Rubicon Games News Archive

Since many Everway fans visited the Rubicon Games web site when they owned the Everway product line, we have included a copy of the news archive from their defunct web site for reference purposes. Gaslight Press does not endorse the content of this page in any way nor guarantee that it will uphold any promises or announcements made herein, since the comments included in this page were made by a different company - it is included for historical continuity only.

April 11, 2001

Rubicon Games and the entire Everway line has been sold to Gaslight Press. More news to follow soon!

February 7, 2001

What's this? Another Arcana entry so soon? We'll let you know when we find out what the catch is. Please check out Erik Amundsen's Element Toads --a Creature Story for Everway.

January 31, 2001

Today we have for you the final installment of Mark Edwards' Spherewalker Origins series in Arcana: Walker's Footsteps.

We have some rather sad company news to report: Games & Gizmos' Seattle and Bellevue locations are no more. The Redmond Games & Gizmos store will still serve the Seattle-area gaming community, providing the very best in events, classes, open play gaming, and games, games, games. GamesAndGizmos.com currently only has Everway supplements and the modern urban fantasy RPG Earth & Sky available for sale, as we reevaluate our online business model.

November 12, 2000

At long last, we bring you the second installment of what really is Mark Edwards' three-part Spherewalker Origins series. Demons would have made a great Halloween Arcana article, but we'll have to settle for a mid-November article. Our fault, not Mark's.

Later this month this site will probably suffer downtime of between 24 and 48 hours, as we move our servers to a different facility and the Internet spends some time figuring out where their new location is. We'll keep you posted.

April 21, 2000

Please visit Arcana today to read The Mudbank Sacrifice, a Mudbank Family legend by Alan Schwartz.

April 6, 2000

Today we have a really cool Everway Family Legend by Paul King--The Shepherd Mages, a legend of the Crookstaff Family.

March 29, 2000

Notice anything different? Hopefully not, but today we successfully moved RubiconGames.com from our ISP to our own in-house servers. So far the only complication is that our feedback form is under the weather. Just drop us a line at custserv@rubicongames.com if you have something to say.

March 21, 2000 (Aries 1, 1000)

Well, it's finally the day--Y1K has arrived to the ancient city of Everway. So far, so good: no major catastrophes, no rioting, no looting, no magic outages. In fact, all is well in the city. We'll let you know if the dragons regain their powers or the gates all collapse.

March 17, 2000

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Please visit Arcana now to re-visit (or to read for the first time) A Host Story, an Everway Family Legend by Jonathan Tweet.

March 10, 2000

We're the proud new hosts of the Everway Family Legends Project, in which the great families of the ancient city each tell how they saved Everway and brought it to greatness. Our first legend is the brand-new tale of How Snakering Drove The Serpents Into Shimmermoon Bay, by Rob Barrett.

February 28, 2000

Well, we finally have a new Arcanum up! Oranda's Flame was written by Elizabeth Mathews, one of our Apprentices, and is the background story of her hero Oranda. We'll be updating it in the next couple days with stats and Vision Card images.

February 10, 2000

We have a new Arcanum by Apprentice Elizabeth, but it won't be up until next week. We're still looking for more submissions to Arcana. Just email michaelc@rubicongames.com if you have an article to submit.

We've got more Spherewalker Source Cards up on eBay, with Everway Companion Collector Cards soon to follow.

February 2, 2000

Happy Groundhog Day from Rubicon Games and Games & Gizmos! Okay, so it's not that exciting a holiday, but the poor little critter never gets much press.

In entirely unrelated news, we're now selling Spherewalker Source Cards display boxes on eBay! Starting at just $1 for a whole box of Spherewalker cards, it's a deal you might want to check out! You can view our auctions by clicking here.

February 1, 2000

It's a CONspiracy! February 11 - 13 Webmaster Evan Sass (that's me) is going to be up in Mission, B.C., Canada at CONspiracy at the Best Western Mission City Lodge. We're not going to have a booth or anything, but if you track me down I'll have a few of each of our products you can buy, and the Strangerside manuscript or a pre-release version for you to check out. This year's CONspiracy features Pagan Publishing's John Tynes, Serendipity Circle's Julie Hoverson, and Steve Miller of TSR. There's also going to be a Darkest of the Hillside Thickets concert on Friday night--what ghoulish fun! For info you can call 1-888-21-GAMES.

