 | A Mischief of Rats – TERRORAT |
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 | Free quickstart + a playable mission for Top Secret® |
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A Mischief of Rats | | | Ahoy! No Ham & Egg news to report this week, but I wanted to tell you about a project my pal Tiger Wizard hipped me to, which looks cool as hell.
TERRORRAT is a new black and white trash n’ slash comic from the master of mayhem, Daniel Sawblade.
Peep the synopsis: Part mutant. Part machine. Part rat. All TERROR.
What more do you need to know?
Click the link below to get notified of the launch.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lethalcomics/terrorat
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Artist spotlight: Derek Stevens |  | This week I want to highlight an artist that we will be working with on our forthcoming Top Secret® expansion, Agent 13.
Derek Stevens is an incredible artist based in North Carolina. He has worked on many games for many companies, including Warhammer, Epic Games, GooeyCube, Gamer Girl Games, Lucas Arts, and Mark Reinn-Hegian, creator of Vampire: The Masquerade.
Derek is available for commissions, you can find him on ArtStation at https://www.artstation.com/derekstevens9 |
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| | Nominations are OPEN for the Golden Fezawards! |  | This is the 2nd year for the Golden Fez awards, our annual tabletop RPG awards honoring game designer James Carpio. Held in conjunction with TotalCon, the awards will be given out at the convention on Saturday, February 21st.
Submit your own game, or nominate someone else’s game that you love. Awards are open to any tabletop role-playing game published in 2025, from the largest publishers to the smallest indie press.
Last year, the Game of the Year award was won by Outgunned from Free League Publishing. Award categories include:
The Holy Hand Grenade Award- Given for best new game mechanic.
The Pick Up and Play Award- Honey, I Shrunk the Dice Award
- For micro-RPGs that will fit on one page or less.
The Velvet Smooth Award- For best design and production.
- The Everlasting Fun Factory Award
- This award is given to a game that was published prior to the current judging year. It is for the enduring classics as well as the hidden gems from the past.
The Hack the Planet Award- Presented to the most unexpected idea. Originality in any form, whether it’s rules, setting, design, or anything else.
The Bucket of Blood Award- The Golden Fez Game of the Year
- Game of the Year is given to the one game published this year that we feel best embodies all of the things about gaming that James loved.
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| | Free quickstart & a playable mission for Top Secret® |  | Have you ever wanted to play a secret agent straight out of a thriller like The Bourne Identity, Atomic Blonde, Jack Ryan, or Alias? You can give it a try for free with these downloads from Solarian. An easy to learn quickstart guide and pregenerated characters are free to download, as well as a mission to get you started. Sleeper Intercept puts your team of operatives in New York City in 2025, looking for a sleeper agent who is about to assassinate a high-value target. You know when and where, but you have no idea who the assassin or their target is, and the clock si tic | | |
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| | Tabletop Weekly talks GaelCon |  | Tabletop Weekly livestreams every Sunday night at 8pm Eastern, and goes out as an audio podcast the next day each week. You can join us live and get in on the chat, or watch the video later on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@solariangames
This week our guest is Rory O’Driscoll, the RPG coordinator for GaelCon! Now in their 37th year, GaelCon is one of the biggest and oldest tabletop gaming conventions in Ireland. We talked with Rory about GaelCon, micro-RPGs, the new space opera game for Shadowdark called DarkSpace, Joey Royale’s latest Fairhaven adventure Captain Midnite and the Satellite Dead, and I made sure to show up with a Smithwick’s Irish Red Ale and a Freddo. | | | | |
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Your editor this week has been Jayson Elliot of Solarian Games This week’s newsletter went out a few hours late, blame me, the con crud from last week suddenly got me. I’m better now, and happy to get the stories out to you with my trusty Commodore PET and my 14.4k modem.
Keep on emailing us at hello@analogunion.com to let us know what you’d like to see more of, less of, or just ideas you’ve got. If you like the Analog Union newsletter, please tell your friends to sign up at AnalogUnion.com. See you next week! Jayson |
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