Release An Artists' Union?; plus STAR WARS: EDGE OF THE EMPIRE releases today!; and Kickstarting PRIMEVAL TH

[h=3]Dungeons & Dragons News[/h]

• Magic Item Compendium: Clothing and Tools -- From the humble ring of feather falling to the legendary vest of the archmagi, the roster of useful (even crucial) magic items worn on the body is vast.

[h=3]Pathfinder RPG News[/h]

• With help from Dennis Przybyla, I've updated the COMING SOON column to the right ---> with all the Pathfinder releases through to September. For the sake of my sanity, I've elected not to include comics, novels, and miniatures.

[h=3]A Union For Artists?[/h]
PACT is a project put together by the illustrators Jim Pavelec, Todd Lockwood, Randy Gallegos, Aaron Miller, and Mike Sass "in order to improve the working conditions for all of the artists who make our RPG products look the way that they do." It's currently being fundraised at IndieGoGo.

PACT will be an online resource for illustrators, at first focusing on the fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and comic book genres. Once up and running, the PACT website will have information for artists of all experience levels regarding contracts, copyrights, and alternative income solutions.

Most importantly, the PACT website will feature an anonymous ratings system for companies. Members of PACT will be able to log on and grade companies overs a variety of criteria such as amount of pay, timeliness of pay, granting of rights, and ease of work. These will be compiled into what will be an overall score for that company. This will allow artists to see, based on a companies rating, if it is one that they want to work for or not.
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[h=3]RPG News[/h]

• Hey, Star Wars: Edge of the Empire releases TODAY! $59.99 for the core rulebook, and the dice you need are $14.99. It's on Amazon.
• The Kickstarter for Richard Baker, David Noonan, and Stephen H Schubert's PRIMEVAL THULE campaign setting has launched. They've also announced it will be available for Pathfinder, 13th Age, and D&D 4th Edition. "This is a world of barbarian freebooters and dark magic, star-spawned monstrosities and elder gods, fabulous treasures and mind-blasting terror."
• Pay-What-You-Want has been discussed a bit recently. One publisher reports on the change in his month's sales after adopting the model.

[h=3]Community News[/h]

• Kobold Press presents a desert monster: the Blood Snake for Pathfinder.
• This week's AICN Tabletop covers the Sweatpea/WotC movie lawsuits, Pathfinder Pawns, Steve Jackson Games, the Standard Action webseries, Pandemic, and more.
• Gnome Stew suggests that you let players end scenes early in order to speed up your game.
• You can download Angry DM's On Winters Edge campaign guide as a PDF.
• Campaign Mastery discusses measuring complex distances on a map.
• How have I not been aware of Kurt Wiegel's Video RPG reviews? Well, that's now been rectified! Here's a review of Cubicle7's recent Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space releases.

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[h=3]Boardgaming News[/h]

• The Esoteric Order of Gamers is a new website devoted to essential quality content for the gamer who loves immersive, thematic tabletop games. The site is run by Universal Head, well known for his rules summary and reference sheets, and hosts all 200+ of them, plus continually updated new articles, reviews and new content. Recently, he's posted Part 1 of a new video tutorial series on how to create foamcore box inserts for your boardgames, plus detailed 3D plans for box inserts for Merchant of Venus and Descent 2nd Edition.
• The Assassin's Creed series of video games is being adapted to a boardgame. Details are sketchy, but it appears the game will be set in Constantinople. It is expected to arrive this winter.
• Games Workshop has started taking pre-orders for Warhammer 40k: Apocalypse Collectors Edition. For those of you with $250.00 to burn, you will receive an Exterminatus case stuffed with a number of books and rules for Apocalypse. There are only 1,500 available so head over now to get yours.
• Mongoose Publishing has previewed new figures for the Judge Dredd miniatures game. Mechanismo Mk. I, II, and III and several others are all coming soon.
• Catalyst Game Labs has provided another look at Shadowrun: Crossfire, the SR based deck building game. Greg Marques talks about the Stickers system and how it allows you to build up a character between games by carrying over experience.
• Ares Games has released a starter set for their super successfully Kickstartered game Sails of Glory. Featuring four detailed ship models, rules, and various other game elements, the price of the starter set is a hefty $89.95. Boosters should run about $15.00 MSRP.
• Steve Jackson Games has acquired Chupacrbra: Survive the Night from Haywire Group.