January 19, 2000

Okay, we admit it--we started teasing you about Strangerside a little bit too early. We honestly were once on schedule to release the book on Halloween of 1999, but many things got in the way, and we fell way behind.

As a little token of our appreciation of your patience, if you return to the Strangerside Sneak Preview right now, you'll find a snippet of the awesome map by Loren Vine that you can use to entice your heroes to venture toward Strangerside in time for the book's release. Hang in there--this book is cool!

January 17, 2000

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! It's sunny in Seattle today. Could this be the end of the world? Or merely a residual Y2K bug? It's still the year 999 in the City of Everway, until Aries 1 (our March 21), anyway; maybe they'll have some Y1K disasters worth writing about. And speaking of Everway, remember that we're always looking for Arcana submissions in all of the different categories. Our pool of available Arcanum is small right now, but we'll get something new up soon, honest! Anybody want to move to Seattle and fill Web orders (for free)?

January 4, 2000

Happy New Year from all of us at Rubicon Games and Games & Gizmos!

Don't know why we didn't think of this before (maybe our long holiday vacations loosened up some cerebral tissue), but the Rubicon Marketplace now redirects you to the Everway section of GamesAndGizmos.com! FUDGE afficionados, you can buy FUDGE products there, too! Of course, GamesAndGizmos.com also features about 3900 other fun games, puzzles, and gizmos, with secure online credit card processing--what more could you want?!

December 22, 1999

Please check out Ken Hite's "Out of the Box" column today in Mania Magazine, online on anotheruniverse.com--he lists Everway at #10 of The Best RPGs Of All Time, Which Is To Say, The Last 25 Years.

December 20, 1999

New in Arcana this week (and our last Arcanum for 1999) you'll find Battleflies, a creature for Everway featuring brand-new color art by Gerry Grace and a story by Strangerside author Mark Edwards.

As for Strangerside, our schedule has suffered a bit (our editorial staff also creates and maintains GamesAndGizmos.com) but it is in production, and we'll post more information as it becomes available.

December 6, 1999

In the latest Pyramid Magazine from Steve Jackson Games, editor Scott D. Haring lists Everway among the top ten roleplaying games of the millenium. (Aw, shucks! We would have been happy enough seeing Everway among the top ten RPGs in the past 30 years...) Pyramid is well worth the subscription price, and they didn't even pay us to say that!

December 3, 1999

As the acrid smell of tear gas dissipates in the cold Seattle morning, the peaceful protestors, brainless rioters, nervous WTO members, and the National Guard return whence they came, leaving the erstwhile beautiful core of the city a shambles...

But we have news that is entirely unrelated to WTO Smackdown madness--we are proud to announce the fiftieth article in Arcana, our free Everway support area on RubiconGames.com. The Motley by Strangerside author Mark Edwards, centers around a family from Everway and Strangerside.

November 18, 1999

New in Arcana today is Word of Fire, a school of magic for Everway by Marco Cottone in Italy.

November 17, 1999

Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay, but we've been working very insane hours to relaunch our online store at http://www.gamesandgizmos.com/. It's now officially back up, as of about 3am today, so we can return to our regularly scheduled work life. Very soon Arcana will sport a new article by Marco Cottone of Italy--the week after that, we'll post the fiftieth Arcana article (by Strangerside author Mark Edwards) for your enjoyment. And as for Strangerside, we are still working on it, and it will still be available in the next few weeks.

November 7, 1999

Please join our new online Everway discussion group sponsored by onelist.com. It has both Web and email-based messaging, space for Everway-related uploads and downloads, and there's even a survey so you can let us know what you think of the new Everway-L!

October 29, 1999

Arcana now features The Library of All Worlds--An Overview by Paul King.

Strangerside Update:
We've got more new art from Loren Vine, Nicole Lindroos is starting on the layout, we're scanning in the color art, and everything is moving along nicely. Wah-hoo!

October 22, 1999

We're working on the next Arcana update, an article by Paul King about The Library of All Worlds. In the meantime, we're proud to announce the Strangerside Sneak Preview!

