No posts on any of my blogs this week.

I am having really bad eye trouble. Hopefully, tomorrow's trip to the doctor will start to make things better.

I hope you'll check in at some point in the future.

And now... 'ROLF!: Playwrights and Piledrivers'

It's the battle to settle, once and for all, who gets to claim credit for the Complete Works of William Shakespear! In this corner: Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford. In that corner, William Shakespeare and Macho Man Randy Savage!

Return to the world of "Houseboat on the River Styx", as "ROLF!: Playwrights and Piledrivers" pits Elizabethan poets versus Macho Man Randy Savage in a product only slightly less silly than the plot of Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous."

With new Combat Maneuvers, six pre-generated characters (including the Earl of Oxford and Macho Man Randy Savage), and fiction written by Steve Miller (or possibly Sir Francis Bacon... we may never know the truth, but it is a fact that Everything Is Better With Bacon), it's literary conspiracy theory as only NUELOW Games can do!

Click here to get your copy for only $0.50!

Steve Costigan battles again on 11/16/2011!

Last month, NUELOW Games released "Fists of Foolishness", a collection of ten humorous short stories by Robert E. Howard detailing the misadventures of sea-faring boxing champ Steve Costigan.

This Wednesday, Costigan sails again, taking the fight to gangsters, Chinese warlords, Mexican bandits, con artists, and any and all boxers who face him in the ring in "Shanghaied Mitts."

Featuring 11 action-packed tales of outrageous adventures that take Costigan from the wilds of Texas to the interior of China, and a handful for battle scenarios designed for use with The Violent Worlds of Robert E. Howard game, this book is a must-have if you enjoyed Volume One.

Keep watching this space for news as to when the book will be on sale at the NUELOW Games store at Onebookshelf.com. Meanwhile, here's a look at the cover illustration for "Shanghaied Mitts."

The Secret Ninja Battle Revealed!

The excitement of a Godfrey Ho movie! The coherence of the Occupy Wall Street Protest! It's Ninja Action as only NUELOW Games can do it!

Fed up with only 1% of all Ninja getting to wear colorful togs, the black-clad 99% stage the Occupy the Secret Ninja Lair Protest... and Bruce Lee, Sue Shiomi, Lee Van Cleef, Sonny Chiba, Richard Harrison, and Maurice the Master of Evil Ninjas get swept up in the conflict. Who will survive the deadly action during Nine Days of the Ninja?!

Click here to get your copy! On sale for just $0.75!

Ninjas are trying to keep their secret!

Computer glitches which has resulted in corrupted illos and editorial delays means that ROLF!: Nine Days of the Ninja will be delayed by a day. However, the nefarious dark magics will only delay and not deter us!

Here's another preview of the release.... Bruce Lee and Sue Shiomi, ala ROLF!

BRUCE LEE (Male)
Brawn: 38; Body: 17; Brains: 8

Traits: Nimble, Sense of Honor, Too Sexy for My Shirt

Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Battle Cry, Disembowel, Double Strike, Furious Fists, Kung Fu Face, Seduce, Strike Pose.

Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Nunchuks (Average Melee Weapon. 2 points of damage.)

SUE SHIOMI (Female)
Brawn: 28; Body: 18; Brains: 9

Traits: Nimble

Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Disarm, Disembowel, Dodge, Furious Fists, Knock Out, Kung Fu Face, Run Away!, Strike Pose.

Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Samurai Sword (Average Melee Weapon. Deals 3 points of damage.)

Combat Maneuver: Kung Fu Face!

In celebration of Nine Days of the Ninja, here's a ROLF! Combat Manuever. (It will probably be refined by the time it appears in the forthcoming "ROLF!: Nine Days of the Ninja" supplement. Due this Saturday!)

Kung Fu Face
Successful Body Check causes opponents in the battle to lose the action they would have taken after the use of this combat manuever.
ATT Body

The deadliest of blogathons....

ROLF! for the iPhone is now available!

The ROLF! iPhone app game is now available in the iTunes store! Yay! Click here to check it out!

The app comes with a printable copy of the original "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game for Big Dumb Fighters" so you can use the app based on the table-top game so you can play the table-top game!

