Like other Ronins, I work at Green Ronin because I love what we do. So narrowing this list down to just five products? Not easy. That said, here we go! “Joe Carriker’s Top 5” 5. Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition This updated version of the original Ork! is a glorious revisit of the sheer […]
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It’s hard to pick just 5 items from the Green Ronin catalog as favorites, because the company’s library covers an enormous variety of genres and system, but here’s the best I could do. Presenting “Crystal’s Top 5 Green Ronin Picks” 5. Mutants & Masterminds Condition Cards Mutants & Masterminds is mostly a fast, intuitive system […]
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What’s good? Taste is subjective, though I think everybody feels there are certain exceptions, such as the terribleness of the Star Wars Holiday Special, which transcends cultures and times as an object of derision, albeit sometimes affectionately so. So, this list of “Malcolm Sheppard’s Top Five” is just my opinion, though there may be hidden […]
When Troy Hewitt (the disembodied host of Mutants & Masterminds Mondays, amongst other schemes) asked me to compiled a list of “Steve Kenson’s Top 5 Green Ronin products“, that constituted a challenge, because I’m terrible at self-promotion and felt like it would be disingenuous to pick products I’d written the majority of, or had a […]
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Envoys to the Mount is a full-length Blue Rose chronicle that takes players from origins as newly-graduated envoys of the Sovereign’s Finest to heroes of the kingdom of Aldis. The threats they face as part of that rise are dire and deadly, but perhaps none are more so than the wickedness of the lost city […]
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Happy holidays from all of us at Green Ronin! I don’t think 2020 was the year any of us hoped for but on the upside, it’s almost over! Right now, we’ve got our Year End Sale going on, which offers 20% off most of our titles through January 3. Get gifts for your friends and […]
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Buy It at the Green Ronin Online Store In The Lost Citadel Roleplaying, seven decades ago, there were cities upon cities, kingdoms and nations. Cultures met each other in war, travel, and at trade. Humans, dwarves, elves, and peoples made their fortunes across vast lands. For millennia, through two vibrant ages called ascensions, they explored […]
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In a previous Ronin Roundtable, we mentioned a little bit about the Character Hooks mechanic we developed for Envoys to the Mount. In this Ronin Roundtable, we’re going to introduce you to not only the Hooks themselves, but how players select and use them, along with a sample of one of them. The Summary At […]
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The Astonishing Adventures line blasts off into space this week with our very first cosmic adventure, Prodigal Sun by Larry Wilhelm. The heroes travel to a star system colonized by the Lor Republic shortly before its collapse to investigate why the sun has suddenly turned an ominous red hue. While there, they’ll need to navigate local […]
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The existence of the Sovereign’s Finest in the nation of Aldis has, from the beginning, been almost entirely for the benefit of player characters. It exists to give player characters not just a reason to go out and do “adventurer” things, but to do so with royal approval and as national heroes. Since this […]
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In the world of Blue Rose, the Kingdom of Aldis is normally where it’s at, but our newest releases, Envoys to the Mount and Tales from the Mount, are instead taking us on a journey to a very different destination, indeed: the Shadow Barrens, sorcery-defiled remnants of the once-thriving realm of Faenaria, where stands the quasi-mythical Mount […]
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Here at Green Ronin Publishing, we love us some epic campaigns. Long-term games that involve lots of play time, the opportunity to dig into the backgrounds, motivations, and growth of the characters, and a chance to change the setting? Purest catnip around here. So when we set out to design our first full-length chronicle for […]
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This week sees the release of a Quickstart for our Blue Rose AGE roleplaying game. Green Ronin’s Quickstarts have always served to whet the appetite for a game, a compact and easy-to-use set of rules and an adventure scenario that needs nothing more than the Quickstart itself and some dice to get right down to […]
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Whether you are a veteran GM who crafts every campaign world and adventure from scratch, a newcomer to running games who is just trying to get through a published adventure, or someone preferring any of the hundreds of possible in-between styles of gamemastering, sometimes you realize your encounters are in a rut. It may not […]
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As we announced earlier this week, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Llorona ! Here’s the introduction to this series from Monday, just in case this is the […]
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As we announced earlier this week, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Optic! Here’s the introduction to this series from Monday, just in case this is the first […]
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As we announced earlier this week, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Sentinel! Here’s the introduction to this series from Monday, just in case this is the first […]
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As we announced yesterday, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Deosil! Here’s the introduction to this series from yesterday, just in case this is the first blog post […]
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My writing compatriots often joke with me that I write novels like a game designer: eighty thousand words into world building before I realize that I need a plot and some characters. In the case of Sacred Band, the joke is literal truth, though. As part of my character design, I decided to turn to […]
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Halloween! And once again, we here in the Mutants & Masterminds office are offering a thematically appropriate adventure for the holiday season! Following on the tail of Monster Mash-Up, we offer the newest Astonishing Adventure: Bite Club! Unlike previous Halloween adventures, this installment is specifically a hero […]
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Astonishing Adventures: Bite Club, is available now! High school – so many of us couldn’t wait to escape it, and yet, it’s one of the most popular settings for superhero adventures. Perhaps because the alienation and angst felt by a lot of teenagers matches up so well with the secret identities and soap-opera melodrama of […]
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While The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide makes use of the core Fifth Edition spells and spellcasting classes, it does make a few adjustments to reflect the nature of magic and the Arcane on Aldea. Aldea is a highly magical world, where adepts not only wield considerable power, but have transformed the world through its application, […]
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As previously mentioned on the Mutants & Masterminds Monday Livestream. This week we are proud to release the Amusement Park for our ongoing Danger Zones series for Third Edition! Atop a rushing subway car, trapped in a raging apartment fire, crushed beneath the animated oaks of a possessed parkland, superheroes face as much danger from […]
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Last week we took a look at Ancestries in Aldea, so this week we thought we’d focus on Aldean Classes. All of the core 5e classes exist in the world of Aldea, and The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide looks at each, how they fit into the various nations and lands, and offer new class-feature options […]
The Epic Finale of the Five and Infinity Adventure Series Earth is slain; the ruins of London have fallen on Blattarum, the plane of lost and broken things. This is the work of the Nexus, a servant of uttermost darkness, whose obsessions guided the hands of countless selves scattered across as many alternate worlds. Yet […]
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The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide talks, not about “race” but ancestry, as the Aldeans consider “personhood” a matter of the mind and soul, the souls of the Eternal Dance, given physical form by the gods to save them from being lost to the hunger of the Exarchs of Shadow. Ancestry is a matter of the […]
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When children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen. When children are happy and lonely and good, The Friend of the Children comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him, and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he’s sure to be present, abroad […]
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Whether it is the announcement of the Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide, the release of some recent Blue Rose products, or just general curiosity, if you are unfamiliar with the setting for Blue Rose, you may be wondering: What is this “Aldea” place and what is it like for playing games and telling stories? Walk across […]