October 13, 1999

Our newest offering in Arcana is The Bookstore of All Worlds, a new resource page for Everway. It's a list of inspiring books recommended by Everway players and gamemasters, and you can just click on most of them to buy them on Amazon.com. We'll be adding more books soon (we already have a big list to add).

Strangerside Update:
We just got the map from Loren "I'm not just an architect, I play one on TV" Vine, and ye gods, is it ever cool! (And north is at the top of the map!)

October 7, 1999

Today we have a new Arcana offering from John "Seanchaí" Grose: Courtean Wizardry, a school of magic for Everway.

New Product Tease:
Rubicon Apprentice Elizabeth Mathews has finished the index for Strangerside, and we'll have the art from Kynan Antos, Raven Mimura, Ryan Potter, and Loren Vine in the next week or so. Once we have the art scanned in, we'll put up a Sneak Preview here on the site. Believe it or not, the actual book will follow not long after! (In plenty of time for holiday shopping...)

October 1, 1999

Happy October! Today's issue of Steve Jackson Games' Pyramid Magazine features an article called "Cyberway: Bringing High-Tech to Everway" by Kingsley Lintz. It features some cool futuristic art by andi jones, and has some really cool concepts regarding sci-fi Everway. If you're not a subscriber already, you should check Pyramid out--it's always full of news, reviews, articles about games, and even comics by John Kovalic!

September 29, 1999

Please check out the Everway page--we've updated our list of Everway links and added a downloadable Everway Hero Sheet PDF.

September 15, 1999

This week in Arcana, Craig Russell brings us a new Everway quest, O, For a Voice Like Thunder. Sure, Everway heroes avert wars all the time--but you try doing it when no one will tell you what the fight's about!

Product Announcement:
Waves of Time by Greg Stolze is now complete, with Adobe Acrobat and HTML versions (and a high-resolution, printable map) on the CD-ROM. You can order it here or give us a call at 1.877.99GIZMO (toll-free in the US and Canada) or at 1.206.621.9179 to get yours.

August 27, 1999

New in Arcana today you'll find The Wheels, a people for Everway by Strangerside author Mark Edwards.

August 26, 1999

If you're in the Pacific Northwest, come see Rubicon Games and Games & Gizmos at Dragonflight at Seattle University, from August 27th through the 29th. Our Games & Gizmos Rangers are running all of the collectible card game events (Star Trek, Star Wars, Magic, Doomtown, L5R...) along with Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, Clan Wars, and Cheapass Games like Button Men (we've also got SNEAK PREVIEW demo copies of a new game from Cheapass called Brawl--this game redefines fast furious fun, and it won't actually enter distribution until Labor Day!). Of course, we'll also be there running Everway quests and a special event called Everway Arena--check your save-the-world feel-good motives at the door and come beat up your friends for the entertainment of mindless drooling fans in this bloodthirsty miniatures combat Everway variant. We'll be sure to have Waves of Time CDs at our booth, too. For more info, surf on over to http://dragonflight.org/.

August 18, 1999

Thanks to the Pearl (Perl) School of Magic, we're proud to present Divining With the Fortune Deck by Jonathan Tweet (from the Guide to the Fortune Deck in the Everway boxed set) featuring an online Everway Fortune Reading.

August 17, 1999

Okay, enough already with the Waves of Time CD-ROM preorder madness--we're all set for real orders now! Waves of Time is now on the order form on this site, but the order form isn't secure yet (it probably will be soon, though!). If ordering unsecurely makes you nervous, just drop us a line at custserv@rubicongames.com, or call us at 206.621.9179 or toll-free in the U.S. and Canada at 1.877.994.4966 (1.877.99GIZMO). Our hordes of Mail Order Zombies are ready to ship to you, and they promise not to drool on your CD.

Now, as for Waves of Time, we have something to say to the Adobe Acrobat nay-sayers. You told us so! Our PDF of Waves of Time didn't turn out so well--when we embed fonts random letters and punctuation disappear, and when we don't, well, the book doesn't look so good. We're going to work on the PDF and email it to anyone who buys the CD (or mail it to them on a floppy). If you want you can wait, and we'll announce here when we get the PDF all pretty-like and start burning it onto the CDs. Rest assured that the HTML version on the CD-ROM looks great, but also that we'll get that pesky PDF prettified.

