negro.

Campaign to help David Hill and Filamena Young

Authors from Onyx Path Publishing David Hill and Filamena Young had been victims of a burglary at home, thieves have stealed their computers and all work contained therein. If you can help them visit their campaign at gofundme or spread the link.

A Warning for Spanish illustrators

Illustrator RU-MOR (creator of part of illustrations of the game Aventuras en la Marca del Este) has published on his blog a warning aimed at illustrators working in Spain to ensure that their rights as authors are respected (you may read more about this in this blog post and in her deviantArt page).

Contest In Summo Ingenium 2014

The Spanish association Ludere Aude announces a new edition of their modules contest In Sumo Ingenium, where you may win important prizes (you will find contest rules in this link).

Role-playing games for children

I'm sure that this Christmas the players who have children will desire to share their hobby with them so that, apart from the many offers of these dates, perhaps will also interest them Magissa (in Spanish) or Monster Slayers: The Heroes of Esiod.

Ryuutama will be published in Spain by Other Selves

Rodrigo García Carmona will publish the Japanese role-playing game Ryuutama in Spain through Other Selves imprint as he did with La Puerta de Ishtar (his first game of which you can find a review in this link).

Trasgos y Mazmorras in physical format

From Trasgotauro we are told the basic book of Trasgos y Mazmorras will be available at cost in physical format from Lulu and that will remain available as a free download. Next project in the game line will be the Compendio de Monstruos.

Available the new beta of the game Espada Negra

From the website of the game Espada Negra we are told that the last beta is already available as a free download.

Images from the British Library

 

The British Library has made available for users more than 1 million images scanned from books of 17th, 18th and 19th centuries through his Flickr account (image metadata are available in Github).

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