Sacred Band acquired by Nisaba Press. Joseph Carriker’s LGBTQ+ superhero novel to be rereleased in 2020, and its sequel book, Twilight Venture, in 2021.
Nisaba Journal Issue 3 is now available for purchase and download. For $6.99 you get three formats: PDF, epub, and mobi. Nisaba Journal Open the Nisaba Journal and immerse yourself in original fiction gathered from your favorite worlds. Issue 3 collects five tales from two of Green Ronin’s most popular settings—Blue Rose and Mutants & Masterminds—and offers ideas […]
Height of the Storm by Aaron Rosenberg is a new Mutants & Masterminds novel from Nisaba Press, available for preorder and in three formats of ebook (epub, mobi, and PDF), in our Green Ronin Online Store. Lindsey’s life changed the night she saw her beloved grandfather in his superhero guise for the first time. It […]
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Threefold, which premiered at Gen Con and hits stores September 3, is a new setting for Modern AGE, allowing characters to explore numerous worlds connected to science, magic, and psychic forces. It’s very, very big—one universe isn’t enough to contain it! Reviewer Jeremiah McCoy says it feels like a TV show with ten seasons of […]
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In our last Mutants & Mastermind’s Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide preview, I showed off some of the new faces populating the game, including my beloved Jobber villain archetype. But the Deluxe GMG is more than just a new gallery of rogues! One area I’ve struggled with the third edition of Mutants & Masterminds has been adventure […]
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For the last two weeks I’ve written about Threefold’s Sodality (Part 1 | Part 2), one of the two leading factions for Player Characters in this new Modern AGE setting. The Sodality’s focus is outward, across numerous Otherworlds. Earth is a matter for its allies in a secret global state, the Peridexion. And of the […]
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GREEN RONIN TO PUBLISH THE FIFTH SEASON ROLEPLAYING GAME N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy Comes to the World of RPGs August 2, 2019—SEATTLE, WA: Green Ronin Publishing announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with N.K. Jemisin to create a roleplaying game based on her critically acclaimed Broken Earth series. Each book […]
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It’s the first day of Gen Con, and visitors to Booth 929 are finding our latest releases and advance copies of our upcoming books for sale. But even if you’re not at Gen Con, you can get in on the fun, too! When you pre-order Threefold and the Mutants & Masterminds Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide through our Green Ronin Online Store, you’ll be offered the PDF version for just $5! If you prefer to spend your money at your local store, make sure they know about our GR Preorder Plus program. If they sign up, you can get a coupon for the same $5 PDF deal through them!
It’s almost time for the Best Four Days in Gaming and the first sign of the end of summer, and we’re scrambling to see what new games we’ll be playing in September – but we couldn’t find anything! Every year tons of new games being released at Gen Con, or at least that’s how it’s […]
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Happy Monday, and Happy Gen Con! In order to get what I like to call “Nerd Mardi Gras” off to a great start, we’re sharing a video blog from the delightful Jess Hartley. Lots of folks probably know that Jess has plenty of experience as both writer and editor, but what you may not […]
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Longtime fans and frustrated newcomers alike have probably noticed that the Mutants & Masterminds Gamemaster’s Guide has been out of print for most of this year. Why retire such a critical rulebook for one of our most popular lines? Well, we didn’t. The original Gamemaster’s Guide was involved in a terrible test-pilot crash, and so […]
Last time in this series I introduced you to the Sodality: Threefold’s faction of planar explorers, diplomats and defenders of the right (at least by the standards of the Vitane transplanar alliance). The Sodality are one of two factions Threefold emphasizes as suitable for Player Characters, though it’s perfectly possible to run a game with […]
Hey folks, Jack back again to talk about the our new Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide. This time I want to talk a bit about the art in the book, how it comes to be, and its utility beyond just looking great. So, with a book like the Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide, where the […]
The Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide is now available for pre-ordering and in PDF format. As usual, when you pre-order the physical book, you can add the PDF version to your order for just $5, to download right away. If you prefer to shop from your local store, make sure they know about Green Ronin Pre-Order […]
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“What do characters do, exactly?” To be honest, I have always had mixed feelings about the core story concept in roleplaying games. Many new games are a tad narrow in focus, with excessively defined goals, at least for my tastes, especially when one of the things I love about RPGs are their looser objectives. Threefold […]
https://greenronin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/scarab.jpg1134758Malcolm Sheppardhttps://greenronin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/RoninBanner-1.pngMalcolm Sheppard2019-07-18 08:23:212019-07-18 08:23:21Trust in the Scarab: Threefold’s Sodality, Part 1
Hey folks, Jack here. As we are getting ready to release the Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide literally any day now, I thought I’d take a moment to answer three of the more common questions I’ve gotten leading up to the release. Hopefully this sheds a bit of light on the book’s content. Q: You […]
Hey, I knew I was going to have to toss a listicle in this series of articles about Threefold, our new, original Modern AGE setting, but better to get it out of the way now instead of leaving it for the dregs, right? If you’ve been following along, you know Threefold takes place in the […]