August 12, 1999

New to Arcana today is Dreamweavers by John "Seanchaí" Grose, a magic school for Everway.

August 5, 1999

If you're in Milwaukee for GenCon, stop by the Pagan Publishing booth to pick up all of those Everway and Spherewalker products you've been meaning to get but never have. (And of course check out their killer products for Call of Cthulhu!) Unfortunately, we weren't able to ship them any Waves of Time CDs, but they've got everything else.

July 25, 1999

New Product Announcement!!!
We're ready to go to press with Waves of Time, the newest Everway supplement by Greg Stolze, which means [drumroll]... We're now accepting preorders! We're busily recoding the GamesAndGizmos.com Web site for its newer, better, faster version 2.0 release, so rather than update the antiquated order system here on RubiconGames.com, we're going to do this the old-fashioned way. To reserve your copy of Waves of Time (and help us figure out how many CD-ROMs to burn), just contact us via snail mail, email, fax, or phone (you'll find all our contact info in the column to the right) with your credit card number (or a check), how many copies you want, and what you want to get along with Waves of Time. (Remember, we won't charge you for shipping if you spend at least US$50!)

To recap for those who haven't been paying attention, we're distributing Waves of Time in HTML and Adobe Acrobat Reader formats, on CD-ROM, for US$9.95 each. You can read all about it here.

July 18, 1999

We've got a free game in Arcana this week, Nine Dancers by Mark Edwards. All you need to play is a friend and some counters! Nine Dancers also includes some information on Strangerside, an Everway sourcebook that Mark is writing!

June 30, 1999

New in Arcana this week is The Phoenix Healer and the Catkin by Mark Edwards. This piece includes a new creature, a new hero, a new magic school, and brand-new (or at least never-before-seen) Everway art by none other than Janine Johnston!

June 25, 1999

Okay, okay, we know it's been a while since we've added anything new to Arcana. But we've got some excuses--er, really good reasons:
   (1) We've been fine-tuning GamesAndGizmos.com. If you went there before and fell asleep waiting for pages to load, give it another try--the site is about 40 times faster now! We have also been adding images and new products like crazy.
   (2) We've been working on the next Everway book, Waves of Time by Greg Stolze, as first announced in February. The book will be released on CD-ROM in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat formats, and believe it or not, this will be very very soon!
   (3) We need more submissions for Arcana! If you love Everway and have something to say about it, check out the types of articles we've already posted, choose a category, and go for it! Email michaelc@rubicongames.com for details.

June 10, 1999

We're proud to introduce you to Ryan Potter, a Gaming Guru at our Seattle Games & Gizmos store, and quite a fine artist, in our second Arcana Artist Gallery, available now for your surfage!

May 29, 1999

New in Arcana this week is Magic's Blight, an Everway Quest by Grant Schmidt.

May 11, 1999

Please visit Arcana to meet The Shokkal Mountain People, another creation of Erikku Amundsen's.

Also, remember to check out our new online store, GamesAndGizmos.com and let us know what you think!

May 2, 1999

New to Arcana this week is a creature for Everway, The Tailors by Erikku Amundsen.

April 26, 1999

Guess what? It's finally time for the Big Announcement! Rubicon is very proud to introduce you to our new online store, GamesAndGizmos.com! The site currently has about 4000 games, puzzles, and gizmos for sale, and we're already hard at work to add a bunch more. Of course the whole Everway line is represented at GamesAndGizmos.com, and we'll be moving all of the order processing for this site to the new store. GamesAndGizmos.com currently accepts Visa, Mastercard, and Diner's Club, with secure online processing. Check it out, and let us know what you think!

And don't despair, we're going to resume our regularly-scheduled Arcana programming this week.

April 13, 1999

Oops! We accidentally left out one image from Raven's Gallery, but it's in there now. Also, we've added his email address and a link to his Web site, if you'd like to contact him about buying prints or commissioning work or anything else.

