August 2012 news

Barnalúdica 2012

The next September 1st and 2nd the 4th edition of Barnalúdica Gaming Days will be held at Cotxeres de Sants in Barcelona with role-playing games and tabletop games and other forms of leisure.

Desde el Sótano reaches its 100th edition

The online magazine Desde el Sótano reaches its 100th edition with a makeover and the following contents:

Editorial

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

Fandom

• The Voice: Conferences, meetings and events for the coming days and months.
• Basement exterior: Section with interesting news from the outside world.
• Bibliography: Comics and Peninsular War (1808).
• Bibliography: La Gran Cruzada by Paul Anderson (Exo).
• Bibliography: Neandertal (Pangea).
• Bibliography: Testigo Mudo (Rol Negro).
• Bibliography: A por todas (Comandos).
• Reseña: Bajo el Sol naciente (a presentation by the author’s module).
• Reseña: Shan Hu (present and future of this game).

Ambientación

• General: Historical games and Internet documentation. Advocacy for historical role-playing games and how easy is to find documentation (1808).
• Organization: TCP without limits. An interesting ONG of Aerolíneas Federales (Rol Negro).
• Virtual: Playing CEP in Vassal. A presentation of the Vassal module developed to play CEP online.
• Units: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). An interesting article about the female role in war (Comandos).
• Races: Timil, son of bear. A race inhabiting snowy zones of Pangea.
• Vomitmancy: The art of reading regurgitated inners of an Abrita (Exo).
• Location: Introduction to the Fire Circle. A presentation by the author of Black Hammer of the Fire Circle, a zone in theis world of dark fantasy.

Rules

• Aids: Two options for campaigns of Rol Negro. Thoughts of how to focus a campaign in an investigation game.
• CEP: Combate en Espacio Profundo. The rules of the game, yes, as you are reading it, the rules for playing CEP.
• Fauna: Xyfhor. One of those charming bugs of the Exo universe (that will devour all your energy, but charming nonetheless)
• General: Cryptography Methods. How to code messages in 1808.
• Survival: Metal’s secret. Something is changing in Pangea.
• Characters: Partisans. Rules for playing with this type of characters in Comandos de Guerra.
• Aids: Haunted Cunia. The author of the game Haunted House makes a crossover of his game with Cunia city (Rol Negro).

Equipment

• Weapons: Sheller Knives. Elegant weapons for this race descendent of the amphibian of Exo universe.
• Weapons: Metal weapons. Brundy also is useful for killing (Pangea).
• Ships: Modular patrol ship of Hassell Barony. A new ship for enriching CEP and Exo.
• Weapons: The blunderbuss, the preferred weapon of guerrillas (1808).
• Weapons: The cunian comb. An improvised weapon of lethal consequences (Rol Negro).
• Weapons: Explosive Rats. Yes, Believe it or not is a weapon invented by the British in World War II.

Events

• Timeline: The war every day, in July 1939.
• Timeline: The war every day, in August 1939.
• Runes: News of Pangea.
• The truth: Cunia news of the day. July / August 2012.
• A.D.E.G. ’68: Incident at Zigg. Verrians couldn’t beat among themselves peacefully.

Adventures

• Pangea: Man Hunters. The Medwan against a terrible predator.
• SS: Operation Saint George. A gaming session of Sistema Sombra settled in contemporaneous times, but with characters with powers…
• Exo: Land of the blind III. Third part of the campaign of these months.
• Rol Negro: Like taking candy from a baby. Adaptation of a chapter of Sanctuary for Rol Negro, of course, an investigation plot without anomalies. Rol Negro, naturalmente, es una trama de investigación, sin anómalos.
• CEP: The risks of the Margaban "commerce". An scenario for CEP where Margabans will be against Verrians.
• Shan Hu: Seven Samurais. Interesting adaptation of the homonymous film to be played with Shan Hu.
• Comandos: All quiet. A not typical session for Comandos de Guerra where PC will be inhabitants of a Dutch village facing a problem that’s surpassing them.
• 1808: The Great Paris Cipher. A gaming session of spies and secret messages in the Peninsular War.

Crowdfunding of La Puerta de Ishtar

To end this block of news I would like to congratulate Rodrigo García Carmona for the success he is having on raising funds for the publication of La Puerta de Ishtar which has exceeded all expectations (at the time of writing this news is about to reach the 10,000 €).

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