Are your game's Weretigers a bit on the unhealthy side? Are your Mephits not quite as intimidating as they should be? Are your Dark Nagas markedly unskilled? These are just a few of the monsters in the OGL SRD that have errors in their stat blocks, bringing their mistakes into your game.

ENWorld staff reviewer and 3.5 rules guru John Cooper and Skirmisher Publishing LLC have stepped up to address these problems with the Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures series of books. This critical new series of books fixes the problems you may not have even known your monsters had and presents thoroughly revised and corrected stats for the myriad creatures in the v.3.5 SRD.

"This product is a valuable resource for both gamers and publishers of OGL products," writes DriveThruRPG Staff Reviewer Peter Ingham in his 5-star review of the first book in the series. "I'm very pleased with this product and ... it's nice to see the monsters and creatures of the SRD as they should have been presented in the first place."

Skirmisher has just released the third volume in the series, Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures: OGL Monster Stats L - S (Lamia - Swarm) ($6.99, SKP E 0917, 150 pages; John Cooper, Shane O'Connor, and the Skirmisher Game Development Group; artists Sharon Daugherty, Bradley K. McDevitt, and George Sieretski). It is available as a PDF download on several online sales venues, including DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.

Features of this book include:

* Corrected stats for all the monsters in the L - S sections of the v.3.5 SRD that address often-overlooked elements like skill synergy bonuses, size modifiers, and shapechanging abilities. Entries that have received especially painstaking attention in this volume include the various forms of Lycanthrope, skill points for which are almost universally incorrect in the SRD.

* Stat blocks for OGL creatures described or referred to in the SRD but not given statistics there, including the Merrow, Half-Orc 1st-Level Warrior, Sahuagin Mutant, and Sahuagin Malenti.

* Improved organization of material, especially items not listed in the proper order.

* "Cooper's Comments" sidebars throughout explaining particular changes and giving guidance on how to effectively reflect them in the game.

This book and the series of which it is part are designed to be an invaluable resource for OGL game masters, players, and publishers alike. It is fully bookmarked and designed to be printer-friendly and easy-to-use.

Other currently available titles in this series include Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures: OGL Monster Stats A - D (Aboleth - Dwarf) and Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures: OGL Monster Stats E - K (Eagle, Giant - Krenshar). The final title in the series, Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures: OGL Monster Stats T - Z (Tarrasque - Zombie), which will also include corrected versions of the appendices on Animals and Vermin, is scheduled for release in May.

Incorporating all official errata as well as corrections for errors that went unnoticed until now, this book presents the monsters from the SRD as they should be. Fix up your foes and run a better game with Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures!


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Skirmisher Publishing LLC is pleased to announce the release of Creatures of the Wastelands, a collection of monsters, mutations, and other material designed for use with Goblinoid Games' Mutant Future and other post-apocalyptic games ($7.99, SKP E 0912, 80 pages; authors Derek Holland and the Skirmisher Game Development Group; artists Dragan Ciric and Jeremy Pea). It is available as a PDF download on several online sales venues, including DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.

Subtitled A Menagerie of Mutants and Mutations, Creatures of the Wastelands is fully compatible with Mutant Future, as well as Labyrinth Lord and other games that use the familiar “1st Edition” rules introduced in the 1980s. This collection includes:

* More than 200 new creatures, including the terrible Great Mother, several mutant dinosaurs, the warlike Lumbricid, the insideous Silver Sheet, and the mysterious Smart Stones.

* More than 50 mutations, including the new the Parasite mutation type and a number of Plant mutations.

* Several odds-and-ends, including new terrain types, new materials, and a number of non-creature hazards.

* Original illustrations by fantasy artists Dragan Ciric and Jeremy Pea.

Creatures of the Wastelands is fully bookmarked and designed to be printer-friendly and easy-to-use and includes low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions both of its cover surfaces and its interior pages.

For more information about Creatures of the Wastelands and to comment either on it or this announcement, go to the section dedicated to Mutant Future supplements on the interactive Skirmisher Forum.


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Are your game's Aboleth Mages under-average? Are the Greater Barghest's skill points grimly befuddling? Do you find Retriever Demons to be ridiculously dominant against your PCs? These are just a few of the monsters in the OGL SRD that have errors in their stat blocks, bringing their mistakes into your game.