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Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and in our newest anthology Under the Black Flag, the blood and salt of Freeport breeds a special kind of hero, one usually kicked out of all but the crustiest taverns and immortalized in bawdy songs. Ancient cultists lurk beneath the streets, unknown horrors prowl the depths, but […]
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I seem to have a thing for writing Blue Rose announcements in June but, given it is Pride Month, and roses bloom in the early summer, that makes a certain amount of sense. I’m writing this one in June as well, although I don’t know exactly when you’ll see it, website and product scheduling being […]
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Release the Hogs! Was there an apocalypse, or is this a fever dream brought on by too many energy drinks? Or is Murica, a future nation of trucks, guns, mail order distribution centers-turned-fortresses, and most importantly, mutated feral hogs, truly a Utopia, where everyone can express themselves as the ruggedest of individuals? Find out by […]
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Not every Modern AGE adventure has to be deadly serious, and last year I was charmed when the streamers of DicePriori ran a one-shot based on the infamous “30-50 Feral Hogs” meme. It looked like so much fun that I asked DicePriori members Chase Schneider and Matthew Foreman to write the adventure out for me […]
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Last month, in “Return to Freeport,” we talked a bit about the classic adventure Death in Freeport, which helped to launch Green Ronin Publishing twenty years ago, and the forthcoming anniversary edition of that adventure. Not only is Death in Freeport being offered for the fifth edition of the world’s most widely-played fantasy roleplaying game, […]
With last week’s release of Bound by Gold, Malador the Mystic once again seizes a mortal body with which to threaten the world. But this newest Astonishing Adventure adds a rub: The heroes are brought into the investigation to help rescue the young man Malador is currently inhabiting. Bodily possession and mind control are common […]
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In the latest installment of the NetherWar, Bound By Gold, the heroes efforts to stop Toy Boy’s rampage have inadvertently released the former Master Mage: Malador the Mystic, and now the dread Atlantean intends to bind the spirit of his dead rival, Adrian Eldritch, into an undead servant to aid his conquest of the world! […]
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Demetrius Bassei came to the Netherworld of Mar Saothair to win back his son’s lost soul at the Midnight Gold, the plane’s foremost casino. He never returned. Now it’s up to your heroes to dare this hell dimension of endless cities and spirit-flensing factories, where demons gamble over the souls of the damned and the […]
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I don’t know exactly when or how I became an introvert—we don’t have the kind of space in this column necessary to go into that—but, sufficient to say, I am what many might refer to as “a private person.” I often feel like I missed the era of the “reclusive writer” who nobody ever saw […]
Sword Chronicle has been out for a week, and it’s doing well! Thank you to those who have purchased it through both the Green Ronin Online Store and DriveThruRPG. This is just a quick follow up about our post-release plans. Check Out the Warfare Wednesday Stream Last week we tried out a so-called “Warfare Wednesday” […]
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It’s been as tricky a time for Modern AGE as it has for other games during the pandemic, but we’ve still been busy. I’m writing to tell you where we’re at with the line, what’s just come out, and what’s coming. Enemies & Allies First of all, COVID-19 put a bit of a dampener on […]
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You belong to a noble house, and its fortunes rise and fall with your actions. You’re a lord, a knight, a servant in the shadows, or perhaps a sorcerer-sage, bound to a dynasty of rulers. A vassal’s honor binds you to obey those above your station, and the responsibilities of privilege make you well aware […]
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If you’ve been following Mutants & Masterminds news the last few months, you’ve probably heard me talk way too much about Danger Zones. I refuse to apologize for my weird love of maps, but this time around, as the products finally take their first steps into the world, I’m not just going to blather on […]
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As Sword Chronicle undergoes the final sprint toward release we’ve fielded questions from social media, the GRAAD fan Discord server (we don’t run GRAAD, but we support it) and our online Gen Con panel. You’d like to know about our immediate and future plans, and to respond to some rumors. So, without further ado, here […]
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Twenty years ago, at Gen Con in August of 2000, Green Ronin Publishing released one of the very first adventures for the brand-new third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, also one of the first published under the new Open Game License. Death in Freeport was the first experience many had in playing the new edition, […]
A funny thing happened on the way to making Sword Chronicle. Sword Chronicle was based on the simplest of ideas: Taking the popular Chronicle System, which powered the now-concluded A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying Game, and using it to make a fantasy game that wasn’t connected to any licensed intellectual property. Green Ronin […]
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In the Soul Trade, on an alternate Earth warped and twisted into a cruel imperial state, the conspiracy called Aethon begins its procedure to “delete” it from the Metacosm of countless planes, ridding it of a dangerous threat. On that doomed world and others, agents uncover crucial links to a hidden smuggling chain, one that […]
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Our recently announced Sword Chronicle roleplaying game varies from classic fantasy RPGs in several respects. In many games, you play a rag-tag group of wandering adventurers, looking for justice, glory, and gold as you wander from place to place. You can do that in Sword Chronicle, but even classic adventures take place in a quite […]
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The newest installment of the Astonishing Adventures NetherWar series, Broken Strings, releases this week, taking your heroes across Freedom City to battle transforming robots and investigate a string of bizarre, toy-themed robberies. But what’s a magic-oriented series of adventures without a crawl through a traditional, fantasy-style dungeon? So Broken Strings eventually takes the heroes into […]
As it was based on the eponymous novel series, the first Chronicle System game, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, didn’t provide rules for the not-quite human characters that are staples of classic fantasy roleplaying games. We’re talking about elves, dwarves, and the like. As we were creating Sword Chronicle, a fantasy game that […]
In the Dreaming Crown, a new world beckons, as its people step forth into the Metacosm. The inhabitants of Maldea have discovered gate travel. That classifies their society as Initiated, suitable for first contact with the Vitane, a peaceful government spanning many worlds. Through their explorers, the Sodality, you’ve been given the job of negotiating […]
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“Or we can just dive-in, do it, and see what happens.” That was Green Ronin Community Director Troy Hewitt, one of our resident extroverts, encouraging us to pivot in the time of covid-19 toward our community, using the means at-hand, including video streaming. Troy has a great way of getting those of us who would […]
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One of the fun but oft-overlooked elements of Mutants & Masterminds is the minions that some villains bring to the table. What’s the point of fighting a Malador the Mystic without plowing through a horde of zombies to reach him? Who even is Grandmaster if he’s not backed up by a fleet of chess-themed cyborgs? […]
It’s been a couple of months since our last Ronin Report so I thought I’d update you all on how the company is faring during the ongoing COVID crisis. In March and April things were dicey. When our warehouse shut down and we could not ship physical books anymore, that put us a bad situation […]
Over the course of the last few months, Team Ronin has been quietly engaging in some experimentation with livestreaming. I say quietly, because even though we’re broadcasting live to the world at large, we purposely chose to keep mum in the run-up to the events in order to give us some room to experiment with […]
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that is certainly as true in the tabletop gaming business as it is anywhere else. One of the necessary reasons for writing adventures for the various game-lines that I work on is the need to have something to run when I am a guest at […]
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In the second part of my Ronin Roundtable guest-spot on the Time Traveler’s Codex (part 1 is here, in case you missed it!), let’s look at how the sourcebook talks about Gamemastering time travel, the nature and use of time travel in the Earth-Prime omniverse, and a peek at the Silver Age time period and […]
For the release of Green Ronin’s Chronicle System as the Sword Chronicle fantasy RPG and setting, a lot from its earlier incarnation as Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying (SIFRP for short) was preserved, but a few things have also changed. One of those most notable things is the inclusion of sorcery. Magic in SIFRP […]
