Super Genius Games to manage and run subscription based website Dungeonaday.com

August 06, 2010 (SAN DIEGO, CA and MILWAUKEE, WI) – Super Genius Games announced today that it has signed an agreement with Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition designer, Monte Cook, to manage and further develop the ground breaking web portal Dungeonaday.com. Starting September 1, 2010, Super Genius Games will handle the day to day design and management of the content on the site, using plans developed by Monte Cook, and updating the content to be compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game published by Paizo Publishing.

“When Monte approached us with the offer it was initially daunting, but after talking to the other Geniuses, we knew this was an opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” said Stan!, Creative Director for Super Genius Games.

Monte Cook said “When it time came to step back from Dungeonaday.com I knew I needed the right partner to step in and take over. After giving it a lot of thought the Geniuses were at the top of my list.”

“Dungeonaday.com is a unique and exciting gaming product.” said Super Genius Pathfinder Development Manager Owen K.C. Stephens. “It combines outstanding traditional game content with the richness of the Web, creating an entirely new way to use a product as big and complex as the Dragon’s Delve mega-dungeon.”

Released in spring 2009, the ENnie nominated Dungeonaday.com offers a new dungeon encounter for members every weekday, building a whole dungeon campaign one day at a time. The dungeon encounters are usable in any campaign setting, and GMs can pick and choose encounters from the daily updates to use in their own dungeons or use them together with all the other information available on the site to create a massive dungeon-based campaign called Dragon’s Delve. Although it may appear to start out like a fairly conventional dungeon, as you get deeper the full scope of the adventure and the unique challenges become more and more apparent. Discover the Aberrant Laboratory, the Sprawl of the Demon Liege, the Prison of the Red Saint, the Secret City, and the Court of the Dragon Prince!

For more information and a free sneak peak at Dungeonaday.com, please visit www.dungeonaday.com

About Super Genius Games
Founded in fall 2007 by game industry veterans Hyrum Savage and Stan!, Super Genius Games is the premier publisher of 3rd Party Pathfinder Roleplaying Game products and is dedicated to publishing quality PDF and print products for a wide range of games and game systems.

About Monte Cook
Monte has been involved in rpg design for more than 20 years. Although he started gaming with D&D, he got his start professionally working on ICE’s game, Rolemaster, and then Champions. Years later, he worked for TSR and then Wizards of the Coast as a senior game designer. He co-designed 3rd edition D&D, Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, Book of Vile Darkness, Dead Gods, Planewalker’s Handbook, Labyrinth of Madness, and a number of other official D&D products.

In 2001, Monte started Malhavoc Press with editor and co-owner Sue Cook. Together, they published products like Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved, the Books of Eldritch Might, and the ultra-deluxe Ptolus.

SUPER GENIUS GAMES CONTACT: Hyrum Savage
Email: Hyrum@supergeniusgames.com

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The archer is a figure of heroic legend and romance—often coming from the ranks of commoners. In eras when the battlefield was dominated by heavily armored knights, archers represented the idea that skill and determination can level the playing field, both in warfare and conflicts between the social classes.

Robin Hood and his merry men are the classic icons of the heroic archer, but they are far from the only examples of that archetype. Historic examples of archer warriors range from the horse archers of Attila the Hun to the English and Welsh longbowmen at the battle of Agincourt. And when an archer’s talent is great enough, the facts of his life often become overshadowed by legends and mythology, as is the case with China’s Zhou Tong and Norway’s Einar Tambarskjelve. Ancient gods such as Artemis and Apollo were famed for their skill with bows, as were the heroes Arash, Hercules, Houyi, Orion, and Ulysses. Plus, if we broaden our definitions a bit to accept any hero using ranged weapons, William Tell’s shooting an apple off his son’s head and David slaying Goliath further expand the ranks of heroic archers.

Such heroics are difficult to achieve using the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and with good reason. The rules are designed to provide broad, flexible, balanced characters for players to take through adventures and, as history shows, skilled archers very much tip the balance in almost any combat in which they participate. But with the addition of archetype packages—a new character creation option—and a few new ranged weapon combat feats, it is possible to heighten the role heroic archers can play in your campaign without making them the overwhelming force they were on the battlefields of our ancient world.

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Welcome to the sixth 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 artifacts, cloaks of invisibility, +3 keen vermin bane daggers of orc detection, 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. 6: Cloaks and Daggers we’re looking at bargain-bin capes and knives that most characters may find useful. 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 determined, allowing GMs to apply that logic to other abilities and use firm knowledge of where the numbers came from if the needs of their particular campaign require changing the prices.

