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GM’s Day Sale

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:57:21 +0000

While it may not be an official holiday, for many years now March 4 has been labeled GM’s day – a chance for players everywhere to thank their GMs for putting in all the work needed to run the roleplaying sessions they enjoy.

In recognition of GM’s Day, Polgarus Games (along with many other companies) are putting our products on sale. Until March 8 you can buy all Polgarus Games products at 25% off. Head on over to RPGNow/DriveThruRPG to take a look (and remember to say ‘thank you’ to your GM the next time you see them!)

A New Site Design

Jason — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:12:43 +0000

After a few years using the same layout (which made it painfully obvious that I was using blog software – WordPress – to run the site), I decided it was time for the web site to get a bit of a face lift. There are still a few pages to fix up, but overall I’m very happy with the result.

I hope that this is the start of a good year for Polgarus Games. We haven’t released any new products for the last few years (for various reasons), but the current plan is to end that drought this year. First up will be a revised edition of The Veggie Patch (a few rules tweaks and layout changes more than anything), with new products in the Space Opera Support line following soon after. If everything goes to plan a larger project will also get solidly underway this year, although when that will be ready for release is anyone’s guess. And while all this is going on I also plan to convert all our existing products over to ePub format, to make it easy for people with eReaders to use our products.

Part of the new site redesign is the addition of a Design Diary to the site. This will talk in more detail about the various products that are underway at Polgarus Games, and also some of the decisions that Polgarus Games may face in the future. It’s something I’ve been meaning to add for a while, and the new site design seemed as good a time as any to add it.

Polgarus Games mirroring D6 OGL files

Jason — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:48:15 +0000

While it didn’t get a huge amount of attention in the RPG world, around the middle of last year Eric Gibson of West End Games very generously released the current D6 System using the OGL. By itself this didn’t really mean a lot for most gamers, but for publishers it was a huge deal – they were now free to use the D6 System in their own products at no cost, and without having to sign any license agreements with West End Games. (Polgarus Games will be taking advantage of this).

However Eric went one step further – in a huge move of generosity Eric made the currently published books freely available for download. The files were hosted on just the West End Games site, but with their site having server problems over the last few days several sites (including Polgarus Games) have stepped up to mirror the files. All the files are listed on the Downloads page, but are also listed below for convenience:

Birthday sale – everything $1

Jason — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:10:11 +0000

As it’s my birthday this weekend (on Sunday to be exact), I’ve decided to put all our products on sale for just $1. This includes The Veggie Patch, which will be getting an update in the near future (everyone who purchases a copy will receive the update for free).

The sale is running on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG, and will last for the weekend.

Veggie Patch news – new character sheet, actual play recording

Jason — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:23:08 +0000

While it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, some people have been quite taken by The Veggie Patch. Walkerp (co-host of The RPG Haven Podcast) was so taken that he convinced his friends to try it out for a one-shot. Even better, he recorded the session so anyone who was interested could download it and give it a listen.

The result was a hilarious romp through The Veggie Patch setting, and it would be safe to say that after their session the Patch was never going to be the same again! You can download the recording of their session here.

Walkerp’s group did come across a few problems while playing the game. The first was the character sheet – it didn’t have a place to record the characters defense value! Thankfully this has now been fixed, and you can download a corrected character sheet from here.

However Walkerp’s group also ran into some issues with a few other things in the game. The feedback from the session, along with my own ideas that have changed in the three years since The Veggie Patch was released (my how time flies!) have convinced me to do a Revised edition.

There won’t be any changes to the setting, but the rules will be getting a bit of tweaking to hopefully improve the play experience (especially combat, which is much too slow for such a non-serious game). It will also give me a chance to make minor changes to the layout, and make another editing pass over the text.

And just to allay any concerns, owners of the current version will be able to get a free copy of the revised version.