April 11, 1999

Well, we've got good news and bad news... The good news is that we're proud to announce our latest Arcana update, an artist gallery featuring six images by Raven Mimura!

The bad news is that we're still working on our Big Announcement. But Something Big is really on the way. Honest!

April 2, 1999

Okay, um, so please keep watching this space for our Big Announcement, as some little server sprites played a big ol' April Fool's joke on us yesterday, causing a delay in our secret project (codename: Gizmo).

However, we might as well take a few minutes and finally divulge the answer to Puzzler #2, Midnight Escape!

March 25, 1999

We're going to have to move this week's Arcana update to next week, because we're swamped. Why so busy? Watch this space for a Big Announcement...

We will take a minute and post the answer to Midnight Escape!, in the next couple days.

March 19, 1999

Shattered Will, Broken Water is the third and final part of Broken Couplet by Edmund Wilfong, new in Arcana now!

March 17, 1999

Our little leprechauns have cooked up a surprise for us! No, nothing to do with gold and little pots--it's a new Puzzler! Please visit Behind the Die to play Midnight Escape! by Dr. Robert Coury, aka "The Evil Doctor Bob."

March 12, 1999

This week in Arcana, you'll find a new magic school, Shattered Mind, Broken Air, part two of Broken Couplet by Edmund Wilfong.

We're now officially sold out of Spherewalker Source Card Collector Sets, thanks to Brian Wong of San Francisco. If you don't have your Spherewalker Cards yet, you can get a complete display box for just $34.95 in the Rubicon Marketplace.

March 6, 1999

Our latest Arcana update is The Legend of Worthless Warrior by Edmund Wilfong. This is part one of Broken Couplet, which includes two magic schools that once were one--look for part two next week!

March 1, 1999

We now have a new, low price for display boxes of both Everway Companion Collector Cards and Spherewalker Source Cards--just US$34.95 each (they were $70.20)! We've updated the prices and finally added Lamplighter's limited edition Earth & Sky release to our online order form.

February 27, 1999

Experiencing any troubles viewing the new Arcana page? Unfortunately, it might not be Netscape-friendly. We'd love for you to help us test it in browsers other than Internet Explorer 4 (or in older versions of IE). Please try it, and if your browser crashes, email Evan with the text from any error messages, what operating system you use (Windows 95, Windows 98, Unix, MacOS, etc.), and what browser you were using. Thanks!

February 24, 1999

Arcana is sporting a new look today. Please check it out and let us know what you think. The new page features a frameset structure, but if you can't stand frames, don't worry--we still have a frameless version of the Arcana index page.

February 23, 1999

New in Arcana this week you'll find the Ashanti Mythology Resource Page by Michael Coffey.

February 18, 1999

Rubicon is pleased to announce that we're putting the finishing touches on a new Everway book, Waves of Time by Greg Stolze, coming soon to RubiconGames.com. But we would hate to just tease you, so we've put up a Sneak Preview.

February 16, 1999

Please visit Arcana now for our latest update, Court, a new sphere for Everway by John "Seanchaí" Grose.

February 14, 1999

Well, it looks like we weren't lying to you after all, except for the "coming soon" part... Visit Behind the Die now for a Rubicon Bio on Evan Sass!

February 5, 1999

New in Arcana this week, you'll find Manslayer by Erikku Amundsen--a new creature for Everway!

January 21, 1999

We now have a toll-free number! From anywhere in the US and Canada, you can call us on our dime at 1.877.99GIZMO (1.877.994.4966). We've already sold out of our initial shipment of Earth & Sky, but don't worry--more is on the way today or tomorrow!

John Poole has asked us to announce that he has an opening for a player in his online Everway game on WebRPG.com, 4pm to 9pm PST, every Friday. To join, contact him at his new email address, Longspeak_Teller@msn.com.

January 17, 1999

Our latest Arcana update, Fivespirit Fortune Method by Michael Coffey, features an online fortune reading. Have a pressing question? Why not consult the cards?

January 8, 1999

We're happy to announce that our friends at Lamplighter Design Studio have released a limited-run Collector's Edition of Earth & Sky, Scott Hungerford's roleplaying game of Modern Urban Faerie Tales (previously known as Masque). We're working on updating our online catalog, but in the meantime, just send us an email at custserv@rubicongames.com, or you can read all about Earth & Sky.