The game features art and character portraits by Larry Elmore (just like the basic game and the first few supplements... as well as some that are coming up, as we drag Elmore back into the madness that is ROLF!)

Rick will be adding combat scenarios, characters, and such. And please let us know what you think of it, either on the iTunes site, here, or via email to me. :)

(Oh... and given the disclaimers on the game, Apple must be quite sensitive to violence and nudity. Or I'm desensitized to it.)

ROLF!: Horrors of Rock

Here are some pop musicians turned into ROLF! characters. Why? Why not?

NEW COMBAT MANEUVER

Dance Move: When the character uses this Combat Maneuver successfully, all other characters in the area must make successful Brains ATT checks as their next action or catch dance fever and join in. Dancing characters cannot attack other characters and they continue to dance until attacked or until they roll a successful ATT Brains on 3d6 instead of the usual 2d6.
(Exception: The character who used this maneuver can stop dancing after one round if he or she chooses.)
  Characters with the Nimble Trait receive a -2 modifier to the attribute check for this Combat Maneuver. ATT Body.

NEW CHARACTERS

Lady Gaga (Female)
Brawn: 20 (+1 Hat Bonus included), Body: 17, Brains: 7
Traits: Nimble, Same Sex Preference, Too Sexy for My Shirt
Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Dance Move, Furious Fists, The Look, Strike Pose, Seduce, Yodel.
Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Bizarre, Sexy Outfits (Clothes), Thigh-high Boots (Armor OR Leggings, Absorbs 1 point of damage.), Weird Hat (+1 Brawn Bonus, different-looking hat each battle).

Lady Gaga and Friend

Meat Loaf (Male)
Brawn: 23, Body: 14, Brains: 6
Traits: Too Sexy for My Shirt
Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Dodge, Double Strike, Seduce, Strike Pose, Yodel.
Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Thigh-high Boots (Armor OR Leggings. Absorbs 1 point of damage.), Microphone Stand (Deals 2 points of damage.)

Meat Loaf (the singer, not the food)

Rob Zombie (Male)
Brawn: 18, Body: 15, Brains: 5
Traits: Nimble
Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Disembowel, Furious Fists, Strike Pose, Yodel.
Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Satanic Sacrificial Dagger (Inflicts 2 points of damage,)

Rob Zombie, Hairy Dude.

Zombie Michael Jackson
Brawn is 20; Body is 16; Brains is 5
Traits: Dead, Mutant (Claws, Detachable Limbs, Teeth), Stinks
Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Dance, Disembowel, Seduce (+2 modifier to ATT check), Yodel.
Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Teeth (Natural Weapon; immune to Disarm. Melee. Ignores Armor. Deals 2 points of damage.), Sharp Claws (Natural Weapon; immune to Disarm. Melee. Does 3 points of damage.)

Zombie Michael Jackson

Best-selling titles in October

NUELOW Games had a very good month. I attribute this to the fact that the Occupy the Gaming Table Movement really DOES represent 99% of all Americans. And then there were the better-than-expected sales on the collection of humor stories from Robert E. Howard, "Fists of Foolishness", doing better than expected, and a number of you out there taking advantage of our "Play a New RPG Month" discount package to try out "ROLF!: The Roleplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters." Thank you for your support. I hope you felt that your money well spent!

Here are the top sellers.

Best-Selling NUELOW Games Titles for October 2011

1. ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters [Core Game Rules]

2. ROLF!: Creature Feature [Supplement]

3. Fists of Foolishness [Short Story Anthology featuring works by Robert E. Howard]

4. ROLF!: Supermodel Slapfest [Supplement]

5. ROLF!: Herbert West vs. the Zombies [Supplement]

6. ROLF!: The Pimp, the Protester, and the Po-Po [Supplement]

7. ROLF!: The Associated Shades of Hades [Supplement]

8. ROLF!: Icing Oetzi [Supplement]

9. ROLF!: Hammerin' Tongs [Supplement]

10. ROLF!: The Breast Hope for Peace [Supplement]

Just in time to brighten your Halloween...

We're proud to offer a new anthology featuring off-beat werewolf tales by from the legendary Robert E. Howard and a novelette by Clemence Housman that H.P. Lovecraft said features a "high degree of gruesome tension."

