Alter Ego Software

Alter Ego Software Headline News

March 23, 2005. Metacreator Revealed. Those who couldn't make it to the Metacreator Workshop may be interested in the customization tips I wrote up for the event. This document is focused on the SRD template, revealing some of the most common customization topics. Please pose any questions to the discussion group cw at yahoo.com.

March 19, 2005. Metacreator Workshop. In response to your requests, we will present the first Metacreator Workshop in March. The Source Comics and Games is hosting this event. Here are the details:

Where:	The Source, 1601 W. Larpenteur Ave., Falcon Heights, MN 55113
When:	4:00-6:30 PM, Saturday, March 19, 2005
What:	Drop in for demos and customization tips by the authors of Metacreator, Bruce and Peggy Kvam. Bring your own Metacreator programming projects!

February 26, 2005. We are introducing Metacreator at Unicorn Games in Oakdale, MN. Stop by from 2-4PM for demonstrations of the software. Unicorn Games is located at Bergen Plaza, 7105 10th St. N, Oakdale, MN 55128, www.unicorngames.com. (If you are interested in programming tips, save your questions for March 19th at the Source.)

February 24, 2005. New Metacreator Release
Metacreator, the Universal RPG Character Generator, now offers even more material for creating your role-playing game characters and monsters. The Metacreator v3.7.1 release is now available at www.alteregosoftware.com. It is also available at RPGNow and Steve Jackson Games' e23 webstores.

New with this release:

Savage Worlds Template - We added Tour of Darkness and Necessary Evil character creation data, NPCs and monsters. The template also supports the core rules of Savage Worlds as well as Evernight and 50 Fathoms.
3.5 System Reference Document Template - For the most popular tabletop role-playing game in the world, this template now includes the Expanded Psionics material, as well as Urban Arcana for your Modern characters. There are now over 1300 monsters, 60 races and 50 creature templates available, for fantasy, prestige, psionic, epic and modern character and encounter generation. The 3rd edition is also supported.
Masters of Arms: Metacreator Supplement - Based on the d20 sourcebook Masters of Arms by Steven Palmer Peterson of Second World Simulations, this offers 36 new combat prestige classes and hundreds of new combat feats. All of the material has been updated to the v3.5 rules. This $4.95 supplement requires Metacreator and the System Reference Document 3.5 Template, and is only available by download from Alter Ego Software or RPGNow.
Automatic Updater - All current owners of Metacreator software can now use the new automatic updater to update their installed software to v3.7.1. Updates are free, as usual!
All other templates updated - Call of Cthulhu, Ars Magica, Fudge and CORPS game system templates have been updated to Metacreator v3.7.1 compatibility.

February 5, 2005. We just posted a new beta release, 3.6.4 that adds Tour of Darkness to the Savage Worlds Template. Many thanks to The Loremaster, Tim Hannon, for doing the majority of the work on the Tour of Darkness datasheet! If you have any feedback, please let us know soon. We plan to make the production release in mid-February.

January 24, 2005. We've slipped our schedule a bit, and added much more material for Savage Worlds. I hope you're enjoying the beta release of Necessary Evil and the free Shark Bytes fanzine supplements for Savage Worlds. Our beta release for the Modern SRD Arcana material is also available now, as well as the new Expanded Psionics. Soon all of these will be issued as a new production release. So if you have any feedback tell us soon!

The Master of Arms d20 Supplement is ready to go for the production release. This will be priced at $5.00 as a download only, and requires the new release of the SRD 3.5 Game System Template.

Next up in our release schedule is Ars Magica, 5th Edition. We have Tour of Darkness for Savage Worlds in the works, too. The big project for 2005 is the Unisystem role playing game system by Eden Studios. We are pleased to now be licensed to support the following game systems: Terra Primate, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft and Armageddon. (License to support the cinematic Unisystem games is pending.)

September 23, 2004. Here's an update on what we're working on for our next, although still unscheduled, release:

Ars Magica, 5th Edition
System Reference Document update with Future, Modern Arcana, and expanded Psionics
Steve Peterson's Masters of Arms d20 Supplement from the Second World Simulations series
Savage Worlds Tour of Darkness

August 16, 2004. Metacreator has gone International! Alter Ego Software, Inc. is pleased to announce that Metacreator is now available at Leisure Games in London, England. Leisure Games is an international mail order supplier and retail store located in Finchley, North London, with website www.leisuregames.com.

August 12, 2004. Alter Ego Software has just released the Savage Worlds game system template for Metacreator. This is Shane Lace Hensley's highly acclaimed Fast, Furious and Fun! game system that blends individual characters and massive armies in great high-adventure settings. The template includes data from the Savage Worlds Core Book as well as the setting books 50 Fathoms and Evernight.

We have also just released additional Fudge-based games on the Fudge template: HeartQuest Revised by Seraphim Guard and Now Playing! by Carnivore Games. Additionally, there are some enhancements to the 3.5 Edition System Reference Document template, including improved support for multiclass character spellbooks. All game system templates were enhanced to allow text zoom on all print templates. All of the new releases are supported by Metacreator 3.6.0, available on our website. If you already own a previous version, you can download the updates for free.

August 12, 2004. Metacreator will be sold at Gen Con Indy from August 19-22 at booth #1627, which is near the autograph area. Look for the Atlas Games and Steve Jackson Games signs!

May 26, 2004. We are pleased to announce an agreement with Steven Palmer Peterson to produce datasheets for d20 System sourcebooks from Second World Simulations. This summer we will release datasheets for The Second World Sourcebook, Masters of Arms and Bodies and Souls:20 Templates. We are planning to make these available for a small charge by download only from Alter Ego Software's webstore and RPGNow. Metacreator and System Reference Document is required to use the datasheets.

April 16, 2004. Alter Ego Software is pleased to welcome Blackhawk Hobby Distributors to carry our Metacreator product line. Look for Metacreator in your neighborhood hobby store! If you don't see it, we would very much appreciate you passing the word to contact Blackhawk.