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The Age of Heroes—when the gods trod the Earth and walked among the people, when monsters crept through the night and hid in the dark places of the world, and when men and women, through the power of their own deeds, could rise above their mortal station to become legends as everlasting and influential as the gods themselves.

PaperCraft Legions: Titanic Clash is a collection of cut-and-tape standees for use in any roleplaying or tabletop game that takes place in the Age of Heroes, or a similarly themed setting. They are designed for games inspired by movies and television shows such as Clash of the Titans, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, 300, Troy, Alexander, and Jason and the Argonauts. You’ll find figures for mortal soldiers and champions, heroes favored by the gods, and monsters from classic mythology.

The standees in Titanic Clash are designed to be useful in any game with a link to classical Greek and Roman myths. As an added feature, though, we present optional descriptions for the characters seen on the standees, and a broad campaign background that those descriptions imply.

Paizo: http://paizo.com/store/downloads/otherWorldCreations/pathfinderRPG/v5748btpy8ear

DriveThru: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?cPath=293&products_id=80223

Welcome to the fifth book in the Loot 4 Less line, where we deal exclusively in items with a cost-to-consumer of 2,500 gp or less. That’s right: no epic items, gauntlets of infinity, or even moderate magic items here. This is a forum for the cheapest of the cheap, and that’s it. And just to up the level of difficulty, we also don’t deal in one-shot (or even two- or three-shot) magic items. No scrolls, potions, talismans, or fire-and-forget tattoo magics here. Everything in these pages is a legitimate permanent magic item, free of consumable charges and able to be used in adventure after adventure.

Here in Loot 4 Less, vol. 5: All You Need Is Gloves we’re looking at just bargain bin gloves and gauntlets, popular hand-covers any character can use. Not only do we provide each item with a full description and cost, we’ve scattered sidebars throughout the book to explain those costs. Each Behind the Counter sidebar explains how a price was arrived at, allowing GMs to apply the logic to other abilities (and be better able to change the pricing to match the needs of their campaign, with a firm knowledge of where the numbers come from).

Paizo: http://paizo.com/store/downloads/otherWorldCreations/pathfinderRPG/v5748btpy8dic

DriveThru: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=79116

NEW RELEASES
Just when you were probably getting used to us having a product a week hit the market, we went and TRIPLED your expectations. This week we released two new Pathfinder products plus a new adventure for Call of Cthulhu. You can pick any of them up via Paizo, Drive Thru RPG, or RPGNow.

Loot 4 Less, vol. 2: Pretty, Pretty Rings: The second volume in our massively popular Loot 4 Less line features a collection of permanently enchanted magic rings, all of which cost no more than 2,500 gp. More ways to outfit your low level Pathfinder characters and make them feel more individualized and heroic even at 1st level.

The Forgotten Tomb of Felgar the Goblin King: The second of our One Night Stand adventures gives you everything you need for an evening of Pathfinder RPG fun — the adventure (of course), full-scale map tiles for the entire complex, GM reference material, and cut-and-tape standees for all the monsters.

Snows of an Early Winter: Our latest officially licensed Call of Cthulhu product, this time an adventure set in modern day New York. It’s the last week before an important city-wide election and strange things are starting to happen, not that most New Yorkers ever look up long enough to notice. Written by Lou Agresta (remember that name, you’ll be seeing MORE great things from Lou in the future, I assure you) this adventure is perfect for a couple of cozy winter nights around the gaming table investigating things that voters were not meant to know!

TOP OF THE POPS
There’s a really great podcast that comes out twice a month from Moonstew Productions, it’s called RPG Countdown and if you’re not listening to it, you really should be. We’ve been lucky enough to get a product or two onto the show in the past, but this week we were shocked to find out that FOUR of the top ten products were from the Super Genius catalog! This as the show is INCREASING the number of sources it uses to generate the list. Want to know the details? Swing by and check out this week’s show … and subscribe while you’re there. It really is a terrific listen, even when our books AREN’T in the mix.

Speaking of top ten lists, SGG again had four products on the Paizo.com “Top Downloads from Other Companies” review, two on Drive Thru RPG‘s Hottest Small Press list, and five in RPGNow‘s Hottest Pathfinder Products list.

LET’S REVIEW
Any publisher loves to see positive reviews of their products, and we’ve been lucky enough to have a good share of them over the past few weeks. (Check out the feedback section of the PDF sales sites and you’ll see.) But this week we had two very gratifying reviews from OUTSIDE sources.

First, FlamesRising.com posted a thoughtful review of After Lovecraft: The Cold Case of Robert Suydam.

Second, episode #126 of Game Geeks went up on YouTube, and it’s devoted to reviewing Strike Force 7–Savaged!. I have to admit that we knew in advance that this was coming … and we were a little nervous. Kurt Wiegel doesn’t pull any punches in his reviews … and as much as we love SF7, I know that our perceptions are a bit biased. It came as a great relief and provided a gush of pride to hear him say such overall positive things about it.