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This week sees the release of NetherWar, Part 2: The Pentagram Peril, the segment of the mystic-themed campaign for M&M that I helped to write. I say “helped” because Pentagram Peril wasn’t originally planned as part of a series at all. It was a stand-alone adventure involving the Factor Four and Hellqueen going after some […]
The call goes out: Giant spiders stalk the city. Bystanders have seen their leader in the form of an enormous arachnid or a strange woman. Warriors hardened by assaults on Hell itself hunt her on a mission of vengeance. The Metacosm-spanning criminal conspiracy called the Krypteia seek her too, to profit from her powers—or whatever […]
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The fury of battle. Court intrigue. Games of blood and status. That’s Sword Chronicle, a complete roleplaying game for the Chronicle System. We’ve been working on it quietly, with no official announcements before now. Where’s the Hype? Well, this is the hype. Sword Chronicle was designed under the radar as a response to the COVID-19 […]
Last year, Nisaba Press announced that they’d acquired the rights to rerelease my first novel, Sacred Band. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that we’re revealing the incredible new cover as well as opening pre-orders for the new edition, both in print and ebook in the Online Store, as well as on Amazon. Sacred Band tells […]
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The Lost Citadel Roleplaying is out (currently in PDF, but coming to print as soon as our COVID-19-altered industry can manage). This setting for 5e presents a world where the Dead have risen, and the living survive behind the walls of Redoubt, a great dwarven city seized from its original rulers. In Redoubt, many cultures […]
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Justice for All Everyone at Green Ronin was outraged by the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, and we support the protests demanding justice in his name, and in the names of countless Black people murdered and mistreated by the police. Black lives matter, and it’s long past time white America acknowledged that, […]
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With the 20th anniversary of Green Ronin Publishing and the 18th anniversary of Mutants & Masterminds this year, we’ve been doing a lot of looking back at the past. But what about visiting the past or, for that matter, changing the past? Well, that’s where the Time Traveler’s Codex for M&M comes into play, arriving […]
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Assault on the Nerian Nexus is out and ready to run your heroes through the gauntlet! And while it’s packed with excitement featuring your favorite Freedom City baddies, an observant fan of our weekly Mutants & Masterminds Monday livestreams raised an excellent question: How do you jump from our previous adventure series, Emerald City Knights, to […]
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Next week we are proud to release a collection of Mutants & Masterminds short stories from Nisaba Press, in an anthology entitled Powered Up! Time passes, some things change, and other things remain. If you could go back in time nineteen years, and tell me in 2001 that the characters I created for Freedom City […]
The next adventure in the NetherWar series, Assault on the Nerian Nexus, releases this morning. Following an unspecified number of years after the events in Master of Earth, Assault on the Nerian Nexus represents the first big event to kick off the villain’s diabolical plan to conquer not only Earth-Prime, but all the cosmos! The […]
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Hello Green Ronin fans, Today we have guest post from our stalwart forum moderator Fildrigar, on the status of the Ronin Army forums that have been down for the last week. Greetings! I’m Barry Wilson. You might remember me from such internet places as That One Wargaming With Miniatures Forum and Esoteric Prog Rock Fans […]
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Discover Adventures to Come Five and Infinity is an adventure series for Threefold, the Modern AGE setting of planar travel and genre-bending adventure. With some loose connections built in, these adventures can be added to your campaign occasionally, bringing you from level 1 to 16 as you bring peace to a corner of the Earth or […]
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This morning we have launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new 5E edition of the Book of Fiends on Game On Tabletop. It’s a great book and we hope you go check out the campaign. If you weren’t gaming in the early 2000s, you may be wondering what the Book of Fiends is exactly and […]
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So, if you’ve been following Modern AGE, and specifically the Threefold setting, you might be wondering if there’s more to come, given that we called it our “flagship setting.” The answer: Yes! We’re putting together Five and Infinity, a series of adventures and adventure generators for Threefold. (What! What’s Threefold? It’s the Modern AGE setting […]
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The release of The Lost Citadel Roleplaying is probably cause for curiosity if you didn’t back the original Kickstarter. In essence, The Lost Citadel is about a fantasy world, Zileska, that has been transformed from something very similar to many traditional fantasy worlds (though with a greater emphasis on non-Western influences than most) by the […]
We’ve got an exciting crowdfunder coming up later this month and I wanted to tell you a bit about the project and also how it’s different from our previous campaigns. The project itself is a new edition of our classic Book of Fiends monster book for Fifth Edition. The original Book of Fiends came out in […]
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My first real projects with Green Ronin were all Blue Rose. I wrote a chunk of the setting for Blue Rose, 2nd Ed., and then did the proofreading on it. Later, I wrote an adventure for Six of Swords (Rezea forever!). I’ve also only ever played Green Ronin IP games in the Blue Rose setting […]
It’s Humpday, and today we’re taking another shot at the Green Ronin Live-Stream! Join Green Ronin Publishing today at 2:00 pm Pacific/5:00 pm Eastern for another test-run of our live-streaming capabilities, and this time it’s all about the Lost Citadel. Join Green Ronin Publishing Developer Malcolm Sheppard, and General Manager Nicole Lindroos as they cover […]
Seven decades ago, there were cities upon cities; kingdoms and nations, the remains of ancient empire. Cultures at war, cultures at trade. Races with varying degrees of alliance and distrust. Humans, elves, dwarves, and others; magic and monsters, rare but real. Regions of desolation, certainly, but also regions of plenty; forests, farmlands, and fields. And […]
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It’s Monday, and we’ve got a lot of things going on we wanted to share, so we figured: “Why not host an impromptu live-stream?” So, we’re inviting you to join Green Ronin Publishing today at 2:00 pm Pacific/5:00 pm Eastern for a special test-run of our live-streaming capabilities, featuring Mutants & Masterminds Super-Dev Crystal Frasier […]
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Fools! You flipped through the sacred text of the Time Traveler’s Codex and now you think yourself an equal of the Chronomaster?! You thought your petty time travel shenanigans were any match for true villainy? I was weaned on chronal energy, with all the timestream as my playground. They think time is a realm for heroes? […]
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The shared world experience is an interesting one, something my earliest experiences with roleplaying games informed me about. After all, I started out playing around in imaginary worlds created by others, first as a hobby and later as a professional writer, so it’s a natural progression that now, other people are playing around in imaginary […]
So what good’s an adventure if the story doesn’t roll on into the next one? What good is winning the battle while the war rages on? And how can real heroes keep the world safe when the position of the world’s guardian remains empty? The NetherWar is upon us, to answer these questions. NetherWar is […]
As some of you may already be aware, this is Blue Rose Adventure Week here at Green Ronin. We’ve decided to make some of our lines’ adventures available individually, starting with the six adventures that make up Six of Swords, the first Blue Rose adventure anthology, as well as Nightmare Rider, an adventure from Blue […]
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Alright, so Green Ronin has released the Time Traveler’s Codex for Mutants & Masterminds, and we’re all interested. Time travel is a big deal, but you look at this development and you think “What has this got to do with me? Surely time travel and Green Ronin are in the pocket of Big Chronomancy. How can […]
Today marks the launch of the Adventures in Aldea series, starting with the Mistress of Gloomhale Manor for just .99! (Previously published in the Six of Swords adventure anthology.) If you enjoy that one, be sure to check out The Sixth Beast, also on sale today, and come back each day this week for another […]
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Hello Modern AGE fans. I hope you are your families are doing well. COVID-19 has obviously made gaming tricky for some of you. As for me, I run my game using the Threefold setting most Tuesdays. I use Zoom with a little Discord on the side so I can see and hear my friends, who […]
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tl;dr: Things in distribution are challenging; Green Ronin is adapting and new releases are on the way. Please buy our PDFs if you’d like to support us during the current crisis.
