Hard Boiled Cultures is featured on the first RPG Countdown podcast, around the 10.5 minute mark:

http://rpgcountdown.com/

The syrallax rivals the dark elf and aboleth for domination of the subterranean realm. While syrallaces lack the sheer numbers of other races, they make up for it with the impressive stable of minions and thralls they keep and their ability to maximize those forces through superior strategy. Through intimidation and their poisonous gaze, they force others to serve them out of fear.

In this first set of poison pages from One Bad Egg’s Poisoncraft Fourth Edition line, you’ll find a set of monsters bound to make your upper paragon-tier players quake as they reach for the anti-venom. You’ll also find a fully detailed combat encounter, with a full overhead map of the Poisonworks from SkeletonKey Games. Also packed in is a new poison, a rakshasa predator, and a refinery that’s ready to blow!

Poisoncraft 4E: The Syrallax is priced at $1.99 and goes on sale January 19th.

• Release date: January 19th 2009
• One Bad Egg Bookshelf beta users get early access. Sign up for an account today!
• Available at Indie Press Revolution
• And RPGNow
• also get the bundle with the maps, from Skeleton Key Games!
• And Paizo! (soon!)

Hard Boiled™ Cultures for 4E

Races in Dungeons & Dragons 4E are good for laying down the broad strokes of a character, but they often don’t feel as “lived in” as the ethnicities we encounter in everyday life. One potent reason for this is a general lack of cultural complexity and diversity. D&D races tend to be presented as monocultural societies—all elves are the same the world over, and so on.

Hard Boiled™ Cultures aims to make it easy to change that, outlining versatile, easy methods for diversifying the ideas of culture and race in your D&D 4E game. Better yet, the methods break down how to give this diversity real weight in the system, rather than simply relying on “color” text to do the job. Fred Hicks and Jonathan Walton show you how to reverse-engineer cultural cues out of an existing race writeup, and then create nigh-limitless possibilities for other cultures within that race once the building blocks are made plain.

Inside this 17-page PDF you’ll find clear, well-documented methods for culture building, a culture building worksheet, tribes of elves, apelord intellectuals, and a dark faerie spin on dwarves. Your campaign worlds will never be the same again!

Hard Boiled™ Cultures for 4E is priced at $3.99 and goes on sale January 12th.

• Release date: January 12th 2009
• One Bad Egg Bookshelf beta users get early access. Sign up for an account today!
• Available at Indie Press Revolution
• And RPGNow
• And Paizo!