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03.17.08 - Sword's Edge Honors Gygax, Donates ProfitsSword's Edge Publishing has an excellent idea for honoring the memory of E. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, who passed away on March 4th, 2008:
Sword's Edge Publishing: http://swordsedgepublishing.ca Let's hope some other gaming companies join on the bandwagon! 12.29.07 - West End Games Donates to Food DriveFrom gamingreport.com:West End Games has donated more than 200 pieces of original artwork to the Six Feet Under Games Canned Food Auction to benefit Water Street Rescue Mission. Artwork includes original interior art from several West End Star Wars books along with interior art from Terra and three different original full-color paintings used for Paranoia covers, two of which were for books that were never released. Their goal is 8000 pounds - 4 tons - of food for the Water Street Rescue Mission. They currently have donations from many gaming companies, including Aberrant Games, GenCon, Midnight Syndicate, Playroom Entertainment, Rio Grande, Studio Foglio, Wizards of the Coast, and many more. Find out more about Six Feet Under's efforts at their Holiday Food Drive page. 12.21.07 - Teen shelters need RPG suppliesRecently I had the following LiveJournal post brought to my attention. I've posted a summary below, or you can read the entire message and replies here:I work at a homeless shelter with
street-dependent and homeless teenagers. I have a handful of kids
there who are gamers. Unfortunately, when they had to move out of
their respective homes, they lost all their gaming stuff.
I know that there are some people on my friendstlist who used to be D&D gamers (or still are) and I'm wondering - if you have your old gear that you're not using, would you mind sending it to me for these kids? They're trying, you know? They're trying to stay out of gangs and away from the drugs and in general to maintain relatively normal lives. I'd buy the stuff for them, but that's not appropriate for me to do. Belladonnalin (her LJ username) has had a great amount of response so far, and it looks like she may be getting much more than she had hoped for. This is a fantastic idea in general - role-playing games are involving, challenging, rewarding, and encourage teamwork and problem solving - all things that young people in their situation really need. If you have some gaming materials you're not using - books, dice, figures, etc. - or you've been thinking about a good way to support teens in need, consider donating gaming supplies to your local teen shelter. You could even donate some of your time, and run an adventure for them! 12.05.07 - Midnight Charity Project supports autism research RPG publisher 12 to Midnight is sponsoring the Midnight Charity Project which benefits the Autism Research Institute. They and other gaming companies will be donating portions of their sales to the ARI during the entire month of December, plus there will be several auctions, and 12 to Midnight will be raising awareness of the cause by posting articles on autism on their main page. Find out more on their website! 04.10.07 - Ziggurat Con needs donationsZiggurat Con, which may be the first gaming convention held in a war zone (and possibly the first held in Iraq) needs your help. "This convention is currently in drastic need of prizes and giveaways for the troops," says convention organizer SPC David Amberson. "Everything donated will go directly to the troops, or to MWR to use as loaner books for the soldiers." You can find out more about Ziggurat Con in the GameGrene article (or read it in the Escapist archive if it's no longer available). Donations of gaming books and dice may be sent to: SPC David Amberson 08.11.06 - 2006 Diana Jones Award goes to Irish Game Convention Charity AuctionsThe Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming is awarded every summer during the Gen Con Game Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana. This year, the award recognized Irish Game Convention Charity Auctions. From the Diana Jones site:
For more information about the Diana Jones Award, visit their site at www.dianajonesaward.org The Prince's Kingdom proceeds go to charityClinton R. Nixon's excellent indie RPG The Prince's Kingdom is a great game to introduce young people to roleplaying games - and when you purchase a print or PDF copy, all of the proceeds go directly to The American Friends Service Committee, which, since World War I, has provided assistance to the victims of war, especially children. Find out more about The Prince's Kingdom at www.crngames.com - and check out the listing for it in The Young Person's Adventure League Adventurer's Atlas. (A full review is coming soon, too. Keep checking the main YPAL page for it.) PREVIOUS NEWSThe Lady Gamer is Walking to Help Cure Breast CancerMarinda Darnell of The Lady Gamer has made the following press release:
Katrina Victims & Rescuers Need Your Help - updatedHurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans and the surrounding area, leaving thousands without homes, clothing, food, or drinking water. There are many ways to help, and I've listed as many as I have found below. Please do what you can. Catholic
Charities - click or call 800-919-9338 - (more
info about this group) ...and don't forget to give blood! Help for animals Humane Society - click or call 888-259-5431 - (more info about this group)Lone Star Equine Rescue - (more info about this group) - Many residents were told to set their horses loose if they could not transport them out of the area before the hurricane struck.. LSER is working to reunite horses with their owners. North Shore Animal League America - click or call 877-4SAVEPET - (more info about this group) PetSmart Charities - (more info about this group) Game Companies The following are game companies that are contributing all or part of their profits to charities benefitting the Katrina victims.Adamant Entertainment will donate their entire sales for September to the Red Cross - website Alternate Realities Publications has donated 50% of their projected sales for August through December of 2005 to relief efforts, and will continue to donate 50% of all sales that beat that projection. Owner Dana Jorgensen will also match the donations out of his own pocket - product list at RPGnow Amalara will donate all proceeds from their September sales to the Red Cross - website Rich Burlew, author of the hilarious gaming comic strip Order of the Stick, has announced a special offer for anyone donating to the Red Cross - more info Decipher is hosting an online LOTR CCG tournament on Saturday, September 3rd, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross: more info Flames Rising has announced they will donate all of September's proceeds from their CafePress shop to the Red Cross - more info The Inner Circle will donate all of the proceeds from September sales of their new gaming supplement Fantasy Personae: Sages, Spies, and Informants to the Red Cross - more info - store Open World Press has pledged to donate their entire September profits from all purchases at Indie Press Revolution to relief efforts - website - Open World's catalog at IPR Sancrosanct Games has announced all profits for September will go to the Red Cross: here's their catalog Seraphim Guard is donating 50% of the sales of the HeartQuest Anime/Shouju Bundle to the Red Cross. Sword's Edge Publishing has pledged all revenue for the month of September to the Red Cross - website White Wolf has announced that they will be donating 50% of all online sales of its Vampire: The Requiem products (print and digital), through September 5th -more info Wicked Dead Brewing Company has announced they will donate all profits for September to the Red Cross: here's their catalog Other Fundraisers CDBaby has a list of over 5000 indpendent musicians who have offered to donate 100% of their sales to the Red Cross. You can discover some new music while making your donation - more info eBay & MissionFish have compiled a page of eBay auctions that benefit Katrina victims, organized by charities - more info (All links go directly to donation pages when available. Groups are arranged in alphabetical order - no preference is implied.) If you know of other groups or charities that are directly benefitting
the Katrina victims, including (but not limited to) fundraisers through
game companies, please contact me at Hungry Little Monsters Released!