Time Traveler’s Codex is now available in PDF format in our Green Ronin Online Store. When you think about your favorite superhero teams—the Justice League, the X-men, the Ninja Turtles, the Sailor Senshi—what do they all have in common? It’s not masks or tights or even tragic backstories. None of those are universal. No, to […]
Between last month’s new offering Rise of the Tyrant, and this week’s own The Reign of Cats and Dogs, the all new lineup of Astonishing Adventures is in full swing, with superhero action and adventure for your Mutants & Masterminds table. Rise of the Tyrant brought a sinister plot by an extradimensional warlord, using the […]
It is often remarked that The Expanse novels are “hard” science fiction. While this may or may not be the case, it is undoubtedly true that the science is an important aspect. However, what really makes these novels shine are the characters and the story. If you want to delve into whether The Expanse is […]
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It can be hard to keep track of the days when you’re on the float, but our hand terminals tell us it’s Monday. In honor of another week spent breathing recycled air, we’ve put Salvage Op, a short adventure PDF for The Expanse RPG, up for sale. (If you backed our Kickstarter campaign for The […]
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This week I get to branch out from The Expanse RPG and explore one of the Green Ronin lines I’m less familiar with, Fantasy AGE. Specifically, I’m looking at Fantasy AGE Lairs (Pre-order and PDF on sale now!). I’m most familiar with the AGE system from The Expanse and Modern AGE but having read the […]
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I’m a dog person. Thus, when I first started working on Blue Rose, it made me just a little bit sad to learn that Aldea had literal dog-people, but they’re shadowspawn monsters whose only avenue for participating in civilization involves hiring out as mercenaries to the most unscrupulous and undiscerning of employers. One of the […]
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To All Our Community, As the nation and the world take the vital and necessary steps to slow and limit the spread of Covid-19, Green Ronin Publishing will be suspending shipment of wholesale and online orders of hardcopy products, in order to keep distribution, warehouse, and shipping workers safe. Our distribution partners are doing the […]
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Last time I wrote about the pre-history of Green Ronin, basically covering my start in the industry and how I navigated the 90s. When I left off the story, I was working at Wizards of the Coast. The first 18 months or so I was at WotC, I was working in what was still called […]
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Fantasy AGE Lairs presents a set of places, situations, and possible scenarios revolving around a small set of signature antagonists. I may be Modern AGE developer, but I’m also a Fantasy AGE writer and player, and I was looking forward to this book for a while. Jack Norris did a fantastic job here and I […]
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Rise of the Tyrant, a new Astonishing Adventure for Mutants & Masterminds, is now available in our Green Ronin Online Store! Exciting adventure awaits!
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Fantasy AGE for free: As many of you already know, we are having a 20th anniversary sale right now that puts almost everything in our online store on sale at 20% off until April 20. We are taking that a step further by making the Fantasy AGE Basic Rulebook PDF free for the duration of […]
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Green Ronin is a small family, so usually we all pitch in and help each other with mutual projects, doing some outlining or writing or editing or proofing on each other’s lines when things get tight, so it’s always exciting and special when a new product comes out that you haven’t seen until it’s newly […]
I’m flying down to Reno this week for the GAMA Expo (formerly known as the GAMA Trade Show), which is the major trade show of the tabletop gaming industry. Thinking about my impending trip brought my mind back to my very first GAMA Trade Show in 1996. This era was the pre-history of Green Ronin. […]
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Blue Rose Bundle: on BundleOfHolding.com: Now through March 30, 2020, you can get tons of great gaming and fiction PDFs at an amazing price, while doing good! Blue Rose Bundle Starter Collection For just $7.95 you can get the Starter Collection of four complete .PDFs, including the complete, full-color Blue Rose core rulebook, Joseph Carriker’s […]
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I was originally going to title this “The Lair of the Lazy GM” to get the reference to the new Fantasy AGE Lairs book in there, but decided that wasn’t fair, because it’s not a matter of laziness, but one of time. It should come as little surprise that I loved creating things for my […]
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20 For 20 Sale 2020 is Green Ronin’s 20th anniversary, and to celebrate we’re having a site wide sale of all our games and accessories. Everything in the Green Ronin Online Store is for sale for 20% off through April 20, 2020, except for active pre-orders like Lairs for Fantasy AGE and Enemies & Allies […]
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Joe Carriker’s Top 5 Green Ronin Picks
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerLike other Ronins, I work at Green Ronin because I love what we do. So narrowing this list down to just five products? Not easy. That said, here we go! “Joe Carriker’s Top 5” 5. Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition This updated version of the original Ork! is a glorious revisit of the sheer […]
Crystal’s Top 5 Green Ronin Picks!
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierIt’s hard to pick just 5 items from the Green Ronin catalog as favorites, because the company’s library covers an enormous variety of genres and system, but here’s the best I could do. Presenting “Crystal’s Top 5 Green Ronin Picks” 5. Mutants & Masterminds Condition Cards Mutants & Masterminds is mostly a fast, intuitive system […]
Malcolm Sheppard’s Top 5 Green Ronin Picks!
/in Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table, The Lost Citadel /by Malcolm SheppardWhat’s good? Taste is subjective, though I think everybody feels there are certain exceptions, such as the terribleness of the Star Wars Holiday Special, which transcends cultures and times as an object of derision, albeit sometimes affectionately so. So, this list of “Malcolm Sheppard’s Top Five” is just my opinion, though there may be hidden […]
Steve Kenson’s Top Five Green Ronin Picks!
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonWhen Troy Hewitt (the disembodied host of Mutants & Masterminds Mondays, amongst other schemes) asked me to compiled a list of “Steve Kenson’s Top 5 Green Ronin products“, that constituted a challenge, because I’m terrible at self-promotion and felt like it would be disingenuous to pick products I’d written the majority of, or had a […]
Austium (Envoys to the Mount)
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerEnvoys to the Mount is a full-length Blue Rose chronicle that takes players from origins as newly-graduated envoys of the Sovereign’s Finest to heroes of the kingdom of Aldis. The threats they face as part of that rise are dire and deadly, but perhaps none are more so than the wickedness of the lost city […]
End of Year Sale and GR Gift Guide
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Chronicle System, Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG, The Lost Citadel /by Chris PramasHappy holidays from all of us at Green Ronin! I don’t think 2020 was the year any of us hoped for but on the upside, it’s almost over! Right now, we’ve got our Year End Sale going on, which offers 20% off most of our titles through January 3. Get gifts for your friends and […]
The Lost Citadel Roleplaying, Now Available in Print
/in Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, The Lost Citadel /by Malcolm SheppardBuy It at the Green Ronin Online Store In The Lost Citadel Roleplaying, seven decades ago, there were cities upon cities, kingdoms and nations. Cultures met each other in war, travel, and at trade. Humans, dwarves, elves, and peoples made their fortunes across vast lands. For millennia, through two vibrant ages called ascensions, they explored […]
Character Hooks in Envoys to the Mount
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerIn a previous Ronin Roundtable, we mentioned a little bit about the Character Hooks mechanic we developed for Envoys to the Mount. In this Ronin Roundtable, we’re going to introduce you to not only the Hooks themselves, but how players select and use them, along with a sample of one of them. The Summary At […]
Boom with a Capital B – Rapid-Fire villains!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierThe Astonishing Adventures line blasts off into space this week with our very first cosmic adventure, Prodigal Sun by Larry Wilhelm. The heroes travel to a star system colonized by the Lor Republic shortly before its collapse to investigate why the sun has suddenly turned an ominous red hue. While there, they’ll need to navigate local […]
The Sovereign’s Finest
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Joseph D. CarrikerThe existence of the Sovereign’s Finest in the nation of Aldis has, from the beginning, been almost entirely for the benefit of player characters. It exists to give player characters not just a reason to go out and do “adventurer” things, but to do so with royal approval and as national heroes. Since this […]
Mounting Anticipation
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Stephen Michael DiPesaIn the world of Blue Rose, the Kingdom of Aldis is normally where it’s at, but our newest releases, Envoys to the Mount and Tales from the Mount, are instead taking us on a journey to a very different destination, indeed: the Shadow Barrens, sorcery-defiled remnants of the once-thriving realm of Faenaria, where stands the quasi-mythical Mount […]
A Blue Rose Chronicle, Designing Envoys to the Mount
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News /by Joseph D. CarrikerHere at Green Ronin Publishing, we love us some epic campaigns. Long-term games that involve lots of play time, the opportunity to dig into the backgrounds, motivations, and growth of the characters, and a chance to change the setting? Purest catnip around here. So when we set out to design our first full-length chronicle for […]
Blue Rose Quickstart available NOW!
