Fat Dragon Release: E-Z DUNGEONS: Mechanical Traps

Have you ever wished you could kill off that annoying player quickly and easily? Well now you can! E-Z DUNGEONS: Mechanical Traps gives you a whole selection of lethal goodies to stock your dungeon with. Slice 'em, dice 'em, dissolve them with acid, drown them, burn them, whatever you fell like. All traps feature our easy-build designs and award winning texture art. Kill 'em all... you know you want to, and for a limited time you can enjoy a 10% savings on your slaughter with this coupon:

http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?discount=58009&affiliate_id=25275

This PDF includes:

Flowing Acid Trap
Flowing Water Trap
Ceiling Blade Trap
Circular Saw Floor Trap (two versions)
Fire Trap (two sizes)
Floor Spike Trap
Lava Pit Trap!
Water Pit Trap
Green Slime Pit Trap
'The Squasher'
Wall Blade Trap
E-Z DUNGEONS: Mechanical Traps comes with everything seen here and more (dungeon walls and floors available in the E-Z DUNGEONS: Deluxe Edition model set.)

Heroscpae News!!!!

Wizards Wave 9 Press Release
Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 05:34 PM by truth

RENTON, Wash.—April 2, 2009—Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS), today announced the upcoming release of a new expansion set for Heroscape®, the wildly popular build-and-battle miniatures game. Small Expansion set 9, Blackmoon’s Siege™, will be released in July 2009.

Blackmoon’s Siege features 24 brand new painted figures in a 4-pack assortment set. Braves and Brawlers, Dwarves and Repulsors, Dividers and Defenders, and Heroes of the Moon have all been summoned to battle. Designed to add strength to players’ armies, these warriors are ready to charge forward and take on any enemy that gets in their way.

Each pack includes painted figures and army cards and can be used with any Heroscape Master Set. In the coming months, fans can also look forward to another Heroscape release with the reprint of Wave 1, Malliddon's Prophecy™.

Cthulhu Invades the Fat Dragon Office!!

FAT DRAGON GAMES TO PUBLISH OFFICIALLY LICENSED CALL OF CTHULHU GAMING TERRAIN

Fat Dragon Games is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Chaosium to create 3D gaming terrain sets for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. These cardstock terrain sets will feature some of the best known locations of the Cthulhu mythos, complete with gaming stats using the Basic Roleplaying system.

"It is an incredible privilege to bring these iconic settings to life for Call of Cthulhu fans,"ť said Tom Tullis, owner and lead designer of Fat Dragon Games. "Call of Cthulhu is one of my all time favorite RPGs, and I look forward to working with the legendary creative minds at Chaosium on these model sets."

"I'm looking forward to seeing Call of Cthulhu terrain from our friends at Fat Dragon Games. I've always wanted to own a little piece of Innsmouth. Now I can!" said Dustin Wright of Chaosium Inc.

The first two sets are scheduled for a summer 2009 release, with additional terrain releases slated for late 2009 and early 2010.

Fat Dragon Games is a publisher of 2D and 3D gaming terrain for tabletop games. Celebrating their fourth anniversary this April, they are best known for their award winning E-Z DUNGEONS line of fantasy gaming terrain. http://www.fatdragongames.com/

Chaosium Inc. is a California based publishing company best known for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game which utilizes the Basic Roleplaying System. You can find out more at http://www.chaosium.com/

Fat Dragon releases THE RESILIENCE

From Fat Dragon Games:

Greetings from the Fat Dragon Games crew! We've just released our newest sci-fi offering and are sending you this coupon good for 15% off this amazing new model set. Hurry as this offer expires soon!

http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?discount=72573&affiliate_id=25275

Gen Con News

From the most recent Gen Con Email:

Badge Registration Goes Live!

Greetings Gamers!

As you probably know this weekend is the beginning of badge registration. We are excited for you to check out the new website and registration system! Please review all of the information below.

Badge Registration - Goes live on Sunday, February 15th

VIG Packages - Are available

Housing - Opens on Tuesday, February 17th

Regards,

The Gen Con Team

-Badge Registration opens this Sunday, February 15th, at Noon (Eastern) If you haven’t already, be sure to create your new RUBI account by going to registration.gencon.com. Everyone will need to create a new account in RUBI in order to purchase a badge.

Badge Prices:

4-Day Badge - $68

1-Day Badge (Thurs-Sat) -

$38 Sunday Badge - will be available for purchase onsite

VIG Package - $500

-VIG Packages available

If you’re interested in becoming a VIG Member, there are over 100 slots available. The package is only $500 and includes merchandise, a VIG Lounge, a separate hotel block, and much more!

