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HILLSIDE, NJ – October 21, 2010 NECA/WizKids, the leader in collectible gaming, is proud to announce the re-launch of the Mage Knight property.  In 2000, Mage Knight defined miniatures gaming by combining a rich back-story, detailed pre-painted miniatures and revolutionary game play.  Mage Knight will honor that spirit of innovation within the property by expanding it across several platforms.

The initial Mage Knight offering for release will be a board game designed by Vlaada Chvátil, designer of the acclaimed games: Dungeon Lords, Through the Ages and Galaxy Trucker.

“For me, Mage Knights combine the greatest fantasy archetypes – honor and wisdom, strength and magic.  I want to bring to life a Mage Knight as an individual who steers the wheels of history and gives birth to legends. My hope is to capture that essence in a new and engaging way for fantasy fans around the world” says Chvátil.

WizKids President Lax Chandra says “Mage Knight launched our company and created a new industry (CMG) of gaming. Ten years later, we have come full circle. We have wanted to work with Vlaada for a long time and we are thrilled with his vision to make this a new experience while still carrying forward the world that so many people fell in love with.”

In addition to the first boxed set, WizKids/NECA plans several brand extensions set in the Mage Knight universe, including a new take on deck building games and role-playing games.

About WizKids/NECA:

A wholly owned subsidiary of the National Entertainment Collectibles Association Inc. (NECA), WizKids/NECA is a New Jersey-based game developer and publisher dedicated to creating games driven by imagination. The HeroClix brand is the most successful collectible miniatures games on the market today, with over 250 million miniature game figures sold worldwide. For additional information, visit www.wizkidsgames.com.

©2010 NECA/WizKids LLC. All rights reserved. Mage Knight, the Mage Knight Logo, HeroClix, and WizKids are trademark of NECA/WizKids LLC.

Having traded my old Dark Eldar army to Jack in the Mox (old forum memeber) for Mage Knight figures before I moved to England, I have an interest in the new army.  

Dark Eldar have not been updated since 2nd edition, we are now on 5th.  


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I know nothing else than this.

Rob I've noticed a lot of posts where the images are now gone.  What's up?  :?:

I finally won a game against Bloodydrunk (he won the last three) and it was a humiliating defeat!

I used 15 Crisis Suits!

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The board was made of Ebbles FUSS buildings, PaperMake it Bunkers and World Works Games Mayhem Destroyed.

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Tay Deployment.  The Crisis Suits look right over the Medium FUSS giving them a 4+ cover save and still allowing them to fire onto the field of battle!

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Feel the awesome power of three Crisis Suits each with Fusion Blaster and Plasma Rifle!

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Paper Make iT! just released Pillboxes and Corridors on Monday.  I immediately picked it up and made my first pillbox.

Using the shuffler you can customize your pillboxes and corridors and buy purchasing a plugin for the Shuffler you can add your own fonts and images as well.

I design mine, print to pdf (pdf plugin not included) open it in Photoshop then drag it to my Craft Robo registration page.  Save it as a BMP, print it from Photoshop, make my GSD's from the BMP and then have my Craft Robo cut and score them.

After my first one I redesigned it and will cut out my second pillbox after I retrieve my CraftRobo blades from the Post Office.

My Planet Strike games for 40K are going to be much more interesting from now on!

I was just saying that there where rumours of a Torchlight Multi-player so I thought I would go check their website again.

Lo and behold Torchlight II is announced!

Runic Games will release Torchlight II initially as a digital download in Spring of 2011.
KEY FEATURES

   

• Multi-player – Play with your friends over a local area network, or over the Internet. A free matchmaking peer-to-peer service lets you make new friends for exciting co-op play.
     
• Customizable Characters – Players create and customize a character from one of four classes available and choose an animal companion. Through cosmetic, class, and gender choices, skill path decisions, and the treasures they acquire, each character can be custom-tailored to each player’s needs.
     
• Moddability – Torchlight II will release with an updated version of TorchEd, the Torchlight editor. Players have the option to create their own mods, adding even more content to the world. You and your friends can download the same mod and play together!
     
• New User Interface – Torchlight II boasts an entirely new, improved user interface, designed to be easier than ever for new players to pick up and play. Thanks to this intuitive interface, players have immediate access to a rich and varied world, with little experience necessary.
     
• Overworld Areas – Torchlight II has large randomized overworld areas to explore with weather, time of day cycles, and random events that provide players with even more content to experience.
     
• Random Dungeons – Delve into randomly generated dungeons within the game at any time for extra experience and rare loot. Dungeons in Torchlight II have even more branching paths to explore with friends filled with random events, rewards and dangers.
     
• Retirement System – Once characters are sufficiently leveled up, they can “retire” and bestow specific benefits and perks onto new characters.
     
• Pets – Players choose a pet to accompany them. Pets level up along with the player, and help in battle, learn spells, carry items, and perform a variety of support services.
     
• Fishing – Fishing returns in the sequel! Players can take a break from the high-energy pace of adventuring to relax by one of the many fishing holes and see what they can catch. Fish have unique benefits for the player and pet, while a number of other rewards can also be discovered.

This is the kind of game I like.  Multi-player but not MMO.  I can play with my friends without others getting in the way.

Here is my plan.

I'm going to make a mega dungeon using the World Works Games TLX system (it would take way too long to do it with Hirst Arts bricks).  I will design the overall dungeon with Campaign Cartographer 3 and offer the TLX builds with their TLX Planner.  I may also offer the campaign in NBOS's "The Keep"

After I finish writing the campaign (School took up all my time) I will place it in either a blog format or a wiki.  If I do the wiki I can offer the campaign in several systems by using the tabs on each page.  GURPS will be the main one, then I would have to find someone to convert it to 4e and probably Savage Worlds.  Then people would just have to click on their system tab and get all the stats for their system while the dungeon and campaign plot remains the same.

By building the dungeon I will offer a physical model for the GM's to either recreate or just to help them visualize.  Plus traditional 2D maps will be made available.

This will be a huge undertaking so I want to get at least 75% of the campaign written and all the terrain built before I make it go live.  If anyone would like to volunteer for helping writing and converting the campaign that would be brilliant.  Also anyone that can draw would be cool as well.

Of course I would need Rob to help with the website/security and Paypal tip jar to help pay for it.

What are your thoughts and comments?