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yr04.mn12.day22 - The New Solo Adventure coming soon (as in in one week.) It is finally out of beta testing and we await the artwork. We are putting up the download and info pages today and they will go live as soon as the pieces are ready for download. |
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yr04.mn11.day18 - A New TRPG (tm) adventure is waiting for you! That's right, the October adventure is finally here. And it is a doozy: "Rescue Princess Fionna de la Croix From the Clutches of the Evil Wizard Pietro Grimaldi" A delightful tale filled with love, lust, intrigue, and a wizard. Oh, and the art is by Phil Foglio. Get your free copy today. |
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yr04.mn11.day10 - The Solo Adventure "War!" has entered beta testing! It should be available for free download in the next two weeks. Look for the announcement here (or sign up for the Email Mailing List) and then get it in the Free Stuff section. |
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yr04.mn11.day03 - The Role-Playing Game (tm) goes monthly! A free TRPGtm adventure is coming to you FREE each month. It will be available from here for one month, then it will be available for 2 months in the free section. So keep looking here - the first one will be here in the next day or two! |
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yr04.mn10.day15 - Want to get a fabulous Birthday present for someone, or maybe for yourself? Custom Phantasy Realms will be available soon. You get to rename the characters! We adjust all the character sheets and booklets to your chosen names. So now you can play with Bob Smith, Crow T. Robot, Nemo, and Sid Vicious! Check back here for details. |
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yr04.mn10.day13 - Solo adventure begins beta testing in 2 weeks. That's right. The long anticipated, much delayed free solo adventure for Phantasy Realm is going into beta testing. I am expecting it to be available with a month after that. It is looking great so far. |
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yr04.mn10.day12 - Phantasy Realm goes to Essen! It looks like I will be in Germany for Spiel en Essen. I fly out on Monday. It should be amazing - 1/4 of a million people at one convention playing games. I will be working in the Global Games Distribution booth (Hall 06, booth 6-17) promoting the boss and my main job (working for GGD.) |
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yr04.mn08.day04 - Looking to buy Phantasy Realm in Germany? Try the online store Delayed Reactions Games. |
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yr04.mn07.day14 - Welcome to all Farkers. Thank you for stopping by. Hope you enjoy The Role-Playing Game (tm). |
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yr04.mn06.day08 - Mega-Giant Phantasy Realm is here. My demo team ran a game on them at KublaCon. Now that they have passed muster, I will have some PR-specific terrain created for the boards. A nice large Ralcor will be nice... but I really want to see the large scale Pleasant View Cemetery. (pictures of boards coming soon.) |
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yr04.mn06.day08 - KublaCon review. KublaCon was, again, a fabulous convention. I was there are the Special Event coordinator, but my demo team ran some great sessions on the Mega-Giant Phantasy Realm boards. (I wish I had gotten pictures.) |
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yr04.mn04.day17 - Two new characters available! A new player has submitted 2 new characters. They are up in the Free section for you to download and play with. Enjoy! |
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yr04.mn04.day12 - Rainsford's other interests. So I've got another couple events and sites and so I thought I would share them with the reading public. :-) The first two links are game conventions I have a hand in, KublaCon and Seattle Game Con, while the third is my fan site for a band I enjoy - Dead Can Dance. Check them out if you have the inclination. |
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yr04.mn03.day20 - New Phantasy Realm Tool available. In the FREE section. You can now print out a Quick Reference Card for many of the heavily encountered Places such as Ralcor, Droogmar, and Pleasant View Cememtery. This resource should allow everyone to plan their shopping sprees without fighting over the Places booklet. Enjoy. |
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yr04.mn03.day17 - The Role-Playing Game (tm). FREE DOWNLOAD. We are madly working on the one hundred adventures for TRPG(tm), but in the mean time we are putting the core rules, a character sheet, and two (yes, TWO) adventures up on this site for free download. Check it out... if you dare! |