White Fell and Other Stories features four classic chillers selected and edited by Steve Miller, one-time contributor to the gothic horror setting of Ravenloft. Perfect for reading on your iPad--or even your iPhone, this collection can be yours for just $1.75.

And now... 'ROLF!: Gaddafi's Angels'

Ripped from yesterday's headlines! More action and intrigue than the latest big budget espionage action thriller, and almost as much logic!

"Gaddafi's Angels" is the latest supplement for ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters. It contains three thematically linked combat scenarios and five pre-generated characters--including Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his mysterious cadre of lovely women warriors, Gaddafi's Angels (making this another ROLF! supplement that's fun and educational!), Sarah Palin (a woman of mystery of there ever was one), and the sinister Agents of HUMMUS.

Gaddafi may be disposed and murdered (and few mourn him very much), but the battle of Angel vs. HUMMUS goes on. Now with 100% more Sarah Palin!

Click here to get your copy of "ROLF!: Gaddafi's Angels" from RPGNow.com for just 50 cents. This expansion works both with the current edition of ROLF! as well as the free Old Skool Edition.

All proceeds on sales of this product will go to fund my rise to supervillian status so can have my own cadre of hottie women bodyguards and secret agents on retainer. So get your copy today!

Gaddafi and his Angels! (See... we DON'T make this stuff up!)

ROLF! House Rules

Here are some "missing rules" that "Alhoon" posted on the Fraternity of Shadows message board. Feel free to incorporate them into your ROLF! games, because, unlike what the Godfather of Gaming Gary Gygax wrote about AD&D in the immortal Dragon Magazine #64, you are still playing ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters even if you aren't playing it exactly as we wrote it.

Feel free to add your own rules! And if they're fun, send them our way!

Alhoon, ROLF! player and Ravenloft fan, on How to Play ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game.

ROLF! takes 15 mins to read from cover to cover. If you spend more time than that... then you are doing it wrong!

Just note that there are some rules missing, that are very, very important. Namely:

- When your opponent rolls and then his cellphone rings, his mom knocks the door etc, you fudge his dice rolls turning "1" to "6" etc while he's not looking.

- When you use "seduction" you should always kiss your hand making a loud, disturbing, wet "Mooooch" sound.

- If you successfully castrate an opponent, everyone in the room should point at the player of the unlucky char and laugh at him.

- If you have the "do lunch" maneuver, you should eat fallen opponents while fighting. [ED NOTE: And this is made easier if your character has the Mutant Trait and Fangs.]

- If you play with your significant other and her/his char castrates yours, while everyone is pointing at you and laughing, you should throw a fit, how your relationship is going bad and vow to abstain from sexual intercourse for a week.

Time for "ROLF!: Gaddafi's Angels"?

Hmmmm... Gaddafi's dead. His hot chick bodyguards are free agents. Maybe it's time to write "Gaddafi's Angels." While there are all sorts of tasteless jokes that can be generated from the fact that M.G. was smoked in a pipe, I think these girls probably have far more potential.

Here's an initial crack a stat block...

Gaddafi's Angels
Brawn: 27, Body: 18, Brains: 11
Traits: Nimble, Too Sexy for My Shirt
Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Bitch Slap, Castrate, Disembowel, Furious Fists, Seduce, Spelling (Draw Weapon*), Strike Pose, The Look, The Walk.
Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Easily doffed uniform with camo bikini underneath (clothes). Successful use of the Draw Weapon Spelling summons a Medium melee or ranged weapon into the Angel's hand. It deals 3 points of damage.)

Hello, angels!

*This spelling is basically the same as "Ninja Arsenal" but I don't have "Cap'n Jack on the Isle of Pirate's Doom" handy to look it up. I'll fix it later. :)

ROLF!: Chuck Norris vs Abe Lincoln

We've never been ones to think that any joke is too old to not keep hammering, so we're including stats for Chuck Norris in "ROLF!: The Breast Hope for Peace." So, as a preview, here they are.

