Now Pre-Ordering: Dragon’s Hoard

You can now pre-order Dragon’s Hoard, an epic adventure for A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying (the Game of Thrones RPG)! When you pre-order the hardback book in our Green Ronin Online Store, you’ll be offered the PDF for just $5 at checkout! If you pre-order through your local retailer, make sure they know about our Pre-Order Plus program.

Dragon's Hoard

Dragon’s Hoard

Dragon’s Hoard
A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying Adventure
Authors: Lee Hammock, Scott Holden, Ian Ireland, Lauren Roy, and Neall Raemonn Price
Cover Artist: Slawomir Maniak
Formats: 180 pages, full color hardback / PDF

Even years after the fall of House Targaryen, their legacy is not forgotten. When a band of ruffians bound for the Wall seek shelter for the night, one of them reveals a secret that sparks a quest across Westeros and even the Narrow Sea to Braavos, seeking the clues to reveal the location of untold riches: part of the Targaryen treasury, spirited away in the final days of Robert’s Rebellion! But our heroes are not the only ones seeking the lost dragon’s hoard, and their rivals will stop at nothing to beat them to it and claim it for themselves. In the end will it be riches…or ruin? Dragon’s Hoard is an epic adventure for A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying able to fuel your chronicle for months of game play.

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Ronin Round Table: Blue Rose Development

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Welcome! No, we haven’t accidentally reposted a previous Ronin Roundtable. This week we return to the development of the new edition of Blue Rose Romantic Fantasy Roleplaying for the AGE (Adventure Game Engine) System rules, following our successful Kickstarter for the game.

Blue Rose is through editing and now in production and layout, with Production Manager Hal Mangold hard at work both on laying out the book and assigning art to various artists to bring new visions of the world of Aldea to life. You can see a small sample of Hal’s design magic in the updated logo to grace the game’s cover above the fantastic new painting by artist Stephanie Pui-Min Law.

In addition to art, we’re working with cartographer Phillip Lienau, who provided the maps for the first edition of Blue Rose (as well as the comprehensive map of Freedom City for Mutants & Masterminds) to update his work for the new edition, particularly for the two-sided poster map for inclusion in the book. We’re eager to be able to present Phillip’s work in full color this time.

In terms of production, the new edition of Blue Rose is going to be sizeable: easily 300 pages (at Green Ronin, we like big books and we cannot lie), not quite as massive as the complete Dragon Age Core Rulebook, but easily the size of the Game of Thrones edition of A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying as a beautiful full-color hardcover book.

Meanwhile, in addition to working with Hal on copyfitting and layout matters, I am working on the collection of pre-generated Blue Rose heroes for the Narrator’s Screen booklet, offering a representative cross-section of novice characters, complete with backgrounds and customization options, usable for quick-start play and great for demo adventures and convention games to introduce new players to Blue Rose and the AGE System

Speaking of adventures, I’m also developing the first drafts of a number of short Blue Rose adventures by an exciting collection of authors, including Jaym Gates, Elsa S. Henry, Steven Jones, Kira Magrann, Alejandro Melchor, and Rebecca Wise. We intend to release these adventures as short, stand-alone PDF products and to collect them into a print edition to provide Blue Rose Narrators and players with a wealth of opportunities to tell stories in the world of Aldea.

As you can see, that’s a lot of Blue Rose in the works! We’ll keep you updated as things progress, perhaps with some additional previews and looks “behind the curtain” as the book finishes production and gets ready for pre-order and PDF release. Naturally, our Kickstarter backers will have the first look at anything new that comes along, but we’re looking forward to making the new edition of Blue Rose available to everyone!

Green Ronin Gamer Badges!

Green Ronin Gamer Badge

Green Ronin Gamer Badge

We are big fans of unlocking achievements here at Green Ronin, so naturally when our pals at JBM Press launched their Kickstarter campaign for Gamer Badges, we were excited! Now, we are part of the fun, too, with Green Ronin Gamer Badges! There are only a few days left in their campaign, so now’s the time to check it out and back!

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Syrinscape SoundSets for Mutants & Masterminds

Today we are pleased to announce, in conjunction with Syrinscape, two custom superhero SoundSets for Mutants & Masterminds, Space Fight and Freedom City 2525. These SoundSets feature music and sound effects tailored to Mutants & Masterminds play.

With the whoosh of passing hover cards, the whine of passing emergency vehicle sirens, the beeps and buzzes of droids, and so much more, the Freedom City 2525 SoundSet from Syrinscape brings everything needed for players to immerse themselves in this high-tech utopian metropolis.

