It’s been a bit of a quiet post-convention week here at Atomic Overmind Press. The Origins Game Fair went really well; The Day After Ragnarok made its print debut, we saw a lot of good friends, and we even walked away with an Origins Award! (So did a lot of other friends…click here to see the list of all the distinguished winners this year.) All in all, a great show. Special thanks go out to Darren, Steve and Jason at Hero Games and Jim at  Studio 2 Publishing for stocking The Day After Ragnarok in their booths. Also, Jerry Corrick at Adventures Retail for stocking Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales!

The July 4th Weekend is coming up here in the United States, and we’ll be spending part of it getting together all of the mail orders for The Day After Ragnarok. We expect to get them all shipped out Monday or Tuesday, so those of you who have been good enough to plunk down your cash will be seeing it soon.

Next week we’ll have some neat annoucements about upcoming projects, as well as a few new selling partners, so enjoy the holiday (if you are in America), and have a great weekend wherever you are!

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Atomic Overmind Press is proud to announce that Kenneth Hite’s Tour de Lovecraft: the Tales has won the Origins Award for best Non-Fiction product! We’d like to thank GAMA, the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design, and the attendees of the Origins Game Fair. Ken Hite and the rest of the Atomic Overmind Press family are proud to receive the coveted Calliope.

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Atomic Overmind Press has hit the road and is taking it’s (still very small) show on the road, this week to the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH! We hope you’ll join us at the Columbus Convention Center for four solid days of RPG, board, miniatures and card gaming fun!

The Day After Ragnarok is In Print!

The Day After Ragnarok is finally in print, and it looks terrific! We received copies directly from our printer in Illinois (Thanks, United Graphics), and the book is on sale in the Exhibit Hall at Origins, specifically the Hero Games booth. Darren Watts and Steve Long have been kind enough to let us camp out with them, so swing on by a pick up the book!

If you were one of those who pre-ordered The Day After Ragnarok and elected to pick it up at the show, all you need to do is stop by the Hero Games booth and show them some ID. They’ll find your name on our pre-order list, and you’ll walk away with your brand new book!

Those who elected to have their book delivered via mail should expect those to go out the week after Origins. Additionally, the book (and the PDF) will be available at Indie Press Revolution after Origins.

Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales

As we’ve announced before, Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales has been nominated for an Origins Award! If you are attending the Origins Game Fair, that means YOU get to vote! We hope you’ll consider Ken Hite’s informative and entertaining romp through the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft for your vote!

The book is available for sale at the Origins Game Fair at both the Hero Games booth, and the Adventure Retail Cthulhu Corner.

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For two weeks, the fine folks over at Ideology of Madness have been pimping the virtues of The Day After Ragnarok. In fact, they’ve been so turned onto the book that they helped Ken and Atomic Overmind give away both a PDF and print copy of the setting!

Contestants wrote characters for the setting based on the Foreshadowing Ragnarok articles here on Atomic Overmind’s site. The contest deadline was this past Saturday. Since then, Ken’s been reviewing the entries…and the time has come to announce the winners! First of all, our Honorable Mentions, winners of a PDF of The Day After Ragnarok:

• Josef Kaplan, Dauntless Commie Kabbalist Nazi-Hunter by Gustavo Iglesias…
• Walter Callaway, Big Game Hunter Slightly Too Pleased With The State of Things by Nick Liber
• Bret ‘Wyrmtongue’ Smith, Voice of the Roc by Bunj
• Agent Smith, Under Orders From Hoover’s Ghost by Drew

Head on over to Ideology of Madness to read the full versions of the very cool ideas these guys came up with.

And now, by Ken’s judgement, the coolest character idea, and the winner of a PDF and print version of The Day After Ragnarok is….

Kanakuni Joe, The New Big Kahuna by Josh Thomson

Kanakanui Joe performed weddings and held luaus for tourists on Maui, before Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. He weighed at least 400 pounds when he showed up at the US Navy recruitment office two weeks later, but the Navy took him anyway. The big man had a gift for navigation and an uncanny knack for guessing the locations of enemy ships. So lucky did he seem, that his fellow crew members would often rub his bald head before a battle in the hopes that some of his luck would rub off on them.

Upon completing his service in 1946, he returned to Maui, which now had more refugees than tourists. Still, even refugees need to get married and have a good time once in a while, so he resumed his business. Life returned to as normal as it was likely to get for Joe, until one late-October luau when he called out his traditional greetings and thanks to the god of the sea and the goddess of the volcano, and they answered back. The island rumbled and the sea threw large waves. He called again, louder, and again the ground rumbled more and the sea churned higher. Joe drew the breath into his huge lungs for a third call, and his guests and employees, who until now where standing stock-still and saucer-eyed, turned and ran from the beach screaming. Kanakanui Joe spent his third breath not on worship but on roaring laughter. On a now-empty beach he laughed until he could neither stand nor breathe.

The next morning, he visited the Navy recruitment office that had accepted him nearly five years ago. He knew from what he’d heard on the radio news-news that grew stranger and more unnatural by the day-that the Navy still needed him. And now Kanakanui Joe had something new to offer them.

Thanks to everybody who participated, and congratulations to all the winners! Your PDFs will be on the way soon.