Chuck Norris (Male)
Brawn: 40; Body: 15; Brains: 8.
Traits: Coldhearted, Dour, Too Sexy for My Shirt
Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Bitch Slap, Debate Philosophy, Disarm, Furious Fists, Signature Move, Strike Pose, The Look.
Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: He's Chuck f'n Norris... what could he possibly need?!

And here's ROLF! stats for Abe Lincoln, in case you want to bring Nice Peter's Epic Rap Battles of History: Abe Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris to the gaming table!

Abe Lincoln (Male)
Brawn: 39; Body: 16 (+1 Hat bonus included); Brains: 8.
Traits: Nimble
Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Debate Philosophy, Disarm, Disembowel, Do Lunch, Furious Fists, Signature Move, Strike Pose.
Important Stuff Worn/Wielded: Stove-pipe Top Hat (+1 Body ATT when worn). Axe Handle (Medium Melee Weapon. Deals 3 points of damage).

And please keep an eye out for "ROLF!: The Breast Hope for Peace," debuting Wednesday, October 19 in the NUELOW Games store at RPGNow! If you haven't checked out ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game for Big Dumb Fighters, the special Play a New Roleplaying Game discount package is still avaiable. Click here for more information!

Coming Soon: The Breast Hope for Peace!

Have you ever wondered what Chuck Norris might look like as a ROLF! character? How about Barack Obama? Or maybe Pope Benedict, the Pazer Papa?

Well, wonder no more, because they--and a whole lot of other folk--are featured in "ROLF!: The Breast Hope for Peace!"

This product has its genesis in the real-world milestone in world-cultural evolution of an the Arab-language magazine Lilac featuring a bikini-clad Christian Israeli of Arab ethnicity on its cover. (Read about it at Cinema Steve by clicking here.)

We here at NUELOW Games were more excited than Rebecca Black on a Friday morning (we SO excited!) when we heard about this development; if there was anything that could be taken as a harbinger than the Hope & Change and global harmony that it was believed Obama would usher in, than this had to be it! So, we celebrated in the only way we knew how and created a new RPG supplement.

On Wednesday, you'll be able to join our celebration, as "The Breast Hope for Peace" goes on sale at RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. And you'll be able to pit Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against invaders from Mars!

Or maybe you can watch us get sued....?

I played a working prototype of ROLF! for the iPhone. And it was good!

For the past few weeks, developer Rick Blair has been working on what I think is an exceptionally cool iPhone app. But then I'm biased.

It's ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game for the iPhone/iPad/i-whatever that runs apps! It's what an RPG for your iPhone would be if they had iPhones in 1984, with black-and-white Larry Elmore art and no storyline whatsoever to get in the way of the fight. Within a month or two, you'll be able to break out your little devices and play ROLF! anywhere and everywhere, even without dice.

Note to the players in my campaigns: You better have THIS app on your mobiles if you bring them out during games I am GMing!

Here are some screen samples... watch this space for updates.

 

Click here for other iPhone apps by Rick Blair (including some featuring cats and fortune telling mechanisms).

Can you relate to this?

Graphic stolen from this guy.

If you understand the sentiment expressed above more clearly than the those expressed by the Occupy [Insert Random Open Space Here] Movement, then maybe it's time for you to discover or REdiscover roleplaying games. Purchase and dowload a copy of ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters and get an offer for a free copy of "The Pimp, the Protester, and the Po-Po." You'll enjoy that quiet time together, and you'll perhaps gain an understanding of what the hell it is your kid is on about. (Except the drumming. No sober person will ever understand the drumming.)

Click here to get your copy of ROLF! for just $1.50 (as well as the limited time free copy of "The Pimp, the Protester, and the Po-Po".

NUELOW Games: On the Cuttings Edge

(Because We Fell While Running With Scissors)

The latest fiction and RPG release from us: 'Fists of Foolishness' -- comedy the Robert E. Howard way!

We're proud to announce our third Robert E. Howard-centric fiction anthology, as we continue to share our love for this great writer's non-Conan/Solomon Kane material.

"Fists of Foolishness: The Tales of Sea-faring Boxing Champ Steve Costigan" is the first of two volumes collecting all the stories featuring the character that were published during Howard's life-time. It's an anthology of ten stories that shows Howard writing in a style very different from the oft-reprinted tales of Conan and Solomon Kane, one where his prose is light-hearted and down-to-earth but no less intense when it comes to the action.

