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New York City, New York (July 16, 2010) – Pantheon Press LLC is proud to announce both the release of its hotly anticipated new role-playing game Fortune’s Fool and the nomination of Nobis: The City-States for Best Supplement in the 2010 ENnie Awards.

Fortune’s Fool is an innovative RPG that uses Tarot cards instead of dice. Set in a fantastic version of Renaissance Europe, the game allows you to play men, elves, dwarves, goblins, and more as they adventure from the courts of Paris to the canals of Venice. Fortune's Fool lets you create unique characters through an intuitive step-by-step process. Your character will be rich and detailed, and you will have your own unique luck structure. Using the new Fate Twist system, you can directly alter the course of battles, social interactions, and magic spells by manipulating the Tarot deck itself.

Fortune’s Fool is available for purchase at the Pantheon Press Marketplace as a PDF or one of two hardcopy editions: black & white and full color. Both feature the same stunning full-color cover illustrated by Christopher Kimball, but the interior art in the limited deluxe edition also comes in color. A free copy of the PDF also comes with the full-color edition.

“The announcement of Nobis: The City-States garnering a nomination for Best Supplement in the 2010 Ennie Awards alongside products from Hero Games and Wizards of the Coast makes us enormously proud,” said Rob Trimarco, President of Pantheon Press LLC. The Nobis: The City-States is a campaign setting for D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder that combines the best elements of immersive role-playing, high fantasy, and sophisticated political intrigue into one unified system.

To celebrate the nomination, Pantheon Press is selling many of the Nobis PDFs at a reduced price. Visit the Pantheon Press Marketplace for this special offer. Don’t forget to vote for Nobis: The City-States to win the ENnie for Best Supplement.

To hear their thoughts about the creation of these two games, listen to the interviews with the members of Pantheon Press on the Atomic Array podcast.

Pantheon Press LLC offers some of the most innovative gaming design in the role-playing industry today. Read more about Pantheon Press at www.pantheonpress.com.

GenCon event registration went live Sunday at noon. I'm fairly certain the site crashed immediately after. I didn't see, as I was preparing to run the next session of our Fortune's Fool playtest (protip: don't get trampled by a speeding four-horse carriage). But when the game was over, I checked to see if anyone had signing up for our events.

And boy howdy, did they! Our Friday evening game sold out pretty quickly. Over the past two days, a couple of the others have also sold out. I guess it doesn't hurt to have your game promoted as "GenCon found this event interesting," eh? According to the site as of today, there are only 2 tickets left for the Friday afternoon game.

Maybe this is a glitch in the system, with people only wanting to buy a single ticket, but getting charged for several. Or, as I like to hope, Fortune's Fool is about to bust wide open!

If you didn't get a ticket, don't despair. It's been my experience that people buy tickets for conflicting issues and then decide what they want to do on the day. Stop on by the game anyway, there may be a slot open! Or perhaps we can schedule you for a demonstration of the game that's "off the books."

Ok, that sounded creepy. Sorry.

The details: Fortune's Fool "When You Wish Upon a Sword"
RPG1010499 through RPG1010502
Friday 8/6 1:00 & 7:00 PM
Saturday 8/7 1:00 & 7:00 PM

I hope you all had a great New Year! 2010 is shaping up to be a great one for Pantheon Press!

We have been going full steam ahead in writing, testing, and generally preparing for the release of Fortune's Fool our brand new Tarot Card based game system!

We have also partnered with some old and new friends for the art in the book. Andrew DeFelice is back on board and will be using his master Photoshoppery skills to enhance our rules. We have also recruited Chris Kimball to do our cover and some awesome original interior art.

We will be at GenCon again this year running it and selling it too. Keep an eye out for games we run at NerdNYC's "Recess" and any local gaming stores we visit. We will announce any opportunities to play and learn more about Fortune's Fool here on the blog, on our Facebook Page, and Twitter.

As always, we love our fans and if you have any questions please feel free to (vacuum) email us at [email protected]

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As we've mentioned before, we'll be at NYC's the Compleat Strategist tomorrow afternoon for our big official introduction of Nobis. And while you're there, you can participate in the Competition of the Spirit, the annual tournament that pits fencers from all regions against one another. Choose a fencer from our list of pregens and go a couple of rounds against another fencer of our choice. Will you be victorious or will you suffer a humiliating defeat? You won't know unless you show up!

If you're a user of NYC's mass transit system, the lines will be a little weird this weekend, so give yourself some extra time to get there.