Last night, the fine folks at Gen Con announced the 2012 Industry Insider Guests of Honor. Adamant Entertainment is honored that Gareth-Michael Skarka and T.S. Luikart have both been chosen to appear, along with an impressive slate including: Tavis Allison, Steve Kenson, Mark Rein-Hagen, Wolgang Baur, Elizabeth Shoemaker-Sampat, Stan!, Michelle Lyons, Dennis Detwiller, Ryan Macklin, Christina Stiles, James Ernest, Dominic McDowall-Thomas, George Strayton, Matt Forbeck, Jason Morningstar, Richard Thomas, Jess Hartley, Susan Morris, Rodney Thompson, Kenneth Hite and James Wyatt.

GenCon will be putting together a list of panel discussions and seminars featuring us, in our varied areas of expertise. Once we have details about the specific events where we’ll be appearing, we’ll post about them here.

See you in Indianapolis this August!

Adventure Omnibus One — a print collection of existing PDF adventures, is being cancelled, as initial orders through distribution were not particularly strong. The few people who pre-ordered the Omnibus will have their orders refunded today. PDF adventure support will continue, however — including a public release of the original ICONS pre-order adventure, The Sidereal Schemes of Doctor Zodiac by Steve Kenson, which originally was only released to pre-order customers of the ICONS core rulebook, and was to make it’s public debut in the Omnibus.

ICONS TEAM-UP will no longer be released through distribution, but will instead be available (in print) direct-to-consumer via the Adamant Entertainment and Cubicle Seven webstores. To be blunt, we feel that this will give us the best return on the sales of the book, and makes the most financial sense for our company.

As such, the pre-order period will be extended until APRIL 15th, 2012. Copies can be ordered at the Adamant Entertainment webstore. We urge you to do so, because the size of our print run will be based partly on our total pre-order numbers. (We will be ordering more than the pre-order, to stock both webstores, but the final number will be influenced heavily by the pre-order figures.) So please, if you’re wanting a copy, try to pre-order.

Pre-order customers will receive the PDF of ICONS TEAM-UP when it goes to the printer during the week of the 15th, and the book shipped to them soon after.

To head off the inevitable questions: This is ABSOLUTELY NOT an indication that ICONS is “dying”, or going away. These decisions just make the most financial sense for Adamant — keep in mind that on sales through distribution, a publisher (on average) only sees somewhere around 35% of the cover price. At the numbers we’re talking about, it just makes more sense for us to do this direct to you, the gaming consumer.

Thank you for your understanding, and watch for announcements of further ICONS releases soon!

The Buckaroo Banzai Adventure Game is on schedule for a release this Summer, and is currently available for pre-order (click the “Store” link above). Our original press release can be read here.
 
 
 
 
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ABOUT THE BANZAI INSTITUTE: The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information is an independent, non-profit research organization of ranking scientists. Its East Coast campus is located an hour from New York City in Holland township, New Jersey. Founded by Dr. B. Banzai in 1972 to fulfill a need of the scholarly community for greater continuity of research, the Institute supports scientific endeavours in many fields that would otherwise go unfunded. Doctor Banzai can be followed on Twitter at @b_banzai

In addition, give your Game Master a special Limited Edition — Adamant Entertainment director Gareth-Michael Skarka will give one randomly-drawn customer two of his author’s copies of the Limited Edition FAR WEST Adventure Game rulebook: one for you, and one for your GM. This is your opportunity to get the book, which was available only to the backers of the FAR WEST Kickstarter, and the development team!

Sale begins at 9:00 AM EST on Friday, at RPGNow and DriveThruRPG.

Adamant is pleased to announce that we’re getting back to a regular release schedule — and, between now and the March 9th release of the big Mars-based movie, we’ll be releasing three new PDF adventures for MARS: our Savage Worlds setting of Sword-and-Planet adventure!.

The three adventures are: Sky-Tyrant of Mars, Blood Legacy of Mars, and Sell-Swords of Mars, and will be coming out over the next three weeks, one per week.

Check out our existing MARS PDF products by following the above link, or get the hardcover of the setting book via your local game store or from Adamant’s webstore.

Adamant products sell via the internet. We are “pirated” every day. Adamant would rather deal with unauthorized file sharing as we currently do — combating it with cost and convenience, and converting unauthorized users into customers and fans — than support a law which is nothing more than the latest attempt by corporations to put the genie back in the bottle and turn the internet into cable television, with controlled access and controlled content.

Simply put: The greatest leap forward in human interaction and communication since the Gutenberg Bible is more important than their business model — or ours, for that matter.

We urge you to please phone your Congressional Representatives and Senators today. Don’t email, as it will probably be auto-answered and ignored. Talk to someone. If you can, visit their local office. Tell them to oppose these laws.

Thank you.

The forum will be your central discussion site for all things FAR WEST — questions, comments, conversations and more. We just opened the place, so I expect that there will be some dust here and there, and things may change as we open new categories up as sub-forums, but for now, come on in, put yer feet up and enjoy yourself.

You’re free to talk about anything related to Far West here — the game, the books, the site, even related “inspirography” materials.

