Skirmisher Releases 'Castle Builder Volume 4: Towers'

Skirmisher Publishing LLC is proud to announce the release of Castle Builder Volume 4: Towers, the fourth installment in a 10-part series designed to help Game Masters and players plan their ideal fortifications in a step-by-step format from the ground up. It is written and mapped by gaming author Richard T. Balsley available through DriveThruRPG and other online venues (18 pages, $1.99, SKPE1310).

This installment describes those iconic defenseworks that can be used for everything from observation to reinforcing walls to serving as classic homes for wizards. Contents include:

* An introduction to the idea of towers, why people build them, and how they are perceived;

* Various functions of such structures;

* How to consider the most suitable uses for towers in your game;

* Typical locations for towers;

* Floorplans and description for a sample three-level Wizard's abode, the Tower of Aloysius Wormsthram Severstrom; and,

* Floorplans and description for a sample military structure, the four-level Watchtower of the Kithairon Mountains.

This book has no specific setting and is designed to accommodate any technological era that one is likely to encounter in a fantasy campaign setting, from the Stone Age, through the Ancient and Medieval periods, to the Renaissance. It is also fully bookmarked and hotlinked and designed to be printer-friendly and easy-to-use. We very much hope you will enjoy it!

Skirmisher/Cover to Cover Make Comicpalooza Retail Agreement

HOUSTON, TEXAS -- Skirmisher Publishing LLC and Cover to Cover Comics and Games have finalized an agreement in which the latter company will manage all of Skirmisher's booth-based retail operations at Comicpalooza 2013. Cover to Cover is a retailer of games, art, and related products and has extensive experience with convention sales, especially at events in the Houston area.

Skirmisher will have a major presence in 2013 at Comicplaooza, which has quickly become one of the largest and most exciting conventions in the Southwest. This major pop culture convention will be held May 24-26 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Among other things, Skirmisher has signed on to be a sponsor of the convention, will be running numerous events at it, will be running a booth in its exhibit hall, and will be hosting the official Saturday night party.

"Having Cover to Cover Comics and Games manage this end of our operations will make it that much easier to concentrate on everything else we will be doing at the convention," said Skirmisher publisher Michael O. Varhola. “I have worked with its owner Robert Gruver don't know of anyone better qualified to handle this for us."

Skirmisher will have its full product line available at its Comicpalooza booth, which at this point will include a number of major publications it is planning to release at Comicpalooza 2013, including the print edition of its Swords of Kos: Hekaton fantasy fiction anthology and a special edition of the d-Infinity multi-platform game supplement.

Skirmisher Releases ‘Wisdom from the Wastelands #26: Energy Weapons'

Skirmisher Publishing LLC is proud to announce the release of Wisdom from the Wastelands Issue #26: Energy Weapons! This publication is authored by Derek Holland and Chris Van Deelen, authors of multiple Mutant Future supplements, and is available through online venues that include DriveThruRPG (5 pages; $0.99). We hope you will enjoy it and say positive things about it on the sites to which you contribute!

The latest installment in our popular series on leading edge military technology and combat rules, this issue brings five deadly weapon systems and several new combat “conditions” to your gaming table. As a warning, Mutant Lords should use this equipment with care — some of these systems are extremely powerful. Even those weapons that do not appear lethal can devastate specific target types (like robotic units); other items have debilitating temporary effects.

Wisdom from the Wastelands is dedicated to providing useful information, game content, and ideas to players of modern, science fiction, and post-apocalyptic table-top and role-playing games in general and to fans of Goblinoid Games’ Mutant Future RPG in particular. The material it contains are compatible with it and any others that use the "Basic" system introduced in the most popular role-playing games of the early 1970s and are easily adaptable to many other games (especially successor systems, to include those covered by the Open Game License). Our goal is for each thematic issue of this publication to contain a variety of useful and earnest content that will inspire Game Masters and players alike and provide them with things that they can immediately plug into their games.