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Fifth Time’s a Charm! Will the New Edition of D&D Bring Back What We Lost?

Posted on January 17, 2012 | 10 Comments
It’s not a rumor any more. It’s a real life, honest to goodness fact – Wizard of the Coast is planning Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Doubtless filled with the...
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The Mechanical Turk, or All’s Well That Ends, by Tucker Cummings

Posted on January 13, 2012 | 2 Comments
For most citizens of the Anglo-Ottoman Empire, Unification Day had been a triumph; a cause for celebration late into the night. Photographers lined the streets of Constantinople, selling tintypes and...
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Interview with Angel Leigh McCoy, Stories in the Ether Author & Guild Wars 2 Designer

Posted on January 12, 2012 | 33 Comments
Angel Leigh McCoy loves writing. Her fiction has appeared in numerous print and digital media, and in 2011 alone she published stories in the anthologies Beast Within 2, Fear of the Dark, Growing...
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Join Us

Posted on January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
Nevermet Press needs your help. Between editing and producing our content, tweaking the website, and promoting and marketing our site and published projects, and sorting through all the submissions to...
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Fantastic Locations: Agharta & The Hollow Earth

Posted on January 10, 2012 | 6 Comments
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by K.J. Davies blog and the topic is “Fantastic Locations”. There have already been a good number of solid contributions from all...
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2011 – Fans, Visitors, and Sales

Posted on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
Like a few other small press publishers (see links below), I like to make public our annual subscriber numbers, sales figures and site traffic so that our fans and other...
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The Gorgon’s Love, by Martin Shelby

Posted on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
She sat curled and despondent, looking into the still waters of the reflecting pool. It was not much company, but over her long years of solitude she had grown...
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Allow your Players to be Awesome

Posted on January 3, 2012 | 7 Comments
The game master brings the plot and the settings, and the players bring the action heroes. The goal of everyone, both players and the GM, is to create something Awesome.
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Looking Ahead Into 2012

Posted on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment
On Friday I wrote about the ups and downs of Nevermet Press in 2011 – now it’s time to look ahead into the new year that is upon us. What...
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2011 Year in Review

Posted on December 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
Well, 2012 is just around the corner folks. Today, I’d like to take the opportunity to review where we’ve been and what we’ve learned in 2011. It’s been an interesting...
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Budapest Will Burn, by Jonathan D. Beer

Posted on December 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
Budapest was on the edge of ruin. To the soldiers that encircled it, the city seemed to be aflame. Dark smoke hung in thick palls, obscuring the churned soil...
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“Charlie Darwin, or the Trine of 1809″ Now on Kindle

Posted on December 29, 2011 | No Comments
Come—your fairy princess awaits you...
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Steampunk: I Want To Be Convinced…

Posted on December 29, 2011 | 14 Comments
I am not all that much of a fan of steampunk—but, I wanted to get educated on the topic. I thought, “Maybe the reason I do not like steampunk all that...
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Ouroboros University: An Introduction

Posted on December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
The fey city Ydalir is home to the oldest known university and the madrasah of the City of Brass educates creatures from across the planes who can survive voyage to...
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The Heroes of 4E

Posted on December 26, 2011 | 3 Comments
When it comes to heroes, I can’t help but think of the heroes that braved the waters of 4E D&D when it was first released. None of us knew how...
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The Krampus Christmas Carnival Round-Up

Posted on December 25, 2011 | 6 Comments
First off — MERRY CHRISTMAS! The Krampus Christmas Carnival is finally over – so let’s have another look at Steven Austin’s kick ass artwork, shall we? It’s been a crazy...
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Top 5 Krampus Sites on the Internet

Posted on December 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
In November I reached out to the RPG blogging community (here and here), as well as a some excellent publishers and steampunk bloggers, about contributing to this week’s Krampus Christmas...
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A New Beginning, by Colin W. Campbell

Posted on December 23, 2011 | No Comments
“Was it really so wrong when some good-old-guys made their own moonshine whiskey? Or when rich folks paid to be space tourists? Or when they started mining the asteroids and...
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We Dinna Practice Christmas Here, by Dave D’Alessio

Posted on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
Colonel Sassenach looked like quite the dandy in his brown uniform. “We dinna practice Christmas here,” I told him, “It hae been banned by law since the days of...
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The Hope Day Massacre [4E D&D]

Posted on December 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
Often times in RPGs an opportunity is missed to spice up the game with celebrations and holidays for the PCs that coincide in time with real-world holidays. I am guilty...
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Musings on Krampus, Anti-Heros, and Adventure

Posted on December 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
This week is the Krampus Christmas Carnival. This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is “Heroes—Living & Dead“. And there’s the crossover. Krampus could be considered the perfect antihero. He (it?)...
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Merry Krampus! Let the Carnival Begin!

Posted on December 19, 2011 | 33 Comments
You’re Invited to the Krampus Christmas Carnival! Greetings fellow gamers, writers, fiction enthusiasts, bloggers and publishers! Each year during the holidays Nevermet Press features artwork focused on Krampus, a troll-like...
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The Chase, by J.A. Gonzales

Posted on December 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
Edgar Ratcliff came skidding to a halt at the base of the hill frantically struggling to catch his breath. He had never gotten joy from such exertions; however the...
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Oroborus University: Inn without End [4E D&D]

Posted on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments
Something is wrong at the Hodgeson Street Inn. The Hodgeson Street Inn is owned and operated by Oroborus University, with David Hilbert serving as manager, and provides fair accommodations –...
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Krampus is Coming Back… in a Carnival!

Posted on December 14, 2011 | 14 Comments
The Krampus Christmas Carnival Has Begun!Click Here For Details + Artwork! For the last few years two artists (Matthew Meyer and Rob Torno) who work with Nevermet Press have produced...
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Big Heart, by David J. Fielding

Posted on December 9, 2011 | No Comments
“This wasn’t part of our arrangement.” There was a brief pause. She watched as he filtered through the holos of his dailies; which had come in, which were late and...
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Sky Admiral Jules Verne vs. Mark Twainbot – A Match of Titans!

Posted on December 7, 2011 | 3 Comments
SteampunkKindle.com is running a contest: Mark Twain vs. Jules Verne Boxing Match. Vote for who would win, and why – and get a free copy of Stories in the Ether...
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The Stars at Night, by JC Hemphill

Posted on December 2, 2011 | No Comments
“No. All I’m saying is, you don’t gotta hover over me like a baby,” Justin said to his sister, Olivia. Sitting in the cab of her hand-me-down pickup at the...
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#SteampunkGear on Twitter – The Next Steps

Posted on November 29, 2011 | No Comments
It’s been a few weeks since I started tweeting the names of fictional steampunk gear – everything from weapons, goggles, and cameras to flying gyrocopters and armored personel carriers. Everything...
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The Patience of Virtue, by Dave D’Alessio

Posted on November 25, 2011 | 1 Comment
The stench hung over the glen like soiled swaddling on a wee bairn. I didn’t need Burd Mary to tell me, “Ach, old FitzWilliam’s been singeing sheep agin, Constable,”...
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