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Hey folks, Jack here. Today we’re talking about our soon to be released Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide. So what is it? Well, its not a traditional rulebook or adventure… And right there is where I’ve lost some of you. That’s okay. Let’s see if I can bring you back. There’s both a definite need […]
Some of you were lucky enough to get the Free RPG Day Threefold Quickstart, and may have learned a bit about this, our first original Modern AGE setting. If not, you can learn a bit more by reading my last article about Threefold, written before the new Quickstart (which we’ll be able to make available […]
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Superteam Handbook is now available to pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store! As usual, when you pre-order the physical book, you can add the PDF version to your order for just $5, to download right away. If you prefer to shop from your local store, make sure they know about Green Ronin Pre-Order Plus, […]
I’m leaving for Origins tomorrow and over there, Green Ronin may well have copies of the Modern AGE Companion available (though at this time of writing, pre-order is still a possibility). Yet it also happens that Origins will fall across Free RPG Day. Due to the rules of Free RPG Day, which put the spotlight […]
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This week was supposed to be set aside for me to talk about the Modern AGE Companion a little more, but I want to talk about Alejandro (aka Alex, or Al-X) Melchor instead. Alex passed away last week, due to the extended complications of a stroke he suffered in March. Alex worked on every Modern […]
We are pleased to present a new novella for our Mutants & Masterminds line, Lancelot by Richard Lee Byers! The new hero is very helpful, assisting Britannia in putting down rampaging dinosaurs, and helping her rescue hostages. But as two nations escalate a simple question of borders into threatened war, their respective patriotic heroes come […]
Last year, we announced Height of the Storm, the first novel for the Mutants & Masterminds line, by Aaron Rosenberg. Well, we’re counting down the weeks now ‘til publication, so we wanted to give you a sneak peek! Height of the Storm is about a teenager who gets caught up in some pretty big events. […]
The Expanse Roleplaying Game, along with The Expanse Quickstart and GM’s Kit, are just the beginning of the game products for the popular sci-fi series. Green Ronin has more in the works, including two follow-up products that will round out and complete the stretch goals of the successful Kickstarter, and then some. Let’s peer into […]
Last time I was here I gave you a rundown of the Modern AGE Companion, currently at press and available for preorder or just PDF (in our store or at DrivethruRPG). Some of you were surprised our fourth Modern AGE release was already here, but believe me, we’re just getting started. Using the Modern AGE […]
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If you missed the Kickstarter campaign, you can now pre-order both the Expanse Roleplaying Game and the Expanse RPG Game Master’s Kit in our Green Ronin Online Store. The Expanse RPG brings the science fiction universe from James S. A. Corey to the tabletop. Using the Adventure Game Engine (AGE) rules that power Green Ronin’s Fantasy […]
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We’ve had a lot to say about The Expanse Roleplaying Game during the game’s development and successful Kickstarter, so we thought it would be helpful to provide a quick and helpful guide to all things Expanse from Green Ronin Publishing here on our site and elsewhere. First and foremost, the link greenronin.com/blog/category/the-expanse-rpg/ is your key […]
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Modern AGE, but that’s not because activity on the game has slowed down. Quite the opposite; we have three new books and an adventure written, and a new quickstart ready to drop for Free RPG Day on June 15th this year. I can’t cover everything in one […]
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The final season of Game of Thrones has special significance to those of us at Green Ronin Publishing, since we worked with George R.R. Martin on A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying when the successful show was just a concept. If you haven’t checked out the RPG—or even if you have, but your collection […]
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Last week we took a look at the meat of the upcoming SuperTeam Handbook: The team outlines. We took a look at how each team is provided with plenty of material for GMs and players alike to build a campaign around them, using either their own custom characters or the sample characters provided for each […]
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We’ve spent the last few blog entries detailing some of the cool chapters in the SuperTeam Handbook that let you build your team from the ground up for thrilling heroics. One of the most beautiful things about the Mutants & Masterminds system is its flexibility. While we generally sell it as cape-and-cowl set flying […]
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Last time, we made a brief mention of one of my favorite elements of the new Mutants & Masterminds SuperTeam Handbook: Roles. Think of these like the roles in a casting call: you are putting out a call for tall, handsome, and likeable with good comedic timing, but you’re not necessarily looking for Chris Hemsworth […]
For far too long, we here at Green Ronin have stuck our head in the sand and focused entirely on the Mutants & Masterminds game engine, ignoring the many other superhero game systems that came before. And ultimately, that kind of myopia doesn’t benefit anyone but ourselves. Our fans deserve better. We’ve long partnered with […]
The Mutants & Masterminds SuperTeam Handbook, the newest addition to the 3rd edition lineup, is just around the corner. The text is finished. The layout is finished. At this point we’re just waiting on the final art and proofreading! In just a few weeks, it’ll be in your hands, ready to help your table get […]
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Last week Team Ronin made their way to beautiful Reno, Nevada to attend the GAMA Trade Show. GAMA, the Game Manufacturers Association, puts on this show every year for publishers, retailers, and distributors to get together and talk about their products, policies, and industry news. Publishers put up booths in an exhibit hall where retailers […]