January 4, 1999

By popular demand, we've now got a picture of Managing Editor Michael Coffey to go with his biography, in Behind The Die. Coming soon, a bio on Evan Sass.

January 3, 1999

Losing sleep wondering what day it is in Everway? No? Well, if you were, you could visit the Everway page now to find out, thanks to the powerful JavaScript school of magic...

January 2, 1999

Happy New Year from Rubicon!

Check out Arcana now to see Gate Master by Michael Coffey. It's a Spherewalker Journal excerpt, it's a legend, it comes complete with a free instructional video on staff fighting! (Well, no it doesn't, but the other stuff is true!)

December 21, 1998

Season's Greetings to you and yours from all of us in the Rubicon family! Our Web developer is about to leave town 'til next week, so we won't post an Arcana update this week. Never fear--we have lots of cool stuff lined up for Arcana, and we'll resume our schedule next week.

If you're starving for some cool stuff, we just added a link to Heather Bruton's Web page to our Internet Community page. (Heather illustrated the cover to Realms of the Sun book two, Heart of Stone by Greg Stolze.) Heather's site features lots of images, along with a page of cool art links.

December 12, 1998

New from Mark Edwards in Arcana, see Children of the Long Grass, a new People for Everway.

December 6, 1998

This week's Arcana feature is Feathered Serpent, Smoking Mirror, an Everway quest by Jesse McGatha and Evan Sass. This Aztec themed quest originally appeared in Shadis magazine about a year ago.

November 29, 1998

John Poole's Everway game on WebRPG Online is now every Friday from 4pm to 9pm PST. They are still accepting players who can play at the new time.

November 24, 1998

Please visit Arcana for Pine and the Wooden Beaver by Geoffrey C. Grabowski.

November 21, 1998

Our Games & Gizmos Redmond store opened to the public today. We're busily working out the kinks before our big Grand Opening Celebration next weekend, November 27-29.

November 16, 1998

New in Arcana this week, Sight of Sorrow by Mark Edwards is a dark take on magic in Everway.

November 10, 1998

Stop by Arcana now to see Patterncasters, a school of magic for Everway by John "Seanchaí" Grose.

November 6, 1998

Please click here or on the Games & Gizmos logo to learn all about Games & Gizmos, Rubicon's new chain of retail stores.

November 3, 1998

John Poole (SercEdit@aol.com) is looking for two new players for his online Everway game. If you're interested, and free from 3pm to 9pm PST on Saturdays, send him an email or join him on WebRPG Online (http://www.webrpg.com/).

October 30, 1998

Please visit Arcana now for the latest update: Broken Sword, a school of magic for Everway by Erikku Amundsen.

October 17, 1998

New to Behind The Die, we're starting to post Bios of We Who Make Rubicon Tick. Available now, Michael Coffey teaches us all how to dance a jig.

October 16, 1998

Visit our new Chinese Mythology Resource Page for a list of books available through Amazon.com and a list of Web links, as well as a photo of a beautiful Chinese dragon robe. And you won't want to miss Grant Schmidt's hero Dragonson, Our latest Arcana feature.

October 6, 1998

Now in Arcana, you'll find The Gift of Wood-Dragon, a quest by Michael Coffey.

September 22, 1998

Please visit Arcana to read Giants' Bones by Mark Edwards. Our regular schedule of Arcana updates will now resume.

September 8, 1998

By player request, John Poole's WebRPG Online Everway campaign has moved to 3:00 pm PST on Saturdays. Check it out at http://www.webrpg.com/!

August 30, 1998

September 3-6, at Dragon*Con 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia, Rubicon will be represented at the Fantasy Flight booth by none other than Nicole Lindroos, author of Bright Fires, Realms of the Sun book one. Stop by the booth in the dealer's room (open from 9 to 7 most days), and she'll be sure to sign your copy. You can read Ken Walton's review of Bright Fires on RPG.net.

August 28, 1998

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August 25, 1998

So what has Rubicon really been up to lately? We've been rather busy working on the following NEWSFLASH: Rubicon Games merges with owners of Games & Gizmos! We would love to tell you more about it...