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News /by Joseph D. CarrikerThis week sees the release of a Quickstart for our Blue Rose AGE roleplaying game. Green Ronin’s Quickstarts have always served to whet the appetite for a game, a compact and easy-to-use set of rules and an adventure scenario that needs nothing more than the Quickstart itself and some dice to get right down to […]
Shake Things Up – Adding Complications to Encounter Designs
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Owen StephensWhether you are a veteran GM who crafts every campaign world and adventure from scratch, a newcomer to running games who is just trying to get through a published adventure, or someone preferring any of the hundreds of possible in-between styles of gamemastering, sometimes you realize your encounters are in a rut. It may not […]
SACRED BAND CHARACTER SHEETS: Llorona
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Joseph D. CarrikerAs we announced earlier this week, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Llorona ! Here’s the introduction to this series from Monday, just in case this is the […]
SACRED BAND CHARACTER SHEETS: Optic
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Joseph D. CarrikerAs we announced earlier this week, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Optic! Here’s the introduction to this series from Monday, just in case this is the first […]
SACRED BAND CHARACTER SHEETS: Sentinel
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Joseph D. CarrikerAs we announced earlier this week, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Sentinel! Here’s the introduction to this series from Monday, just in case this is the first […]
SACRED BAND CHARACTER SHEETS: Deosil
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Joseph D. CarrikerAs we announced yesterday, to celebrate the release of Sacred Band’s Nisaba edition, we are giving you the Mutants & Masterminds stats for the five members of the team, one per day. Today’s instalment is the elementalist Deosil! Here’s the introduction to this series from yesterday, just in case this is the first blog post […]
SACRED BAND CHARACTER SHEETS: Gauss!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Joseph D. CarrikerMy writing compatriots often joke with me that I write novels like a game designer: eighty thousand words into world building before I realize that I need a plot and some characters. In the case of Sacred Band, the joke is literal truth, though. As part of my character design, I decided to turn to […]
School’s Haunted! Expanding Bite Club for your Halloween campaign!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Crystal FrasierIt’s the most wonderful time of the year: Halloween! And once again, we here in the Mutants & Masterminds office are offering a thematically appropriate adventure for the holiday season! Following on the tail of Monster Mash-Up, we offer the newest Astonishing Adventure: Bite Club! Unlike previous Halloween adventures, this installment is specifically a hero […]
Bite Club – When High School Really Sucks
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonAstonishing Adventures: Bite Club, is available now! High school – so many of us couldn’t wait to escape it, and yet, it’s one of the most popular settings for superhero adventures. Perhaps because the alienation and angst felt by a lot of teenagers matches up so well with the secret identities and soap-opera melodrama of […]
Aldean Arcana in the Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonWhile The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide makes use of the core Fifth Edition spells and spellcasting classes, it does make a few adjustments to reflect the nature of magic and the Arcane on Aldea. Aldea is a highly magical world, where adepts not only wield considerable power, but have transformed the world through its application, […]
Amusement Park for Danger Zones – Available Now!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Crystal FrasierAs previously mentioned on the Mutants & Masterminds Monday Livestream. This week we are proud to release the Amusement Park for our ongoing Danger Zones series for Third Edition! Atop a rushing subway car, trapped in a raging apartment fire, crushed beneath the animated oaks of a possessed parkland, superheroes face as much danger from […]
Aldean Classes – Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonLast week we took a look at Ancestries in Aldea, so this week we thought we’d focus on Aldean Classes. All of the core 5e classes exist in the world of Aldea, and The Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide looks at each, how they fit into the various nations and lands, and offer new class-feature options […]
On the Threshold of Apocalypse: Five and Infinity Chapter 5 Available NOW!
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardThe Epic Finale of the Five and Infinity Adventure Series Earth is slain; the ruins of London have fallen on Blattarum, the plane of lost and broken things. This is the work of the Nexus, a servant of uttermost darkness, whose obsessions guided the hands of countless selves scattered across as many alternate worlds. Yet […]
Aldean Ancestries in the Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonThe Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide talks, not about “race” but ancestry, as the Aldeans consider “personhood” a matter of the mind and soul, the souls of the Eternal Dance, given physical form by the gods to save them from being lost to the hunger of the Exarchs of Shadow. Ancestry is a matter of the […]
Three Made One – BROKEN TOYS
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Crystal FrasierWhen children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen. When children are happy and lonely and good, The Friend of the Children comes out of the wood. Nobody heard him, and nobody saw, His is a picture you never could draw, But he’s sure to be present, abroad […]
Welcome to Aldea: A Blue Rose Primer
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonWhether it is the announcement of the Blue Rose Adventurer’s Guide, the release of some recent Blue Rose products, or just general curiosity, if you are unfamiliar with the setting for Blue Rose, you may be wondering: What is this “Aldea” place and what is it like for playing games and telling stories? Walk across […]
Under a Black Flag: Tales of Freeport
/in Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Dylan TemplarToday is Talk Like a Pirate Day, and in our newest anthology Under the Black Flag, the blood and salt of Freeport breeds a special kind of hero, one usually kicked out of all but the crustiest taverns and immortalized in bawdy songs. Ancient cultists lurk beneath the streets, unknown horrors prowl the depths, but […]
Blue Rose Blooms Again
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News /by Steve KensonI seem to have a thing for writing Blue Rose announcements in June but, given it is Pride Month, and roses bloom in the early summer, that makes a certain amount of sense. I’m writing this one in June as well, although I don’t know exactly when you’ll see it, website and product scheduling being […]
Now On Sale: Feral Hogs for Modern AGE
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardRelease the Hogs! Was there an apocalypse, or is this a fever dream brought on by too many energy drinks? Or is Murica, a future nation of trucks, guns, mail order distribution centers-turned-fortresses, and most importantly, mutated feral hogs, truly a Utopia, where everyone can express themselves as the ruggedest of individuals? Find out by […]
Feral Hogs and Memes in Modern AGE
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardNot every Modern AGE adventure has to be deadly serious, and last year I was charmed when the streamers of DicePriori ran a one-shot based on the infamous “30-50 Feral Hogs” meme. It looked like so much fun that I asked DicePriori members Chase Schneider and Matthew Foreman to write the adventure out for me […]
Fantasy AGE Freeport
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonLast month, in “Return to Freeport,” we talked a bit about the classic adventure Death in Freeport, which helped to launch Green Ronin Publishing twenty years ago, and the forthcoming anniversary edition of that adventure. Not only is Death in Freeport being offered for the fifth edition of the world’s most widely-played fantasy roleplaying game, […]
Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Crystal FrasierWith last week’s release of Bound by Gold, Malador the Mystic once again seizes a mortal body with which to threaten the world. But this newest Astonishing Adventure adds a rub: The heroes are brought into the investigation to help rescue the young man Malador is currently inhabiting. Bodily possession and mind control are common […]
