Imperial Gazetteer is a new Open Design Dungeons & Dragons setting book chock-full of undead. There’s the surface lands ruled by vampires and spectral knights, the underground Empire of the Ghouls, a Ghoul PC race, undead-themed gods and magic items, and Baba Yaga. Grisly.

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November 8-11 at The Arts Center in Melbourne, Australia, the Full Tilt program for independent artists will be presenting Tripod Dungeons and Dragons the Opera—The Kitchen Table Version.

Scod (a wizard), Yon (a priest) and Gatesy (a fighter who dreams of being a bard) invite you to join them for a sneaky look at their greatest musical yet … sorry, opera.

If any of our readers can make it, let us know what you think.

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Veteran RPG blogger and personality, Berin Kinsman (aka UncleBear) is throwing his hat in to the ring with yet another social networking web site for gamers. The Role Play Media Network has all the features you’d expect to find—blogs, chats, forums, videos—but is specifically focused on providing a gathering place for roleplaying bloggers and their readers. Good luck.

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Bjorn Halvard Knappskog won the Monopoly World Title in Las Vegas, Nevada when New Zealander, Geoff Christopher, couldn’t afford the $1600 rent after landing on both Pacific Avenue and North Carolina Avenue.  Amazingly, the game only lasted 45 minutes long. I’m guessing that when you play without annoying house rules, the game really is quick.

The championship was held at Caesar’s Palace, and hosted players from over 41 different countries.

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Business Education Publishing publishes (or carries – many are from Franklin Learning Systems), a list of skill-building educational board games. All the games cost $50 to $55 on the site, unless noted (and generally far less, if bought using the link to Amazon).

• Adverteasing: Trivia about TV commercials
• Bank Account: A game about balancing your checkbook; first with $5,000 in their book wins
• Budget City: Practice your money skills and budget your cash
• Buyword: Mix math and word skills to form sentences ($40)
• Career Challenge: Learn about the importance of different career options through trivia, guess my career?, and learning cards
• Career Odyssey: Players fill out their talents on a grid, and then try to collect career cards that match these talents
• CyberSafe: Trivia game to help teach the how to avoid Internet predators, Internet bullying, scams, and viruses, and teach good netiquette
• Discount: Learn to evaluate when discounts are worthwhile
• Entrepreneur: Business ownership skills ($100)
• Ethics on the Job: Face tough workplace ethics decisions, and see your behavior, and the state of your entire office, rewarded or punished as a result of your decisions
• Financial IQ: Learn about investments, income, expenses, loans, and interest
• Hot Company: Roll the die, pick a company, and hope you profit
• Ice Cream: Demonstrate business skills by running an ice cream stand for four days ($30)
• Interview Challenge: Teaches and explores good interview skills
• Keyboarding Trivia: Questions about the QWERTY keyboard, with spaces in QWERTY order
• Keys to Job Success: Learn about job performance, following rules, dealing with people, and showing initiative
• Networking: Learn how to network, bridge, and take risks
• Overcoming Employment Barriers: Barriers include lack of skills, fluency problems with English, homelessness, physical disability, inappropriate appearance, bad references, and others
• Putting Words to Work: Help Olin succeed at his new TV series job, and learn how to disagree with a supervisor in an assertive yet respectful way, how to criticize without lowering other’s self-esteem, how to show empathy, and how to be persuasive by effectively using facts
• Stock Market Tycoon: Invest in the stock market, day trading, strategy, etc
• Team Power: Learn to work in teams using task, people, self-management, and leadership skills
• Take Me To Your Leader: Learn eight leadership skills
• You Can’t Fire the Customer: Learn the skills (that should be) necessary for customer service positions
• You’re Hired: Play the roll of HR, and learn good job search and interviewing skills
• You’re the Boss: Play the roll of the boss, and learn how to be an employee with responsibility, reliability, integrity, and a work ethic

For more of these types of games, check out Franklin Learning Systems’ game collection.

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This gruesome looking game is actually a positioning abstract from Recent Toys International.

Move your mouth next to one of your opponent’s eyeballs to eat them. Eat four eyeballs to win the game.

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Goliath has a few new games since Trapdoor Checkers, which is we last checked in on them:

Fast Food: Plays similarly to Halli Galli / Jungle Speed, with a burger theme

KenKen: A game version of the puzzle; simply a race to see who completes their puzzle first

That’s It: Guess Who? with animals

What’s Wild: Rat-a-tat Cat, with a wild card

Pop the Pig: Roll the die to see how many burgers you have to stuff into the pig. You lose if you’re the one to make the pig’s belly explode.

Wordquest: A competitive word finding game with an elaborate board

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Jukem Football is a Mille Bornes-style American football-themed card game by sggc Flying Pig Games, designed by Jeff Spelman. It is a reworking of the game Quick Count , a Mille Bornes-style American football-themed card game by sggc Spelman Media, designed by Jeff Spelman. The object is to play to 100 points as often as possible.

Tom Vasel trashed Quick Count in a rare-for-him thoroughly negative review on BGG. But it’s no surprise, as he also hates Mille Bornes.

Jukem has new hazard cards, a beginner’s and expert’s deck, and new artwork.

(source, info)

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