You no longer have to accept the lesser of two evils. When one empire clashes with another, it just makes good economic sense to merge the two, and Microsith is your best - some might say only - choice for world domination.
-- Suggested by Joe Hacker
Aquamothra? Godzillasaurus? Mu, The Super Mystery Magazine?
Jonathan Woodward, the author of the upcoming GURPS Ogre book, has written a GURPS Godzilla netbook. Source material includes everything from the original 1954 Godzilla movie to the upcoming "Bio-Godzilla". With adventure seeds, crossover information (Reign of Steel meets Godzilla?), and more giant monster writeups than you can shake a stick at, Game Masters now have plenty of tools for roleplaying in the Toho Universe!
I'll see you at the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center!
-- Keith Johnson
Legal fine print fnord: This is not a licensed GURPS supplement, nor is it, as far as we know, licensed from the Godzilla people. It's fan stuff, and it's neat.
We went to see "Galaxy Quest." And there was much laughter. Yes, it's a bit predictable at times, but that's part of the humor. Trek fans will either love it or hate it, and I predict the majority will love it.
We played 25 Words Or Less. Excellent game; an interesting twist on Taboo. Basically, you have to get your teammates to guess 5 different words in only one minute; you are limited to no more than 25 words, TOTAL, for your clues. But at the beginning of each round, the clue-givers look at the word card and bid each other down . . . "I can get them to guess these with only 20 words of clues." "I can do it in 19!" "Fine, then, 18." "Okay, let's see you do it in 18." Way fun.
I read the "Harry Potter" books. Good stuff. They may be intended as "young adult" fare, but anybody who enjoys a silly take on Magic Realism is young enough for these. There are three out, and four more to come.
And I visited the Dale Chihuly glass exhibit in Columbus, Indiana. Beautiful, beautiful work; Chihuly is IMHO one of our greatest living artists. And remarkably, they allowed photography, so here are a couple of pictures I took with our new Mavica digital camera. Any inadequacies are the fault of the photographer, and not of the neat little camera or the beautiful glass.
-- Steve Jackson
Our first In Nomine game aid is the In Nomine Character Creator for Windows 95/98/2K, by Tim Converse.
Trying to Illuminate your website but your system administrator is thwarting you? Jim Lesko has created a shareware Java version of our Fnorder program for those webservers that do not allow CGI scripts.
A classic is revisited! Robert Struble has created the Necromancer GameBox for Cyberboard. This game aid allows you to play Necromancer by e-mail with your friends. You still will need the original Necromancer to play.
Do you have the urge to create a solar system? The Solar System Constructor, by Marcus L. Hulings, is for Microsoft Excel and Corel Quattro Pro 9. It allows you to completely design solar systems down to the smallest detail using the GURPS Traveller: First In rules.
Lyman Lockwood has created the GURPS Automated Character Sheet for Excel. This workbook has lots of room for all of your GURPS characters, no matter the genre.
These game aids, and more, are available on our Game Aids web page.
Happy Holidays!
John Schmidt
Game Aid Coordinator
If you're not sure how all the illuminated pieces fit together...well, that's how it's supposed to be. But if your curiosity gets the better of you, enter the pawn in question into the conspire
database and they'll put it in context for you. Just remember, it's as much as your life is worth.
-- Suggested by Timothy Long
 | Managing editor Alain Dawson, sporting a purple hairdo and a death grip on the dreaded Barney. |
| So, what does a gaming company do on their night off? Well, they game. (What, you didn't think we had time for such nonsense during work, did you?) Here we're playing Apples to Apples. Pictured are SJ, Amy (Jeremy's gf), Alain , and Monica. |  |
 | More gaming. Now we're playing Chez Geek. Pictured are Kira, SJ, Jeremy, Amy, and Alain. |
| Kelly, Monica, Scott, and Scott's wife Louise scheme about [you're not cleared for that]. |  |
 | Gamer-in-training Alex Singletary. |
Huey Freeman, star of The Boondocks, is dreaming of a black ops Christmas. Watch as he slowly puts together the pieces of Santa's conspiracy, starting with the December 6th installment in the Washington Post.