I can’t properly express how excited I am to see Return to Freeport in its final, compiled form. This is a project that has been with me for a long time, and I couldn’t be more delighted with the final results. The idea of developing six adventures (by six amazing authors–Crystal Frasier, Jason Keeley, Jody […]
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(This round table contains mild spoilers for Fenris in Dragon Age 2. Yeah, it’s been 8 years but I still meet folks who just started playing it, Inquisition, and even Origins so erring on the side of spoiler alerts) Hey folks, this is Jack here to talk a bit about Faces of Thedas. Now no […]
So the long awaited Faces of Thedas supplement for Dragon Age has just released and is available for print+pdf pre-orders. When I say “long awaited”, we ain’t kidding. From the fans to the writers to myself and the other folks at Green Ronin? We’ve been waiting for this book to come out for some time. […]
The Expanse series of novels details major characters and events that establish the setting where The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes place. Much of this is described in the core book, but when you’re writing an adventure, how much of the “canon” of the setting should affect what you’re writing and, if it does, does it […]
The Expanse RPG tweaks the damage system from the AGE System a bit by changing Health to Fortune, a measure, not of how healthy and durable characters are, but how lucky and “important to the plot” they are (the durability aspect gets covered by a Constitution-based trait called Toughness instead). The “ablative” qualities of Fortune […]
The setting described in The Expanse RPG is just after the events of the first novel, Leviathan Wakes, but that doesn’t mean you have to set your game at that point. You could go back to the beginning of Leviathan Wakes and tell a story that runs parallel to the adventures of the crew of […]
Today we have for you the second issue of our fiction magazine Nisaba Journal: Adventures in the Dark. Nisaba Journal Open the Nisaba Journal and immerse yourself in original fiction gathered from your favorite worlds. Issue Two collects seven tales from three of Green Ronin’s most popular settings—Freeport, Blue Rose, and Mutants & Masterminds—and offers ideas for incorporating the heroes, […]
Pre-ordering is now activated for Dragon Age: Faces of Thedas in our Green Ronin Online Store. In addition, when you pre-order the physical book, you’ll be offered the PDF version for just $5! If you prefer to shop at a local store, make sure they’ve joined our GR Pre-Order Plus program, and you can get […]
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The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may […]
Welcome back to our look at Green Ronin’s 2019 plans. If you missed the first two entries, you can check them out here and here. In this final installment, I’ll be talking about Modern AGE, Fantasy AGE, and Dragon Age. Dragon Age All three of these games are powered by the Adventure Game Engine (AGE), […]
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Welcome back to our look at Green Ronin’s 2019 plans. Yesterday I talked about The Expanse, Nisaba Press, Freeport, and Blue Rose. Today I’ll be talking about Mutants & Masterminds, and 5E. Mutants & Masterminds Mutants & Masterminds is our longest-running RPG, now in its 3rd edition. Last year we released the Basic Hero’s […]
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It’s January and that means it’s that magic time when I talk about Green Ronin’s plans for the coming year. We have quite a lot going on, so this year I’m going to be splitting this message into three parts that we’ll reveal Tuesday to Thursday this week. Today I’ll be talking about The Expanse, […]
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The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may […]
The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may […]
Being a game designer means being a tinkerer, and even as you develop a new game, a part of you thinks “this would be perfect for this other game I want to run…” And so I think every AGE book, regardless of the line, is a stealth toolkit for Gamemasters. At least that’s how I […]
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I am going to share something personal with all ya’ll here today: I love hazards. They’re probably my favorite item in the AGE GM toolkit. They’re a quick, versatile little element that helps you balance out the TNs and damage to throw out when you need to slow your players down or make them think. […]
We are pleased to find The Expanse RPG listed among ENWorld’s 10 Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs of 2019. The game appears in some fine company on that list. The Expanse RPG core rulebook and Game Master’s Kit are on schedule for early 2019 release. ENWorld’s 10 Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs of 2019
A World of Lazarus campaign doesn’t need to include a Lazarus as a player character, and in fact much of the book assumes the players are ordinary people trying to survive in this extraordinary world. The gamemaster’s chapter includes four general campaign models: Family, Serf, Waste, and Resistance, with the first three focusing on the […]
One of the major themes in the Lazarus comic books is humanity: What does it mean to be human and when do you stop being human? At the lowest end, the Waste of the world are treated as livestock to be used or discarded as needed and at worst as pests to be exterminated. The […]
https://greenronin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/download.jpg410800Crystal Frasierhttps://greenronin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/RoninBanner-1.pngCrystal Frasier2018-12-03 08:57:412018-12-03 08:57:41WORLD OF LAZARUS: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN
[Updated Dec. 5 2018: We have extended this sale for another week, though Tuesday, December 11, 2018. Thank you for helping us help wildfire survivors!] We have created poster versions of the Realm of Tal’Dorei Map found in the Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting book. Available in framed, canvas-printed, and unframed versions, this gorgeous map by award-winning […]