-Housing opens Tuesday, February 17th, at Noon (Eastern) When you purchase a badge, you will see your housing code on the screen and receive a confirmation email with additional housing information. Be sure to keep this code handy! You will need it to reserve a hotel room when housing opens on Tuesday. If you have any trouble finding a hotel room, be sure to put your name on the waiting list, and we will let you know when more rooms become available.

For more information about RUBI, our new registration system, go to our RUBI Updates page at RUBI Updates

Fat Dragon Games NEWS!!

Make your sanity roll!!

Fat Dragon Games is going to announce their latest product, Call of Cthulhu gaming books and miniature terrain. This is a huge scoop so make sure you check the Fat Dragon web site and forums for more info on the CoC products this weekend.

Fat Dragon Games Preview

Here is a CGI design screen shot of the shuttle that is in the works.

Gen Con Banruptcy News

Good news in an email sent by Gen Con Indy:

Gen Con Scheduled to Emerge from Chapter 11!Gen Con LLC announced today that the US Bankruptcy Court of Western Washington has confirmed the company’s plan of reorganization and approved the company’s rejection of a hostile takeover bid.“This is bright day for us”, said Adrian Swartout, CEO of Gen Con. “The entire team is looking forward to 2009 and continuing our growth as a stronger, more focused company. Our emergence from Chapter 11 is a testament to the skill and perseverance of our employees and the strength of the phenomenal Gen Con brand. Everyone here is excited to begin working outside of Chapter 11.”Since filing for bankruptcy protection in February of 2008, Gen Con has significantly reduced its expenses and increased its cash position. The company’s cash flow is positive and prospects have never looked better. Under the confirmed plan, Gen Con will pay all of it creditors in full over time and will continue to operate. A three-member Advisory Committee will assist the company and its board, and Peter Adkison will retain ownership. “This is an extremely successful case,” said Shelly Crocker of Crocker Kuno, Gen Con’s bankruptcy attorney, “largely due to the efforts of Ms. Swartout and her team, and the cooperation of the Creditors’ Committee.”Gen Con Indy 2009 will prove to be one of the best shows yet with thousands of events and hundreds of exhibitors. Gen Con attendees can expect to see all of their favorite programs such as the Costume Contest, Auction, Art Show, Family Fun Pavilion, eGame Arena and much more!

Heroscape: Release of Wave 9 Confirmed for Summer

I know this has been out for a while, I just got around to passing it on. Here is a post from December on Heroscapers:

I recently received an email from Paul Barclay, our lead contact at Wizards of the Coast. Paul had this to say:Wave 9 is confirmed for Summer 2009. There's no set release date yet, but given the current production schedule, I'd expect it in June or July. There's no guarantee of it being in WalMart, but they've been happy with how Wave 8 has performed so far this holiday season, so that’s looking promising too. And, to be clear, Wave 9 will come out no matter what happens with WalMart.Happy Christmas!

Thanks,Paul.

He also included a concept drawing of a marro figure that will appear in Wave 9.

Fat Dragoin 2008 Review & 2009 Preview

A Message from Tom on his forum (sorry I'm so late in getting this out):

Hey all-Wow, where to begin... 2008 was an amazing year for us in every measurable way. Once again we grew at a rate exceeding our wildest expectations with revenues up dramatically over the previous year. Our advertising and convention outreach efforts paid off beyond our most optimistic forecast, resulting in huge numbers of new customers for us. We picked up Crafty Games as a partner, and have a number of exciting Spycraft releases planned for 2009. The new year will also see us expand into foreign sales markets, with Spanish, German and French translations of our most popular sets being offered to customers in those countries. I'll post more info on this marketing project in the spring.

First quarter 2009 will see several new DRAGONSHIRE releases, new sci-fi sets (more on this below) and more E-Z TERRAIN sets. We'll also be having some more wargame focused sets to appeal to the customers over at Wargamevault.com where we are now selling our products. Our model releases will continue as they have for the last three and a half years, but there will also be some new offerings in our catalog. In addition to releasing preprinted model sets later this year, FDG will also be publishing RPG supplements for several popular RPG systems, including our newest business partner (drumroll please...)