ENWorld staff reviewer/3.5 rules guru John Cooper and Skirmisher Publishing LLC have stepped up to address these problems with the Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures series of books. This critical new series of books fixes the problems you didn't even know your monsters had and presents thoroughly revised and corrected stats for the myriad creatures in the v.3.5 SRD.


Skirmisher has just released the first volume in the series, Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures: OGL Monster Stats A - D (Aboleth - Dwarf) ($6.99, SKP E 0908, 134 pages; John Cooper, Shane O'Connor, and the Skirmisher Game Development Group; artist Alejandro Melchor). It is available as a PDF download on several online sales venues, including DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.

Features of this book include:

* Corrected stats for all the monsters in the A - D sections of the v.3.5 SRD that address often-overlooked elements like skill synergy bonuses, size modifiers, and shapechanging abilities.

* Stats for a number of official OGL monsters mentioned but not given statistics in the SRD, such as the Hound Archon Hero's Juvenile Bronze Dragon mount.

* Improved organization of material, especially items not listed in the proper order.

* "Coopers Comments" sidebars throughout explaining particular changes and giving guidance on how to effectively reflect them in the game.

* Fully bookmarked and designed to be printer-friendly and easy-to-use.

This book and the series of which it is part are designed to be an invaluable resource for OGL game masters, players, and publishers alike. The three subsequnet volumes are currently in development and scheduled to be released on a monthly basis, in March, April, and May. Cover concepts for the E - K, L - S, and T - Z volumes have been completed and can be viewed here.

Incorporating all official errata as well as corrections for errors that went unnoticed until now, this series of books presents the monsters from the SRD as they should be. Fix up your foes and run a better game with Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures!


Skirmisher Publishing LLC
P.O. Box 150006
Alexandria, VA 22153
http://www.skirmisher.com
sales@skirmisher.com

Skirmisher Publishing LLC has just released Tests of Skill v.3.5, a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded version of its innovative OGL adventure module and sourcebook ($12.99, SKP E 0907, 130 pages; authors Paul O. Knorr, Shane O'Connor, Michael J. Varhola, and the Skirmisher Game Development Group; artists Sharon Daugherty, Todd Diamond, and Geoff Weber.). It is available as a PDF download on several online sales venues, including DriveThruRPG and RPGNow.

Subtitled An OGL Adventure and Sourcebook for Fantasy Role-Playing Games Set in the Silurian Heights, Tests of Skill v.3.5 is designed to entertain and challenge players through scenarios and encounters that can be overcome optimally through role-playing, skill use, and diplomacy. While traditional hack-and-slash techniques can be used to deal with some challenges, most groups will find that tact, thought, and appropriate use of skills, feats, and abilities are generally much more useful and effective. The book also includes numerous tips on adjudicating skill checks that can be applied to any game session.

Tests of Skill was originally released as a version 3.0 publication and intended as a companion volume to Skirmisher's Experts v.3.5. This edition has been expanded by 24 pages, had its character and monster stats corrected and revised, and had added to it one new encounter, one new scenario, one new scenario outline, a new monster, a section on Defects and how to use them in the game, and numerous other elements. It is intended to be enjoyed both by people familiar with the previous version and those completely new to it.

Features of Tests of Skill v.3.5 include:
* A versatile wild-land setting -- the Silurian Heights -- that can be used as a campaign setting or easily dropped into almost any existing milieu, including statistics on six different urban areas and local weather.
* More than two dozen detailed encounters, including three complete mini-dungeons and general and specific encounter tables.
* Three detailed scenarios and three scenario outlines that explain how to organize the included encounters into effective plot lines.
* 10 maps and diagrams, including player's and DM's wilderness maps, diagrams of several encounter areas, and a dungeon map based on Dwarven Forge's Master Maze sets.
* Dozens and dozens of fully keyed and described NPCs, including two complete adventuring parties and stats for sample Warriors, Commoners, and Experts of the types like to be encountered.
* Three new prestige classes, the Gnoll Crocuta (plus the new Fear spell domain), Humbug, and Mercenary Commander.
* 16 new Skills, 35 new Feats, and 19 new Defects.
* Three new monsters, the Half Troll, Dire Hyena, and Multi-Mind.
* Detailed rules on the creation, usage, and special properties of books, including their effects on XP and skill checks.