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We’re pleased to announce that the print version of The Day After Ragnarok is at the printers, and will be available for sale at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH, next week! Immediately after the show, it’ll also be available for purchase through the Atomic Overmind Press website, and through Indie Press Revolution as well. Those who have pre-ordered the book, can pick their copy up at the show. Atomic Overmind Press doesn’t have a booth at Origins Game Fair (this year), but Atomic Overmind El Hefe Hal Mangold, and the creator of The Day After Ragnarok, Kenneth Hite, will be attending. We’re exploring a few options as to where the book will be available, and should have some arrangements hashed out next week. Watch the website for more information.

Reviews for Ragnarok!

Reviews for The Day After Ragnarok have been coming in, and we’re VERY pleased by the overwhelmingly positive response! Check out the following links for the Internet’s opinion on DAR!

• Claw Claw Peck
• The Savage Blogger
• Kaiser Crowbar’s Ablogcalypse
• RPGNow.com

A Bigger, Better Map

Since we went with a 6″ x 9″ size for The Day After Ragnarok, the map in the book isn’t nearly as big as we’d like. To try and remedy that, we’re posting this 11″ x 17″ version, suitable for printing out. Click the map image below to download this big version of the map of The Day After Ragnarok in PDF form!

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We’re proud to announce that a limited amount of dead-tree versions of the M&M Superlink and HERO system versions of Adventures Into Darkness are available over at Indie Press Revolution. Quantities are limited, so be sure to grab one if you can. It should be noted that these print copies are black and white, not color.

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Aron Head over at the very fine blog The Ideology of Madness has taken a bit of a shine to The Day After Ragnarok, and has interviewed Kenneth Hite about the history and development of the setting. We like the cut of Aron’s jib, so we’re putting up the prize for the contest he’s running over there:

“We here at Ideology of Madness are thrilled to assist Atomic Overmind Press in giving away both a PDF and print edition of Ken Hite’s amazing The Day After Ragnarok to one lucky winner! To win your own copy of this incredible Savage Worlds setting, all you have to do is Tell Us About Your Character! Describe your character (no stats required) for the post-apocalyptic world of The Day After Ragnarok, based on the previews at the Atomic Overmind site. Ken Hite will review all entries and pick his favorite to award the prize. Post your Day After Ragnarok character concept in the comments section! One entry per person, please. Contest ends June 20, 2009 at 5:00 pm Central time.”

So head on over to The Ideology of Madness, read the interview, and tell them about your character!

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Usually being number two isn’t something to get all hyped about, but when it’s the sales list at DrivethruRPG.com, and the product in the #1 spot is the latest Exalted release, we’ll take it! As of the time of this writing The Day After Ragnarok is the is #2 on the Hottest Items list, and it’s topping the Small Press list. Needless to say, we are extremely pleased!

In other The Day After Ragnarok news, we’re hoping that everyone got their updated PDFs. Anyone experiencing problems with either their downloads or the file itself should be sure to contact The Overmind at theovermind[at]atomicovermind.com to get the issue resolved. We’ll be posting a listing of changed pages a little later today, for those of you who have printed out the file and don’t want to go through a bunch more printer in doing it again.

Pre-orders for the print book are going well, and the book itself is now off at the printers, and is fully on track for a release at the Origins Game Fair at the end of this month. Remember, if you pre-order your book, you can save yourself the shipping costs and pick it up at either Origins, or at GenCon in August. If you are interested in pre-order the print version of The Day After Ragnarok, head on over to the Atomic Overmind Press webstore.

Later this week, we’ll also be posting a one-piece printable version of the map of the world of The Day After Ragnarok. Makes sure to check back!

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Even we were a bit surprised at the reception that The Day After Ragnarok has gotten. Thanks to everyone who has purchased the PDF, or pre-ordered the printed book…or both! Both are available in the Atomic Overmind Press webstore..and now over at DrivethruRPG.com!

Gremlins!

As is almost always the case, a few errors managed to sneak through our proofreading net in the final stages of production of The Day After Ragnarok. We have corralled quite a few of the pesky critters, and a new PDF is available for purchasers at the same download link that you were originally emailed. If you have any problem re-downloading your PDF, just drop a line to theovermind[AT]atomicovermind.com and we’ll get that sorted out for you.

A Bigger Sheet for Larger-Than-Life Heroes

While The Day After Ragnarok does contain a perfectly usable character sheet, we took a little time and upsized the thing from the 6″ x 9″ size of the book to a full 8.5″ x 11″. The PDF of it is downloadable here. We’re toying with the idea of doing an expanded character sheet, so keep an eye out.

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You read that right…it’s finally done. The Day After Ragnarok is HERE! The PDF is now on sale in the Atomic Overmind webstore, and you can also pre-order the print version, either for direct shipping to your house, or for pickup at either the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH, or at GenCon in Indianapolis. Here are details on pricing:

• The PDF is priced at $12.95.
• The print version of the book will be a 128 page 6″ x 9″ perfect-bound book, priced at $19.95.
• You can order both together for $29.95, and either have have the book shipped to you, or save the shipping cost and pick it up at Origins or Gencon.

And finally, just to whet your appetite a little further, here’s a preview of the Credits, Table of Contents, and the Introduction.

Spread the word far and wide…Ragnarok is finally at hand!

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