NEWS

It's been an extremely busy month here at Postmortem Studios, two conventions in one month will take it out of the best of us and Indiecon and Dragonmeet were no exceptions. Both events were bedevilled by problems beyond anyone's control. Indiecon was located next to some of the hardest hit areas in the heaviest rain and worst flooding seen in many years in the UK but somehow survived - though we all got very wet and the third day of the con was held in Oz. Dragonmeet was similarly assaulted by weather issues as well as the vagueries of trainline maintenance and stoppages on the underground. Luckily I sold a boatload of stuff and didn't have to carry so much all the way home. All things considered a great success and - yet again - money and time willing I do hope to make more conventions in the coming years.

Indiecon saw successful playtesting of the FATE powered Agents of SWING as well as some new adventures for Blood! and '45 which should be appearing on RPGNOW in PDF form before too long.

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NEW PRODUCTS

Because I've been doing so much freelancing for other companies there hasn't been a lot of activity with new products this month. However we do have a good selection of new Clipart Critters by the inestimable Brad McDevitt, including some new bundles so that you can pick up some very decent art on the cheap as props for your game table or for you to use in your own gaming publications. Don't forget to check out the work of our other artists as well.

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STAY IN TOUCH

Over on our journal/website there's an ongoing poll game, like a choose your own adventure game with multiple participants, this one based around a zombie apocalypse using the Blood! system and with you playing a British teenager caught up in the events as they unfold. Participate there and also keep an eye on news, events, sales information, reviews, publishing partnerships and so on.

You can also find me on...

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Or you can drop me some feedback in the comments on the website, or by good old fashioned e-mail to grim@postmort.demon.co.uk

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SECRET SALE

There will be a secret sale one day this month for 24 hours... keep your eyes peeled on the website and on Twitter for more information!

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DIRECT MAIL ORDER

I have leftover product from the convention sales and I do, really, need to clear the decks ready for the new year so these are being offered for mail order direct from me. Contact me via e-mail, listing the products that you're interested in and we'll arrange payment (preferably Paypal) and delivery. Available products include:

Hentacle £8.00 / $12.00
Hentacle: Sloppy Seconds £3.00 /$4.50
Hentacle: Three's an Orgy £3.00 /$4.50
All three together - £12.00 / $18.00

These are the last hardcopies of Hentacle that are likely to be sold, at least in this form. Supplies of Three's an Orgy are extremely limited. Please keep in mind that Hentacle and its supplements are STRICTLY for those over 18.

Cthentacle £15.00 / $23.00
Cthentacle: The Dunbitch Horror £5.00 / $7.50
Both together £18.00 / $27.00

Please keep in mind that Cthentacle and its supplements are STRICTLY for those over 18.

100 Dark Places, 100 Fantasy Adventure Seeds, 100 Planets, 100 Kingdoms, 100 Horror Adventure Seeds. '45: Psychobilly Retropocalypse, Bloodsucker: The Angst - £12.00 / $18.00 each.
Buy three or more together and they're £10.00 / $15.00 each.

Bloodsucker: The Juice, @ctiv8 - £8.00 /$12.00 each.
Buy Bloodsucker: The Angst and Bloodsucker: The Juice together for £18.00 /$25.00

Blood! - £15.00 / $23.00

I also have limited numbers of copies of Origins of the Specious, the comedy book I did for Mongoose Publishing and these are available for £15.00 / $23.00 as well.

Postage is £2.00 to the UK and $5.00 international.

Have a lovely holiday season and be good enough to spread some of that festive cheer (and money!) in my direction,

Love

Grim
Postmortem Studios

• 64 plastic-coated cards
• A 4-page rules booklet.
• A clear plastic presentation case.

• Ditch the booklet, knocking down the per-unit cost by $2, leaving the rules on rules cards with a weblink to a downloadable booklet of extra rules.
• Ditch the plastic box and go with a plain white tuck box, but I can't get art on it unless I order 500 units - fat chance. This would save around 20 cents per unit.
• Not bother with the plastic coating - M:TG never bothered, I could up the cardstock GSM to compensate a little, but I don't know how much this would save.

Strange things are afoot in the town of Dunbitch on the edge of the Hockamock Swamp. The locals seem a little... strange and more than a little inbred from 'keeping their bloodline pure' and stranger things still have been seen and NOT seen...

Can Sheriff Cooter and BJ get to the bottom of the mystery or will they end up namesakes for the town?

The Dunbitch Horror expands Cthentacle with two new girls and a lot of new cards to take your Lovecraftian naughtiness to the next level.

CAUTION
Adult product, in the sense that it contains boobs, pee-pees and hoo-hoos, albeit not necessarily human ones. Not an adult product in the sense that it requires sophistication or a mature intellect.

• Redesign: Expect this blog/site to get a facelift and redesign in the early part of this year, something a bit more slick and professional and I think I'll be retiring the old Postmortem Studios logo for something a bit more 'chic'.
• Cthentacle: This is my first priority this year, to get Cthentacle out of the door. I have, somewhat controversially, decided to go with the simplified, faster, Vs rules for this iteration of the game.
• All These Worlds: Mongoose's Traveller is going a storm and there's really no point me reinventing the wheel, so this is being revised for a second time and will become a series of expansions and materials for Traveller, most likely released - somewhat - via Mongoose's Flaming Cobra line.
• 100 Series: 100 Conspiracies and 100 Conspirators, 100 Supervillain Plots and 100 Supervillain Lairs will be the next few 100 Series books. I'm also cooking up a similar concept for players, something akin to the old Central Casting 'lifepath' books.
• Neverwhere: When I get time the third edition of this free RPG will be made available. This will also have more 'proper' rules for those who like such things.
• D&D4: I hope to be writing for Axe Initiative and I also hope to be releasing a complete adventure line, piecemeal, for D&D 4th Edition, a 'super campaign' that takes character from starting out to maximum level while also spinning out a complete game world. I also hope to begin work on my world-city setting.
• Gumshoe: Expect a Gumshoe version of @ctiv8 at some point during the year.
• Blood!: If there's time I hope to get Hell on Earth out of the door this year. That's the Renaissance/Enlightenment/Witch Burning era version of Blood!
• Fiction: I WILL complete a book of short-mid length stories this year and self publish, this is my promise to myself.
• Fanbooks: I hope to complete a Fallout fanbook for the Xpress system, again, depending on time.
• Getting Paid: Fingers crossed I get paid for work I've done over the last 2-3 years that I haven't yet been paid for :P
• Other: Agents of Swing (Xpress) and Unnamed Barbarian Fantasy Game (Xpress), The Pretentious Game.

• Someone with knowledge of d20 Modern, RuneQuest and my game, Blood!, willing to do some system conversions/creations for all three systems at about ten dollars a shot.
• A map-maker, preferably using the newer versions of campaign cartographer, willing to do play-mat style grid-work (nothing too fancy required) at about the same payment as above, per map.
• A map maker/illustrator willing to do larger, more freehand maps at about 25-100 per shot, depending on the size and intricacy required. CC maps also acceptable here.
• If anyone wants to release clipart through my established channel, they're welcome to, the profit split is about 50/50.
• I'm also willing to take on, produce and publish games that you'd like to and have no time to put out yourself at a similar profit split (after my costs are recouped.