TROLL LORD GAMES! Last month we signed a contract with TLG to produce products supporting the wildly popular CASTLES & CRUSADES RPG. We have a number of things planned for this amazing game system in 2009, and work has already begun on several of them. I am a huge fan of the game (it's what I run for the FDG crew) and more than that, it is truly an honor to get to work with the Trolls. Steve and Davis Chenault are great guys whom I've really grown to admire and respect over the last few years. It is also very gratifying to me to work with the company that Gary Gygax chose to publish his work in his final years. Of all the companies that Gary could have gone with to publish his material, he chose Troll Lord Games, and for good reason. TLG reminds me of the old TSR we all knew and loved back in the early 80's and I am geeking out to be a part of that. All model sets will directly tie in with the game and/or include C&C stats. Our upcoming sci-fi releases will include stats for TLG's brand new sci-fi STARSIEGE RPG. For those of you who are not familiar with Castles & Crusades, I strongly urge you to click over to the TLG site and download the free quick-start rules. Trust me, you'll be glad you did: http://trolllord.com/cnc/ccqs.html

We're upping our convention appearances this year. Origins and Gen Con are for sure, with several more planned as well. I am really looking forward to seeing many of you again, and hope to see some of you for the first time. These cons are always a blast for us, and I am especially looking forward to Indy this year (we have an AMAZING booth planned for those of you attending with some really neat SWAG this year.)

Finally, I want to thank each and every one of you. All of you made 2008 an extraordinary year for us, and 2009 looks even better. I hope you all have a safe and prosperous new year.

Thanks all!Tom

Gen Con '08

Gen Con '08 is just around the corner and to get you ready here are some pics from Gen Con '07.

Fat Dragon Games & Goodman Games News

I'm a little behind in posting but wanted to let everyone know that Fat Dragon Games and Goodman Games are doing a joint project with their upcoming D&D 4E projects. Here is the message Tom from Fat Dragon sent out:

OK, the cat's out of the bag now. I've gotten a few PMs and e-mails asking what we're doing with Goodman Games for their D&D 4E Dungeon Crawl Classics series. Joe Goodman has apparently touched on the subject here: http://ogrecave.com/All I can say is one of the first 4E DCCs will feature four pages of exclusive E-Z Dungeon models in the center. We've been working on this deal for quite a while and I am very excited that we're in the home stretch. Once we get a bit closer to the release I'll post pics of the built up models and have a link to the product page on Goodman's site. I think everyone here agrees this is our best work yet.

HEROSCAPE NEWS - Win Wave 8 Before You Can Buy It!

Heroscapers.com is giving you a chance to win Heroscape Wave 8 a full two weeks before you buy it. They are also giving away a bunch of other stuff so head on over and check it out. You can get all the details here, good luck.

Fat Dragon Anniversary Sale

To celebrate their anniversary Fat Dragon is having a big sale. Here is the message Tom sent out:

That's right, FDG has reached our third anniversary since we opened our doors in April 2005. I'd like to thank all of our customers for their outstanding support, I never imagined we'd grow this fast in three short years. In that time we've dominated the RPG accessory sales charts at RPGNow/DrivethruRPG, won an ENnie award and have landed several lucrative licensing deals. To show our appreciation, we're running a 25% off sale on all of our products for one week only (sale price shows when you check out.) Hurry as it'll be another year until we have a sale like this again!

Fat Dragon's "The Tavern" Available

Fat Dragon Game's lates Dragon Tiles release "The Tavern" is available for purchase at RPG Now. This is a cool set, how many times has an adventure started in a tavern meeting with the guy sending you on a quest. This set includes all of the following:

12 tavern interior tiles

Beer kegs(something every dwarf needs)

Tables (4 sizes)

Benches

Chairs

Bar Stools

Multi-section bar

Liquor cabinet

Fireplace

D&D 4TH Edition

As most gamers know by now Wizards of the Coast is putting out D&D 4Th Editon this year. I wanted to post on it and was putting together what I wanted to say, but came across this post and this post on Trollsmyth's Blog which pretty much sum up what I wanted to say. Thanks Trollsmyth.

Weekly Motivation

Have a Good Weekend

How could you not after seeing a picture of Chain mail Girl!!

Dragon Tiles: Forest Adventures

The latest set from Fat Dragon Games, Dragon Tiles: Forest Adventures, is available now. This set looks way cool, I cannot wait to get it. A tree that figures can hide in, a bridge, and a dragon turtle. To bad there is no shrubbery. Check out these pictures:

Fat Dragon Games: Advanced Fleet Designs

Fat Dragon Games has some made some announcements for some products. First up is Advanced Fleet Designs #1 Titan Class Scout. Here's what Tom has to say about his most recent release:

We've just released the first volume of our new Advanced Fleet Designs product line. Each volume in this series features a single starship design, complete with 1" scale tiles of the entire ship. A full description of the ship's history and design in included, and this PDF is systemless so you can use it with ANY sci-fi RPG you play.

Fat Dragon Games has announced their next release in the Advanced Fleet Designs series, the U.S.S. Apollo. Here is the preview pic: