ICE News

Howdy folks!

We have a winner for the The ICE temple contest. We only received 4 entries, but each map is stunningly executed in loving detail making it difficult to choose between them.

We hereby award the grand prize of a $75 to Michael K. Turney for his fantastic Sargoseum map.

Our runner ups Scott Weyers, Craig John, and Jonathon Roberts will each receive a $35 gift certificate.

I would like to thank to thank them for taking the time and trouble to create these beautiful, detailed maps, which should inspire many fun adventures. Just looking at these maps makes me want to get a group together and play. I must confess to some relief that maps like this weren’t available when I was gaming in college. If they had been, my GPA would have been considerably lower.

Winner List

The maps may be downloaded from the ICE Website Hall of Fame (see below).

Crypt Contest

The new destination for the map contest is crypts. The more macabre the better. So please don’t neglect those little decorative touches that would make Dracula and his minions feel welcome.

All entries are due by May 15, Don’t forget to read the general submission guidelines http://www.ironcrown.com/index.php?page=contests/general

• Submission Format: Like all submissions, the submission must be a PDF file. The actual maps for this contest need to use the same scale as our Battlemaps; 1 inch equals 3 feet (or 1 meter). This will likely mean that larger maps will require multiple pages in the PDF. Each page of the PDF should have a 1 inch margin all the way around, at the very least, to allow for the vagaries of different printers.
• Contest Winners: Within 2 weeks of the Submission Deadline, ICE will select from 3 to 5 winners. Each winner will receive a $25 – $75 Gift Certificate for ICE’s Online Store.

Announcing the ICE Hall of Fame

Since our contest entries have been so stunning, we have decided to create a Hall of Fame on our website to honor them. Please welcome Michael K. Tumey, Scott Weyers, Craig John, and Jonathon Roberts to our Hall of Fame.

http://www.ironcrown.com/index.php?page=contests/hall

The Stone of Seven Souls

The Stone of Seven Souls a short ready to run adventure should be ready in a few days. The adventure can be easily adapted into most campaign settings, and is a great starter adventure.

The Stone of Seven Souls is a RMC adventure for a group of 4-6 first to third level adventurers. The PCs set out to find out what happened to a missing archeological team and learn as much as they can about an ancient artifact supposed to be buried under the church. This one jumped in front of the HARP adventure called The Wedding at Axbridge, but that one should be out shortly as well.

Operation Dry Dock II

ODDII is up for sale today as a PDF. The physical book will be started in about 10 days and will release in April. This has something for everyone with a nice selection of interesting ships from various houses including some long awaited designs for the Datasphere.

http://shop.ironcrown.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_47&products_id=885

Our next Silent Death project is a round of corrections on the ship sheets in Hangar 51. We will go through 3-4 rounds of corrections as there are a lot of them. People who ordered Hangar 51 off the new cart can download new versions automatically by accessing their account. People who ordered it from the old cart or from a re-seller need to contact us and we can make it accessible if they have an account on the new cart. After we have it banged into shape we will go to a physical book for Hangar 51 as well. All new ships from 2009 and prior that are not in the current version will be added in early 2010 and a new PDF and physical version will come available. The PDF will be free to previous purchaser’s but the physical book will have to be bought again.

We have a few other projects back in the works for Silent Death as well, but will save those for future emails.

Oone Games

Customer’s suggested we add the bundles from the Oone Games site and since they make buying the maps easier and we have done so.

You can find the sixteen bundles at: http://shop.ironcrown.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=129_143

Best
Heike at ICE