Players coming to World of Lazarus from other Green Ronin titles are probably vaguely familiar with the organization rules used in the Dragon Age Roleplaying Game, Fantasy AGE, and A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying. This simple, flexible system lets players take control of a noble family, thieves’ guild, mercenary company, or nation of […]
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Howly Wolfenoot! Recently, we became aware of the existence of a brand new holiday: Wolfenoot! Invented by an seven-year-old New Zealand boy, it celebrates people being kind to dogs. It’s a delightful notion, with households celebrating by eating roast meat and cakes decorated as moons, and the “Spirit of the Wolf” hides small gifts for […]
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The World of Lazarus campaign setting for the Modern AGE roleplaying game is almost ready for launch. As our very first supplement and setting for Modern AGE, we’re both proud and nervous, but being huge fans of the critically-acclaimed comic book, we’re more excited than anything. For those of you who haven’t yet read Greg […]
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We are big Lazarus nerds here at Green Ronin, so we’re giddy to announce that The World of Lazarus setting for the Modern AGE RPG is now available for pre-order and PDF download. And, when you pre-order the physical book, we’ll offer you the PDF version for just $5! If you prefer to shop in […]
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Part III One of the tremendous benefits of the Adventure Game Engine (or AGE) system is how quickly we’ve developed a diversity of applications for it. Not only does this give us a bunch of great games to play, but allows us to mix-and-match them to get ourselves a breadth of options beyond that of […]
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So, this is the capstone on the Orktoberfest series, where I went over some of the notable elements of Ork!: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition. Subtlety is not especially orky, so I’ll lay it out: This was to make you interested in it, so you would buy it. Krom, god of the orks, is a […]
https://greenronin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/world-of-orkness.png447622Malcolm Sheppardhttps://greenronin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/RoninBanner-1.pngMalcolm Sheppard2018-11-05 07:59:012018-11-05 07:59:01Orktoberfest: November, Shmovember—Orks Am Ignore Sour Man Sense of Time!
We’re excited to announce that Shadowtide: A Blue Rose Novel, by Joseph D. Carriker Jr., is now available for pre-ordering and in three electronic formats from our Green Ronin Online Store. When two envoys from the Sovereign’s Finest disappear on a critical mission, an unlikely band of allies, led by Soot, a rhy-crow with dark and […]
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One of the new things about Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition is the role of magic. Ork!’s mastermind, Todd Miller, requested that this edition include better rules for magic. Previously, magic was mostly left to the Orkmaster, who used it as an excuse to have village warlocks (then called shamans—we changed the terminology to […]
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This past couple of Orktoberfest weeks we’ve talked about the basics of Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition (Pre-Order Link!), starting with Frequent Ork Questions (the FOrkQ) and moving to the core system, where you battle a god, and combat, glorious combat! Now in this and previous Ork! articles we’ve tried to get across a […]
Let’s talk about the most important system in all roleplaying games: Combat! Okay, maybe not all roleplaying games. Maybe you play games where it’s all Angsty Debate Team or you roll for self-actualization. Ork! The Roleplaying Game (Like goes to pre-order: KROM DEMANDS PRE-ORDER) brings you back to your senses, filling them with a red […]
Naturally, one of the biggest chapters in Ork! The Roleplaying Game is combat. We’re not going to pretend otherwise. Ork! is a game that unflinchingly tells you the truth: Combat is the most important system in roleplaying games! ARRRRRGH! Ahem. Yet we understand you might want to identify stupid plants or sneak up on people […]
We’re known for many, many different games, from Mutants and Masterminds to Adventure Game Engine system releases like Fantasy AGE, Blue Rose, and Modern AGE, but the oldest game in the lot got submerged beneath it all—until now. I’m talking about Ork! The Roleplaying Game, which ships a new edition into retail channels this month! […]
Each month, Green Ronin selects a worthy cause to support through raised awareness and financial donation. For a limited time, we’ve placed Fantasy AGE Basic Rulebook and Fantasy AGE Companion on sale for 20% off, with 20% of proceeds to be donated to help the amazing work being done by the Innocence Project. Support the Cause. Shop the Sale. About […]
With the arrival of the Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook, the world of Earth Prime has a few new heroes illustrating the eight heroic archetypes presented in the books. Four of these characters also appear in the upcoming Mutants & Masterminds Quickstart as pregenerated player character sheets, and so they needed names, personalities, and […]
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PART II One of the tremendous benefits of the Adventure Game Engine (or AGE) system is how quickly we’ve developed a diversity of applications for it. Not only does this give us a bunch of great games to play, but allows us to mix-and-match them to get ourselves a breadth of options beyond that of […]
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With summer beginning to fade, I thought this would be a good time to give you all a general update about goings on at Green Ronin. These last couple of months have been a whirlwind. We had a great GenCon and released Aldis: City of the Blue Rose, Modern AGE and its GM’s Kit, as […]
Hey folks, Jack here. Long time no Round Table, but we’ve been busy on wrapping the Campaign Builder’s Guide and preparing for the push to finish Lairs, our next book after that for Fantasy AGE. Now originally I had intended to do the third Iconic character from our “core three” heroes featured on our covers […]
