Our MIBs will run a broad selection of our games, including GURPS, Car Wars, In Nomine, GURPS Traveller, Illuminati (of course), and Knightmare Chess, among others. The MIBs will also be showing off our new chess variant, Tile Chess (which will be available in early November); if you like Knightmare Chess, you really want to see this new game!
If you like cars, check out Archon's First Annual Post-Apocalyptic Car Show. They describe this as "Art cars with an attitude! (Think Car Wars/Road Warrior/Death Race 2000.)". So if you've got a heavily armored '77 4-door Impala with twin 37mm autocannon, it might have a real shot at first prize . . .
We just couldn't miss Archon's *23rd* anniversary . . . and we hope you can
make it, too!
-- Monica Stephens
In Tile Chess, the traditional chess pieces move across a virtual "board" of ever-changing size and shape. Strategy becomes more complex; as you conquer each of your opponents, you take over their pieces! To win, you'll have to think outside
the board . . .Tile Chess is designed for 2 to 6 players. It's even more portable than chess - there is no board, and the tiles will fit in a pocket. You can play on a table, a bar, the floor . . . wherever you like.
The set contains six sets of 16 tiles each, plus complete rules . . . enough for one large game, two smaller ones, or three 2-player games at once. An understanding of the basic moves of chess is required for play.
Tile Chess ships October 25th. Visit Warehouse 23 to order your copy today!
Beer. Nookie. Roommates. Just another Friday night at Chez Geek, the fun new card game that lets you set up house with your friends -- for as long as you can stand them. Get a job at the beginning of the game, and sp
end money and time to accumulate Slack points. You can have a party, hang out with friends, dodge losers, and play with the cats. Borrow from your roomies so you can have snacks while you watch TV. What other game gives you points for sleeping? Just look
out for the car alarm. Drink, party, and sleep late as you pursue Slack points to win the game.
Just remember, when your roommate and his S.O. keep you up all night: You can't throw them out. They live here.
Illustrated by John Kovalic. Chez Geek is coming in November; reserve your copy today!
The Wildweb is a very cool site that covers all forms of
entertainment . . . movies, music, books, TV, computer games, and
gaming, and now Steve Jackson Games. They are also the first website to
have their very own syndicated TV show. See it all at www.wildweb.com.
-- Paul Spenard
Sharks can't get skin cancer, but they can help us fight disease. Flies will sleep upside down so soundly you can vacuum them up, and we still don't know how they fly. Spheres of stone, balls of dark matter, economics, religion and statistics. Is all of t
his weird but true or just truly weird? Find out for yourself.
-- Suggested by J.T. Benton
GURPS Swashbucklers is now in playtest! All you need is a Pyramid subscription . . .
-- Keith Johnson
We have received two big new shipments in Warehouse 23. We now have the complete Rio Grande Games line. These high-quality European games have everyone buzzing, unless that's just the mind control lasers ra
ttling your fillings. Löwenherz, El
Grande and Mississippi Queen are three
Rio Grande games that are very popular right now.
Brawl from Cheapass Games is here, and is selling like hotcakes. This fast-paced card game has players slugging it out in real-time combat! Each game is very quick, and you always want
to play just one more . . . The art for Brawl is stunning and adds greatly to the game. We also have a restock of the new and very popular Vampyre Button Men, as well as the Fight City card game.
Keep an eye out for more games coming to Warehouse 23.
-- Paul Spenard
Murphy's Law being what it is, this comes at a time when the game is out of stock, so we are no doubt missing out on some sales. Ah, well. We are taking orders, and will ship in November, and it's cool to be on Slashdot...
Mike Joseph has created a shareware program called the GURPS Vehicle Designer 1.0.18. This Windows 95/98/NT 32 bit utility makes designing a vehicle in GURPS Vehicles a snap. You will still need to have a copy of GURPS Vehicles (which you can order from Wa rehouse 23) in order to use this program. You can find out more about it here.
Andrew Colemen has made this shareware GURPS NPC Generator for those GMs that need a quick villan, ally, or cannon fodder. You can find out about registration as well as screen shots at his website.
