According to Asmodee’s French website, the first expansion tracks for Formula D are due at the end of this month. Following the pattern set in the base game, reverse sides of the board will present a race track and a street track. Sebring is a fast track built to test endurance, but the Chicago street course contains a number of unique and difficult features, including a jump and several intersections.

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Sherwood: The Legend of Robin Hood is a new campaign setting book for the Savage Worlds roleplaying game. It provides new edges, maneuvers, and equipment; explains how to create noble, priest, knave, and yeoman characters; describes life in 13th century England; and includes a guide to the locations, characters, and legends of Sherwood and Nottingham. The book is currently available in PDF. You can also preorder a print version from the publisher, Battlefield Press. Free shipping within the United States, if you order by January 16th.

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Yahtzee Free for All is an interactive board game version of Yahtzee. The first surprise is that the game is designed by none other than Richard Borg, designer of some of the most acclaimed modern board games such as Battlelore and Liar’s Dice. Although, when you come to think of it, any designer would jump at the chance to design a new version of a best-selling brand-name game.

The second surprise is not really a surprise given the first surprise: it actually looks like a pretty good game. Instead of each player rolling independently and racking up their points, players roll simultaneously to win certain cards in the center of the table, collecting points and chips in the process.

New in 2008 from Hasbro.

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Michelle Dupler, staff writer for the Tri-City Herald (covering Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, Wash.), writes about her love for RPGs and opportnities in the tri-city area.

She covers sci-fi and fantasy roleplaying, from Star Wars to Dungeons and Dragons.

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Continuing the saga began October 2007, wherein U.S. Chess Federation member Samuel Sloan sued famed players and members Susan Polgar and her husband Paul Truong for allegedly faking sexually explicit postings in order to discredit him, and Polgar filed a couter-suit alleging slander, this week the federation filed suit to remove Polgar and Truong from their board.

Ms Polgar’s lawyers argue that the suit should be thrown out because it wasn’t initiated by the full board.

Along the way, their were also allegations of stolen emails and subpoenaed ISPs.

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