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yr04.mn03.day17 - Seattle Game Con. Curious Games is heading back to Seattle Game Con. Seattle Game Con is a quarterly, 1-day, game convention and we had so much fun we are heading back there for number two. See you there! |
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yr04.mn02.day29 - Convention Report. Curious Games had a great day at Seattle Game Con yesterday. The first promo adventures for The Role-Playing Game (tm) were given out in each convention bag and free copies of the rules were given out at the booth. THANK YOU to all who stopped by and talked to us, and played demo games. |
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yr04.mn02.day16 - Curious Games goes to Seattle Game Con. Curious Games demo team will be at the first ever Seattle Game Con on February 28th. Come and check out Phantasy Realm. This looks to be the start of a great, quarterly, 1-day convention series in the Seattle area. |
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yr04.mn01.day15 - Three new characters available! Two enthusiastic fans (brothers) of Phantasy Realm have sent in 3 new characters. They are up in the Free section for you to download and play with. Enjoy! |
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yr03.mn12.day22 - Artists added. We are proud to announce that Phil Foglio and Maurine Starkey have completed 5 covers each for The Role-Playing Game(tm) adventures. Information on both these fine artists can be found here. (Or by clicking the "About Our Artists" link at left.) |
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yr03.mn11.day03 - Companies added to WCGC Bit by bit, the list is expanding. |
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yr03.mn10.day15 - Curious Games has arrived! We packed everything up and made the journey to our new abode in Kirkland, Washington. Our new address is now in place on the Money Order ordering pages. |
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yr03.mn09.day30 - Curious Games is moving! Curious Games is moving from the sunny mountains of Santa Cruz, California to the raining region of Seattle, Washington. Note: any orders submitted between 09/30 and 10/10 will be shipped out on 10/11. (Ah, the joys of using a moving company.) |
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yr03.mn09.day21 - Giant Boards and Mega-Giant Boards have arrived!
Thank you S. Murata! He presented the Giant Boards to us first, and
we were impressed as they weight in at about 13"x17". Just
perfect for cool promo games at conventions. Then he unrolled the
Mega-Giant Boards... and they are 3'x5'!! (Yes, 3x5
FEET!) We were stunned and immensely pleased.
Currently, it looks like the Giant Boards will be debuting at DunDraCon, and the Mega-Giants at KublaCon 2004!! Woo Hoo!! |
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03.09.21 - ConQuest was a blast! Thank you everyone who played in our demos. I must say, having open gaming in a restaurant was an exceptional work around for the loss of other meeting space. Kudos to ConQuest! |
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03.09.18 - Tons of new product info added for interested newcomers to the world of Curious Games. Click here to go to it (or click the "Products & Product Info" link at the left.) |
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03.09.18 - Errata and FAQs added for Phantasy Realm and Spells & Spell Casters. |
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03.09.17 - The Role-Playing Gametm information added. The Role-Playing Game, originally designed to be a convention-only promo item, has been altered. It will be available for purchase off this site soon! Check out the product info page for more info about wry, funny and outrageous product! |
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03.07.12 - Spells & Spell Casters is released!! Woo hoo!! At long last, Spells & Spell Casters is available. It brings to the game news adventures, new characters, new chits (and some new chit-types) as well as spells - just so you can more directly affect with each other. :-) |
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03.07.12 - Origins was great! Thanks to all the people who bought Phantasy Realm and Spells & Spell Casters!! And congratulations to all those who bought the convention-only game The Role-Playing Game (tm). The Origins Stock Exchange was a ton of fun as well. Hope all you participants had a blast and won some great games. (Thank you Diet Evil for hosting it.) |
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03.05.30 - Phantasy Realm comes in second at the KublaCon Game Design Contest! Why, oh, why do I keep losing to sharp little card games!?! :-) Well, for the second year running I have a game placing 2nd - and that ain't so bad. Especially considering there have been over 10 submission each year! |
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03.05.30 - New review and personal comments on BoardGameGeek.com! Check it out here. A nice review, and a 8 out of a possible 10 as a rating! |
