‘The Fading’ is the third installment in a five part series of fiction based on The Nearside Project. Taken as a whole, these five stories are known as “The Thirteenth Hour”

Roleplaying games, like many other games, rely heavily at times on chance. Chance usually takes the form of dice rolls or card draws, and it can make great heroes or great goats. We curse or we exclaim with joy when luck finds its way to our side, depending of course on which side it comes down

If you encounter a male between the ages of 16 and 60, and profer two extended fingers in the general area of the eyes, I daresay you will encounter the ritual response of a hand extended parrallel to the nasal ridge along with the reponsorial “Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!” It was with great affection, therefore, that I discovered THE THREE STOOGES CARD GAME in my review box.

You get a treat this week. Three columns for the price of one. A lot of people say I ramble, but this week, I’m concise. I got a lot of ground to cover.

One of the elements that role-playing games and computer games have in common is that product based on a movie license is rarely any good. A few examples of well used licenses exist, don’t get me wrong, and when it works it really works, but more often, the end result is well below par and sells on the strength of the license along which was the reason for purchasing it in the first place. An exception to this in the role-playing industry was West End Games’ (WEG) Star Wars RPG.

Josh: I’ve been gaming 14 years now, reaching 15. It seems that through every family tragedy Me and Sean endured,it became apparent we needed to do something. Well, we started forming this concept for a game. I’ve always been the mac nut, so of course, I ended up designing it. And lots of drawing symbols in the edges of my psych notes turned into the symbols you saw on the webpage (www.lastexodus.com). That page in general was a 12 hour epiphany.

I co-authored D&D with Gary Gygax . . . before I came along it was called Dungeons and Gophers . . . I set the bonehead straight and the rest is history. Just kidding . . . aside from running Eden Studios, I’ve done all the graphic design and art direction on the Conspiracy X line, the layout and covers for the WitchCraft line, and some freelance art for Pinnacle’s Hell On Earth RPG. I also designed the Abduction non-collectible card game.

‘The Long Game’ is the first installment in a five part series of fiction based on The Nearside Project. Taken as a whole, these five stories are known as “The Thirteenth Hour”.

The Gaming Outpost has received permission to publish a sneak peak of NaRCISSIST v.0.5 for you all to read. The teaser, a glossary of terms and concepts used in the final product, is available for download in PDF format. Those wishing to view the file must have the Adobe Reader software - which is available for free at http://www.adobe.com/.

Not much was happening in Haven these days; a body was found in the harbor, Mayor Wright still denying the charges, there was another building fire in Rome Island. It was just another sleepy day for Haven City.