The Space Flight SoundSet features everything needed for epic superhero space battles, including laser guns, freeze rays, humming electro force fields, whooshes, and whizzes and a soundtrack befitting the best pulp movie.

Read the press release for more details, or just head straight to http://syrinscape.com/!

 

Syrinscape SoundSet: Space Fight

Syrinscape SoundSet: Space Fight

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Two New M&M PDFs: Antarctica and Apocalypsette

Today we present two new Mutants & Masterminds PDFs, one from our Atlas of Earth-Prime series, and the other from our Rogues Gallery series.

Atlas of Earth-Prime: Antarctica (PDF)

Atlas of Earth-Prime: Antarctica (PDF)

Atlas of Earth-Prime: Antarctica

One of the final frontiers on Earth, the continent of Antarctica is a frozen no-man’s man, not claimed by any one nation, but under international management and protection, safeguarded against exploitation, and reserved for scientific research and natural development. Still, the eons of Antarctic ice conceal many mysteries and dangers, from ancient alien artifacts to the lost members of the Ice People and the secret headquarters of the world’s most sinister organization. Antarctica is the final installment in this PDF series.

Visit Antarctica today, just $2.95!

 

 

Rogues Gallery: Apocalypsette (PDF)

Rogues Gallery: Apocalypsette (PDF)

Rogues Gallery: Apocalypsette

Michiko had a passion for extreme metal and serious talent as a player, but she was a rich girl, so no one took her seriously. Then she bought an old guitar previously owned by a 1960s rockstar who played early heavy metal. When the guitar arrived, so did a mysterious stranger who offered her the same bargain the previous owner had taken before dying; she took the deal. Now with her dark side unleashed, she can call forth demons, use dark, destructive magic, and shred with the best of them!

Get Apocalypsette for just $1.95!

 

 

Fantasy AGE Encounters: Menace from the Mines

Fantasy AGE Encounters: Menace from the Mines (PDF)

Fantasy AGE Encounters: Menace from the Mines (PDF)

Today we present the second installment of Fantasy AGE Encounters, our monthly series of PDFs for the Fantasy AGE RPG. Fantasy AGE Encounters are short “side quests” that can be used as-is or expanded into longer adventures.

Menace from the Mines: Traveling through a mountainous region, our heroes seek shelter from a storm in a seemingly-abandoned mining town. But something stirs beneath the earth, and it’s all they can do to survive!

Menace from the Mines is appropriate for Fantasy AGE heroes of levels 5-8.

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If you like adventuring using the Fantasy AGE RPG rules, make sure to check out Fantasy AGE Encounters: Children’s Crusade and Titansgrave: The Hermit’s Road.

Ronin Round Table: Share Your Enthusiasm

One of the best things about working in a creative field is getting to see how others interact with the thing you’ve put out there. When I first started working in the game industry we often didn’t know how things were being received in the wider world unless a letter came by postal mail from a fan or someone came up at a convention to tell you about their character. Simply having access to email and message boards expanded that contact beyond what we could have thought possible in those early years and today, well, today we have all of the above plus Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube, not to mention the explosion of convention culture and the ability to get together with people who share your interests however specialized or obscure they may be.

Gaming in particular ties into so many other creative pursuits! I was thinking about this earlier in the year while on the light rail to Emerald City Comic Con when I spotted someone carrying a prop that I instantly recognized: Bianca, the named weapon of Varric Tethras from Dragon Age. The prop-crafter stopped and talked with me about how it had been put together while I gushed my admiration for the end result. Bianca was later reunited with the Varric cosplayer they were meeting at the con and they were kind enough to send me some photos of the result afterward.

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Vivienne and Varric Cosplay Emerald City Comic Con 2016

 

Cosplay is a beautiful (and very visible) way fans express their enthusiasm for creative works that inspire them. Sometimes that enthusiasm confines itself much more directly to the game table. We were recently contacted by Freeport fan Russell Liley who wanted to share something he’d put together for his game group. Throughout the history of Green Ronin’s Freeport releases, the city’s paper The Shipping News has served as a way to dish out plot hooks, character tidbits, and flavor text to entertain and inspire readers. Russell went a step further and put together a PDF that could be printed up and actually handed out to his group. We were absolutely tickled to see it! He has kindly given us permission to share it at this link on the Green Ronin website.