SPECIAL BONUS: This edition includes a complete roleplaying game, "The Violent Worlds of Robert E. Howard". Using the ROLF! Rules System, and designed by veteran game designer Steve Miller and ROLF!-originator L.L. Hundal, this game is intended to capture the fun of a Steve Costigan brawl, but can easily be used to emulate the gore-spattered rampages of Conan.

Click here for more information, and to read a preview if you wish. It can be yours for just US$3.75!

Power to the people, because our iPods need recharging!

Witness the birth of the Occupy Your Gaming Table as NUELOW Games becomes the first RPG publisher to bring the Occupy [Insert Random Location Here] Movement to the gaming table with the latest supplement for ROLF: The Rollplaying Game of Big, Dumb Fighters...

"ROLF!: The Pimp, the Protester, and the Po-Po"

Click on the link for all the details, and for your opportunity to redistribute some wealth our way. (And if you haven't tried ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters yet, if you purchase a copy of it between now and October 15, you will have the opportunity to get "The Pimp, the Protester, and the Po-Po" for free, because we're all about defeating greed!)

NUELOW Games: On the Cutting Edge.
(Because We Fell While We Were Running With Scissors.)

Coming tomorrow from NUELOW Games....

Because we desperately want to be viewed as important, we here at NUELOW Games are jumping on the band-wagon of media and celebrity celebration of the brave activists in New York City and Seattle protesting... um... something. Tomorrow, Wednesday 10/5/2011, we will proudly to bring you "ROLF!: The Pimp, The Protester, and The Po Po."

Here are the illustrations that Karl M. has created for the supplement:

 

Celebrate Halloween with 'Creature Feature!'

The latest release for ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game for Big Dumb Fighters is "Creature Feature: The ROLF! Halloween Horror Show," a supplement full of zombies, werewolves, vampires, mummies, and the people who hunt them.

Designed by Steve Miller (that would be me), one-time writer on the Ravenloft gothic horror RPG setting from TSR Inc. and later Arthaus, this excursion into fights-for-the-sake-of-fights with gothic horror flavoring contains six pre-generated characters, several new or revised Combat Maneuvers and Traits, and three Scenarios that can be played separately or together.

Click here to get your copy for just $0.75 from RPGNow.com.

And don't forget that if you haven't tried ROLF! yet, you can get the basic game and four of the supplements for 45% off if you purchase our special Try a New RPG Package. This offer is good through the end of October, in conjunction with Play a New RPG Month.

September best-sellers for NUELOW Games

Here are the top sellers for NUELOW Games for the month of September. If you haven't checked any of these out, maybe you should. October is Play a New RPG Month, and we're offering a collection of ROLF! products for 45% off the already low normal price to help you do just that!

Best-selling NUELOW Games titles for September 2011

Click on the titles for a detailed description of each product, as well as a preview.

#1: Dyvil: First Edition (Jeff Grubb's 30-Minute Roleplaying Game) [core game]

#2: Steve Miller's 30-Minute Roleplaying Game (SM-30) [core game]

#3: ROLF!: Supermodel Slapfest [supplement]

#4: ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters [core game]

#5: ROLF!: Cap'n Jack on the Isle of Pirate's Doom [supplement]

#6: ROLF!: Herbert West vs. the Zombies [supplement]

#7: Names in the Black Book: Three Nightmarish Mysteries [fiction anthology]

#8: ROLF!: Icing Oetzi [supplment]

#9: ROLF!: Hammerin' Tongs [supplement]

#10: Modern Advances: Ghostmaster [d20 System supplement]

'Names in the Black Book' reviewed!

With the approach of Halloween, a young man's fancy turns to horror.

And on that note, I want to call you attention to a review that Jonny Metro of the Midnite Media blog posted of NUELOW Games' Names In The Black Book: Three Nightmarish Mysteries by Robert E. Howard.

If you haven't checked out this collection of classic horror mysteries, there's no time like the present--as the nights get darker and... things start appearing in the shadows.