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Gemstones and other crystals have long been associated with magic and purity. You only have to think of how crystal balls are used in fiction-often portrayed as the very source of a witch or wizard’s powers-to be sure of that connection. Even in modern times, the link has remained strong. Go to any bookstore or new age gift store to see that people today still associate crystals with healing and arcane power. Yet, while you will find crystal balls and enchanted gems in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, as a rule they are repositories for generic arcane or divine abilities, not sources of power or iconic items unto themselves.

The Genius Guide to Crystal Magic takes crystals and gemstones beyond the merely cosmetic roles they’ve had thus far in spellcasting and gives them a magical niche of their own. It begins by discussing the use of crystal foci in a campaign and describing the difference between normal crystals and those particularly suited for use in viewing or healing. Next you’ll find a collection of new spells for all the spellcasting base classes and the addition of a new [crystal] descriptor for spells that tie directly to the heart of crystal magic-healing, scrying, and drawing on the inherent magical power of crystals and gemstones. In addition there are new crystal-themed class options to enable the creation spellcasters whose focus is the magic of crystals. Finally, you’ll see the carbuncle-a new simple monster template to help GMs make crystals a more integrated part of the campaign.

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A remote mountain village is under siege by a giantess who sends her ogre henchmen to town with this terrifying proclamation.

We are the Ullak, and these lands are ours! That we have suffered the little ones to live in the valley is of no consequence. Were not all the mountains given to us by Helgroth, Lord of the Winter Storm? Do not the worgs and ogres bow in deference to us? There is nothing we can see that is not ours to command!

The little ones—the humans—are just another possession—like ore we dig from the ground or trees we fell. That we have indulged their delusion of freedom makes no difference. They are ours …  and the time has come when they are blessed to be able to render service to the Ullak.

To the valley! Go! Bring back as many of the little ones as you can carry! And tell the others that they will be likewise blessed erelong!

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In the modern world, it is often more valuable to be famous than to actually be skilled at doing anything useful. People are more likely able to name the stars of a reality TV show than their own elected officials. They can list off the hottest celebrity nightclubs and restaurants more readily than they can the capitals of the States or even major nations around the globe. And those lucky few who have captured the public’s imagination can cash in on their notoriety in many ways—getting free gifts and services, preferential treatment, and even immunity to some laws and regulations simply by flashing a smile and flaunting their fame.

Building Blocks: Active Reputation features a set of optional rules that increase the variety of ways that a Reputation check can be used in the game, turning the stat from a passive measure of general awareness into a powerful engine of social influence. These will be most useful in campaigns where fame and public perception are important factors—where the heroes or their adversaries rely on the support of the general populace or are can reasonably expect to influence people and situations merely through the power of their notoriety. Also featured are details on the organization Campbell Daniels Industries—a highly successful real estate and construction firm that is most notable for the thrill-seeking, publicity-grabbing exploits of its owner, Campbell Daniels (for whom there is a fully fleshed-out NPC write-up).

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Tomorrow may be April Fool’s Day, but this is NOT a joke. We will be webcasting live on Thursday, April 1st starting at 6pm PDT (GMT -8) and go on for an hour. There will be a live chat room for you to submit questions and interact with us during the show. (And we might even sort out the phone system so that you can CALL IN and talk to us live.)

You can listen to the show live (or come back later and listen to the recording) here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stannex/2010/04/02/super-genius-radio–p20-modern-update

Please help us spread the word about the show … and then come join us.

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.

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The magus (plural magi) is a new base class designed for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. She is a hybrid spellcaster, combining arcane spells drawn from power within herself and the faith needed to also call upon divine spells. A magus may be a church wizard, a priestess of magic who has studied the arcane arts, or a dynamic spiritualist who sees no difference in the two traditional forms of magic. Magi may be called bruxa, church mages, ecclesiathurges, ovates, spell lords, thaumaturges, white wizards, or other titles that suit the needs of your campaign.

A magus is considered both an arcane and divine spellcaster (and can count as either for purposes of requirements and prerequisites). The magus is similar to a sorcerer in that she draws spell power from within herself, casting a limited list of spells known with no need for advanced preparation. Unlike a sorcerer, a magus can draw from both arcane and divine spell lists when selecting spells known, allowing magus’s to be prepared for a broader range of circumstances. This is important as the magus’s focus is spells to the exclusion of nearly everything else, even more so than other spellcasting classes. Depending on the mystic bond a magus makes, she may not have powers beyond her spells, but instead she’ll learn new ways to use the spells she knows to maximum benefit.

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