The Tome Show

Geoffrey D. Winn snagged James Wyatt to talk about the Player's Handbook 2, Manual of the Planes, the Adventurers Vault, Eberron and so much more.

Plus I announced the Secret Code Contest!!!

Participating shows are:

Atomic Array

Ogre Cave Audio Report

Brilliant Gameologists

Podgecast

and the sponsor for the contest, providing 10 $25 gift certificates, is Noble Knight Games.

Email your collection of all the codes from the participating show to [email protected] before October 17th, 2008 and win!

The promo is for the Sellswords of Punjar actual play!

and be sure to swing by the forums and give me your insight into books that will be reviewed in the future. What do you want to know about the Adventurers Vault, Forgotten Realms Campaign/Player Guides, and Player/DM Resources (character sheets, screens, etc.).

Steve Kenson of Green Ronin gave me an update on how things were going at Green Ronin with True20 and more.

Also, I mention that you can impact the show by visiting the forums.

We're a member of the Vorpal Network.

The promo was for Return to Northmoor.

and that just about covers it all. Hope you enjoy!

Rob Heinsoo, designer at Wizards of the Coast, took the time to talk to Geoffrey D. Winn at GenCon 2008 and shared a bit with him about 4th edition's success and some upcoming books including Martial Power, Players Handbook II, Arcane Power, and more. New classes, power sources, feats, races...there's bits of it all in there.

Forums

Wizards of the Coast

The Monarch Comics Breifing

Vorpal Network and Fist Full of Comics and Games

Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms, took the time to talk to us at Origins 2008 and give us his insights on why the Realms make a good game world, how to use powerful characters in your game well, some insight into the 4e version of the world, and more.

As for links you have:

The Tome Show Website

The Vorpal Network

The Forum

Candelkeep

Icosohedraphelia Podcast

Not much for show notes this time around due to a lack of time.

In this episode I talked to Jason Buhlman and Erik Mona of Paizo Publishing at Origins 2008.

Links:

Paizo

Nuketown Radio Active

Vorpal Network

Harley Stroh, the line editor for Goodman Games' Dungeon Crawl Classics took some time before GenCon to chat with me a bit about what 4th Edition products from Goodman Games, what it's like to write adventures for 4th edition D&D, and how to write adventures that don't suck.

I also mentioned:

The Forums

Vorpal Network

The Basics of the Game

The Email

Twitter for me

Twitter for Vorpal

and probably much much more that I'm forgetting.

Paizo is running organized play along with the Pathfinder product line called the Pathfinder Society. While at Origins 2008 they ran a panel describing what they were planning to do and I was there to record it.

The promo was for the Vorpal Network, which also has the show's forums, which you should totally be at right now.

The Tome's Summer 2008 contest is coming to a close at the end of August. But I wanted to give you one quick chance to hear what sort of quality things you could win. Why haven't you entered yet? What are you thinking?!?!? Get over to the website and enter today before it's too late.

Also, I am so very excited to bring you the Vorpal Network, which I serve on the Board of Directors for. Go check out the site, the new forums, and the news page. We have some big plans and want you to be in on the ground floor.

This episode has me talking to Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer, Daniel Perez of Highmoon Media, Fraser Ronald of Sword's Edge Publishing and the Accidental Survivors podcast, Jakub Jaraczewski of Q-Workshop, Nicolas Logue of Sinister Adventures, Rone Barton for Goodman Games, Steve Kenson of Green Ronin, and Steve Machow of Myth Merchant Press.

Amazon.com Widgets

Phew, it was a lot of talking and a lot of prizes for you to win...so get to entering!!

The Pathfinder RPG/Sticking with 3.5 Seminar from Origins 2008 included Publisher Erik Mona, Lead Designer Jason Buhlman, and Director of Marketing Joshua Frost all of Paizo Publishing. They chat about the Pathfinder RPG, what it is, what it will be, and what you can expect from it.

Interested in discussing it? Head to the forums.

Swing by the Tome's Amazon Store to support the show.

And check out Fist Full of Comics and Games where I made a recent appearance.

The promo this time around is for the 3.5 Private Sanctuary.

The Tome looks at Healing Surges and the Raise Dead ritual for D&D 4e as well as discussing some ways that you can build a good Dwarven Paladin and Dragonborn Fighter.

Swing by the Forums and let us know what you think about the advice provided and the character builds discussed.

You can find the Tome's Summer Contest 2008 until the end of August.

Keith Baker's Blog was discussed.

And the promo played was for Playing For Keeps.