Modern Monday isn’t as frequent as it used to be, because Modern AGE is out! Buy it, play it, talk about it online. Today I’m going to talk about what’s happening with the game before finishing off with a cool idea put forth by multiple gamers at Gen Con. (Want to dip your toes in […]
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So, here’s hoping the Expanse RPG Kickstarter burns just as hard at the end as it did in the beginning, because we have lot of momentum to shed before it all comes to an end at 9:00 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 22nd. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for you to back […]
1000% Funded! New Reward Tier! New Stretch Goals! Today we crested $300,000 in The Expanse RPG Kickstarter, so we are now 1000% funded. Thank you, backers! We are beyond psyched at the response and we’ve still got 8 days to go. At $300,000 we unlocked the James S.A. Corey Flash Fiction stretch goal. As part […]
I’ve been back from Gen Con for nearly a week, having carried back some great memories—and annoying microorganisms. I got “con crud” in whatever form managed to hit my throat, chest and sinuses, while mixing in a fever. I’m running hot right now. And yet, through the haze of my illness, I remember many, many […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FREEPORT VIDEO GAME COMING IN 2019 Drowning Monkeys Games to Bring Classic Tabletop Setting to CRPGs August 2, 2018—SEATTLE, WA: Green Ronin Publishing and Drowning Monkeys Games are proud to announce the first Computer Role Playing Game (CRPG) based on Green Ronin’s original tabletop fantasy setting Freeport: The City of Adventure. “How […]
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Longtime Green Ronin fans will recall that our very first product, released eighteen years ago, was Ork! The Roleplaying Game. This beer ‘n’ pretzels RPG was a blast to play. We’ve had a lot to do since then, however, and Ork! didn’t see additional releases. Until now! Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition is now available […]
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So, by now, I’m sure you’ve all seen the announcement about Nisaba Press’s first novel, Shadowtide, by Blue Rose’s own, beloved Joe Carriker. Joe turned the final manuscript over to me a couple of months ago, and I worked on the edits while I was in New Orleans for a convention. Readers, this book is […]
The Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook is now available to pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store and through participating brick-and-mortar retailers. And, when you pre-order the physical book, you can get the PDF version right away for just $5! (If your favorite local game or book retailer doesn’t know about the pre-order deal, please […]
The Expanse Roleplaying Game is funding now on Kickstarter. The Expanse RPG brings the science fiction universe of James S. A. Corey’s bestselling novels to tabletop gaming.
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With the arrival of the Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook, the world of Earth Prime has a few new heroes illustrating the eight heroic archetypes presented in the books. Four of these characters also appear in the upcoming Mutants & Masterminds Quickstart as pregenerated player character sheets, and so they needed names, personalities, and […]
Aldis: City of the Blue Rose is now available to pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store and through participating brick-and-mortar retailers.And, when you pre-order the physical book, you can get the PDF version right away for just $5! (If your favorite local game or book retailer doesn’t know about the pre-order deal, please point them […]
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As Mutants & Masterminds developer Crystal Frasier is demonstrating in previews leading up to pre-orders, The Basic Hero’s Handbook has a lot to offer both old and new players interested in the World’s Greatest Superhero RPG. “But what about Gamemasters?” you ask. Fear not! As it happens, The Basic Hero’s Handbook (or M&M Basic […]
Okay, I’ve been busy talking about Modern AGE but there’s another game I’m developing. It’s nastier, brutisher, and shorter—and stylistically, promotes the use of words like “brutisher.” That’s Ork! The Roleplaying Game, 2nd Edition. Ork! was Green Ronin’s first release, and its dank, beer-stained roots can be found in Chris Pramas’ NYC games with Ork! […]
The past few months have been some pretty hard work finishing up the upcoming Blue Rose sourcebook Aldis: City of the Blue Rose. As a developer and a cartography nerd, I love a good city-focused setting book, so being able to help detail the wondrous and near-idyllic capital city at the heart of the Blue […]
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The past few months have been focused on the design and playtesting of the decks of Sentinels of Earth-Prime and I’m happy to report that it’s going great. The fourth version of the playtest decks are currently having their tires kicked and everything is coming together nicely. Earlier this month, both Green Ronin and Greater […]
We are pleased to have three books nominated for Origins Awards. Atlas of Earth-Prime, Blue Rose Narrator’s Kit, and Blue Rose: The AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy are all in the running this year. To celebrate, we’ve put all three books, along with the Mutants & Masterminds Deluxe Hero’s Handbook, on sale at 20% off, in […]
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Yes, Modern AGE is available for print pre-order! This means you can also order the PDF immediately, either on its own, or with your book as part of Green Ronin Pre-Order Plus program. Tell your friends! Post on websites! Don’t believe every placeholder date you see posted in Amazon and vendor sites! Even as we […]
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As we put the finishing touches on the Rogue’s Gallery, the Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook was slowly percolating in the background. Now that it is nearly ready to ship to the printers as well, I’m happy to show the results of several months of work and writing! Mutants & Masterminds is a great game […]
