What in the World is NeverWorld? ForEver World Books has announced the release of their Tme Fantasy Role Playing Game, NetherWorld: A Lifetime Experience It will include 35 comprehensive cultures, allowing players to choose their own style of entertainment. The boxed set will include sourcebook, ROC table, the first of 35 cultures, the (only) two dice you'll ever need to play, GM screen, character sheets, and full-color map. Due date in GenCon '96. EarthDawn Magic and the Secrets of Super Tuesday Magic: a Manual of Mystic Secrets is the sorcerous sourcebook for Earthdawn. Available now. It includes new talents, spell creation, enchanting, and rules for astral space, the home of the Horrors. Go check it out. Also check out Super Tuesday, Fasa's campaign for President in Shadowrun, and includes five candidates including a dwarf,, wizard, and dragon. Due to be released sometime in April. Mayfair does NYC Washington DC (April) and New York (May) will bethe next expansions for SimCity card game. The End Continues The End (our favorite post-apocalypse game) has announced its release schedule for support material. The Judge's Screen is available now and The Atlanta Confederation should be out soon. Also keep your eyes open for the the old capitol, and it ain't pretty (See John Wick's review of The End in Shadis #23.). An Old Friend Returns Highlander Games has just announced the release of Chivalry & Sorcery 3rd Edition. This completely revised edirion will be released in November. Previous and new supplements will be released and re released, starting with a GM handbook. For more information contact Highlander Games, 31 Greenlawn Road; Sound Beach NY 11789. Avalaon Hill Takes to the Air Fans of Avalon Hill's Rail Baron board game will get a lift out of this one. Air Baron, the new airline strategy game puts you in the chair of an aerial entrepreneur trying to gain control of the skies! The Avalon Hill guys really take that old Japanese adage "Business is war!" to heart, so if you think there's nothing brutal about commercial warfare, you'd better think again. Get Noir If you're a fan of pulp fiction detective fiction, hold on to your socks. Archon Games has just announced the release of Noir, a game based on the works of Raymond Chandler, Dashielle Hammer and other chroniclers of the gumshow genre (for a more, take a peek at Frank Miller's Sin City, which can be found in any comic store). Tentative release for the basic set is July '96. Shades of Noir, a short fiction anthology, will be released about the same time. For more information, you can write Archon Gaming at PO Box 5696 Bloomington IN 40408. Casting Light on Fading Suns We got a sneak peek at ex-White Wolfers' Andrew (Vampire line director) Greenberg and Bill (Werewolf line director) Bridges' latest project -- Fadirig Suns. It looks incredible! It's got the political intrigue of Dune mixed with the feel of Warhammer 40000 and a dash of theology. Looks like Fading Sutus has something for everyone. Goings on a Steve Jackson Games For ten years, Tempete sur l'Echequier ("Storm on the Chessboard") has been all the rage in France. It's a card/chess game that allows you to throw the random element into the 5,000 year old game of strategy. Now, Steve Jackson Games announces the American release of Tempete in Knighmare Chess! It will be a single set of 80 full-color oversized cards painted by Brazilian artist Rogerio Vilela. Players will also need a standard chess set to play the game. SJG has also signed a deal with Terry Pratcilert for publication of GURPS: Discworld. Pratchett himself will co-author the book with John M. Ford, winner of both the World Fantasy Award and two Origins Awards. GURPS Discworld has a tentative release date of early 1997. Squashing Palladium Rumors, Once Again Palladium wishes to dispel the industry numor that they're going to be purchasing White Wolf Game Studio. It would also like to be the first to announce that author C.J. Carella has recently left Palladium to join Myrmidon Press as an owner. He's still a freelance writer for Palladium and is currently at work on Rifts: Psyscape; he promises Nightlands World Book 2: Nightlands will be done by May. Good luck, C.J.! In less controversial news, Palladium Fantasy Second Edition will be ship sometime around April 26th. The Man Who Would Defy an Empire Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage is the next release from Avalon Hill, a stickler for strategy gaming. Back to Shadis #25 Table of Contents Back to Shadis List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master List of Magazines © Copyright 1996 by Alderac Entertainment Group This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com