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Nevermet Press

If you have been paying attention to The Core Mechanic anytime in the last month you know that Jonathan (TCM’s blogger) has effectively closed shop to focus on a new publishing initiative called Nevermet Press.  If you have been playing close attention, you will also know that I am a co-founder along with Jonathan, which explains any silence this blog has experienced in the last months.

What is Nevermet Press?

Nevermet Press. or NMP, is a new RPG publisher that takes a couple of innovative approaches to the way we develop game content.

First, we offer a profit sharing program for our content developers instead of the typical one time payment to comission work. This allows us to contract with freelancers (mostly recruited from the RPG blogosphere) to get content developed without substantial, way-of-life-ending overhead while offering an incentive for freelancers to develop the best material they can.

Second, we develop the core product to be system independent and then invite participating bloggers (or even general websites) to develop system-specific components for the core product.  This allows us to more closely connect with the online community which is saturated with a lot of untapped talent.  This mutually beneficial arrangement should allow for many cross-marketing opportunities while also developing the skill and talent of community members.  Not to mention possibly providing stats for our excellent content for use with both the popular and nice roleplayng systems.

Daily Content

We are publishing one or more articles every week day on the NMP blog that can be incorporated into your tabletop game immediately.  Each element will be accompanied by a list of links that will direct users to the extended NMP community sites that have developed and are hosting the system specific content.  We are currently producing two-week publication cycles that focus on a villain with supporting elements such as encounters, organizations, equipment & magical items, genre adaptations (so you can use the material in your favorite horror or sci-fi games), and even original fiction.

Come check us out and if you have any suggestions or would like to discuss our content, start up a thread on the NMP forums.  Don’t forget to follow us on your favorite social network (see our website for an extensive list).

Listening to: Spineshank – The Height of Callousness – New Disease

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There are a few things I need to inform my readers about, a correction on pricing for AO and I wanted to plug (hey this is my blog after all) a collaboration between Jonathan (The Core Mechanic), gamefiend (At-Will), and myself.

Alpha Omega Pricing Correction

I knew I should have taken a closer look at pricing options for the overview of Alpha Omega I did last week.  I had said the suggested retail price of the book was around $55, but Tom Tom McLaughlin of Mind Storm Labs commented that book is actually available for $44.95, and if you happen to be an Atomic Array listener, you can score a copy for $15 dollars less than that.  Which makes this 400 page behemoth only $29.95 if you do the math!  So now you have absolutely no excuse NOT to buy it!  DO IT.

Skill Challenges of War Collab

So if you happened to have missed The Core Mechanic the last week or so, then you haven’t seen the excellent series on how to run a war with skill challenges in your 4e D&D (or any d20 game for that matter).  Jonathan asked me and, the RPG Blogosphere’s resident skill challenge expert, gamefiend to co-author the series with him.

I can honestly say that collaborating with fellow bloggera has forced me to raise the bar on quality and I think this is probably some of my best “work” and will be considered so for a long time.  If you are looking for some new and innovative skill challenges to add to your campaign you need to check these posts out:

• Part 1 – The Concept
• Part 2 – Complexities of War
• Part 3 – Skill Challenge: Diplomatic Mission Reconnaissance
• Part 4 – Skill Challenge: Rally the Troops!
• Part 5 – Skill Challenge: …The Body will Die

While most of the work is complete, the series has not been published in its entirety yet, so make sure you keep an eye on The Core Mechanic during the next week or so.  This thing is shaping up to be a 10+ part series!  And if war is not an element, be sure to check At-Will for more skill challenges.

Listening to: Motorhead - Ace of Spades Collection - Ace of Spades

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