"Names in the Black Book" can be purchased at DriveThruHorror.com for just $1.75.

October is 'Play a New RPG Month'!

The good folks at the Dice of Doom podcast have declared October to be Play a New RPG Month.

We here at NUELOW Games wholeheartedly support this idea, and I'll be suggesting to my Thursday group that maybe we try mixing things up a big, just for October.

In addition to embracing Play a New RPG Month on a personal level, I'm taking it up one step and offering a Play a New RPG Month discount bundle of ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game products.

You can make ROLF! your new RPG (RPG can stand for "roleplaying game" as easily as "rollplaying game" can it not?)

So, if you haven't tried ROLF!, now's your chance. You can get the basic game plus four of the follow-on releases with one easy purchase... and save 45% off the regular price. Get your Play A New RPG Package now by clicking here!

Now available: Modern Advances - Ghostmaster

This week, NUELOW Games returns to our OGL Modern/d20 System series Modern Advances with "The Ghostmaster."

Inspired by films like The Frighteners and classic television series like Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) and Ghost Whisperer, "Modern Advances: Ghostmaster" provides a different take on ghosts for Modern OGL games. This release features:

- The Ghostmaster advanced class.
- Three new feats, including Ghost Companion.
- The first of NUELOW Games' Terror Templates, which will rework classic creatures in ways that fit better with modern and futuristic settings.
- A fully detailed NPC -- celebrity Ghostmaster Marion K. Bassett.

Modern Advances: Ghostmaster is compatible with the leading d20-based OGL game systems. Click here to get your copy for only $3.00.

Avast, shipmate! There be ninjas covetin' yer booty!

NUELOW Games celebrates International Talk Like a Pirate Day with the 10th release for ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters game. Featuring three different Captain Jacks, pirates, ninja, and new combat maneuvers and spellings, it's a treasure trove that Blackbeard himself might set sail to loot!

For more information and to get your copy for just $0.75, click here.

Coming Sept. 19: Cap'n Jack on the Isle of Pirate's Doom

We're putting the finishing touches on ROLF!: Cap'n Jack on the Isle of Pirate's Doom, a trifle we're releasing tomorrow in celebration of International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

It features game stats for three Captain Jacks, Helen Tavrel (extra pirate geek points if you can identify who she is and why she belongs), pirates (Caribbean, Somali, and Copyright), ninjas, and The Mustache, the mysterious Manchurian Ninja Master who has brought them all to the Isle of Pirate's Doom for battles to the death! There's also new Combat Maneuvers and Spellings.

While we work to get the product release-ready, here are some videos for the music to play Cap'n Jack on the Isle of Pirate's Doom by.


Alphaville: Dance With Me (Official Theme for Cap'n Jack on the Isle of Pirate's Doom & ROLF AT SEA)


Alestorm: Keelhauled


Captain Jack: Another One Bites the Dust


Captain Jack: Iko-Iko (original version)


Da Jugglin' Fool: Why is the Rum Gone (Remix)


Lonely Island with Michael Bolton: Captain Jack Sparrow


Mike Oldfield: The Blue Peter Theme


Mike Oldfield: The William Tell Overture (Official Theme for ROLF!)


Nice Peter: Jack Sparrow's Rap

New ROLF! Combat Scenario now available

The latest supplement for "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters" is epic! Well, epic by ROLF! standards. Click here to get your copy from RPGNow for just $1, or read on to be convinced you want a copy of Supermodel Slapfest!

Six supermodels are trapped in a building with a whiny fashion designer and a hunky handyman... and a murderer out to get them all! Sounds like the teaser summary for a slasher film, but it's actually the subject of the latest supplement for ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters.

Dangerously close to being a real adventure (as opposed to the usual stuff where characters meet, characters kick each other into oblivion), this 10-page product features new Combat Maneuvers, new Stuff (both Armor and Weapons), eight pre-generated player characters, as well as the maniac who is trying to kill them. Well, who probably will kill them if the egomaniacal supermodels don't kill each other first.

As an added feature, there's a system for secretly making one of the "victims" the killer--just like in the slasher flicks where there has to be a "Big Reveal"--and no one knows who the murderer is until the time is right.