 

Art is perhaps one of the oldest forms of fan expression. In fact, many tabletop RPGs have encouraged (or even “required”) players to not just describe their characters but to draw their characters (or, for those like me who have no artistic skills, choose some sort of representation for their character from existing art). The space for character illustration did not start popping up on character sheets by accident. Going back to Green Ronin’s earliest forums we were asked to provide a place for fans to share their art and that especially took off with Mutants & Masterminds fans eager to share their four-color (and not so four-color) heroes. Even with sites like DeviantArt playing host to amateurs and professionals alike, many people still come to the forums to share their latest character concepts. Some people have even gone on to take part in the Mutants & Masterminds open license to publish their work.

 

Twitter has been particularly good at connecting us with fans of Titansgrave thanks to hashtags. In addition to getting to see people excited about watching episodes of the web show, we’ve also gotten to see YouTubers discussing the show (such as the entertaining Titansgrave Diggers who had me on the show last August) and people doing all sorts of incredible art inspired by the world and characters, like this incredible sculpt of Laura Bailey’s character Lemley!

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Lemley, work in progress

When I asked Gordon about his sculpt, this is what he had to say: “I have many projects on the go, but the world of Titansgrave and the character of Lemley inspired me to take on one more. In my optimism I thought that it would take me a couple of months to make it, and I could then go on to make the other characters. This has proven to be well below the amount of effort it actually required, but I am so pleased with the way it was going I have carried on regardless. I am making this sculpture out of Milliput, taking a leaf out of the hugely talented Jason Freeny’s book. Were I to do it again from the beginning however, I’d probably opt for something easier to work with, such as polymer clay.” If you want to see what Lemley eventually looks like with her head on, you can find more pics at Gordon’s Tumblr.

I guess what I’m getting at here is that we love to see your enthusiasm, how you’re going out there and making these things your own. Doesn’t matter how that ends up being expressed, your love for the things that make you happy makes the creators of those things happy, too. Sometimes the internet can function as an amplification device for unhappy feelings and unpleasant interactions but there’s a lot of good stuff out there to share and embrace. Those of us on this side of the creation equation couldn’t be more pleased and honored to see the ripples spreading out through the pond of our game-loving community and coming back around to us. Have fun out there everyone!

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Sky Captain Hana Cosplay as Dorian Pavus

Funded!

The Book of the Righteous - Now on Kickstarter

Our current Kickstarter campaign, The Book of the Righteous for Fifth Edition, is now funded! Next up, stretch goals—just three days to go!

Stretch Goals

Our stretch goals for this project are about making the final book bigger and better. Basically, the more money the campaign raises, the more value you get in the finished book.

$30,000: We will add 16 pages to the book. New page count: 272.

$35,000: We will commission new cover art.

$40,000: We will add a poster with family tree of the gods to the book.

$45,000: We will add 16 pages to the book. New page count: 288.

$50,000: We will put a map of a cathedral of the Great Church on the other side of the poster.

$55,000: We will add 16 pages to the book. New page count: 304.

$60,000: We will create Hero Lab files for the book. Justiciars, Holy Warriors, and Unholy Warriors get them for free. Other tiers can purchase them as an add-on.

$65,000: We will add 16 pages to the book. New page count: 320.

 The Book of the Righteous for Fifth Edition

Rogues Gallery: Freestyle (PDF)

Rogues Gallery: Freestyle (PDF)

Rogues Gallery: Freestyle (PDF)

When you grow up in wealth and luxury, you’re loath to let it go—especially when all that money is embezzled by company executives. Young Aaliyah Travers and her father were close to losing the company he’d built from nothing until

Aaliyah suggested using it to provide tech support and repair to villains who needed it. Their plan worked! And it worked even better when Aaliyah, always an adrenaline junkie, began stealing high-tech secrets from other companies as the unpredictable Freestyle!

Ronin Round Table: GenCon 2016 Roleplaying Games!

 

GClogo-header-2016-91a751cab7b3dc33dd0ac3b3b95595ac9c4e1b4bc5f42b6388531396cb8729beAs I’m sure most folks know, the events registration for GenCon 2016 went live on Sunday. As an aid to everyone who is interested in playing some of their favorite Green Ronin Publishing roleplaying games at GenCon—or trying out one they’ve never played before—we thought we’d compile a handy list of links to those games, by game.

What follows is not a complete list of Green Ronin Publishing games ato be had at GenCon. It’s just a collection of the games we’ve helped put together and coordinate for this year’s convention. See you there!

Reminder: While some of these games are already sold out (a big thanks to all of that enthusiasm!), remember that lots of folks over-buy, and then drop events as they figure out their schedule. Moreover, things happen and sometimes people aren’t able to show for a game, so make sure to pick up some generic tickets and if there’s a game you’re really interested in, show up to it and see if there are any slots unfilled when game time rolls around. Our GMs are only too happy to help.

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