Alan Atkinson from the land down under designed this GURPS Vehicles Creation Sheet. This nifty little sheet speeds up the vehicle design process tremendou
sly. You will need GURPS Vehicles and Microsoft Works 4 or greater in order to use this freeware application.
-- John Aaron Schmidt
Full play-by-play details of the final round are available on the AADA page.
Left to right, top row: Don Jacques and MJ Daniels
Bottom row: Glen Bucher, Darrin Marquez, Michael Garrity and Norman McMullen.
is the newest Car Wars book. It's now available from Warehouse 23. Written by Mick Farren, it's a very gritty story indeed.
It's all here: electronics, lasers, bionics, time travel and pyrotechnics. There's no branch of science Future Horizons won't explore, expand or exploit. Order a working model or get the plans and build your own
. Whether you intend to enter the next millenium with a bang, a hum or a high-pitched whine, they're on all the cutting edges.
-- Suggested by Chaad
Denis Sarrazin has version 1.0.0.104 patch available for his GURPS Guru. You can download the patch directly from his GURPS Guru site.
Thomas Bont has put out a brand new version of GURPS Character Maker. You can download it directly from the Computer Aids webpage, or The FELIX GUR
PS Software Library.
-- John Aaron Schmidt
Comic Book Life (beta)
resumes its regular schedule today. CBL went on hiatus for a week while
its editor, Jack Elmy, moved to the
Left Coast (Orange County to be exact). Well, Jack has settled in and
CBL is back. The new edition sorts out Superman's copyright status, and
reviews Alan Moore's From Hell. Check it out!
We've also just added Rio Grande Games, publishers of Mississippi Queen and other strategy games, to the Warehouse 23 lineup.
Look for more exciting additions to the Warehouse soon!
These were created by Vanessa Bell, aka Modesty. She entered the IO wallpaper contest with these two great collages of Illuminated art. I asked her very nicely and she modified them a bit for us . . . and here the y are!
Feel free to download them and use them on your own system. That's what they're for.
WAY neat. Thanks, Modesty!
What do you do when your Furby dies? Perform an autopsy, of course. The Furby Autopsy takes you step by step through a dissection of the popular animated plush toy, and includes several photos of the gri
m process.
-- Suggested by Stefan Jones
If you're not already a subscriber, don't miss out - subscribe today!
We also have more great chats lined up in the near future: Pyramid editor Scott Haring chats on Wednesday the 15th at 9pm. And on Tuesday the 21st, join Doc Cross for a mindtwisting experiment in genre mixing and RPG genetic tampering. Toon as a postapocalyptic horror game? Star Trek: The Swashbucklers? X-Files meets Castle Falkenstein? Over the Edge of the Rainbow? Come see what all of this could mean to your gaming group a nd even, dare we say it, the human race!
Visit the Pyramid Chat Page for the latest schedule and login info!
By the way, if you're a comic book fan and you haven't checked out Comic Book Life yet, what's keeping you? It's still free . . . and Jack's been getting a LOT of good mail about it.
-- Steve Jackson
GURPS New Sun is now in playtest. Pyramid subscribers can access the playtest files here. And if you're not already a subscriber,
subscribe today!
-- Keith Johnson
Nothing like the tried and true to stoke the fires of paranoia. The Universal Conspiracy Against Everything neatly outlines the deceitful depths to which the Secret Masters' plot descends. The links alone
will keep your browser humming for hours.
-- Suggested by Bob Schroeck
Time magazine is taking a vote for "the century's worst scammer, con artist, media manipulator, grifter, liar or charlatan." And our friend J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is on the ballot. Right now, in fact, he's in #3, and closing in on Linda Tripp (though sti
ll a good distance behind Geraldo).I just voted for "Bob." Join me! He has his own website; he has his own INWO supplement; many doubt that he even exists. But of course he exists; do you think that rants like this come from a computer? Clearly he should win.
So click right here for the Time poll, and vote for "Bob"!
-- Steve Jackson
