Deep Space Rescue, the newest QAGS adventure, is on sale now for only $3.99!

Over 300 years in the future, humanity is spread across a hundred star systems. The Conclave Expeditionary Force keeps the peace. You work for the CEF's Deep Space Rescue division, answering cries for help, investigating abandoned hulks, saving survivors from catastrophes. Now you're responding to a distress signal from the scout ship Zheng He. It seems like a simple enough job, but before it's over you'll encounter aliens, space pirates, and plasma cannons. In fact, there's a good chance you won't make it back alive.

Space! It's big, it's black, it's chock full of planets, and rocket ships go "ZOOM!" in it. Space is also the setting for QAGS Rocket Jocks, the newest PDF release from Hex Games. Rocket Jocks is on sale now for only $4.99!

In late August Hex Games is going to release The Dungeon of Moderate Annoyance as an original PDF. Unlike the Qerth or Sindbad PDFs, this adventure will be completely new material, available only in electronic form.

Now, for only six dollars, you can enter the world of Arabian myth and legend. That's right, the latest Hex Games sourcebook The Adventures of Sindbad is available in PDF form! In just a few seconds you can download the book in its entirety.

Hex Games' flagship products, QAGS Second Edition and Qerth: Apprentice Level Rules, are now available in electronic form. With just a few mouse clicks, you can purchase and download these books in their entirety. They're on sale now at leading online game distributors Paizo.com and Yourgamesnow.com.

By Leighton Connor

Recently we've been posting a lot about Qerth: Apprentice Level Rules. And why not? It's our biggest book in years. I'd like to leave aside the press releases for a moment, though, and tell you about my personal experience with Qerth.

In any production the size of M-Force errors are bound to creep in. While we strive to prevent this, sometimes they make it past us. Here are all of the errors in the text we are aware of.

Throughout his career Dale French--artist, game designer, shaman, poet, and revolutionary--has been notoriously elusive. Hundreds of people across the country who know Dale describe him as friendly and outgoing, but Dale makes few public appearances and never gives interviews. You can imagine the mixture of excitement and dread we felt when Dale consented to this interview. Would he show up? What would he be like? Is it true that he used to be part of a trio of Enochian mages who averted the apocalypse in 1994? Is it true that he made hundreds of thousands of dollars helping design the World of Warcraft, then spent it all in one day? Is it true that he hates cheese?

By Cecil P. Leibman

Everyone's heard the stories about the elusive third founder of Hex Games, Dale French. Some say he went to South America to become a revolutionary; others say he went insane and had to be committed; and still others say he's been roaming the globe looking for clues to his secret past. Despite all the discrepancies, everyone agrees that Dale left Hex Games back in 1999. Conventional wisdom tells us that any material attributed to Dale after '99 was either ghost-written or a recycled older piece. After all these years no one really knows what happened to Dale, but one thing is certain--Dale French has, at long last, returned.

Observant fans first noticed Dale's return as a Hex artist on QAGS Second Edition. How did Art Director Leighton Connor lure him out of retirement to contribute the QAGS illustrations? Leighton said, "First of all, Dale had a soft spot in his heart for QAGS, since he helped create the original. Secondly, I offered him the cover, and told him he would have more art in it than anyone else. I appealed to his ego, basically, told him we couldn't do it without him. He seemed to buy that. And I'm glad he fell for it--I think Q2E is our best looking book, and that's largely due to Dale's hard work."

By Sam Tesseract

I was lucky enough to ge a hold of an advance PDF of QAGS 2nd Edition (thanks, Hex guys!) and was staggered by the sheer number of references in the book. Anyway, I decided that some of them might slip by the average reader, so I decided to do annotations of the book. I haven't gotten around to doing the appendices yet, but here is (I hope) a complete list of references in the main body of Q2E, along with information about each of the things referred to. Enjoy, and let me know in the forums if I missed anything (or if you have information on any of the stuff I couldn't find).

Introduction

• Elvis Presley, who may have abducted Dale French, was a popular rock and roll performer whose career started in the 1950s and continued until his (alleged) death in 1977.
• The "$" in Steve Johnson's name could be a reference to Mark Rein "cool dot" Hagen, creator of Vampire: The Masquerade.