-- Suggested by a whole lot of people . . .
GURPS Myth
Explore the world of the Fallen Lords and Soulblighter in this adaptation
of the best-selling Myth
computer games!
This sourcebook takes you beyond the battlefields of Myth, exploring the culture and psychology of the game's fascinating races, fleshing out the nature of the setting, and expanding upon the adventuring potential of this exciting fantasy realm.
It will also provide guidelines for merging traditional GURPS and the Myth game engine, using Myth II's editors to translate GURPS combat to real-time computer play!
#6095, ISBN 1-55634-413-9. 128 pages. $19.95.
![[GURPS Swashbucklers, Third Edition]](/gurps/books/swashbucklers/img/cover_sm.jpg)
GURPS
Swashbucklers, Third Edition
Come to the age of the Swashbuckler, when the world was wide and fortunes could be made in an afternoon of smoking cannons and bloody cutlasses! Swing from a chandelier into the fray, rapier in hand, dagger in teeth, and show the Cardinal's guards they can't insult the queen! Or wait on the quiet back roads of England on a moonless night, pistols and reins in your hands, and hope the Squire's coach isn't too well guarded...
Pirates, Musketeers and Highwaymen all come alive in this GURPS worldbook of romantic adventure from Elizabeth I to Napoleon. Rules and background given include: ship combat, black powder weapons, expanded fencing rules, cutlasses, chandeliers, codes of honor, duelling, compulsive gambling and all the other classic elements of a good swashbuckling time!
#6019, ISBN 1-55634-394-9. 128 pages. $19.95.
Join the young torturer Severian, naive servant of the byzantine and shadowy Autarch, as he winds through the crumbling metropolis of Nessus and slowly learns the truth behind his world -- or create your own stunning campaign based on the indelible imagery of the Book of the New Sun.
#6096, ISBN 1-55634-416-3. 128 pages. $19.95.
Tile Chess (Edition Française)
Dans le jeu Tile Chess, les pièces d'échecs conventionnelles se déplacent sur un « plateau » virtuel dont la forme et les dimensions sont en constante évolution. La stratégie se com-plexifie: chaque fois que vous terrassez un adversaire, vous vous emparez de ses pièces!
Afin de gagner, vous devrez faire abstraction des limites traditionnelles de l échiquier . . .
Tile Chess a été conçu pour un groupe de 2 à 6 joueurs. Il est encore plus portatif que les échecs: il n y a aucun plateau et les pièces ( imprimées sur des carreaux ( tiendront dans votre poche. Vous pouvez jouer sur une table, sur un comptoir, sur le sol . . . où bon vous semblera. Cette boîte contient six ensembles de 16 pièces chacun, de même que les règles du jeu. Le matériel est suffisant pour une grande partie, deux plus petites, ou bien trois parties à deux joueurs. Une connaissance des règles élémentaires des échecs est requise pour jouer à Tile Chess.
Vos repères ne vous auront jamais tant désorienté . . .
Stock #1332, 96 pieces, $14.95
-- Keith Johnson
Warehouse 23 is now shipping directly to Canadian customers from within Canada, offering the same selection at the SAME PRICES. Shipments are sent via Canada Post's Xpresspost. Shipping and handling charges will be in U.S. dollars:
Orders under $50 (US): S&H is 10% of your order, with a $3.00 minimum.
Orders from $50.01 to $80: S&H is a flat $2.50.
Orders above $80.00: NO FEE for shipping and handling.
Warehouse 23 will cover all costs of importing the games into Canada, and will NOT pass these expenses on to the customer. Canadians pay only the regular U.S. retail in U.S. dollars, the shipping and handling fees above, and GST. All you have to do is enter a Canadian address, and the software does the rest.
Warehouse 23 now carries 14 game companies, including SJ Games, Chaosium, Atlas and Cheapass, and more are being added each month. New releases from each company are available as soon as possible!
