Roleplay Life

Mike S commented on my last post on Anima Beyond Fantasy is on sale at GenCon (if it hasn’t sold out yet). I expect that after GenCon (Aug 20), Fantasy Flight Games will be posting more information on their site. You can read Mike S’s comment here (at the top of the list) for more information. Thanks Mike!

A game I was hot for a year or two ago was Anima, Beyond Fantasy. I’d played the card game, and I’ve picked up some of the mini, and the art looked great. They’ve pushed the release date back (again) from this Summer to September . I hope they don’t pull what Palladium did by releasing the book, only to follow it up with a Special Edition right after that.

Well, better to let the date slip than release a crap product

Earlier I posted an article on making your own counters for games. Since then I’ve used them in my Dungeons & Dragons game, and tried different things, and here’s some things I’ve found:

•  It’s a good idea to give the players their own color tokens, or write their names on them. If you have a whole bunch of tokens, players may start forgeting that token B is a party member and D is a goblin.
• Avoid putting too much information about the enemy on their token. Players will start trying to get an edge by guessing what HR means.
• Blank tokens are great. Put them out and pencil in information. Use a soft lead pencil, since hard lead may be hard to read.
• I have not found a good 2″ hole punch yet. The Marvy 1″ is the only one I’ve found to punch through a comic book board.
• Laminating a token is not good for wet erase. Still have to try dry erase and grease pencil.

I’ve also found I spend too much time drawing maps and wiping them off the Battlemat. I’m going to try Dungeon Tiles next, and also make my own tiles for Keep on the Shadowfell.

My copy of Rifter #43 arrived on Saturday (complain and you will received). It’s the swimsuit issue. Some of the art is good. There are some re-published Larry Elmore works as well (my apologizes if it’s new).

On July 15th, Rifter #43 supposedly shipped from Palladium Books. I have not received my copy yet. I have seen it at my “local” game store. Well, at least I got my free copy of Splicer.