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Dying Earth is back with a vengeance!

Some time ago Pelgrane Press lost the license to produce the Dying Earth RPG based on Jack Vance’s classic novels. Recently they reacquired the license and to celebrate this, the Complete Dying Earth bundle on DriveThruRPG is now available for the half of its original price. By the way, if you are just interested in the core rulebook, it has been marked down 25% because of the GM’s Day Sale.

The Dying Earth RPG was designed by Robin D. Laws, one of my favorite game designers. From what I’ve seen so far, its focus lies more on social conflicts and interaction than martial conflicts, which is definitely a welcome change. While I have a copy of that game on my shelf I haven’t had the chance to give it a try yet. But it definitely looks pretty cool and I am very interested what Pelgrane will do with it, now that they have renewed the license. Perhaps it’s time for a new edition.

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Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.