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October
2003 Offworld Report: RPGs and Gaming Half-Life raises its
game, Futurama gets onto the PC, the howlers to avoid when designing RPG adventures,
plus reviews of rulebooks for Unknown Armies, Twilight of Atlantis, and Dungeons
and Dragons: The Dungeon Master's Guide.
 A
prime crop of role-playing game gems found offworld the 'Nest for
October 2003, in this month's monthly round-up of the 'best of the
rest'.
DIGITAL GAMING On
a Bender
PlayStation 2 gets its very own Futurama adventure game.
Killing
Ewoks
Star Wars fans have two dreams - a lightsaber duel with Darth
Maul, and exterminating the Ewoks. This free online game, Star Bears, delivers
both.
The
Old, Old Republic
Look at the 3-D role-playing adventure for the X-Box,
'Star Wars: Knights of the Old
Republic'.
Robot
Fighting
The Playstation 2 game 'Silent Line: Armored Core' gives a
new riff to the giant robo action genre.
Move
Over Lara
A challenger to Lara Croft's position as everyone's favourite
cyber comes to the Game Cube.
The
Lionheart Alternative
An alternative reality fantasy RPG for the PC
'Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusades', featuring Galileo, Machiavelli and da Vinci.
Building
a Nation
Why Rise of Nations is a really absorbing real-time strategy
game.
Half-Life
Sequel Ups The Ante
Creators say the sequel to very popular Half-Life
game's going to be worth its five-year wait.
RPGS & Boardgames Character
Control
What to do when characters run amuck?
The
Master
Review of Dungeons and Dragons: The Dungeon Master's Guide version
3.5
Unbound
on the Rebound
Look at the new downloadable fanzine for Chaosium's
Call of Cthulhu RPG, Unbound. The first issue has three scenarios with illustrations
and maps.
Wizards
Rule: Not Okay
Wizards of the Coast quietly revise its open source
d20 system, to require re-writes or removal of the D20 logo if they discover content
violating their standards of decency.
Twilight
of Atlantis
Review of this d20 System sourcebook detailing the last
days of the Empire and City of Atlantis before her enemies fell upon her many
colonies.
Rings
Traded
Review of The Fellowship of The Ring Trading Card Game.
The
Unknown Army
Review of the Unknown Armies rulebook.
Monster
d20
Review of 'Monsters: New Allies and Foes' - six new monsters for
the d20 System.
The
Construct Companion
Guidelines and tips for fighting Golems and Constructs
as detailed in ICE's upcoming Construct Companion sourcebook
Adventure
Design Fumbles: Items
More howlers to avoid when designing adventures
- this time the focus is on magic items
Wolfgang's
Guide To Screwing PCs
What the heck has Wolfgang been doing behind
Fat Gregor's back now?
Going
Goa'uld
Could this be hottest role-playing game of 2003? Join Stargate
Command and jump into some pitched battles with the evil Goa'uld.
Falling
Sky
Review of 'When the Sky Falls' a fantasy Event Book covering a
meteor crash in your game world.
Morningstar
Review
of the world of Morningstar and the gateway to Thraxis.
Games
for Two
Ideas from Xavier Van Aubel about what you can do when game
partners are few and far between.
The
Hamlet of Thumble
Review of this fantasy sourcebook for Thumble, a
quiet and peaceful halfling settlement located on the east side of the River Noddon.
Pramas
Interview
Interview with Chris Pramas, now the founder of games house
Green Ronin. Chris talks about his work on games like Warhammer FRP, Feng Shui
and the Guide to Hell. 
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OTHER CONTENT - October 2003
The Horror of Hamilton
Laurell K Hamilton on the eleven Anita Blake novels she has written to date, and why the series is a regular visitor into the upper reaches of the New York Times bestsellers list.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Navigating the Aldabreshin Compass
Fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna interviewed about her new series, The Aldabreshin Compass. Will fans enjoy a ripping yarn set in a tropical climate with its roots far from the northern European staples of the fantasy genre? You bet.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Seeing Mars from Uppsala
Ken MacLeod ruminates on his trip to Sweden's national science fiction convention, Swecon 2003, and finds a home away from home at SF-Bokhandeln - the Swede's main SFF bookshop.
(COMMENT)
October 2003 Offworld Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Spider Robinson blasts the genre and asks 'why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into fantasy?', Kir Bulychov dies, plus interviews with Jerry Pournelle, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Bob Eggleton, Robert J. Sawyer, Ben Bova and Vernor Vinge.
(NEWS)
October 2003 Offworld Report: Weird Science
Why the US military want to unleash a new fleet of robot-controlled aerial vehicles, Arthur C. Clarke talks at the Los Alamos Space-elevator Conference, plans for a bacterial battery, Erich von Däniken wants a Themepark of the Gods, and why Cold Fusion scientists feel unloved.
(NEWS)
October 2003 Offworld Report: RPGs and Gaming
Half-Life raises its game, Futurama gets onto the PC, the howlers to avoid when designing RPG adventures, plus reviews of rulebooks for Unknown Armies, Twilight of Atlantis, and Dungeons and Dragons: The Dungeon Master's Guide.
(NEWS)
October 2003 Offworld Report: Comics, Anime and Manga
CrossGen is heading for the seven seas with their new pirate comic, El Cazador, the difference between fans and fanboys is examined, a look at reality in Anime, and 'Scooby-Doo Meets Batman' is reviewed (yes, really).
(NEWS)
Spirited Away
Frank finds Spirited Away an opulent and emotionally moving Japanese children's animated adventure that's sure to capture the intrigue and imagination of moviegoers of all ages.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Freddy vs. Jason
In an interesting yet sordid way, the invention of wanting to put together a couple of the big screen's most prolific slayers and have them duke it out for warped fun definitely had its advantages. After all, who wouldn't want to see the morbid mayhem between Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13's Jason Voorhees?
(FILM REVIEWS)
Jeepers Creepers 2
Since useless sequels that no one was particularly clamoring for have bombarded the summertime, why break with tradition now? Frank finds himself exposed to the latest in a long line of unnecessary follow-ups with the release of Victor Salva's flavorless scarefest Jeepers Creepers 2.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The Xindi
In the first episode of the third season Enterprise, Evan discovers 'The Xindi' is not only a decent payoff to the second season finale, but it has some wonderful setups for the future. Trek on.
(TV REVIEWS)
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