April 2014 news (Second part)

And more April news:

Third anniversary of the blog

These days the blog celebrate it's third anniversary (yes, it's the third year in the roleplaying blogosphere and it seems it was yesterday when I began it). Thank you to all reading it every month.

Jornades Rol en Català

Next Saturday April 26th Gremi Lúdic Desperta Ferro will held at the Merce Lleixà library of Roquetes (Spain) their Jornades de Rol en Català (Roleplaying Games Written in Catalan language Day), and publisher Maqui Edicions is invited.

Desde el Sótano reaches its 119th edition

The online magazine Desde el Sótano reaches 119th 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.

Setting

• Holydays: Druma's celebration. A custom in many grakins of Pangea.
• General: Subspace jump, first in a series of articles revealing some of the misteries in the voyages of Exo in faster than light speeds.
• Characters: El Tío Camuñas. You always know the menace was coming, know why.
• Corporations: Space Shipyards Laura. A spaceship builder corporation working in the Thalamir Route of Exo.

Rules

• Combat: Supresion fire. A new shooting mode for characters in Comandos.
• Weapons: Ejectable ammunition. Rules for ejecting ammunition off your space fighter when you believe you don't need it.
• Creation: Comparing bugs. A new rating applied to Exo creatures to know their danger potential.
• Economy: Medical tariffs. In Cunia it's not easy to find who will extract that bullet of your stomach.

Equipment

• Aircraft: Fairchild F-91. A low production plane but with some misteries related to the final use of those built.
• Equipment: Keeping on with articles devoted to equip various professions of Exo. in this issue bounty hunters.
• Poisons: Melon poison. a Dwandir secret that shamans of Pangea only hand down to apprentices when death is coming.
• Weapons: GSh-18. A new weapon in the streets of Cunia.

Events

• Chronology: The Great War, April 1914
• Runes: News of Pangea.
• The Truth: Cunia news of the day. April 2014.
• A.D.E.G. ’70: Selaku I of 3470
• Chronology: April 1809.

Adventures

• Exo: Two colony ships lost and a search leading to misterious Ipho system.
• CEP: A scenario for CEP where ejectable ammunition is the protagonist.
• Rojo y Oro: 1×05 – Muerte en las montañas. Synopsis of a new chapter in the series of 1808.
• Ojos de Clara: 1×05 – Manifiesto rojo (I). Synopsis of a new chapter in the series of Rol Negro.

Fanzine Rolero reaches its 50th edition

Fanzine Rolero reaches its 50th edition with the following contents (Note: The magazine its written in Spanish):

After our last cover we reach our 50th installment of Fanzine Rolero, a worthy waiting.

• In our reviews section we analyze the Guide for the Keeper of El Rastro de Cthulhu, The Book of Smoke, by Tirano, Miguel Rojas presents the Initiation Box of Star Wars: Al Filo del Imperio and bring back to live a classic like El Señor de los Anillos, basic adventure game, and Manuel Belizón presents an approach of the contents of the book The Game Master: A Guide to the Art and Theory of Roleplaying.
• Alex Werden thinks about Old School games in his article ¿Buscamos en los retroclones algo más que el viejo juego?
• As a specialist in supernatural phenomena writer Pablo vergel presents "real" mistery phenomena: Mothman and "Grey" aliens adapted with help of Alex Werden to be used in our gaming sessions.
• In game extras we are fully loaded, with all kind of material that surely will be interesting to all. an organization for the game Eyes Only by Lord Tzimize named Il Sacrario Revelado, Arcano XIII is keeping on with the Guerrero, Pícaro y Mago line translating From the Imperial Forges 1 and 2 by Stargazer Games in one book illustrated by Terminus_Est, with layout by Igner Eldar and translated by Tirano and Kon. Animales Open D6: Mamíferos Cuadrúpedos is another installment of common and real animals, but still dangerous, ready to be used with Open D6, by Alex Werden. Last but not least we have an extra for Wizardz & Warriorz, a magical object compendium once more by Tirano, Wizardz & Warriorz: Objetos Mágicos wants to give our characters many wondrous magical objects.
• There's also playable materials. As we promised and previously announced we have the translation of the Drama System SRD, carried out by Tirano and Kon, with revised texts by Alex Werden.
• Enric Grau presents us his game, Nebulosa Perdida, un fantastic approach to science fiction of the system of La Puerta de Ishtar.
• Carlos Plaza delights us with a module for Shadow Hunters, Sin Rostro will take our players to to free a small town of the evil haunting it, if tehy can do it. Carlos Plaza also brings us Terror en el Museo, a tentacled adventure for Haunted House and Shadow Hunters.
• Ismael Díaz Sacaluga, author of the game Dreamraiders debuts in Fanzine Rolero offering and adventure for his own game, Proud White America is a full action adventure taking our dreamraiders to the limit.
• Also Mario Fernández shows first two issues of Betlam: Hora Cero, a new saga created for the roleplaying game La Mirada del Centinela, prefectly presented as a comic book.

And that's all we offer ib this cover, if you are not satusfied we give you double you paid for!

Walhalla

These days theres the presentation of a new roleplaying game, it's Walhalla, a game about vikings as its name implies but also encompassing the Medieval Europe of 11th and 13th centuries.

Far West

 

And speaking of historical themed games, these days there's also some talking about the roleplaying game Far West and in this intreview with his author, Darío Pérez Catalán, its possible reprint is contemplated.

Apocalypse World: Sinrostro

Publisher conBarba has made available for the fans a new cahracter booklet for the Spanish edition of Apocalypse World: Sinrostro.

Mindjammer on sale

Mindjammer, the transhuman roleplaying game based in Fate is ready for sale in the online shop of Modiphius Entertainment.

Arkham FAE: Lovecraft and Cthulhu

And talking about games based in Fate perhaps you may be interested in the patronage of Arkham Companion for Lovecraft and Cthulhu for Fate Accelerated.

Historical maps

As in this news post i'm talking about some historic games you may also be interested in seeing maps of the Perry-Castañeda Library and the historical city maps in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Archive of British Pathe available in Youtube

And finishing this news post another historic resource you may be interested in: British Pathé, pioneer in creating film newsreels has made available to Internet users his 85,000 historical filmations in his Youtube channel. Below you can see a sample of them:

Paris Taxis Aka Taxis Of The Marne (1914)

Barcelona Again! (1938)

Hindenburg Disaster Real Footage (1937) [HD]

The Dynasphere! Psychotic 1930s Vehicle! [HD]

Time To Remember - Struggle For A Planet 1943 - Reel 2 (1943)

Liberation of Paris (1944)

Martin Luther King Delivers His "I have a dream" speech (1963)

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