ATOMIC POWERED
Besides the mini-plugs for RPG Countdown, we also recorded an interview for the next episode of Atomic Array, due to be released on next Friday (that’s Christmas Day for those of you who don’t have a calendar handy). So when you’re stuffed full of turkey or ham or Chinese food or just your usual Friday meal … check it out nearly a full hour devoted
to Snows of an Early Winter and other Genius products.

MAY YOUR HOLIDAYS BE FILLED WITH GENIUS!
That’s it for this week. We’ve got more coming up next week including our usual Pathfinder goodness and a holiday-themed surprise. Check back if you need a break from all that family togetherness and holiday cheer.

And from all of us here at Super Genius Games, whatever holidays you call your own, may you and your loved ones have an especial time of peace, health, prosperity, and most of all happiness.

A Solid Block of Genius
With the release of the latest Paizo.com newsletter, we see that the our Pathfinder compatible PDF products have become a solid staple on their Top 10 Downloads From Other Companies list. This week three of the top ten slots were SGG products with Loot 4 Less, vol. 1 at #5, Kobold Death Maze at #6, and The Genius Guide to the Dragonrider #7. Yes, we had aa solid BLOCK of Genius there in the middle of the chart.

It’s very gratifying to see these products do so well at the home of the Pathfinder RPG, and we’re very thankful to the folks at Paizo for all their support for our newest line of products. Hopefully we can continue to put in strong showings there in the weeks to come.

All Over the Bookshelf
Meanwhile, over at the One Bookshelf group, we ALSO have been getting strong support. The Genius Guide to the Shadow Assassin is currently the #15 overall hot product at RPGNow.com, while over at DriveThruRPG it is #4 on the small press hot list. On that same list, Kobold Death Maze is #12 and Loot 4 Less, vol. 1 is #13. If you switch to JUST the Pathfinder products, SGG continues to shine with FOUR of the top 10 at each site!

TWO Pathfinder Products Next Week
Things are going so well that we’re going to have a little bit of a celebration this week and again release TWO Pathfinder compatible products. I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but keep your eyes open for an extra dose of Super Genius in the week ahead.

Cthulhu Is About To Rise
And, lest you think that we’re ONLY working on Pathfinder products these days, we’re getting ready to release our next Official Call of Cthulhu product, too.

The PDF version of Snows of an Early Winter should be available for download next week some time, and it’s being sent to the printers at the same time … so look for the hard-copy version in stores early in 2010.

The Paizo Connection
Once again we have product in the Top Downloads From Other Companies list at Paizo.com. Loot 4 Less, vol. 1 is #8 on the weekly count down. But there’s more Genius info in that newsletter. There’s ALSO a link to an entry that appeared on Thursday at the Paizo blog … an entry where they gave a full-throated shout out to SGG and solid promotion for our products.

It feels GREAT to be recognized by the publisher of the game we’re supporting … and from people that I respect both personally and professionally. So, thanks to my friends and acquaintances at Paizo. We’re going to do our damnedest to make sure ALL of our Pathfinder compatible material is worthy of the example you’re setting.

RPG Countdown
RPG Countdown is a bi-weekly podcast that is for RPG products what American Top 40 is for pop music. Put together by the mad geniuses at Moonstew Studios (who also produce the Atomic Array and Open Design podcasts. You really should be listening to ALL of those!

Anyway, The Genius Guide to the Dragonrider managed to break onto this week’s show! You ALSO get to hear Owen K.C. Stephens talk about some of the ideas behind the Dragonrider class. Check it out!

Upcoming Stuff
We also spent a good deal of time this week working on upcoming projects, including Snows of an Early Winter, our next Call of Cthulhu adventure, which should be available by the end of the month. It’s a modern adventure, set in New York City during this year’s election cycle … and let me tell you, politics and the mythos make uncomfortably cozy bedfellows.

We also have been doing work on the upcoming print edition of Strike Force 7. Right now we’re mostly getting all the art and pre-press worries squared away and we hope to get the book onto store shelves early in the new year. THEN we’ll be able to start talking about a VERY exciting follow-on project we have in the works.

More than a little time was spent hashing out our plans for upcoming Pathfinder products. As I said above, the audience has been responding well to our offerings so far, and we have A LOT more that we plan to bring to market. We just want to make sure that we maintain our high standard of design excellence and broad-based fun.

Oh, and I spent a little bit of time noodling around with more preparatory work for Operation: Kaiju. So far my goal of getting that ready for release next summer still seems reasonable. I keep my fingers crossed that this will remain true.

That’s all from the halls of Super Genius Games. Look for more news AND products next week!