News: Dragon Age RPG Quickstart Guide Up for Download

Green Ronin Publishing has put up the PDF of the Dragon Age RPG Quickstart Guide which you can now download for free.

The 35 page Dragon Age RPG Quickstart Guide was Green Ronin's offering for this year's Free RPG Day which contains rules, a map of Ferelden, an adventure and five pre-generated characters (1 mage, 2 rogues and 2 warriors) for anyone to immerse themselves in the pen & paper game based on Bioware's electronic RPG of the same name.

Head over here to download the PDF.

News: Dragon Age RPG Set 2 is Out

Green Ronin's highly anticipated second set of the Dragon Age RPG is now available for pre-order but the PDF is already up for sale at Green Ronin's online store.

The set would follow on where the first set left off and will take players to play from level 6 to 10. The boxed set comes with an 80 page Player's Guide and an 80 page Game Master's Guide, multiple copies of heavy reference cards and a poster map of Thedas, depicting the cities of Orlais and Rivavin, among other landmarks in the console game.

Among the new rules and mechanics that will be in the second set is the rules to play as the Grey Wardens to fight against the Blight, the introduction of roleplaying and exploration stunts and the specializations to play as arcane warriors, berserkers and assassins.

The set will also come with new expansion on the details and backgrounds of characters and the setting, with 40 news spells.

Dragon Age Set 2 is written by Steven Kenson, T.S. Luikart, Chris Pramas, and Jeff Tidball, with the cover art by Keiran Yanner and the cartography by Jared Blando and Tyler Lee.

The physical boxed set is sold for $39.95 here and you will receive a discount to purchase the PDF for $5 during checkout.

Alternatively, you could just purchase the PDF for $20.00 here.

(Picture credit to Green Ronin Online Store)

Convention: KantCon 2011

KantCon is a new gaming convention for tabletop hobby gamers to play games, from cardgames, boardgames to RPGs, for three days in the Kansas City Area.

The convention will be held at the Johnson Community College Regnier Centre at Overland Parks, KS from July 8 to July 10.

This year, Gamer Ground, Secret Skeleton Miniatures, Black Blade Publishing and Silver Gryphon Games will be the vendors that will be at the convention.

Among the events that will be happening aside from open gaming is a Paint-n-Take of miniatures provided by Eureka Miniatures and a KantCon Awards ceremony for Best Roleplayer and other awards.

KantCon is currently opening a special pre-registration period until the 27th. Attendees who pre-register now will be given a free RPG book from the Gamer's Haven Podcast Prize Stack with products for D&D 4E, 3rd and 3.5 edition, Sword and Wizardry and other games.

They would also be given some exclusive merchandises from the convention, if they introduce a friend to pre-register with them.

There are also prize support from Green Ronin Publishing, Fantasy Flight Games and others which will be given away at the convention.

KantCon was first held in 2009 when its organizers couldn't attend the annual Gen Con after 13 years. KantCon managed to draw in many unlucky gamers alike and it has moved from a invitation only to public event that has grown bigger.

For more information, visit their website KantCon.