http://games.pauljessup.com/codex Surreal Worlds, Strange Settings and Bizarre Empires. Weird Gaming for the Role Playing Crowd Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:47:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like a lot of other smaller press RPG developers, we don't believe in hard deadlines.  That's for a reason- we're staff of a small few (somtimes one, sometimes five) people that work our butts off on getting things done.  So, with that said I'm going to give some tentative release ... http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/an-update/ So last night I gamed via Skype with some really close friends that I've gamed with for like forever.  I think 10 years now, actually.  Maybe a little more, maybe a little less.  The nice thing about gaming with some people you've gamed with for that long is that once ... http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/wednesday-night-game-night-playing-magpie-2-urban-fantasy-style/ So, some of you may have noticed that I dropped Swords and Wizardry from our listing, and added in a campaign setting for Tunnels and Trolls.  Some of you may be saying- what gives?  Don't you want to support the hip and new OSR community?  Don't you wanna? And I realized- ... http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/tunnels-and-trolls-setting/ Here are two nicely colorized pieces from Emma Candon- Here is the Aetherbound cover art, done by Zoe Stead- http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/atherbound-art-cover-and-more/ Here is a sneak peak at the cover for the Urban Fantasy Codex, with art done by Zoe Stead. The Urban Fantasy Codex gives you the tools to create your own Urban Fantasy style game, done in the mode of the now-popular Urban Fantasy genre. Game in the ... http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/urban-fantasy-codex/ That's right, later this week we'll have art for both Aetherbound and the Magpie Codex's first toolbox- The Urban Fantasy Codex.  I'll also give some excerpts and show you some cool stuff. Stay Tuned! http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/coming-this-week-more-art/ Can we make it into the top 10 before Friday? I think we can :) Buy it here for $9.99: http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?discount=8788 Anyway, I'm working on getting the print copy ready. Right now we're having a small issue with the program we're using to generate the PDF's and it resampling the images ... http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/magpie-is-now-13-on-the-top-100-at-rpgnow/ The Magpie Codex 2 is available for purchase!  PDF price is set at $9.99, while the full color print version is set at $19.99. PDF available at RPGNOW for $9.99- http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=64210&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2675 Print version coming shortly for $19.99! http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/magpie-codex-2/ Expect links to be on this page for ordering/purchasing/etc http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/tomorrow-is-the-release-of-magpie-2/ Some excellent art from Emma Candon, including a colorized version of the  Nodim http://games.pauljessup.com/codex/aetherbound-art-thaumaturge-and-nodim/