August 15, 1998

Please visit Arcana now to read about the realm of Wavebreak, new from Spherewalker author Greg Stolze!

August 14, 1998

Surf over to http://www.webrpg.com/, Saturdays at 4:30 Pacific Time, to join in John Poole's online Everway campaign set in Trinity, three linked spheres. The online roleplaying software, WebRPG Online, is free to download. For more information, please email SercEdit@aol.com.

July 31, 1998

Now in Arcana, see a new school of magic for Everway, Wind and Water, by Michael Coffey.

July 26, 1998

Slightly overdue, Arcana is proud to present the third and final part of The Dream Entity by John "Seanchaí" Grose.
A very busy time at our Web Team's day job is coming to an end, so updates to Rubicon Games online will appear more frequently. Coming soon to Behind the Die: biographies of those who make up Rubicon.

July 19, 1998

Click on the Rubicon logo above to read about the secrets Behind The Die...

July 14, 1998

Part two of the Spherewalker Journal The Dream Entity by John "Seanchaí" Grose is now up in Arcana!

July 10, 1998

Visit Arcana now for part one of John "Seanchaí" Grose's Spherewalker Journal, The Dream Entity.

July 7, 1998

Coming this Friday, July 10 to Arcana: the first installment of The Dream Entity, a Spherewalker Journal by John "Seanchaí" Grose.

July 1, 1998

Rubicongames.com has been accepted as an Amazon.com associate! We're contructing our online bookstore now, but in the meantime, why not visit_Amazon.com for the best pricing and selection of books and music!

June 27, 1998

Paul King's hero Travels Far is now up in Arcana.

June 23, 1998

Please visit Arcana now to see Cold Water by Patrick Keleher. Paul King's hero Travels Far will appear later this week!

June 21, 1998

Coming to Arcana this Wednesday, June 24: Cold Water by Patrick Keleher, and Paul King's hero Travels Far, two of the winning entries from last year's Hero Creation Contest.

June 17, 1998

June 14, 1998

This week's Arcana installment is postponed until Wednesday due to Editor/Web Developer day job overtime. Sorry!

June 12, 1998

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May 24, 1998

Visit Arcana now to see Michael Coffey's myth How the Realms of Fivespirit Were Made.

May 18, 1998

Part one of Beyond Sky Stone, a Spherewalker Journal by Evan Sass, is the first installment of Arcana, available now! Coming next week: Michael Coffey's myth, How the Realms of Fivespirit Were Made.

May 15, 1998

More free support for Everway! Rubicon is proud to announce Arcana, a weekly feature for Everway and Spherewalker, available free exclusively here at rubicongames.com.

April 15, 1998

We have new Shipping and Handling Terms! Free shipping to anywhere in the world on orders over US$50!

March 14, 1998

Greg Stolze's Fortunate Ones, a unique school of magic for Everway, is now available for free, exclusively here at rubicongames.com! The magic of the Fortunate Ones is featured in Heart of Stone.

March 1, 1998

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January 31, 1998

Congratulations to John Burnham, our winner in the January drawing of the Realms of the Sun Everway Gems Contest.

January 15, 1998

We have a winner in our SHADIS Spherewalker Promocard Contest! Way to go, Chris Loh!

December 13, 1997

Realms of the Sun Book One, Bright Fires, postponed until December 27; both Book One and Book Two to be released simultaneously. Click here for a Realms of the Sun sneak preview.

December 5, 1997

Realms of the Sun Everway Gems Contest announced. Each purchase of Realms of the Sun Book One or Book Two will enter you in a contest to win every Everway Gem produced in 1998!
Click here for details!

November 30, 1997

Jesse McGatha and Richard Thames Rowan leave Rubicon to start Lamplighter Design Studio. Read the press release!

November 26, 1997

You asked for it, you got it! Let us know what you think about our faster, smarter home page--we're working on revising the whole site, and we'd love your feedback!

October 28, 1997

Look for SHADIS Magazine #42, on newsstands November 15, for the Everway quest "Feathered Serpent, Smoking Mirror" by Jesse McGatha and Evan Sass.