This download includes low-resolution screen-friendly and high-resolution printer-friendly versions both of its cover surfaces and its interior pages.

For more information about Tests of Skill v.3.5 and free bonus material related to it, go to the section dedicated to it on the Skirmisher Forum.

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P.O. Box 150006
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http://www.skirmisher.com
sales@skirmisher.com

City Builder Volume 1: Communities and City Builder Volume 2: Craftsman Places, the first two editions in the 11-volume City Builder series, have been designated as "Silver Best Sellers" on the DriveThruRPG retail site! This recognition is paralled with "Silver Popular Pick" labels on the RPGNow retail site.

Most of the other volumes in the City Builder series have also received some sort of similar recognition on the two major online retail sites. Volumes 3-9 are "Copper Best Sellers" on DriveThruRPG and volumes 3-11 are "Copper Popular Picks" on RPGNow.


"A true systemless role playing game supplement series, City Builder is one of the most useful city building tools to come around in this half of the decade," DriveThruRPG staff reviewer Nathan Collins said in a recent writeup. "Strong writing accompanies fantasy element nicely. Whether you need to develop one isolated building the PCs are set to encounter, or a city that needs to 'pop up' quickly, there is something in this set that will greatly help you."

Skirmisher publishing released City Builder Volume 1: Communities as a PDF download in February 2008 and followed up with one volume in the same format each month thereafter, completing the series with the release of City Builder Volume 11: Underworld Places in December. Each of the volumes in the series is currently available either individually or as a bundle containing all of them (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=59033&affiliate_id=200677). The volumes are very modestly priced, ranging in cost from $1.99 to $3.99, and the entire bundle is only $19.89 (a savings of $7 off all the volumes individually).


Of the 13,736 products currently available on DriveThruRPG, 18.2% of them -- or some 2,255 -- have one of the five different metallic Best Seller medallions.

"We are really proud to get this sort of recognition for the City Builder series," said Skirmisher publisher Michael J. Varhola. "We put a lot of effort into all of our products and it means a lot to us when we are able to meet the needs of so many of our readers with some of them."

To view the various City Builder volumes on DriveThruRPG, go to http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?cPath=4417&affiliate_id=200677. To view all of Skirmisher's products on DriveThruRPG, go to http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=2132&affiliate_id=200677.

Skirmisher Publishing LLC has just been ranked as one of the top 15 retailers on WargameVault, an online retail site devoted to downloadable versions of new and classic wargames. Skirmisher is one of more than 160 publishers that makes its products available through the site and currently has two dozen individual items listed on it ranging in price from free to $4.99. And all of Skirmisher's titles on WargameVault are on sale through the end of December, so now is the perfect time to pick up something for yourself or as a gift.


Skirmisher's bestselling items on WargameVault are Skirmish!, the quick-play miniatures rules that are the namesake of the company; Stevenson at Play, a book on wargaming by the famous adventure author; H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars, a quick-play set of fantasy rules that uses live catapult fire to resolve combat; and Chevauchee, a set of miniatures rules for medieval Combat.


Click here to access Skirmisher's page on WargameVault directly. And we have always got a number of exciting products in the works, so be sure to come back often and see what's new! And there is no reason not to download and check out some of the several free items we offer through the site.

Skirmisher has just acquired the entire "Quactica" line of white metal figures from miniature manufacturer Lance & Laser (Columbus, Ohio). This deal was the result of a series of meetings between Skirmisher's Michael Varhola and Lance & Laser's Erik Morrice in August during Gen Con 2008 in Indianapolis to discuss transfer of the line from one company to the other.

The "Quactica" miniature line, which consists of 93 figures organized into 26 sets of one to five miniatures each.
Most of these miniatures were sculpted by veteran game designer Steve Lortz, and a number were created by sculptors Clint Staples (Warthogs, Hogre, Rarebits) and Kevin Contos (Dwargs). More information about the rules and miniatures is available from a dedicated section of the Skirmisher's online game store (http://skirmisher.cerizmo.com/categories/559--quactica-rules-miniatures).

For a limited time, anyone who buys two or more sets of the metal figures will automatically receive a free PDF version of the Quactica miniatures rules, and anyone who orders five or more sets will receive a free copy of both the PDF and the hardcopy book version of the rules!