Bound By Gold: NetherWar part 4, Available Now!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Crystal FrasierIn the latest installment of the NetherWar, Bound By Gold, the heroes efforts to stop Toy Boy’s rampage have inadvertently released the former Master Mage: Malador the Mystic, and now the dread Atlantean intends to bind the spirit of his dead rival, Adrian Eldritch, into an undead servant to aid his conquest of the world! […]
Midnight Gold Now Available: Five and Infinity Chapter 4
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardDemetrius Bassei came to the Netherworld of Mar Saothair to win back his son’s lost soul at the Midnight Gold, the plane’s foremost casino. He never returned. Now it’s up to your heroes to dare this hell dimension of endless cities and spirit-flensing factories, where demons gamble over the souls of the damned and the […]
(Not So) Secret Identities
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonI don’t know exactly when or how I became an introvert—we don’t have the kind of space in this column necessary to go into that—but, sufficient to say, I am what many might refer to as “a private person.” I often feel like I missed the era of the “reclusive writer” who nobody ever saw […]
Sword Chronicle: Post Release Follow Up and Warfare Wednesday
/in Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardSword Chronicle has been out for a week, and it’s doing well! Thank you to those who have purchased it through both the Green Ronin Online Store and DriveThruRPG. This is just a quick follow up about our post-release plans. Check Out the Warfare Wednesday Stream Last week we tried out a so-called “Warfare Wednesday” […]
Adventures, Mastery, and Powers: What’s Coming For Modern AGE
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardIt’s been as tricky a time for Modern AGE as it has for other games during the pandemic, but we’ve still been busy. I’m writing to tell you where we’re at with the line, what’s just come out, and what’s coming. Enemies & Allies First of all, COVID-19 put a bit of a dampener on […]
Now Available: Sword Chronicle, the Feudal Fantasy Roleplaying Game
/in Green Ronin News /by Malcolm SheppardYou belong to a noble house, and its fortunes rise and fall with your actions. You’re a lord, a knight, a servant in the shadows, or perhaps a sorcerer-sage, bound to a dynasty of rulers. A vassal’s honor binds you to obey those above your station, and the responsibilities of privilege make you well aware […]
I’LL TAKE YOU RIGHT INTO THE DANGER ZONES
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierIf you’ve been following Mutants & Masterminds news the last few months, you’ve probably heard me talk way too much about Danger Zones. I refuse to apologize for my weird love of maps, but this time around, as the products finally take their first steps into the world, I’m not just going to blather on […]
Sword Chronicle: Questions Answered, Plus the Chronicle System Guild
/in Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardAs Sword Chronicle undergoes the final sprint toward release we’ve fielded questions from social media, the GRAAD fan Discord server (we don’t run GRAAD, but we support it) and our online Gen Con panel. You’d like to know about our immediate and future plans, and to respond to some rumors. So, without further ado, here […]
Return to Freeport
/in Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonTwenty years ago, at Gen Con in August of 2000, Green Ronin Publishing released one of the very first adventures for the brand-new third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, also one of the first published under the new Open Game License. Death in Freeport was the first experience many had in playing the new edition, […]
Sword Chronicle: Introducing the Shattered Era
/in Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardA funny thing happened on the way to making Sword Chronicle. Sword Chronicle was based on the simplest of ideas: Taking the popular Chronicle System, which powered the now-concluded A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying Game, and using it to make a fantasy game that wasn’t connected to any licensed intellectual property. Green Ronin […]
The Soul Trade, Five and Infinity Ch. 3 – Now Available
/in Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardIn the Soul Trade, on an alternate Earth warped and twisted into a cruel imperial state, the conspiracy called Aethon begins its procedure to “delete” it from the Metacosm of countless planes, ridding it of a dangerous threat. On that doomed world and others, agents uncover crucial links to a hidden smuggling chain, one that […]
What’s Different About Sword Chronicle?
/in Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardOur recently announced Sword Chronicle roleplaying game varies from classic fantasy RPGs in several respects. In many games, you play a rag-tag group of wandering adventurers, looking for justice, glory, and gold as you wander from place to place. You can do that in Sword Chronicle, but even classic adventures take place in a quite […]
DUNGEONS & DISINTEGRATORS: Netherwar part 3 – Broken Strings
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierThe newest installment of the Astonishing Adventures NetherWar series, Broken Strings, releases this week, taking your heroes across Freedom City to battle transforming robots and investigate a string of bizarre, toy-themed robberies. But what’s a magic-oriented series of adventures without a crawl through a traditional, fantasy-style dungeon? So Broken Strings eventually takes the heroes into […]
Sword Chronicle: Introducing Ancestries
/in Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardAs it was based on the eponymous novel series, the first Chronicle System game, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, didn’t provide rules for the not-quite human characters that are staples of classic fantasy roleplaying games. We’re talking about elves, dwarves, and the like. As we were creating Sword Chronicle, a fantasy game that […]
Leave Earth Behind with Five and Infinity Chapter 2: The Dreaming Crown
/in Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardIn the Dreaming Crown, a new world beckons, as its people step forth into the Metacosm. The inhabitants of Maldea have discovered gate travel. That classifies their society as Initiated, suitable for first contact with the Vitane, a peaceful government spanning many worlds. Through their explorers, the Sodality, you’ve been given the job of negotiating […]
A Series of Tubes (Green Ronin on YouTube)
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Chronicle System, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Podcast, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG, The Lost Citadel /by Steve Kenson“Or we can just dive-in, do it, and see what happens.” That was Green Ronin Community Director Troy Hewitt, one of our resident extroverts, encouraging us to pivot in the time of covid-19 toward our community, using the means at-hand, including video streaming. Troy has a great way of getting those of us who would […]
MAKE MINE MINIONS
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierOne of the fun but oft-overlooked elements of Mutants & Masterminds is the minions that some villains bring to the table. What’s the point of fighting a Malador the Mystic without plowing through a horde of zombies to reach him? Who even is Grandmaster if he’s not backed up by a fleet of chess-themed cyborgs? […]
Ronin Report, July 10th, 2020
/in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying News, AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Chronicle System, Fantasy AGE, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Report, The Expanse RPG /by Chris PramasIt’s been a couple of months since our last Ronin Report so I thought I’d update you all on how the company is faring during the ongoing COVID crisis. In March and April things were dicey. When our warehouse shut down and we could not ship physical books anymore, that put us a bad situation […]
Green Ronin Publishing Streaming!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Troy HewittOver the course of the last few months, Team Ronin has been quietly engaging in some experimentation with livestreaming. I say quietly, because even though we’re broadcasting live to the world at large, we purposely chose to keep mum in the run-up to the events in order to give us some room to experiment with […]
A Pearl of Necessity
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonThey say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that is certainly as true in the tabletop gaming business as it is anywhere else. One of the necessary reasons for writing adventures for the various game-lines that I work on is the need to have something to run when I am a guest at […]
Mastering Time Travel (Part 2)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Steve KensonIn the second part of my Ronin Roundtable guest-spot on the Time Traveler’s Codex (part 1 is here, in case you missed it!), let’s look at how the sourcebook talks about Gamemastering time travel, the nature and use of time travel in the Earth-Prime omniverse, and a peek at the Silver Age time period and […]
Sagas of Sword … and Sorcery!