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October 13, 1997

Realms of the Sun Part One to be released December 13; Part Two to follow December 27.

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August 15, 1997

The Spherewalker Hero Creation Contest is closed and the entries are being considered. Results should be announced soon.

As some of you have noticed, Realms of the Sun was not released in time for GenCon. Work is continuing on this project and we are now planning a fall release for this. It will also be an electronic release. Details are still being worked out, but we will keep you informed.

Finally, there is a lot of work going on at Rubicon to improve these pages. We realize that some of the material here is out of date, and that material is not always added in a timely fashion. Please bear with us while we work on these issues. If you have any comments please mail Webmaster@rubicongames.com.

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GenCon is TSR's giant game convention held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 7th through 10th. For more information on attending GenCon, just link to http://www.tsrinc.com/gencon/GenCon97.html. The program book is set to appear there this month.

May 1, 1997

Origins is the Game Manufacturers Association's (GAMA) large game convention held in Columbus, Ohio, July 17th through 20th. For more information on attending Origins, just call Andon Unlimited at (206) 204-5815, or email them at andon@aol.com.

April 16, 1997

Now you won't have to save your color hero sheets for just the once-in-a-lifetime characters! Retailing for under $10, each set includes 24 blank hero sheets, 12 pregenerated characters, a map of the city of Everway, and the new quest. Ask your local retailer for yours today.

April 12, 1997

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As always, if you have any suggestions, please email us at: mailroom@rubicongames.com, or write to us at: PO Box 2931, Seattle, WA, 98111-2931. Our fax number is (206) 621-9461, and is available 24 hours a day.

April 11, 1997

As always, if you have any suggestions, please email us at: mailroom@rubicongames.com, or write to us at: PO Box 2931, Seattle, WA, 98111-2931.

April 10, 1997

We had a booth at the GAMA Trade Show in March, and received excellent responses from the retailers and distributors there. In fact:

Spherewalker Sourcebook has been nominated for an Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement of 1996!!!

To quote from the review in Shadis #33: "No fantasy RPG product in the last decade has had a fraction of the wit, splendor and imagination that Spherewalker Sourcebook contains. It is a richly detailed, highly original piece of fantasy that no gamer should be without."

So, what are you waiting for? Ask your retailer for your copy of Spherewalker Sourcebook! And while you are at it, get the cards, too!

February 19, 1997

Here's the scoop on this change: this isn't some kind of unfriendly takeover, or an abdication of responsibility, or anything bad at all. In fact, this is just what we needed -- Eric is excited about being president, and Jesse is excited about having more time to devote to designing and writing Everway material. Everyone wins!

February 18, 1997

This removes the pressure to save the full-color hero sheets from your Everway box set for only the "very coolest" characters. Now, you can get as many as you need! Order yours from your retailer today!

January 12, 1997

Greg Stolze did a remarkable job writing the book, and the companion Spherewalker Source Cards. We hope to have more of Greg's writing available on this Web-site soon (and in future printed products!)

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October 31st, 1996

Make sure to ask your retailers for Spherewalker Sourcebook. It is great for Everway, any other fantasy roleplaying game, or just to read straight through.

Our new Web site went "live" today! It is a vast improvement over our old one, and will continue to improve over time. The goal is to provide a place for everyone who loves Everway (and our other forthcoming games) to gather and share information. Please e-mail us at mail-room@rubicongames.com with any suggestions you may have for additional content or better interfaces. Just put Attention: Web designer in the subject line. Thanks Dr. Bob, for all the time and energy you have put into this site.

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Ads will be coming soon in The Familiar - watch for them.

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We are writing some "Web Quests" which will only be available on our Web site. Please let us know by e-mail at mailroom@rubicongames.com if you have something you would like us to publish on the Web.

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August 12th, 1996

Elfin Enterprises has agreed to represent Rubicon Games' products internationally. If anyone is having trouble getting Everway, the Companion Collector Cards, or the Spherewalker Source Cards outside the U.S. and Canada, please let your retailer know that Elfin has it. They can be reached at: (313) 995-4540, or WURFEL@AOL.COM.

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Our company address remains the same: PO Box 2931, Seattle, WA, 98111-2931.

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