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The Modern AGE Basic Rulebook is now available for pre-ordering in our Green Ronin Online Store and through participating brick-and-mortar retailers! And, when you pre-order the physical book, you can get the PDF version right away for just $5! (If your favorite local game or book retailer doesn’t know about the pre-order deal, please point […]
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Modern AGE is currently undergoing final touches before the advance PDF and preorders start, so this Modern Monday’s going to be a short one talking about genres, modes and the reason we give them special emphasis. The Modern Conundrum Dungeons and Dragons invented its own genre. Yes, it grabbed elements from numerous sources in fantasy […]
PART I One of the tremendous benefits of the Adventure Game Engine (or AGE) system is how quickly we’ve developed a diversity of applications for it. Not only does this give us a bunch of great games to play, but allows us to mix-and-match them to get ourselves a breadth of options beyond that of […]
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Villains, can any superhero game or setting ever really have enough of them? Villains are one of the driving forces in a superhero series, since it is their schemes and plans the heroes are looking to foil, and therefore their motives and activities to call the good guys to take action. The newly […]
Hi folks! It’s Memorial Day, so Modern Monday is coming in a little late. In response to some online questions last week, I want to clarify what the Adventure Game Engine (AGE) roleplaying games are, how they’re connected, and who’s managing them. When I talked about plans for Modern AGE, a few of you were […]
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So, after answering some questions last week, general chatter compels me to talk about what we have planned for Modern AGE. In most cases, I’m going to talk about the current state of each release. Then I’ll answer a common question about how Modern AGE compares to its sister, Fantasy AGE. In Production The following […]
A disease with no Earthly origin strikes. A legendary monster stalks back streets. Refugees from another world hide in our own, afraid of secret authorities. Gates between worlds, a sly demigod and a conspiracy introduce the Modern AGE roleplaying game with its new quickstart! The Modern AGE Quickstart contains streamlined rules for Modern AGE, a […]
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For this Modern Monday I’ve harvested Modern AGE questions from the Ronin Army forums. Instead of just copying and pasting them, I’ve synthesized some repeated questions into stuff I can answer in one go. I also made up a couple of questions I figured you’d want answered. Is it a standalone game? Absolutely. You don’t […]
Sacred Band: Nisaba Press Acquires “Kirkus’s Best Indie Debuts, 2017” Series
/in Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassSacred Band acquired by Nisaba Press. Joseph Carriker’s LGBTQ+ superhero novel to be rereleased in 2020, and its sequel book, Twilight Venture, in 2021.
Nisaba Journal Issue 3 (PDF, mobi, epub)
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassNisaba Journal Issue 3 is now available for purchase and download. For $6.99 you get three formats: PDF, epub, and mobi. Nisaba Journal Open the Nisaba Journal and immerse yourself in original fiction gathered from your favorite worlds. Issue 3 collects five tales from two of Green Ronin’s most popular settings—Blue Rose and Mutants & Masterminds—and offers ideas […]
Height of the Storm, A New Mutants & Masterminds Novel
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassHeight of the Storm by Aaron Rosenberg is a new Mutants & Masterminds novel from Nisaba Press, available for preorder and in three formats of ebook (epub, mobi, and PDF), in our Green Ronin Online Store. Lindsey’s life changed the night she saw her beloved grandfather in his superhero guise for the first time. It […]
Getting Started with Threefold
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardThreefold, which premiered at Gen Con and hits stores September 3, is a new setting for Modern AGE, allowing characters to explore numerous worlds connected to science, magic, and psychic forces. It’s very, very big—one universe isn’t enough to contain it! Reviewer Jeremiah McCoy says it feels like a TV show with ten seasons of […]
THE DELUXE GAMEMASTER’S GUIDE: ADVENTURE TO THE MAX
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierIn our last Mutants & Mastermind’s Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide preview, I showed off some of the new faces populating the game, including my beloved Jobber villain archetype. But the Deluxe GMG is more than just a new gallery of rogues! One area I’ve struggled with the third edition of Mutants & Masterminds has been adventure […]
Threefold’s Aethon: Working for the Righteous Machines
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardFor the last two weeks I’ve written about Threefold’s Sodality (Part 1 | Part 2), one of the two leading factions for Player Characters in this new Modern AGE setting. The Sodality’s focus is outward, across numerous Otherworlds. Earth is a matter for its allies in a secret global state, the Peridexion. And of the […]
Green Ronin To Publish The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game
/in Chronicle System, Green Ronin News /by Evan SassGREEN RONIN TO PUBLISH THE FIFTH SEASON ROLEPLAYING GAME N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy Comes to the World of RPGs August 2, 2019—SEATTLE, WA: Green Ronin Publishing announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with N.K. Jemisin to create a roleplaying game based on her critically acclaimed Broken Earth series. Each book […]
Pre-Order and PDF: Threefold and Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide
/in Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Evan SassIt’s the first day of Gen Con, and visitors to Booth 929 are finding our latest releases and advance copies of our upcoming books for sale. But even if you’re not at Gen Con, you can get in on the fun, too! When you pre-order Threefold and the Mutants & Masterminds Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide through our Green Ronin Online Store, you’ll be offered the PDF version for just $5! If you prefer to spend your money at your local store, make sure they know about our GR Preorder Plus program. If they sign up, you can get a coupon for the same $5 PDF deal through them!
