I'm a big fan of Alter Ego Software's Metacreator software. It's hands-down the best piece of software for creating and printing characters in a wide variety of systems. I'm personally excited that they're considering developing templates for the Deadlands Reloaded and Rippers settings for Savage Worlds but they'll only make them if they get fifty pre-orders for each by 1-Oct-2007. I've recorded this announcement in the hope of reaching as many people as possible to help the goal be reached. If you have a podcast, I'd humbly request that you play this announcement before 1-Oct-2007, and anyone reading this should check out Metacreator!

I got a little busy this week so this episode is a little bit on the short side. I discuss some feedback that I received in response to last week's episode about the announcement of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. I'll produce another full-length show in two weeks!

Links:

• D&D Insider - Wizards' preview of D&D 4th Edition
• Chaosium - Publishers of the Call of Cthulhu RPG
• Deadlands
• Privateer Press - Creators of the Iron Kingdoms setting and associated games.

• Goblin Broadcast Network
• Geeklabel Radio

Unless you've been living under a rock you have to have heard the biggest gaming news item of the year to come out of Gencon: D&D 4th Edition will be at your friendly local game store in May of 2008. Some of the folks at Wizards of the Coast gave a 20-minute presentation teasing some of what we can expect to see in the next edition of the "grand-daddy of them all" so it's only appropriate for this show to engage in wild speculation and unsubstantiated opinion. It's what the Webernet is all about, after all!

Links:

• Teaser video
• Wizards of the Coast Gencon presentation, Part 1
• Wizards of the Coast Gencon presentation, Part 2
• Wizards of the Coast Gencon presentation, Part 3
• Wizards of the Coast Gencon presentation, Part 4

• Goblin Broadcast Network
• Geeklabel Radio