"ROLF: Supermodel Slapfest" is avaiable for just $1! Get yours today!

Join NUELOW Games on Twitter!

I tried this Twitter thing once before and gave up... I just didn't get it. I'm not sure if I get it now either, but I'm taking another crack at it!

Please follow NUELOW Games on Twitter: @NUELOWGames

'Mr. Sparkles, A Tale of the Asura' by Jeff Grubb

Jeff Grubb, the designer of "Dyvil: First Edition", is presently one of the lead creative talents responsible for breathing life into the world of the Guild Wars MMO for ArenaNet. He has just posted a short story on the GW Blog. Check it out!

Mr. Sparkles, A Tale of the Asura – ArenaNet Blog

And if you haven't already, I invite you to check out Jeff's "Dyvil" game from NUELOW.

Some art created for "Supermodel Slapfest!"

Although it's hit some developmental bumps, the next ROLF! supplement is still in the works.

"Supermodel Slapfest!: A ROLF! Triumph of Style Over Substance" will be hitting the web Tuesday or Wednesday... although this slide in the schedule may mean that "ROLF AT SEA!" may be not out in time for International Speak Like a Pirate Day. Which is a real bummer to me.

Anyhow, there are some of the character portraits that have been created for "Supermodel Slapfest." The Combat Scenario itself will revolve around six supermodels locked in a building with a masked killer who is stalking and picking them off. Of course, the supermodels can also take the opportunity to kill hated rivals and blame it on the insane butcher.

 

Coming this week from NUELOW Games

We're re-releasing "Dyvil: Jeff Grubb's 30-Minute Roleplaying Game", in anticipation of "Dyvil: Revised and Expanded" in the month of October. Look for it Thursday.

Also, if there's anyone out there who would like to add a mini-RPG they've designed to the NUELOW Games line up, send a message to Steve Miller, and we'll see if we're right for each other!

Now available: Steve Miller's 30-Minute RPG!

Written as an experiment is creating a complete RPG in the shortest period of time, this little game turned out to be both fun, easy to learn, and even easier to play.

First published by ID Adventures, it is now available again through NUELOW Games. And you can have a copy for a mere $1.25 by clicking here. It's got everything a core RPG rulebook must have: Character generation rules, combat system, player rewards system, a GM-only section including monsters, and an illo of a scantily clad babe!

Steve Miller's 30-Minute Roleplaying Game: The Best RPG Designed in Less Than an Hour!

Best-selling titles in August

Here's a list of the best-selling NUELOW Games titles for the month of August.

1. Names in the Black Book by Robert E. Howard (horror fiction anthology)

2. From Dark Corners Vo1. 1 by Various (horror fiction anthology)

3. Rolf!: Santa vs. Santos vs. Jesus by Steve Miller and L.L. Hundal (game supplement)

4. The Deadly Sword of Cormac by Robert E. Howard (historical fiction anthology)

5. Rolf!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters by L.L. Hundal and Steve Miller (core rule book)

Although I was disappointed that the John Kendrick Bangs books from July didn't do better than they did, because I love his stuff dearly, I am happy with the level of sales we've been getting from our Robert E. Howard collections. We've got a few more coming, and we'll see if Howard keeps being popular with you folks out there.

Meanwhile, if you've purchases and downloaded any of our releases, we'd love to hear from you, either here on the blog or through comments on the listings where you downloaded your purchase. What did you like? What didn't you like? Let us know, so we can improve!

Two new releases from NUELOW Games!

We remain in the grip of Robert E. Howard mania at NUELOW Games, and this past weekend we released a new fiction anthology with Howard fiction, and a ROLF! supplement inspired by same.

The anthology, titled "Names in the Black Book," features three horror-tinged detective stories featuring Steve Harrison, the cop character Howard wrote the most stories about. Click here for more details, or do buy a copy for a mere $1.75.

The Howard-inspired ROLF! supplement is "Hammerin' Tongs," which features three new boxing themed Combat Maneuvers, as the three included interlinked Combat Scenarios are keyed to pre-generated characters (also included) based on Howard's Steve Harrison, his boxing sailor Steve Costigan, Tong opponents wanting to beat them up (and visa versa). Like most other ROLF! supplements, it costs a mere $0.50 at RPGNow.com.