Rah! We're bi-national! This concludes our Canadian commercial announcement fnord.
Coming in January:
In this outrageous satire, an experienced munchkin gleefully reveals the tricks of the trade: everything from re-rolling an unfavorable result to bribing the GM. Learn how to get the most out of character design, and why it doesn't really matter what your character's personality is as long as you get to FWACKOOM! the NPCs and grab their stuff. Munchkin GMs get their own chapter, of course: how to control the players, bend the rules, and up that body count!
Remember: If it's only a game, why do we keep score?
Stock #3003 * ISBN 1-55634-347-7 * 128 pages
Suggested Retail Price: $19.95
Superiors 3 is now in playtest. Pyramid subscribers can access the playtest files. And if you're not already a subscriber, subscribe today!
We have all of us at one time or another wished all manner of misery on spammers. Leave it to the Grand Overseers to take the cruelest route: public humiliation. The MMF Hall of Humiliation picks apart spam and ridicules th
e authors mercilessly. They even keep score, the fiends.
-- Suggested by J. Adams
If you place an order after December 12 we will get it shipped and into UPS' hands that same day. But there is no guarantee you will get it before Christmas. If you absolutely cannot order early and really need Christmas delivery, you can pay BIG BUCKS fo r UPS Next Day Air. This is the only service that UPS can guarantee during the holiday season. We can ship your order UPS Next Day Air for you, but you'll have to pay the charges, even if the order is over the normal free shipping amount ($80).
Also, UPS will be closed (no pickups or deliveries) on December 25, 1999 and January 1, 2000. Nevertheless, our dedicated, hard-working, really not mind-controlled Warehouse 23 staff will be filling orders between the holidays, from December 27 to Decembe r 30.
Order now so your Christmas gifts don't arrive after New Year's!
John Kovalic, creator of the popular Dork Tower and Murphy's Rules comics for Pyramid, has created a set of Dork Tower holiday gift tags. You can view them on the web here, and do
wnload a printable PDF version here.
Thanks, John!
Insiders (okay, outsiders too) have speculated that this means Decipher will not be doing the new Star Wars RPG after all, but there is no confirmation; at this point, it's just an interesting guess.
-- Steve Jackson
Note that filling in this form will sign you up for three different newsletters unless you blank out the checkboxes. I don't care for negative checkoffs even in a good cause, hence this warning . . . but it IS a good cause in my not-so-humble opinion.
-- Steve Jackson
First. we have version 1.1.6 of Mike Joseph's GURPS Vehicle Designer.
The second is Alan Atkinson's GURPS Vehicle design spreadsheet version 5.1 for MS Works 4.0.
Finally for the Mac user, we have version 2.0 of Richard
Wilkes'
GURPS Character Sheet
for PowerPC and MacOS 8.5.
-- John Schmidt
Game Aid Coordinator
Every so often, someone on the Pyramid MOO complains of all the idling, and accuses us of being a Zen MOO. Well, maybe, but we don't hold a candle to the real Zen MOO. Zen MOO is
one of the oldest MOOs online (it officially opened Feb. 14, 1993), and is still going strong. It's obviously an Illuminated sort of place, too. The goal is not to talk or explore, but simply to meditate. Where else can you be rewarded for idling?You can use your favorite MUD client to login to Zen MOO at zenmoo.zennet.com 7777.
-- Kira
We will be no different; we will ship product to distributors through December 17, and then the Shipping Department will spend the rest of the year counting products and sending goodies ordered from Warehouse 23. In fact, the Direct Mail folks will probably feel pretty lonely here the last week of the year; most other employees will be able to take some t ime off.
So don't worry that you won't be able to spend that money from Grandma after Christmas - we'll be quite happy to help you with that. But try to order and ask any questions online, to give the guy who will fill your order a break from answering the phone!
And if you are planning to place an order before the holidays, remember to leave plenty of time for whatever problems might come up this time of year . . .
![[GURPS New Sun]](/gurps/books/newsun/img/cover_sm.jpg)