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03.05.20 - KublaCon approaches! If you haven't checked all the cool events at KublaCon, do so soon!!! This convention is the West Coast place to be for gamers! We are running some demos of Phantasy realm and may even have the long awaited Spells & Spell Casters available. Woo Hoo!! |
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03.05.20 - New Contest!! So, have you come up with any new characters for Phantasy Realm? We want to know!! Submit your favorite fan-created characters to win prizes. (A free copy of the Raging Chaos expansion set's own expansion for use with Spells & Spell Casters - a limited edition, only available as a contest or convention tournament prize!!) Submit your character using the basic guidelines listed here for character submissions. Prizes given for creativity and balance... and, well, coolness. :-) Contest deadline - the day before Origins 2003 (meaning 03.06.25, about 2:00pm.) |
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03.05.19 - Do you review for RPGnet? Would you like to review Phantasy Realm for the site - for free product? If you are interested, email us for details - and include links to any other reviews you have written (for RPGnet or other sites.) Thanks!! |
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03.04.02 - More companies added to the WCGC list. |
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03.03.25 - Origins Tournaments! Sign up is now available for Origins events - including a number of Phantasy Realm tournaments. Here is what we are doing at Origins:
Winners receive some Convention-only prizes - things that will be given out exclusively to winners of convention tournaments. Along with expansion sets and the like. If you're going to Origins, sign on up of these events. It's going to be a blast!! |
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03.03.24 - Phantasy Realm rated 9 out of 10 stars on boardgamegeek.com. Plus, there is a very succinct, well written summary of Phantasy Realm there. Check out the Phantasy Realm page here. |
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03.03.19 - More companies added to the WCGC list. |
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03.03.18 - Epic Adventure Games, in Scotts Valley, Ca., has picked up Phantasy Realm. Thank you! For other retailers thinking about picking us up, some benefits are: you get to be on the front page and in the "Links" sections AND coming soon - a "Ready-to-Run" Tournament Bundle, available in the For Retailers section. (Email me for your password.) But really, this is listing is to thank Epic Adventure Games. THANK YOU!! :-) |
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03.03.13 - Phantasy Realm reviewed on GameWyrd site! Looks as if the rpgreviews.com review was picked up by GameWyrd. YEAH!! We got a 9 out of a possible 10 rating. Take a look. |
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03.03.12 - Artist Info Added along with a slightly different look at the left. The new section - About Our Artists - shows off a little hint of the art used in Phantasy Realm, along with links to other stuff the artists have done. There is some amazing art to view. Take a look!! |
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03.03.12 - Our First Review!!! on RPGReviews.com My favorite line from the review is "We continue to play weekly - yep, it’s addicting." Check out the review here. |
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03.03.04 - Filbert and Ariodne online character sheets updated. The online character sheets are now updated to reflect the final version of each. Basically, each had their talents adjusted and Filbert had 1 Int. knocked off. See the changes here. |
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03.03.02 - Updated front page. We'll be adding bits and pieces of information here to keep you posted on what is happening with our products and such. Additionally, the product links are not yet working... they are coming soon. |
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03.03.02 - #1 Question of the week: Where the heck is the expansion set? After much hemming and hawing, I can only say "On its way. Really." I have the art now and am doing the final edits and graphic design. It will be available any day now... |
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03.03.02 - If you haven't checked out Homestarrunner.com, you should! Especially the Strong Bad Email. Some of the funniest animation on the Web. (We've linked to our favorite recent SBEmail.) |
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03.02.26 - There is a new character available for download (submitted by Toad, a fan) Shane Westin! The lonely cowboy... of the fantasy world. |
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03.02.13 - .pdf files have been put up for all the characters, listed in the Free Stuff area. |
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