Hungry
Little Monsters, the D20 PDF monster supplement that benefits
FoodForAll, is finally out!
Here's more on the project, straight from the site:
Hungry Little Monsters is a compilation project initiated by Sean K Reynolds to be a charity fundraiser for FoodForAll.org, a program to help feed the hungry. Hungry Little Monsters features 43 new monsters (each approximately one page long) for the d20 system. The theme for this book is "monsters for which you can use existing miniatures or tokens." Rather than a collection of bizarre-anatomy creatures that you can't represent with anything on your miniatures shelf or in a store, this book is full of creatures which you can represent in play with commonly-available miniatures or tokens. This is set up by a serious of monster archetypes -- corpses (skeletal or zombielike undead), fiends (your typical bat-winged demonic or devilish creature), humanoids, oozes, spirits (bodiless undead), and so on. This book is authored by volunteer members of the RPG industry, including Sean K Reynolds, Dave Mattingly, Matt Forbeck, Scott Bennie, and Ed Greenwood, as well as a dozen other established game designers. Likewise, the editing, art, and typesetting is donated as well. Hungry Little Monsters is created entirely on volunteer time. The game material in the book is entirely open game content as defined by the Open Gaming License. All proceeds from this book are donated to Food For All.org For seven dollars at Drive Thru RPG or RPGNow, you get a 63-page PDF, a 22 page illustration book, and a 4 page token book - and your donation goes to an excellent cause. Pick it up today - and consider getting a t-shirt too!
G.I.V.E.R. Aims to Help Tsunami VictimsGamers for International Victims Emergency Relief (G.I.V.E.R.) is a site devoted to networking gamers for the purposes of getting support for the South Asian tsunami victims. G.I.V.E.R. does not collect funds directly, but hosts an event locater to help gamers find events that raise money for the cause, suggestions for how you can help, and links to reputable charities who are accepting donations. For more information, visit G.I.V.E.R.'s site at http://www.skillcraft.net/giver/index.htm Decipher Donates to Baghdad Hobby ClubDirect from their press release: NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For further information, contact: Decipher Donates To Baghdad Hobby Club Promotion (Norfolk, VA — January 4, 2005) — Decipher Inc. has donated over $5,000 worth of gaming product to the Baghdad Hobby Club program. The program, started by a U.S. Serviceman and supported by Hobbytown USA, puts hobby games and products in the hands of servicemen and women serving in the U.S. military overseas. “We’re pleased to be able to make this gesture to the men and women that are serving overseas,” said Warren Holland, Chairman and CEO of Decipher Inc. “Being located in Norfolk, Virginia, we’re surrounded by reminders of how hard our military works. We hope our games can help them pass the time and cope with their situation.” According to Karey Koehn, editor of Hobby Outlook Magazine, the Baghdad Hobby Club has been very popular with the soldiers. The club operates out of one camp and acts as a hobby supply stop for units moving around Iraq. As soldiers come and go, games are picked up and dropped off. Starting with 100 members, the club is now supporting many more troops in outlying camps. This means that the product needs are always increasing. Requests have been made for military simulation and fantasy games, which ties directly into Decipher’s product lines. “We were thrilled to be able to meet their requests so exactly,” said Tim Ellington, VP of Decipher’s Games Studio. “We’re shipping them starter decks of our WARS Trading Card Game which is probably the best military simulation on the market due to its strategic gameplay. We’ve also included starter decks from The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game for the fantasy fans, and starter decks from STAR TREK Second Edition CCG which is a property that everyone knows and can relate to.” For information on the Baghdad Hobby Club, contact Kary Koehn at kary@hobbytown.com. Shipments take roughly four weeks to reach their destination and there are specific shipping requirements. For more information on Decipher products, visit www.decipher.com.
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