Wizards Of The Coast Releases Urban Arcana, The First Campaign Setting For The d20 MODERN Roleplaying Game

d20 Menace Manual To Further Expand the Game in September 2003

May 9, 2003 (RENTON, Wash.) — Wizards of the Coast, leading game developer and subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., today announced the release of Urban Arcana^TM, the first campaign setting for players of the d20 Modern^TMRoleplaying Game. In some stores as early as today, Urban Arcana is Wizards of the Coast’s follow-up to last year’s unveiling of the innovative d20 Modern^TMRoleplaying Game core rulebook, which is a tome of play rules for all modern roleplaying game (RPG) settings.

Urban Arcana expands the magic system of the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game and features new magic items for the modern world, providing players with more material such as new races, advanced classes, occupations, feats, creatures, and rules for organizations and secret societies. Containing both short adventures and adventure hooks, Urban Arcana presents a fully detailed city for adventuring, including maps.

Urban Arcana will be followed up by the September 2003 release of the d20^TMMenace Manual, which will be an extensive player’s guide to monsters, villains, and other adversaries for the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game.

d20 Modern provides game players with present day settings for their roleplaying games, and it supplies the structure for other game companies creating games in all modern settings, worlds, and themes: war, espionage, cyberpunk, horror, vampire, mutants, etc. d20 Modern players use contemporary and near-future arms and equipment while still playing with a familiar rules system.

d20 Modern and Urban Arcana use the d20 System^TM of roleplaying game rules, the same rules system used in both the Dungeons & Dragons® and Star Wars® RPGs, and contains everything needed to run an entire campaign, including four campaign models and adventure hooks to add to existing campaigns.

For more information about Urban Arcana and the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game, as well as other Wizards of the Coast® products, visit www.wizards.com.

Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS), is the worldwide market share leader in the trading card game and tabletop roleplaying game categories. A leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products, the company holds an exclusive patent on the method of playing trading card games (TCGs) and produces the world’s best-selling Pokémon® and Magic: The Gathering® TCGs. Publisher of adventure games, family card and board games and electronic media products, Wizards of the Coast is also one of the world’s premiere book publishers of fantasy series fiction. For more information, visit the Wizards of the Coast website at wizards.com.

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