June 23, 2008 (Bozeman, MT) – Dark Matter Studios, producer of the well-received fantasy rpg Epic Role Playing, has released its latest offering, the Atlas of Eslin. Weighing in at over 300 pages, the Atlas contains eight continents’ worth of diverse cultures, compelling story hooks and varied professions.
A companion to the Epic RPG Game Manual, the Atlas is designed to be used by GMs and players as a complete and ready-to-play campaign world or as a modular salad bar of ideas for homebrew settings.
“One of the most vocal requests we’ve had from fans in the past few years was for a wider range of opportunities and backgrounds for their characters. So we packed eight different continent-size arenas for adventure into a very reasonably priced volume,” commented Kent Davis, one of the two principal partner/designers.
“Each of these realms is designed to support divergent play-styles, hooks and adventures. Desert nomads? Oppressed peoples? Stone age tribes? Sweeping empires? Theocratic republics with living gods? No problem. We’ve also provided a GMs’ toolbox chapter full of thematic and organizational hooks for each realm, as well as detailed examples of population centers and loads of other supporting material.”
The Atlas is completely compatible with the Epic Role Playing ruleset contained in the Game Manual, and offers over two hundred culturally defined professions to characters starting off on their road for adventure.
About Epic RPG Offering a platform that is flexible and realistic, Epic RPG system still retains enough opportunities for death-defying heroism to satisfy the wildest imagination. Highlights include classless character design that integrates characters into a society through culturally defined professions; elegant and choice-filled combat; unique magic with disciplines such as the arcane science of metaphysics and the body magic called shen; a flexible skill system based on talent that allows players to customize their character's growth with skills, specialties, masteries, and grandmasteries; and a fantasy setting abundant with disparate races, astounding civilizations, and captivating geographies.
In both soft- and hardcover, the Epic RPG Atlas of Esin is now available for purchase from the Epic Role Playing store. Look for it soon on amazon.com and at selected retailers.
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About Dark Matter Studios, LLC. Dark Matter and Epic Role Playing (http://epicrpg.com) are based in the beautiful mountain town of Bozeman, Montana. Dark Matter is committed to making games that we ourselves want to play, not corporate products tested for brand maximization. We believe that intricate, engaging story and jawdropping, detailed action can coexist. Epic Role Playing is a game made by players for playing.
NOTE: Corrected to be the 7th of June. Previously it has been posted as the 6th.
Saturday June 7 is D&D Gameday. The Muse in Missoula will be hosting WoTC sponsored 4th ed games that start at 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM. For more information http://www.musecomics.com/ [Submitted by Cory]
The next Missoula meet up will be March 22nd at 1 PM. The location is as of yet undecided - check the thread in the Around the Kitchen Table section of the forum. [Submitted by Cory]
The Helena Game Club is inviting all of you to an organizational meeting to start the HGCs events for 2008, which will hopefully be a great year for gaming in Helena.
The Club will be holding its 2008 kick-off meeting on January 5th, 1-2 PM in the small meeting room at the Lewis and Clark Library. Any who come will learn what we do, what we want to do, and anything else we can tell you. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow gamers in Helena that are interested in the same games you are - board games, role-playing games and card games. (And maybe even a war gamer or two. . .)
Further information about the club's mission, values and activities can be found at their google group site - http://groups.google.com/group/helena-game-club - in addition, if you cannot make the meeting but still want to be involved or just contacted about events, you can send a request to join from that page, or reply via e-mail to this invitation.
But talking about gaming isn't as much fun as playing games, so we have reserved the meeting room all day (10 AM to 5 PM) and will be doing our best to keep games of all sorts going when we are not being official and talking about boring organizational subjects. The public will be welcome - so come by any time you can to play something with us.
Missoula's next meetup will be Tuesday Dec 11 at 6:30 at the Pizza Hut on East Broadway. Feel free to stop by, meet some of the folks here in person and chat. [Submitted by Cory]