The forum also features a private subform for members of The Far West Society, our official fan membership community, available by subscription. If you’re not already a Society member, subscriptions are available over on the Far West Society page, for only $10.00 US for a six-month membership.

Thank you, and we look forward to talking with you!

Well, that’s the Sale — but what about the “Thanks-giveaway”?

This year, one randomly-drawn customer from the sales period will be chosen to receive a brand new Kindle Fire from Amazon, as well as a year’s subscription to Adamant’s ebook line, launching in 2012! Two further customers will each receive regular Kindles and a year’s subscription to the ebook line.

…as a special Thanksgiving treat, we are also pleased to announce that the BUCKAROO BANZAI ADVENTURE GAME Blue Blaze Pre-order is now open!

BUCKAROO BANZAI ADVENTURE GAME – BLUE BLAZE PRE-ORDER

RELEASE DATE: April 2012 Game Line: Buckaroo Banzai Category: Rulebook Size: 304 pages, Hardcover Authors: Gareth-Michael Skarka, Chad Underkoffler ———————————————– Price: $44.95 Quantity: We're Sorry

NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE.

Adamant Entertainment, in association with the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information, proudly offers this exclusive pre-order for the Buckaroo Banzai Adventure Game — a training manual for Blue Blaze Irregulars which uses the format of a tabletop role-playing game in order to prepare BBI recruits for the sorts of situations in which they may find themselves while aiding Buckaroo. The training manual will feature guidelines for taking on the roles of either your own Blue Blaze Irregular Strike Team, or the roles of Dr. Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers themselves. Familiarize yourselves with global threats ranging from Red Lectroids from Planet 10 to Hanoi Xan and the World Crime League; Learn about the specialized equipment available from the Banzai Institute, such as the Oscillation Overthruster and the Jet Car; And begin to embrace the motto of the Blue Blaze Irregulars: “Helping him to help us.”

The game will ship in April of 2012 — this pre-order entitles customers to:

• The hardcover final print version of the Adventure Game.
• The PDF when the file is sent to the printers.
• Your name listed as a Blue Blaze Irregular in the credits.
• An official Blue Blaze Irregular identification card.
• A special pre-order-exclusive PDF adventure.

The Blue Blaze Pre-Order of the BUCKAROO BANZAI ADVENTURE GAME is available for $44.95 plus $7.95 shipping and handling.

 

Thank you for your wonderful support over the past 8 years, and stay tuned — we’ve got great things ahead!

CALLING ALL BLUE BLAZE IRREGULARS…

Buckaroo Banzai Adventure Game Coming In Spring 2012 From Adamant Entertainment

Adamant Entertainment, in association with the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information, has entered into a license agreement by which Adamant will be producing the Buckaroo Banzai Adventure Game — a training manual for Blue Blaze Irregulars which uses the format of a tabletop role-playing game in order to prepare BBI recruits for the sorts of situations in which they may find themselves while aiding Buckaroo. The training manual will feature guidelines for taking on the roles of either your own Blue Blaze Irregular Strike Team, or the roles of Dr. Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers themselves. Familiarize yourselves with global threats ranging from Red Lectroids from Planet 10 to Hanoi Xan and the World Crime League; Learn about the specialized equipment available from the Banzai Institute, such as the Oscillation Overthruster and the Jet Car; And begin to embrace the motto of the Blue Blaze Irregulars: “Helping him to help us.”

“Buckaroo’s on sabbatical in the lamasery in Kathmandu,” said Reno Nevada, the Banzai Institute’s director of merchandising, and tenor saxophone for the Hong Kong Cavaliers, “But he’s pleased as punch about the Adventure Game. We’ve discussed the need for a training manual for the Blue Blaze Irregulars, outside of Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Hagakure. So yeah, Thumbs Up from Buckaroo, and from us here at the Institute.”

“As a BBI since the release of Docudrama in 1984, I am thrilled to be working with the Banzai Institute,” said Gareth-Michael Skarka, director of Adamant Entertainment. “It’s been a dream project of mine, and I’m honored that Buckaroo has seen fit to give us his blessing.”

The Buckaroo Banzai Adventure Game will ship to game stores worldwide in Spring 2012, and will feature a cover by acclaimed illustrator Dave Dorman.

ABOUT THE BANZAI INSTITUTE: The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information is an independent, non-profit research organization of ranking scientists. Its East Coast campus is located an hour from New York City in Holland township, New Jersey. Founded by Dr. B. Banzai in 1972 to fulfill a need of the scholarly community for greater continuity of research, the Institute supports scientific endeavours in many fields that would otherwise go unfunded. Doctor Banzai can be followed on Twitter at @b_banzai

All rights to Buckaroo Banzai, except those expressly granted in writing to other parties, are © 2009 Earl Mac Rauch and W.D. Richter.

Voting for the 2011 ENnie Awards is now open.

ICONS: Superpowered Roleplaying is nominated for Best Rules, Best New Game and Best Game.

Adamant Entertainment has been nominated for Fan-Favorite Publisher! Thank you so much to the fans who nominated us!

The Voting is open until July 24th. We thank you for your support.