So what’s new? Well, we recently kicked off the Burning Alpha Playtest. This is the second alpha round, with another 20 or so playtesting groups selected out of our pool of over (yikes!) 750 applicants. Stacey Chancellor, one of our Burning Alpha playtesters, has started collecting links to the various places you can see the Burning Alpha underway, over on the Dresden Files RPG Livejournal Community:

http://community.livejournal.com/dresdenfilesrpg/10010.html

Evil Hat will be attending GenCon, as a part of the IPR / Forge Booth (#1939) — and by that we mean lead developer Lenny Balsera, setting guru Chad Underkoffler, and Evil Hat owners Rob Donoghue and Fred Hicks will all be there, along with other members of our writing and editing staff. Come on by and pick our brains!

And while we’re on the topic of GenCon, the Ennie Awards voting is underway, and Evil Hat’s product Spirit of the Season is up for an award for Best Supplement. We’d love to get your support with just a couple minutes taken to vote (you don’t have to vote on everything, just the stuff you’re familiar with).

http://www.ennieawards.com/voting/index.phtml

If you’d like to familiarize yourself with Spirit of the Season before casting a vote, please do! We have a completely free 40-page version (trimmed down from the 72+ page version that’s for sale) available on DriveThruRPG:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=51248

Thanks, everyone!

EVIL HAT PRODUCTS NOW AVAILABLE AT INDIE PRESS REVOLUTION

Evil Hat’s entered into an agreement with Indie Press
Revolution to have IPR operate as one of our main
storefronts. Right now we only have Don’t Rest Your Head
listed there, but you can expect our future products will
be carried by IPR as well.

* http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/products.php?publisherLink=evilHat

MORE NEWS ON SPIRIT OF THE CENTURY

As you’ve heard previously, Evil Hat will be releasing a
pulp-themed RPG using the same core system (though with a
significantly different take on supernatural powers) as
the Dresden Files RPG. This will be titled Spirit of the
Century, and we’re pretty excited to be releasing it.
It’ll be in a 6×9 format, with over 300 pages of pulpy
goodness for your enjoyment.

We’ve released some preview materials for Spirit of the
Century, and as an update to the timeframe, we’re
expecting Spirit to start preorders within the next month,
with it shipping by the beginning of November.

You can find the preview materials by following the links
found here:

* http://www.evilhat.com/?spirit

If Spirit looks like a game that would interest you (or
even if it doesn’t!), we’d certainly appreciate you
filling out our quick “product demand check” survey here.
It shouldn’t take more than 3 minutes to fill it out:

* http://www.evilhat.com/spirit/survey/

Getting an accurate sense of the demand of the product
will make sure that we keep as much of our funds available
to keep the Dresden Files ball rolling as well, so your
help is certainly appreciated!

DRESDEN FILES DISCUSSION SIGHTINGS

RPG.net’s given birth to a short discussion thread on the
Dresden Files RPG (as well as a few other things). If
RPG.net is your kind of thing, it may be worth poking your
head in and seeing what’s up — feel free to use the
thread to post some of your most pressing questions.

* http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=276459

DESIGNING DRESDEN WILL RETURN

Rob and Fred are busy getting geared up for GenCon Indy,
but we hope to get some more Designing Dresden posts out
there once we’re back and, honestly, less distracted.
Stay tuned!

Thanks

The Evil Hat Productions Team

He’ll kick off Friday with a demo of the Dresden Files RPG (at least as we’ve got it so far!). Here’s the description of the event:

R187: Fate: The Dresden Files; “Meddling Kids” by Rob Donoghue. An INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED GAME from Evil Hat Productions – Part of the Indie Games Explosion! There are strange goings-on in the old Montrose place, so what are a ragtag group of wizards, creatures, halfbreeds and couch surfers supposed to do if not meddle? A tongue in cheek romp through Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files universe. Friday, 10:00AM – 2:00PM; One Round; All Materials Provided. Beginners Welcome!

Outside of this event, Rob will be making the rounds, and will be happy to answer your questions, do off-the-cuff demonstrations of various parts of the game, and generally shoot the breeze.