   

Check 'em out... come join NUELOW Games in our love of Robert E. Howard's non-Conan creations! (And if you have a moment, let us know what you think of the releases!)

We can't get higher praise than this!

When we designed ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game for Big Dumb Fighters, we never thought people wold play it for more than 15-20 minutes... it was just a little game to be used to pass the time before or after the Main Event.

Well, there are few things more satisfying for an RPG creator to learn that not only are people playing your game, but they are having more fun with it than you ever imagined... because they are actually playing it, even playing out the scenarios to their end!

Herb Severson, a player with an infectious enthusiasm for ROLF!, posted the following comments on FACEBOOK regarding his experience with "Herbert West vs. the Zombies":

Had a great game with some friends using the new ROLF RPG set from Steve Miller & NUELOW Games. Great Gothic Zombie Horror set. Herbert West was run by myself with the players playing the Zombie Hoard.

The players prevailed :(

I lasted a mere 1 1/2 hrs of play time. Every time I pick up a set from NUELOW Games I haven't been disappointed. Great gaming to all, enjoy.

Thank you, Herb, for posting about ROLF!, but thank you even more for playing. The same "thank you for playing" goes out to the rest of you as well... but we'd REALLY love to be able to thank you for letting us know about your experiences with the game!

Hopefully, we'll continue to keep Herb and the rest of you happy with our efforts! Please let us know how we're doing, either with FACEBOOK posts, visits to our blog or FACEBOOK page, or by posting comments on the product listings at RPGNow. We won't know what's working unless you tell us.

The cover for NUELOW's "Names in the Black Book"

A host of computer problems this week has caused us to fall a little behind schedule here at NUELOW Central. The hope was to have our latest Robert E. Howard anthology available for download yesterday, but instead it will be sometime today. The ROLF! supplement will appear Saturday or Sunday, instead of Friday, as we had planned.

The good news is it gave me time to rethink the title of the Steve Harrison anthology... while he may be a detective in the River Street Precinct, only one story in the book actually takes place anywhere near River Street. So, that title simply didn't work!

But here's the cover for "Names in the Black Book," a small anthology featuring a trio of Robert E. Howard stories about Detective Steve Harrison and some particularly bone-chilling cases.

An interesting bit of trivia about the story from which the book draws its name: It's actually a sequel to a story that didn't see print during Howard's short career and lifetime.

The editors of "Strange Detective Stories" apparently rejected the first Steve Harrison adventure, "Lord of the Dead," but bought this sequel and two other Harrison tales--"The People of the Serpent" [which they published as "Fangs of Gold"] and "The Secret of the Tomb." The latter tale, they revised so it starred "Brock Rollins" instead of Steve Harrison.

That said, "Names in the Book of the Dead" works perfectly fine on its own. The tales here shows that Howard could write detective fiction as well as he wrote horror and fantasy... even if the detective adventures presented here overlap quite a bit with the horror genre.

By the way, these are some of the stories that critics point to when they say Howard's writing is racist. While I certainly agree that his tendency toward casual racism is in full force in all three stories--even more clearly as they all involve ethnic communities of one kind or another. I would like readers to notice that the hero, Officer Harrison, is not a racist. The same can't be said of the villains in "Graveyard Rats."

Coming this week from NUELOW Games...

Two releases! Wow!

First up, there's another anthology of Robert E. Howard fiction along the lines of "The Deadly Sword of Cormac" titled "Terror on River Street: Three Strange Cases for Steve Harrison".

Then, there's another supplement for "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters" titled "Hammerin' Tongs," with a fight against nefarious Chinese gangsters that starts with brawling sailor Steve Costigan whupping tail on the waterfront of Hong Kong and ends with hard-bitten detective Steve Harrison mowing down bad guys in the dark shadows of the River Street District halfway around the world. (As last week's release was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, so was this week's product inspired by Robert E. Howard. We're on a pulp fiction kick here at NUELOW Central!)

Prices and download links will be provided when the PDFs are finalized.