Prepare for Gen Con 2019: A Green Ronin Guide
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Will SobelIt’s almost time for the Best Four Days in Gaming and the first sign of the end of summer, and we’re scrambling to see what new games we’ll be playing in September – but we couldn’t find anything! Every year tons of new games being released at Gen Con, or at least that’s how it’s […]
Shadowtide: Recipes from Aldea!
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerHappy Monday, and Happy Gen Con! In order to get what I like to call “Nerd Mardi Gras” off to a great start, we’re sharing a video blog from the delightful Jess Hartley. Lots of folks probably know that Jess has plenty of experience as both writer and editor, but what you may not […]
Mutants & Masterminds: BIGGER. STRONGER. BETTER. THE DELUXE GAMEMASTER’S GUIDE
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierLongtime fans and frustrated newcomers alike have probably noticed that the Mutants & Masterminds Gamemaster’s Guide has been out of print for most of this year. Why retire such a critical rulebook for one of our most popular lines? Well, we didn’t. The original Gamemaster’s Guide was involved in a terrible test-pilot crash, and so […]
Through All Doors: Threefold’s Sodality, Part 2
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardLast time in this series I introduced you to the Sodality: Threefold’s faction of planar explorers, diplomats and defenders of the right (at least by the standards of the Vitane transplanar alliance). The Sodality are one of two factions Threefold emphasizes as suitable for Player Characters, though it’s perfectly possible to run a game with […]
Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide: Art, Process, and Inspiration
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Jack NorrisHey folks, Jack back again to talk about the our new Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide. This time I want to talk a bit about the art in the book, how it comes to be, and its utility beyond just looking great. So, with a book like the Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide, where the […]
Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide Pre-Order and PDF
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News /by Evan SassThe Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide is now available for pre-ordering and in PDF format. As usual, when you pre-order the physical book, you can add the PDF version to your order for just $5, to download right away. If you prefer to shop from your local store, make sure they know about Green Ronin Pre-Order […]
Trust in the Scarab: Threefold’s Sodality, Part 1
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm Sheppard“What do characters do, exactly?” To be honest, I have always had mixed feelings about the core story concept in roleplaying games. Many new games are a tad narrow in focus, with excessively defined goals, at least for my tastes, especially when one of the things I love about RPGs are their looser objectives. Threefold […]
Fantasy AGE: Campaign Builder’s Guide – Asked and Answered
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Jack NorrisHey folks, Jack here. As we are getting ready to release the Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide literally any day now, I thought I’d take a moment to answer three of the more common questions I’ve gotten leading up to the release. Hopefully this sheds a bit of light on the book’s content. Q: You […]
Threefold: 10 Weird Things in the Metacosm
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardHey, I knew I was going to have to toss a listicle in this series of articles about Threefold, our new, original Modern AGE setting, but better to get it out of the way now instead of leaving it for the dregs, right? If you’ve been following along, you know Threefold takes place in the […]
Fantasy AGE: Campaign Builder’s Guide – Necessary Tools and Hard Sells
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Jack NorrisHey folks, Jack here. Today we’re talking about our soon to be released Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide. So what is it? Well, its not a traditional rulebook or adventure… And right there is where I’ve lost some of you. That’s okay. Let’s see if I can bring you back. There’s both a definite need […]
Charitable Giving Initiative: Freedom Sale For RAICES
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Nicole LindroosShop Mutants & Masterminds products in our Freedom Sale, and raise money for RAICES.
Threefold: What’s in a Name?
