Once upon a time on the Shimmering Seas…

…a terrible figure called Gruesome George rose from the depths. In his wake arose untold legions of ravenous zombies, and other strange creatures. But who or what is Gruesome George scouring the oceans for? Who is the Red Widow? Join Smilin’ Jack O’Hurlihan, Esmeralda, and Dr. Theopolis as they attempt to solve this mystery and defeat the Zombie Pirates!

Zombie Pirates is a unique adventure-strategy game in which players sail the Shimmering Seas battling ravenous hordes. Along the way, they gather treasures, unlock new ships and characters, and build fleets to defeat wave after wave of relentless enemies.

This Collector’s Edition includes the entire game plus new challenges, achievements, a Rum Running mini-game, and an all new adventure: Jack’s Nightmare!

Zombie Pirates (Collector’s Edition) is available at RPGNow.com.

Robots, Vampires and Catholic High School!

Dragona Lore Smith tries to keep his secret. He also tries to keep his friends.

As he makes one small mistake after another, his world starts to unravel.

Originally four 20-page issues, Lore #9-12 have been reprinted in the form of two 40-page comics. DriveThruComics.com now has electronic versions in watermarked PDF format. These digital editions present Lore at 200dpi — nearly twice the resolution of the free web comic.

Readers can instantly download the 13MB files for $0.99 each.

Flames Rising has a sneak peek at the upcoming Munchkin Zombies game from Steve Jackson Games:

First Look at Munchkin Zombies

Included in this preview is a playtest card drawn by artist John Kovalic.

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It's Not Just a Show, It's a Happening

As any artist will tell you, the art scene can be brutal, especially in a high-octane setting like Manhattan. There are plenty of horror stories to go around—but none of them can touch what’s about to go down at the Guggenheim.

In this Mission, Shadowrun players will find themselves in the middle of an art opening unlike any other, with chaos and screaming and dancing statues. Unless they keep their wits about them, the latest masterpiece in the museum will be painted in blood—and to make things worse, if they can’t defuse the situation, they might not get paid.

Something Completely Different is the latest Manhattan Mission, giving Missions players a chance to learn more about the creative spirit behind some of the city’s artistic masterworks while also giving them the opportunity to shore up their alliances with powerful megacorps.

Get all of the Shadowrun Missions at DriveThruRPG.com.

Recent reviews at Flames Rising include:

Deathwatch (Warhammer RPG) - Fantasy Flight Games
The Last Remnant - Square-Enix
Dark Sun Campaign Setting - Wizards of the Coast
Tracker #4 - Top Cow Productions
Our Ladies of Sorrow - Miskatonic River Press
Cthulhu Tales Vol 1 - Boom Studios
Curse of the Yellow Sign II - John Wick
Cthulhu's Reign - Darrell Schweitzer (Editor)

Flames Rising also has a new interview with author and editor Kim Paffenroth.

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With well over a dozen books and more on the way, the Wild Cards fiction series has a cast of characters too large to be covered in just one book. Aces & Jokers fills out the roster from the Wild Cards Campaign Setting with biographical and game information on dozens of aces, jokers, and nats from the series, everything you need to fill out the ranks in your own Mutants & Masterminds game.

As a bonus, you can use the character stats in this book for other settings as well, providing you with ready-made villains, heroes, and other characters. Get ready to double up with Aces & Jokers!

Available now at DriveThruComics.com.

Given the Mandate of Heaven to rule Creation following the Primordial War, the Exalted fashioned a Realm of unsurpassed power and glory from the world's war-ravaged remains. Though the seeds of its downfall were planted in the hearts of all the Exalted by the Great Curse, the Old Realm would stand for millennia, and its rulers would shape the future of the Exalted world. At last, the secrets of that lost time stand revealed, as you adventure as one of that era's Exalted masters.

Will you strive to preserve this halcyon time-or help to destroy it?

A boxed set for Exalted featuring:

• Lands of Creation, a 160-page setting book that details Creation as it was during the High First Age
• Lords of Creation, a character resource that includes everything players and Storytellers need to generate First Age Exalted characters, including high-Essence Charms for each Exalt type and stats for prominent Exalts from the period
• A 64-page guide to the city of Meru itself, jewel of Creation and capital of the Realm
• Unique First Age Exalted map, battlewheel and original box graphics
• Updated errata and new Charms incorporated directly into the text. (People just looking for the errata can check out the Scroll of Errata.)

Dreams of the First Age is now available at RPGNow.com.

For a decade now Freeport has stood as one of fantasy gaming's most distinctive cities. Home to pirates, foul cults, terrifying monsters, vicious gangs, crime lords, and corrupt politicians, Freeport is a dynamic setting that offers a unique blend of high adventure and cosmic horror. Now the City of Adventure returns to its roots with the Freeport Companion: Pathfinder RPG Edition, a rules supplement for the Pirate's Guide to Freeport.

Its 160 pages are packed with all the support you need to run a Freeport campaign with the Pathfinder RPG. In addition to giving game stats for all the city's major characters, the Freeport Companion provides new core classes like the corsair and monster hunter, new prestige classes like the musketeer and witch hunter, famous magic items, an insanity system, new spells and incantations, and an introductory adventure. Celebrate 10 years of the City of Adventure with the Freeport Companion: Pathfinder RPG Edition!

Check out all of the Freeport eBooks at DriveThruRPG.com!

Mega-City One - a vast metropolis where each of 360 million citizens is a potential lawbreaker. Patrolling these mean streets are the judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd, for he is the Law, and you'd better believe it creep!

Judge Dredd is a setting for the Traveller roleplaying game. Explore the Mega-City and bring the Law to the streets!

For a limited time enjoy an extra 20% Off of Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog products at DriveThruSciFi.com.

Interface Zero hooks you up with everything you need to hack a computer network or derezz an enemy hacker in 2088. But watch out, omae; ghost into the wrong system and you'll get fried faster than your food vat can spit out NUTRIpaste!

Interface Zero is a game without barriers; a setting where you can be artificially intelligent robots, vat-grown simulacrum, transgenic hybrids or just plain old flesh and blood humans. You can jack into the world around you and program it to suit your needs. You can implant cyberware in your body, interface with machines, fly hover craft, golemmechs, jump bikes and even hover tanks and Low Altitude Vehicles complete with the latest weapons and cutting edge VTOL or anti-gravity propulsion systems.

You can assume the roles of shadow operatives who rage against the corporate machine, private detectives cut from a noir-inspired cloth, fearless, larger than life heroes piloting mecha in a futuristic, transhumanist Japan- even survivors gutting it out in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with mutant horrors or AI-spawned mechanical nightmares are viable concepts in Interface Zero. Interface Zero is more than just a game setting, it is a toolbox you can use, adding or dropping whichever elements you wish to create the sci-fi game world that you and your friends want to play in.

Interface Zero is available now at DriveThruRPG.com!