NUELOW Games & Jeff Grubb's "Dyvil" gets noticed!

Here's a very nice article about RPGs as reading material as well as rule books. It's well-written... and it actually reflects the approach we take to most of the products we produce here at NUELOW Games. We try to maximize the entertainment value of our games, so we try to make them fun to read as well as play.

It's no surprise, though, that the author of A Dicey Affair: Reading the Roleplaying Game Nicholas William Moll seized selected Jeff Grubb's Dyvil as his example of a minimalist roleplaying game. Jeff writes circles around Steve Miller and L.L Hundal on even their best days.

Click here to read Moll's article on the "Read Watch Play" blog.

And when you're done, click here to learn more about Dyvil, or to perhaps even buy a copy... a fun game and an excellent read.

Use our stock art package, get a link!

One thing that we've been forgetting to mention is that if you purchase any of our stock art packages (of which there is only one, but more will be coming) and let us know about any website or product you use one or more illos for, we will plug your effort here, on Facebook, and via our Twitter feed.

Just email or PM the link to us. Once we've checked out what you've made, we'll give you a plug, as a thank-you for being a customer!

(Click here to check NUELOW Stock Art Collection #1: The Original Black Cat in Action. It's 25 percent off through 7/28/2013.)

Merry Christmas in July!

!L.L. Hundal loves Christmas, so it comes twice a year here at NUELOW Games -- December 24 and July 24. We also release at least two Christmas products as a result.

This year's July Christmas release, ROLF! Christmas Special III, introduces the Inventor trait to the game, as well as bringing Jill Trent and Daisy Smythe, the Science Sleuths, to the NUELOW line-up of Heroes and Villaiuns. (It also offers six pre-generated characters, two battle scenarios, and numerous combat maneuvers and traits not featured in the core ROLF! rule book.)

Oh yeah... and in our continuing quest to be recognized as the publisher of edgy and games of ultimate inclusiveness, we've got a pair of characters with the Same Sex Preference trait, who are in a relationship! Can we get some critical recognition and praise already?!

Like all other items in our catalog, ROLF! Christmas Special III is currently available at 25 percent off. This special price lasts through July 28. Click here to see our full listing of offerings.

NUELOW Heroes and Villains: Professor Eatery

Here's another character created by Carter-Ethan Rankin and released into the public domain. The character and the art below is public domain, but the text is released under the Open Game License, and maybe reproduced according to the terms described in it. Copyright 2013 Steve Miller.

Professor Eatery (aka Del. I. Catessan)

PROFESSOR EATERY (Male)

(aka Delbert Ignacius Catessan)

Brawn 28, Body 13, Brains 6

   Traits: Coldhearted, Super Power (Super Strength), Unstoppable

   Combat Maneuvers: Basic Attack, Disembowel, Dodge, Knock-Out, Murderous Mitts, Withering Insult

   Important Stuff Worn/Wielded:  Super Outfit (Armor, absorbs up to 2 points of damage). Razor Spatula (Small Melee Weapon, deals 2 points of damage).

Origin Story

The man who became Professor Eatery was once the humble operator of an upscale restaurant that only served dishes prepared from all natural ingredients who also taught cooking classes at the local community center and wrote food reviews for alternative newspapers around the state. 

   He would habitually write negative reviews of the Happy Thai Burger chain, faulting them not only for making awful fast-food fusion cuisine but for their GMO- and preservative-heavy menus. Unfortunately for Delbert, the local mafia Don loved Happy Thai Burger, had invested money in the chain, and decided he needed to taught a lesson.

   Mobsters burned down Del's restaurant and took him to a remove location where they force-fed him Happy Thai menu items until he could keep no ore food down. Then they buried him under half a ton of genetically modified tomatoes.

   What should have killed Del made him stronger. The shock to his system when he was suddenly force fed all those chemical-heavy food items gave him super-strength and endurance. It also drove him mad, so after taking his revenge on the mobsters who destroyed his life, he continued to stalk and kill anyone who runs and eating establishment or hosts a TV cooking show who doesn't live up to his culinary standards. He prepares a final meal for them, and, once they are done eating, kills them.

