A Bargain That Can Help

Right now OneBookShelf (RPGNow and DriveThruRPG) has put together an incredible bargain that if you purchase will mean that not only do you get over one hundred PDF titles, but you will be doing some good by donating towards the much-needed relief for Haiti. For your $20 you receive RPGs and supplements that would cost you over $1400 were you to buy them at your local friendly gaming store.

Some of the highlights include Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. (and all of its supplements), BASH! Basic Action Super Heroes (New and Improved), Barbarians Versus, Chronica Feudalis, Cortex System Role Playing Game, Diana: Warrior Princess, MARS: Savage Worlds Edition, Summerland Revised and Expanded Edition, Thrilling Tales 2nd Edition (Savage Worlds), Three Sixteen, and eCollapse. I have reviewed at least a couple of these, and just these titles alone are worth the $20. I hate to think how long these are going to take to download, but that is not the issue here.

Personally, I do not think that I paid enough for these titles and plan to match what I paid for the $20 super-bundle. I do not suggest that you follow my lead as I hate to think that I was preaching at anyone, but please do match the generosity of the publishers who have donated their creations for our benefit.

Season's Giving Part Two

Back on December 7th, I posted about the annual Ogrecave.com gift list, its quartet of Christmas Dozens devoted to in turn, little games, RPGs, boardgames, and electronic games. Just to let you know that all four parts are now available, finishing with An Aetheric Guide for Christmas: A dozen downloadable gift ideas for 2009.

Happy reading and hope that you find something worth your time from all four lists.

Season's Giving

In case you don't know, Ogrecave.com does a gift list each year, a quartet of Christmas Dozens devoted to in turn, little games, RPGs, boardgames, and electronic games. It has been doing it for nine years now, having been brought across from the long defunct site, RPGaction.com, where I first had the idea. So in fact, the concept is now ten years old, but I digress...

Anyway, what the OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide does not do is highlight what we think were the best games of the year, but the best games games of the year to give as gifts. Which is an important distinction, because these are not awards. Rather they are a series of aides to help our fellow gamers. First to help us find a gift for our fellow gamers, and second to help our non-gamer friends and family find something that we want. The interesting thing about these lists is that if you go back over the years -- and the links to the lists from each of the past eight years can be found on the page  -- you can track the changes in our hobby. Thus you see the rise in popularity of the board game, the PDF (as a game in its own right and not just another means of delivering your RPG), and the rise and fall of the d20 System...

The first part went up last Friday, Twelve Stocking Stuffer Games: A dozen games for $25 or Less for 2009, and the next three parts will follow in the days to come.

Hope that you find it useful.