Quick updates

In MMO news, Tal (my elf druid) just hit level 60. God bless patch 2.3 and the xp bonus! Thanks to Aaron's very kind wife, he is now riding his epic mount and looks sexay. And I am LOVING Outland.

In RPG news, we have been playing Scion lately, which is White Wolf's new game where you play the sons and daughters of gods. It's quickly turned into one of my more favorite games.

Oh and the Eberron game I described below? We have decided to uproot it and move it to the Forgotten Realms. Kaelan is now a Drow elf prince instead of a Valinar, and Draven and the girl are no more. In their place I am playing a human binder and a Shade assassin who has been blessed and watched by Shar. I kinda miss Draven's angst, but the Shade more than makes up for it.

In a few weeks Aaron will be getting the Warhammer 40k RPG main book. This....this could be a big one for us. We've been waiting to be able to play in the WH40k world for a loooooong time. He's also preordered the First Age book for Exalted, and we'll be picking up the companion book for Hollow Earth Expedition (HEX) as soon as it comes out. But that isn't my big RPG news....

I don't often salivate over games that aren't out yet. In fact, I usually assume it will suck until proven otherwise. This being said, it appears someone has gone out and created a game in a genre I cannot believe hasn't been tapped yet.

Fantasy Flight Games will be releasing the Anima RPG sometime between now and armageddon (they're a few years late with the english release), and its very very interesting world seems cut from the very same cloth as the Final Fantasy, Xenosaga and similar games/manga/anime. A Final Fantasy RPG!! Rapture! With calling magic and magitech and cities named with ancient pretentious biblical terms and secret societies that have taken over the world and....and....well if they name some minor NPC Cid I'm going to keel over from sheer joy. I've been waiting for a game like this to come along for over a decade.

Now the game could still blow chunks, and I am cognizant of that, but for some stupid reason my optimism won't let me kill my hopes and dreams of what this game could mean. This could be my ubergame, and if it's out by Gencon this year, I'm going to do whatever I can to have the damned thing in my hands. I don't have a release date (the ones they gave got so ludicrously overhsot that eventually they just stopped bothering to tell us when they thought it was going to release), but if it isn't out this year I have to say I'm considering learning Spanish just to be able to read the damned original edition. :-P

Oh and the art for this game is freaking phenomenal. I weep at the prospect of the game being as good as its packaging. Have a looksee: www.animarpg.com