June 2015 news (Second part)

Before the end of the month I offer you a recap of the most important news:

News

Aventuras en la Marca del Este announce the creation of their card game.

French publisher La Loutre Rôliste will publish Dreamraiders and Hitos games.

Announcement of the patronage of Kult: Divinity Lost for this year's Autumn with the intention of publishing the game in 2016.

Gorgonmilk makes a call to the OSR sphere for collaborations for the Gorgon Quaterly fanzine

A new publisher is born: Invasion Editorial.

Changes in veteran publisher Chaosium: Greg Stafford and Sandy Petersen come back to take charge and straighten the publisher.

Events

PROGRAMA DEL CICLE DE CINEMA FANTÀSTIC I DE CIÈNCIA FICCIÓ 2015 Tots els dilluns de juliol i agost a les 22:00h... http://t.co/U1CahOajuQ

— AJJRR (@AJJRR) junio 18, 2015

Associació de Jugadors i Jugadores de rol de Reus (AJJRR) from Spain announce its fantastic cinema cycle for July and August.

Announcement of the RolenQuart 2015 for July 24th, 25th and 26th.

Patronages

Rodrigo García Carmona is carrying out the succesful patronage of the Japanese role-playing game Ryuutama in Spanish.

Instant Dungeon Tactical will allow you to create modular tabletops with magnetic pieces.

Mark Diaz Truman is creating contents for Fate Codex with his campaign in Patreon.

John Reyst is using his Patreon campaign for the maintenance of www.d20pfsrd.com, www.d20herosrd.com and www.d20swsrd.com among others.

John Wick is creating the magazine Wicked Words with his campaign in Patreon.

HT Publishers is carrying out a successful patornage to publish Savage Worlds in Spanish.

Ediciones Epicismo starts the patronage to publish the second revised edition of Fading Suns in Spanish.

Culture

If you are interested in Second World War history you could also be interested in I Remember, a website with testimonials of veteran Soviet soldiers.

And speaking of this conflict, you also may be interested in The Fallen of World War II study.

NASA is uploading at ReelNASA, its Youtube channel, a lot of videos of missions and expeditions.

This map of the Ancient Mesopotamian World may be of interest if you like La Puerta de Ishtar.

Have you read about the Aqua Tofana?, if not you may find interesting this article about Italy's poisonings during the 17th century.

It seems that time travel had been demonstrated, at least regarding atoms.

Downloads

The online magazine Desde el Sótano reaches its 132th 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

• Systems: Sago Cemetery. Planet of the Navy of the RFP (Exo), where heroes rest.
• Characters: Juan Pujol «Garbo», the man that saved D-Day. IIncredible history of the double agent (and his wife) and his influence in D-Day (Comandos).
• Systems: Planet Gleus 3. Third part of an article describing a planet for Exo with interesting ideas to develop.
• Characters: Characters out of shadows: Hammer Productions.

Rules

• System: A sheet with the recapitulation of combat at distance. A recapitulation for helping the GM of Exo.
• System: How to manage hit points. Advice on how to manage hit points in Sistema Sombra character sheets.
• Magic: A magic system for Sistema Sombra. First part of hints for a magic system for GMs willing to use it in their gaming sessions.

Equipment

• Navy: Italian Navy (2nd part). Description of battleships of the Italian Navy during Second World War. Information for Comandos.
• Tools: Turbo key. A not very legal tool for cloning deluxe vehicle keys.
• Weapons: Heckler & Koch MP7 for Sistema Sombra. You always wanted to have one.
• Ships: Protection in the Void. Or how aerosailors of Eriloe dare to leave their ships.
Equipment: Merchant. Continuation of the equipment articles for creating PCs of Exo and speed equipment buyingi agilitzar la compra d'equipament.

Events

• Chronology: The Great War, June 1915
• Runes: News of Pangea.
• The Truth: Cunia news of the day. June 2015.
• A.D.E.G. ’70: Reatku I ’70.
• Chronology: June 1810.

Adventures

• Comandos: La muerte de Mary Johnson Wallen. An investigation of a day before Normandy Landings.
• Eriloe: Third part of the campaign of the Emperor Return. This time characters face some misterious vanishing caravans.
• 501: 4x03 - El Rey en el Norte. Synopsis of a new chapter of the series of Exo.
• Lobo: 1x10 - La Gran Cacería. Synopsis of a new chapter of the series of Pangea.

 

Adventures of the Clásicos de la Marca del Este series La Cripta Nefanda de Uztum el Maldito and La Isla Misteriosa are already available for downloading from Codex de La Marca (Cripta | Isla) and Tesoros de la Marca.

The adventure La Fórmula Kumarí (in Spanish) for Spirit of the Century is available to download from the blog Venganza Tóxica.

From Blessings of the Dice Gods comes a hack for using the city of Middenheim with random generators like Vornheim.

Nexus, the science-fiction role-playing game created by Rolero is already available under the PWYW formula.

 

Free downloads of the Spanish editions of Fate Accelerated and Fate Basic are available from the Nosolorol website.

Taking advantage of the the put up for sale of Sistema Hitos by Nosolorol new derived works are being created such as Megablast, game available as a free download recreating action films of the 80s.

And talking about Sistema Hitos, from Fanzine Rolero comes a download for the game screens ready to be printed.

It's already available for downloading the fifth issue of the Spanish Portal de Mundos fanzine for Runequest.

Terpes, the role-playing game writen by Jason Morningstar and translated to Spanish by Editorial Rúnica is availablefor downloading from the publisher's website.

 

As part of the patronage for selling the Spanish translation of Savage Worlds HT Publishers has enabled the download of the test drive ruleset and the adventure The Eye of Kilquato.

Chris Gonnerman had created the clone Iron Falcon based in rules related to wargames which gave birth to the fantasy role-playing game and allows its downloading and is selling it in printed form.

As part of the Free RPG Day Enmanuel Martinez allows the download of the version 2.0 of Novaterra 2040.

Rolero offers the download of the adventure Virus.

Blog Evilmaiden offers the download of the Spanish translation of the campaign-sandbox Blackmarsh.

Internet Archive offers the download of the North-American science-fiction and fiction magazine Omni.

Drama Editorial offers the download of the science-fiction adventure De vuelta a casa.

Wizards of the Coast offers the free download of Monster Slayers: The Champions of the Elements, a simplified version of Dungeons & Dragons for introducing role-playing games to kids.

Wizards of the Coast also offers the download of errata for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

Maps of campaign Kontrole Krise by Demonio Sonriente is already available for its download.

The download of the suplement Mondblindheit of Walküre is already available from the game official website.

Cinema and television

As you may know Christopher Lee died last June 7th, if you want to know more about his life and its Second World War service you also may read these articles at The Independent, The Telegraph and Badass of the Week.

Trailer of the coming premiere of Terminator: Genysis.

Trailer of the premiere of The Martian.

Composer James Horner died las June 22nd.

Do you want to know how Star Wars would been at design level? If You read this article by The Slightly Warped Website you will know.

Jamie Benning had created some interesting documentals about the original Star Wars saga:

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