/in Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonFor the release of Green Ronin’s Chronicle System as the Sword Chronicle fantasy RPG and setting, a lot from its earlier incarnation as Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying (SIFRP for short) was preserved, but a few things have also changed. One of those most notable things is the inclusion of sorcery. Magic in SIFRP […]
Even More Perilous! (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Steve KensonThis week sees the release of NetherWar, Part 2: The Pentagram Peril, the segment of the mystic-themed campaign for M&M that I helped to write. I say “helped” because Pentagram Peril wasn’t originally planned as part of a series at all. It was a stand-alone adventure involving the Factor Four and Hellqueen going after some […]
Now Available: Five and Infinity Chapter 1 – Hunting Night
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardThe call goes out: Giant spiders stalk the city. Bystanders have seen their leader in the form of an enormous arachnid or a strange woman. Warriors hardened by assaults on Hell itself hunt her on a mission of vengeance. The Metacosm-spanning criminal conspiracy called the Krypteia seek her too, to profit from her powers—or whatever […]
Sword Chronicle: Feudal Fantasy Roleplaying Returns
/in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying News, Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardThe fury of battle. Court intrigue. Games of blood and status. That’s Sword Chronicle, a complete roleplaying game for the Chronicle System. We’ve been working on it quietly, with no official announcements before now. Where’s the Hype? Well, this is the hype. Sword Chronicle was designed under the radar as a response to the COVID-19 […]
Sacred Band Cover Reveal
/in Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Joseph D. CarrikerLast year, Nisaba Press announced that they’d acquired the rights to rerelease my first novel, Sacred Band. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that we’re revealing the incredible new cover as well as opening pre-orders for the new edition, both in print and ebook in the Online Store, as well as on Amazon. Sacred Band tells […]
Lost Citadel Roleplaying: The AGE of Redoubt
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, The Lost Citadel /by Malcolm SheppardThe Lost Citadel Roleplaying is out (currently in PDF, but coming to print as soon as our COVID-19-altered industry can manage). This setting for 5e presents a world where the Dead have risen, and the living survive behind the walls of Redoubt, a great dwarven city seized from its original rulers. In Redoubt, many cultures […]
Justice for all. Black lives matter.
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Chris PramasJustice for All Everyone at Green Ronin was outraged by the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, and we support the protests demanding justice in his name, and in the names of countless Black people murdered and mistreated by the police. Black lives matter, and it’s long past time white America acknowledged that, […]
What Even Is Time (Travel)? (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Steve KensonWith the 20th anniversary of Green Ronin Publishing and the 18th anniversary of Mutants & Masterminds this year, we’ve been doing a lot of looking back at the past. But what about visiting the past or, for that matter, changing the past? Well, that’s where the Time Traveler’s Codex for M&M comes into play, arriving […]
ASSAULT ON THE NERIAN NEXUS: WEST COAST EDITION
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierAssault on the Nerian Nexus is out and ready to run your heroes through the gauntlet! And while it’s packed with excitement featuring your favorite Freedom City baddies, an observant fan of our weekly Mutants & Masterminds Monday livestreams raised an excellent question: How do you jump from our previous adventure series, Emerald City Knights, to […]
Powered UP! A Mutants & Masterminds fiction Anthology
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Steve KensonNext week we are proud to release a collection of Mutants & Masterminds short stories from Nisaba Press, in an anthology entitled Powered Up! Time passes, some things change, and other things remain. If you could go back in time nineteen years, and tell me in 2001 that the characters I created for Freedom City […]
NEXUSES, NERIAN AND FAR (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Crystal FrasierThe next adventure in the NetherWar series, Assault on the Nerian Nexus, releases this morning. Following an unspecified number of years after the events in Master of Earth, Assault on the Nerian Nexus represents the first big event to kick off the villain’s diabolical plan to conquer not only Earth-Prime, but all the cosmos! The […]
Ronin Army forums update: All Good Things…
/in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying News, AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Card Games, Chronicle System, Critical Role, DC Adventures News, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ork!, Pathfinder, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime, The Expanse RPG, The Lost Citadel, Titansgrave /by Dylan TemplarHello Green Ronin fans, Today we have guest post from our stalwart forum moderator Fildrigar, on the status of the Ronin Army forums that have been down for the last week. Greetings! I’m Barry Wilson. You might remember me from such internet places as That One Wargaming With Miniatures Forum and Esoteric Prog Rock Fans […]
Now Available: Threefold’s Five and Infinity, Chapter 0: The Adventure Generator
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardDiscover Adventures to Come Five and Infinity is an adventure series for Threefold, the Modern AGE setting of planar travel and genre-bending adventure. With some loose connections built in, these adventures can be added to your campaign occasionally, bringing you from level 1 to 16 as you bring peace to a corner of the Earth or […]
The Origin of the Book of Fiends (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Critical Role, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Chris PramasThis morning we have launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new 5E edition of the Book of Fiends on Game On Tabletop. It’s a great book and we hope you go check out the campaign. If you weren’t gaming in the early 2000s, you may be wondering what the Book of Fiends is exactly and […]
Threefold’s Five and Infinity Goes Serial
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardSo, if you’ve been following Modern AGE, and specifically the Threefold setting, you might be wondering if there’s more to come, given that we called it our “flagship setting.” The answer: Yes! We’re putting together Five and Infinity, a series of adventures and adventure generators for Threefold. (What! What’s Threefold? It’s the Modern AGE setting […]
What is Lost Citadel Roleplaying, Anyway? (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Lost Citadel /by Malcolm SheppardThe release of The Lost Citadel Roleplaying is probably cause for curiosity if you didn’t back the original Kickstarter. In essence, The Lost Citadel is about a fantasy world, Zileska, that has been transformed from something very similar to many traditional fantasy worlds (though with a greater emphasis on non-Western influences than most) by the […]
Book of Fiends 5E Crowdfunder on Game On Tabletop May 19
/in Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Chris PramasWe’ve got an exciting crowdfunder coming up later this month and I wanted to tell you a bit about the project and also how it’s different from our previous campaigns. The project itself is a new edition of our classic Book of Fiends monster book for Fifth Edition. The original Book of Fiends came out in […]
For Hart and Queen (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Jaym GatesMy first real projects with Green Ronin were all Blue Rose. I wrote a chunk of the setting for Blue Rose, 2nd Ed., and then did the proofreading on it. Later, I wrote an adventure for Six of Swords (Rezea forever!). I’ve also only ever played Green Ronin IP games in the Blue Rose setting […]
The Lost Citadel Live-Stream!
