I just read Kenneth Hite’s last Pyramid column (about Red Riding Hood), and he quotes a book called the Testament of Nicholas Flamel (the page is part of an Alchemy portal which should be worth looking into some day). Apparently, Nicholas Flamel was a big name in the Alchemy business long before he made his cameo appearance in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone…
Syndicate is a Cyberpunk roleplaying game made by a Finnish company called Burger Games. Burger Games also made a post-apocalyptic game called Taiga, which seems to have some devouted fans, but are now concentrating on a fantasy game in Finnish, based on a popular Finnish comic, having given up their ambitions of taking the international world of gaming by storm. Syndicate is currently available free on the net, with at least two alternate rule systems (both quite similar, fairly complete, and sharing a simple, clean-looking design). The game reminds me a bit of Phil Elliot’s Zaibatsu.
There’s a page here listing some Syndicate campaigns the designer ran (the campaign pages, saddly, are all in Finnish), most notable because at least one has the PCs fighting with Nokia agents…
From Captain Cursor’s D&D links, I rediscovered Langmaker.com, a “portal” for Model Languages. It also includes a language-generating program for building your own languages using real linguistic transformation rules.
Captain Cursor rediscovers a long-lost aspect of his “inner geek” and starts a D&D campaign! However, another aspect of this inner geek drives him to think about Content Management Systems… reminds me of when I tried to write a Javascript meta-character-generator.
Anyway, he took time to share his links.