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Atlas Games “Cliffourd the Big Red God”

Atlas Games has published a Cthulu mythos based parody of the "Clifford the Big Red Dog" children’s products entitled "Cliffourd the Big Red God" (see picture at left).

This 32-page book features full-color illustrations and is the third installment in the Mini Mythos series.  (Previous installments of that series were Where the Deep Ones Are and The Antarctic Express.)

The book is written by Kenneth Hite and was illustrated by Andy Hopp.  It’s due for release in July 2011.  It features a hardcover binding, gloss finish pages, and is 10 x 8.5 inches (landscape) in size.

Open Call at Atlas Games for Ars Magica Grogs

The Atlas Games web site has announced an open call for submissions for its upcoming Ars Magica Grogs book. They’re specifically looking for “developed backgrounds for types of grog, taken broadly to mean any covenant staff who are not companions or magi. We’re NOT looking for stats for particular grog characters, rather, it’s a selection of new backgrounds for the sorts of people who might become grogs: outlaws, heretical scholars, academically or martially inclined women, and so on.”

If this sounds like something you’d like to get in on, see their web site for more details and submit your entry by September 28, 2009.

Atlas Plans “Tales of Mythic Europe” for May Release

Atlas Games has announced a May 2009 release date for its Tales of Mythic Europe product. This 168-page softcover book is a collection of adventures for Ars Magica 5th Edition players. According to the product page, “Mythic Europe is a place of heroism and cowardice, honor and betrayal, wonder and horror…From a ship plagued by a faerie, to a noblewoman plagued by her neighbors. From a village facing a feud, to a town facing unnatural murders… Combat, politics, magic, and mystery fill the stories in Tales of Mythic Europe, to help you reach the furthest limits of Mythic Europe in your own game.” The expected price for this product is $27.95 as of this writing.

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Upcoming Atlas Games Titles for 2009

Michelle Nephew at Atlas Games posted an update on January 19:

YES, we’ve been working on LOTS of new products for 2009. I just put up info for
Let’s Kill: Crime
Scene Instigation
, Mad Scientist
University: Spring Break
, and Tales of Mythic
Europe
for Ars Magica. And as previously announced, Realms of Power:
Faerie
for Ars Magica will be out next month, and Gloom: Unfortunate
Expeditions
later in the year.

For more information, see the links above.

Atlas Games to Release Hedge Magic Revised Edition

From the Atlas Games web site comes the following news item:

Our next Ars Magica release will be Hedge Magic Revised Edition. We’ve officially set the release month as November, and sent out the formal solicitation to distributors. In case you haven’t seen it before (it’s been in the “Coming Soon” area on the website for a while), we do have the description of the book online as well.

Just to give folks a heads up, the suggested retail price on this book will be $29.95, but there’s a good chance that we’ll have to see price increases in the not too distant future. I think we began going with the current hardcover/$29.95 format/price for ArM sourcebooks back in October 2002 with Blood and Sand, so we’re going on six years without a price increase. Needless to say, our costs have risen over that time frame. Using the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank’s handy inflation calculator, we can see that $29.95 in 2002 dollars adjusted for today would be $35.89. I don’t know right know when or how much we’ll increase the MSRP on future books, but it will need to happen sooner or later.

Products Coming from Atlas Games

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From the Atlas Games web site comes the following news:

We have two new products coming soon:

Renowned Mythos aficionado Ken Hite retells H P Lovecraft’s classic "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" in this story of childhood terror in Where the Deep Ones Are.

For Ars Magica, we have a new sourcebook, Realms of Power: Magic, delve into these pages to uncover the secrets of vis, magic auras, and even the Realm of Magic itself!