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CW's Guide to RPG Reviewing continues today with Opening Doors: Where Reviews Can Take You. If you feel inspired, be sure to send us your latest work. A selection of new reviews is also available.

In celebration of the holidays DriveThruComics and our publishing partners are offering 10% off of selected products from now until the New Year!

DriveThruComics Holiday Sale

Great deals on Judge Dredd comics from 2000 AD, Wild Cards RPG from Green Ronin, Buried Tales from 12 to Midnight, Cadre from Nifty Comics and more!

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Another set of new reviews is here for you, in case the holiday is getting to you. There, there - your family means well. They just don't understand you like we do. Roll some dice - you'll feel better.

Happy Thanksgiving, all. If you come out of your food coma today, why not add some missing details to our RPG Index, the most complete on the web? If not, we can always use more review submissions, whether they're about a game, graphic novel, movie, or nifty dice bag.

Today we start off a new column, A Cubicle with a View. In the first installment, Dominic of Cubicle 7 begins to describe his corner of the game industry - hence the title From Small Cubes. Settle in, and learn what the Cube-ists have planned.

Aside from that, a bunch of non-RPG reviews should keep you occupied as we loosen our belts for the long weekend. If you play anything between plates of holiday food, take some notes, and write up a review to enlighten and amuse us.

What can you get for a dollar these days? From Adamant, Almost Everything!

To celebrate six great years in operation, Adamant Entertainment is running a special sale from Wednesday, November 25th through Monday, November 30th -- the entire Adamant catalog of products have been reduced to a recession-friendly price of one dollar apiece!

Our Pathfinder roleplaying game releases: $1.00 apiece at RPGNow.

Our Venture 4th 4E releases: $1.00 apiece at RPGNow.

Recent Savage Worlds releases, including MARS and Thrilling Tales: $1.00 apiece at RPGNow.

There are perils ahead, and your survival is not assured, but I promise the rewards are more than enough. Face your own Dark Fate, adventurer, and discover a land of struggle where a common man may one day become a true hero!

The book you hold is a testament to the epic worlds of adventure. In these pages you'll learn the Dark Fate of a land that is recovering from the death of the Goddess of Magic, where mystical and fantastic creatures no longer live alongside the mortals-trying to survive the ravaging undead creatures of the dreadful Necropolis is not only a matter of hope, but also of luck.

So grab your pen and paper, be ready to roll your dice, and discover the world of Dark Fate!

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What if you had to take the good of being a superhero with the bad? Today's Campaign Toybox explores the idea, in Trapped in Tights.

As the holiday gift shopping season closes in on us, OgreCave continues to offer insight on worthwhile game products. To that end, Lee has provided his review of Adaptoid by nestorgames. This abstract strategy board game is thematically similar to Ursuppe/Primordial Soup in that little critters are growing and attacking each other, but Adaptoid is a simpler game, and much quicker. Read on to learn what Lee thought of it, and stay tuned later this week for more gift suggestions from our ninth annual OgreCave Christmas Gift Guide.

There’s still some capacity in the “Colony Program,” a.k.a. beta-PDF giveaway, for FreeMarket, the transhumanist RPG by Luke Crane of Burning Wheel and Jared Sorenson of inSpectres, Action Castle and many others. The beta is capped at 1000 copies, just like the lavish print edition planned for next year.

Me, I think everyone who’s interested in the technology of roleplaying should have a look at this. It’s the first game I know of that truly reverses “kill them and take their stuff” – all the way into “no one can die and you want to give them all presents.” And yes, it makes that work, turning it into a tense, motivating, probably hilarious saga of social climbing and idealisms of all sorts. It’s the most developed, wide-ranging and at times gleefully evil take on the concept “all combat is social combat” that I’ve yet seen. I’m surprised it isn’t catching more hate from the usual Internet suspects, because it is a direct and vicious frontal assault on roleplaying’s indulgence of the Geek Social Fallacies.

JOURNEY BEYOND THE GATES OF PERCEPTION!

In Mega-City One a brutal murder is discovered, seemingly of unnatural origin. Around the globe there is a massive surge in psychic phenomena as people fall prey to visions and religious mania. It seems that the world is on the brink of a psychic apocalypse and Psi Judge Anderson must travel into the heart of Tibet to find the source of the disturbance!

This collection brings together the very best of Alan Grant's (Lobo) and Arthur Ranson's (Button Man) work on this iconic comics character.

JUDGE ANDERSON: SHAMBALLA is the latest release from 2000 AD at DriveThruComics.com.

Following the public playtest debut of Omnifray Lite

FANGS FOR STOPPING BY, I'LL CLAW YOU BACK!

The glowing vampires are back, and now they're getting a bit upset about how much that nice young woman knows about them all. She might have a bit of trouble on her hands. Wait! Is that a werewolf ready to chew fang-faces to pieces for her? This should be interesting...

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" opens on Friday, November 20th; We've got horror and gothic stuff with claw marks through their prices all weekend long!

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White Wolf Publishing has 80+ PDF Exclusive products available at RPGNow.com!

These products supplements for Exalted, Changeling: the Lost, Geist: the Sin-Eaters and more! Many of them are products that would never have been released if not for the flexibility of electronic publishing. Check them out today!

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INSTANT ANTAGONISTS are systemless creatures or beings designed for use in modern supernatural/horror games. Many will be supernatural in nature; some will be (at least nominally) human. Some are truly evil, others simply selfish or immoral, others may be victims themselves.

Perfect for modern horror gaming that might need a new twist on old legends. The INSTANT ANTAGONISTS line offers details on each monsters origins, powers and plenty of story hooks to include them in your modern horror games.

The Selfish Succubus

Lily Sinclaire is a dream come true and your worst nightmare all wrapped up in one.

Written by Jess Hartley (Changeling: the Lost, Supernatural Adventures) with art by Jeff Preston (Fantasy Craft).

The Selfish Succubus is available at RPGNow.com.

Crafty Games is proud to announce its latest (huge) PDF release for Spycraft 2.0 - Real American H.E.R.O.es!

Fight for freedom — or crush it — in this brand new world of four-color military fantasy where the good guys wear green, the bad guys wear blue, and great notions like democracy and justice prevail over evil in half-hour segments! Recruiting starts today!

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I was just commenting to a friend that I hadn’t seen any new dice games for a while, and suddenly Steve Jackson Games has added two dice games to its product release schedule next year. Zombie Dice invites 3-8 players to “Eat brains” and “Don’t get shotgunned” in an attempt to gather as many of the 13 custom victim dice as possible before the shotgun blasts stop them. Playable in 10-20 minutes, the game will include a custom dice cup and sell for $13.13 (not a typo). Cthulhu Dice uses a large custom 12-sided die with tentacles, Elder signs, Cthulhu and such, and pits 3-8 players against each other in a quick fight (10 minutes) to be the last sane cultist standing. Players can cause opponents to lose sanity, or even steal it from them, but Cthulhu damages everyone’s mind, and if no one is sane at the end, Cthulhu wins. Lose your sanity over and over for the low price of $4.99. Both games would’ve been welcome additions to our Screams from the Cave last month, but zombies and Cthulhu are a good time any season, and are due to release in March 2010.

Is “shotgunned” a word? It should be.

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Adding value to a great boardgame is – well, great, and that’s exactly what Days of Wonder has provided for Ticket to Ride: Europe in the form of a new expansion. Lee gives us the scoop today in his review of Ticket to Ride: Europa 1912, a card-based expansion that adds new ways to play in the same vein as the Ticket to Ride: 1910 set, and also adds an entirely new game mechanic to the mix. Read on, and see if you need to meet this expansion at the station.