/in Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, The Lost Citadel /by Troy HewittIt’s Humpday, and today we’re taking another shot at the Green Ronin Live-Stream! Join Green Ronin Publishing today at 2:00 pm Pacific/5:00 pm Eastern for another test-run of our live-streaming capabilities, and this time it’s all about the Lost Citadel. Join Green Ronin Publishing Developer Malcolm Sheppard, and General Manager Nicole Lindroos as they cover […]
The Lost Citadel: 5e Heroes Against the Dead, at the End of the World
/in Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, The Lost Citadel /by Malcolm SheppardSeven decades ago, there were cities upon cities; kingdoms and nations, the remains of ancient empire. Cultures at war, cultures at trade. Races with varying degrees of alliance and distrust. Humans, elves, dwarves, and others; magic and monsters, rare but real. Regions of desolation, certainly, but also regions of plenty; forests, farmlands, and fields. And […]
THE TIME TRAVELER’S CODEX: ALL TIME, NO SPACE… (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierIt’s Monday, and we’ve got a lot of things going on we wanted to share, so we figured: “Why not host an impromptu live-stream?” So, we’re inviting you to join Green Ronin Publishing today at 2:00 pm Pacific/5:00 pm Eastern for a special test-run of our live-streaming capabilities, featuring Mutants & Masterminds Super-Dev Crystal Frasier […]
The Time Traveler’s Codex: BACK FOUR SECONDS! (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierFools! You flipped through the sacred text of the Time Traveler’s Codex and now you think yourself an equal of the Chronomaster?! You thought your petty time travel shenanigans were any match for true villainy? I was weaned on chronal energy, with all the timestream as my playground. They think time is a realm for heroes? […]
Idle Thoughts on Idol Pursuits (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Steve KensonThe shared world experience is an interesting one, something my earliest experiences with roleplaying games informed me about. After all, I started out playing around in imaginary worlds created by others, first as a hobby and later as a professional writer, so it’s a natural progression that now, other people are playing around in imaginary […]
Mutants & Masterminds: NetherWar is Coming… (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierSo what good’s an adventure if the story doesn’t roll on into the next one? What good is winning the battle while the war rages on? And how can real heroes keep the world safe when the position of the world’s guardian remains empty? The NetherWar is upon us, to answer these questions. NetherWar is […]
Blue Rose’s Map to Adventure (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News /by Joseph D. CarrikerAs some of you may already be aware, this is Blue Rose Adventure Week here at Green Ronin. We’ve decided to make some of our lines’ adventures available individually, starting with the six adventures that make up Six of Swords, the first Blue Rose adventure anthology, as well as Nightmare Rider, an adventure from Blue […]
Mutants & Masterminds: IT’S ABOUT TIME…(Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierAlright, so Green Ronin has released the Time Traveler’s Codex for Mutants & Masterminds, and we’re all interested. Time travel is a big deal, but you look at this development and you think “What has this got to do with me? Surely time travel and Green Ronin are in the pocket of Big Chronomancy. How can […]
AGE Specializations in Blue Rose (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Stephen Michael DiPesaToday marks the launch of the Adventures in Aldea series, starting with the Mistress of Gloomhale Manor for just .99! (Previously published in the Six of Swords adventure anthology.) If you enjoy that one, be sure to check out The Sixth Beast, also on sale today, and come back each day this week for another […]
Modern AGE in Rough Times (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardHello Modern AGE fans. I hope you are your families are doing well. COVID-19 has obviously made gaming tricky for some of you. As for me, I run my game using the Threefold setting most Tuesdays. I use Zoom with a little Discord on the side so I can see and hear my friends, who […]
Ronin Report, April 15, 2020
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Report /by Chris Pramastl;dr: Things in distribution are challenging; Green Ronin is adapting and new releases are on the way. Please buy our PDFs if you’d like to support us during the current crisis.
Mutants & Masterminds: TIME FOR TIME! (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierTime Traveler’s Codex is now available in PDF format in our Green Ronin Online Store. When you think about your favorite superhero teams—the Justice League, the X-men, the Ninja Turtles, the Sailor Senshi—what do they all have in common? It’s not masks or tights or even tragic backstories. None of those are universal. No, to […]
Mutants & Masterminds: Reign, Reign, Go Away
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierBetween last month’s new offering Rise of the Tyrant, and this week’s own The Reign of Cats and Dogs, the all new lineup of Astonishing Adventures is in full swing, with superhero action and adventure for your Mutants & Masterminds table. Rise of the Tyrant brought a sinister plot by an extradimensional warlord, using the […]
The Expanse: The Science of Story (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Ian LemkeIt is often remarked that The Expanse novels are “hard” science fiction. While this may or may not be the case, it is undoubtedly true that the science is an important aspect. However, what really makes these novels shine are the characters and the story. If you want to delve into whether The Expanse is […]
Salvage Op: An Adventure PDF for The Expanse RPG
/in Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Evan SassIt can be hard to keep track of the days when you’re on the float, but our hand terminals tell us it’s Monday. In honor of another week spent breathing recycled air, we’ve put Salvage Op, a short adventure PDF for The Expanse RPG, up for sale. (If you backed our Kickstarter campaign for The […]
Fantasy AGE Lairs: The Night Market (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Ian LemkeThis week I get to branch out from The Expanse RPG and explore one of the Green Ronin lines I’m less familiar with, Fantasy AGE. Specifically, I’m looking at Fantasy AGE Lairs (Pre-order and PDF on sale now!). I’m most familiar with the AGE system from The Expanse and Modern AGE but having read the […]
Mongrelfolk in Blue Rose (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Stephen Michael DiPesaI’m a dog person. Thus, when I first started working on Blue Rose, it made me just a little bit sad to learn that Aldea had literal dog-people, but they’re shadowspawn monsters whose only avenue for participating in civilization involves hiring out as mercenaries to the most unscrupulous and undiscerning of employers. One of the […]
COVID-19 IMPACT ON GREEN RONIN OPERATIONS
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Report /by Chris PramasTo All Our Community, As the nation and the world take the vital and necessary steps to slow and limit the spread of Covid-19, Green Ronin Publishing will be suspending shipment of wholesale and online orders of hardcopy products, in order to keep distribution, warehouse, and shipping workers safe. Our distribution partners are doing the […]
The Year 2000: Green Ronin Begins!
/in Freeport, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Chris PramasLast time I wrote about the pre-history of Green Ronin, basically covering my start in the industry and how I navigated the 90s. When I left off the story, I was working at Wizards of the Coast. The first 18 months or so I was at WotC, I was working in what was still called […]
Fantasy AGE Lairs: Getting More Than Gothic with the Ghoul Prince (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardFantasy AGE Lairs presents a set of places, situations, and possible scenarios revolving around a small set of signature antagonists. I may be Modern AGE developer, but I’m also a Fantasy AGE writer and player, and I was looking forward to this book for a while. Jack Norris did a fantastic job here and I […]
Rise of the Tyrant: An Astonishing Adventures PDF For Mutants & Masterminds
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Evan SassRise of the Tyrant, a new Astonishing Adventure for Mutants & Masterminds, is now available in our Green Ronin Online Store! Exciting adventure awaits!
Stay Home and Play Fantasy AGE … For Free!
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), The Expanse RPG /by Chris PramasFantasy AGE for free: As many of you already know, we are having a 20th anniversary sale right now that puts almost everything in our online store on sale at 20% off until April 20. We are taking that a step further by making the Fantasy AGE Basic Rulebook PDF free for the duration of […]
School’s. In. For. EVER! (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierGreen Ronin is a small family, so usually we all pitch in and help each other with mutual projects, doing some outlining or writing or editing or proofing on each other’s lines when things get tight, so it’s always exciting and special when a new product comes out that you haven’t seen until it’s newly […]
The Pre-History of Green Ronin Publishing
/in Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Chris PramasI’m flying down to Reno this week for the GAMA Expo (formerly known as the GAMA Trade Show), which is the major trade show of the tabletop gaming industry. Thinking about my impending trip brought my mind back to my very first GAMA Trade Show in 1996. This era was the pre-history of Green Ronin. […]
Blue Rose Bundle at Bundle of Holding
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News /by Evan SassBlue Rose Bundle: on BundleOfHolding.com: Now through March 30, 2020, you can get tons of great gaming and fiction PDFs at an amazing price, while doing good! Blue Rose Bundle Starter Collection For just $7.95 you can get the Starter Collection of four complete .PDFs, including the complete, full-color Blue Rose core rulebook, Joseph Carriker’s […]
Fantasy AGE Lairs: The Battle of the Beleaguered GM (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonI was originally going to title this “The Lair of the Lazy GM” to get the reference to the new Fantasy AGE Lairs book in there, but decided that wasn’t fair, because it’s not a matter of laziness, but one of time. It should come as little surprise that I loved creating things for my […]
Green Ronin 20 For 20 Sale
/in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying News, Blue Rose RPG News, Chronicle System, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ork!, Pathfinder, The Expanse RPG, Titansgrave, True20 news /by Chris Pramas20 For 20 Sale 2020 is Green Ronin’s 20th anniversary, and to celebrate we’re having a site wide sale of all our games and accessories. Everything in the Green Ronin Online Store is for sale for 20% off through April 20, 2020, except for active pre-orders like Lairs for Fantasy AGE and Enemies & Allies […]