Superpowers

Professor Eatery has super strength and is resistant to injury.

Allies and Enemies

Professor Eatery is a lone wolf who is wanted for murder all around the world. Since he views himself as a hero it is unlikely that he would ever team up with one of them. It has been rumored that Weight Watchers would like to approach him about an endorsement deal and that at one time, Michelle Obama was trying to convince her husband to pardon him for all past crimes and create a cabinet-level position to oversee proper nutrition among Americans.

Coming soon... "Film Fun Comics Vol. 3: British Agent 99"

One of the projects making its way through production at NUELOW Central is the third installment in the Film Fun Comics series. While Black Cat is featured in every volume of the series, she is the "guest star" in the odd-numbered books, so in Film Fun Comics Vol. 3, she plays a supporting role to star Alan Douglas aka British Agent 99.

The book will feature five comics stories from the WW2 era--the four British Agent 99 stories that appeared in Pocket Comics--including the one co-starring Black Cat--and a Black Cat tale from Speed Comics. All five comics stories are interesting from a historical perspective, because they feature as their backdrop real-world events that were very much current when they were published. Also featured is fiction by Steve Miller that details the first "team-up" of Alan Douglas and Linda "Black Cat" Turner, as well as the first mystery solved by Linda, even before she put on the mask and boots for the first time.

The book is slated for release next Tuesday. I hope you'll check it out. In the meantime, here's what will be on the cover:

A straight-up, traditional ROLF! supplement!

The string of comics with game supplements included may have caused you to suspect we'd forgotten about pure game products... not so! And by way of proof, we offier ROLF!: Revenge of the Nigerian Prince!

This little item contains five pre-generated characters, some traits and combat maneuvers not found in the ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighthers core rulebook, three linked battle scenarios to use them with -- and, as always, a rediculously low price!

Click here to see previews or do get your own copy. If you only buy one ROLF! product this month you should make it this one. It's Andrew Pavlides's first contribution to the NUELOW Games line-up, and it would make him (and me) happy if it sold really well!.

Write Black Cat stories and use classic art to illustrate them!

Do you want to be writer? Do you want to put your story out there for people to read? Sure you do!

 With NUELOW Games Stock Art Collection #1: The Original Black Cat in Action, you can draw inspiration from art by Lee Elias and you can write stories accordingly. And when you're done, you can post them online, fully illustrated with artwork that you have license to use. Pictures draw people's attention, so they will be more likely to read your story.

If you're just looking for some art to use in hour home projects, such as hand-outs for players at your weekly table-top RPG session, you might find the headshots by Karl M. useful,

Whatever your reason for getting this set, it is almost certain to fill any need you may have for illustrations of a girl wearing a swimsuit and pirate boots while beating up bad guys. (And just to show we're not complete sexist pigs here at NUELOW Games, this collection also includes the cover illo from ROLF!: Bathtime on Bear Creek.)

NUELOW Games Stock Art Collection #1: The Original Black Cat features 28 line drawings (with four presented in both black-and-white and color, for a total of 32 images) that are being made available under a simple, royalty-free license. Once you buy this set, the art is yours to use as you will with a few simple restrictions. To make the set easy to use, the download includes a pdf format booklet that indexes all the images and a zip archive with separate jpg files for each one. (The booklet also contains Black Cat trivia for the true hardcore fans--of which there is probably only one, and his name is Steve Miller.)

Oh... and if you do write some Black Cat fiction, we might want to publish it in a future issue of Film Fun Comics. Remember, the NUELOW Games version of Black Cat isn't limited to the 1940s. With the revised background for her that we presented in Film Fun Comics Vol. 2: The Black Cat vs. HIM! and ROLF!: Bat Meets Cat, Black Cat stories can be set any time from the 1700s through today.

Drop us a line if you have any questions or comments... we love to hear from our audience.