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardSome of you were lucky enough to get the Free RPG Day Threefold Quickstart, and may have learned a bit about this, our first original Modern AGE setting. If not, you can learn a bit more by reading my last article about Threefold, written before the new Quickstart (which we’ll be able to make available […]
Superteam Handbook Now Pre-Ordering!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Evan SassSuperteam Handbook is now available to pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store! As usual, when you pre-order the physical book, you can add the PDF version to your order for just $5, to download right away. If you prefer to shop from your local store, make sure they know about Green Ronin Pre-Order Plus, […]
Modern AGE: From the Companion to Threefold
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardI’m leaving for Origins tomorrow and over there, Green Ronin may well have copies of the Modern AGE Companion available (though at this time of writing, pre-order is still a possibility). Yet it also happens that Origins will fall across Free RPG Day. Due to the rules of Free RPG Day, which put the spotlight […]
Remembering Alejandro Melchor
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG, Titansgrave /by Malcolm SheppardThis week was supposed to be set aside for me to talk about the Modern AGE Companion a little more, but I want to talk about Alejandro (aka Alex, or Al-X) Melchor instead. Alex passed away last week, due to the extended complications of a stroke he suffered in March. Alex worked on every Modern […]
Nisaba Press Fiction: Lancelot (Mutants & Masterminds Novella)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassWe are pleased to present a new novella for our Mutants & Masterminds line, Lancelot by Richard Lee Byers! The new hero is very helpful, assisting Britannia in putting down rampaging dinosaurs, and helping her rescue hostages. But as two nations escalate a simple question of borders into threatened war, their respective patriotic heroes come […]
Nisaba Press Update: Height of the Storm!
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Jaym GatesLast year, we announced Height of the Storm, the first novel for the Mutants & Masterminds line, by Aaron Rosenberg. Well, we’re counting down the weeks now ‘til publication, so we wanted to give you a sneak peek! Height of the Storm is about a teenager who gets caught up in some pretty big events. […]
Ronin Roundtable: Expansive Future
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe Expanse Roleplaying Game, along with The Expanse Quickstart and GM’s Kit, are just the beginning of the game products for the popular sci-fi series. Green Ronin has more in the works, including two follow-up products that will round out and complete the stretch goals of the successful Kickstarter, and then some. Let’s peer into […]
Modern Monday: The Companion and Beyond
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardLast time I was here I gave you a rundown of the Modern AGE Companion, currently at press and available for preorder or just PDF (in our store or at DrivethruRPG). Some of you were surprised our fourth Modern AGE release was already here, but believe me, we’re just getting started. Using the Modern AGE […]
The Expanse Roleplaying Game and GM’s Kit: Pre-Order and PDF
/in Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Evan SassIf you missed the Kickstarter campaign, you can now pre-order both the Expanse Roleplaying Game and the Expanse RPG Game Master’s Kit in our Green Ronin Online Store. The Expanse RPG brings the science fiction universe from James S. A. Corey to the tabletop. Using the Adventure Game Engine (AGE) rules that power Green Ronin’s Fantasy […]
The Expanse: Expansive Content
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonWe’ve had a lot to say about The Expanse Roleplaying Game during the game’s development and successful Kickstarter, so we thought it would be helpful to provide a quick and helpful guide to all things Expanse from Green Ronin Publishing here on our site and elsewhere. First and foremost, the link greenronin.com/blog/category/the-expanse-rpg/ is your key […]
Modern Monday: Here Comes the Companion
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardIt’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Modern AGE, but that’s not because activity on the game has slowed down. Quite the opposite; we have three new books and an adventure written, and a new quickstart ready to drop for Free RPG Day on June 15th this year. I can’t cover everything in one […]
Ronin Roundtable: Death Has Many Faces
/in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying News, Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonThe final season of Game of Thrones has special significance to those of us at Green Ronin Publishing, since we worked with George R.R. Martin on A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying when the successful show was just a concept. If you haven’t checked out the RPG—or even if you have, but your collection […]
Superteam Handbook: They Grow Up So Fast
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierLast week we took a look at the meat of the upcoming SuperTeam Handbook: The team outlines. We took a look at how each team is provided with plenty of material for GMs and players alike to build a campaign around them, using either their own custom characters or the sample characters provided for each […]
Team Preview: Red Group
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierWe’ve spent the last few blog entries detailing some of the cool chapters in the SuperTeam Handbook that let you build your team from the ground up for thrilling heroics. One of the most beautiful things about the Mutants & Masterminds system is its flexibility. While we generally sell it as cape-and-cowl set flying […]
SuperTeam Handbook: Buttery Roles
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierLast time, we made a brief mention of one of my favorite elements of the new Mutants & Masterminds SuperTeam Handbook: Roles. Think of these like the roles in a casting call: you are putting out a call for tall, handsome, and likeable with good comedic timing, but you’re not necessarily looking for Chris Hemsworth […]
Announcing Mutants & Masterminds, Powered by Champions!
/in Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierFor far too long, we here at Green Ronin have stuck our head in the sand and focused entirely on the Mutants & Masterminds game engine, ignoring the many other superhero game systems that came before. And ultimately, that kind of myopia doesn’t benefit anyone but ourselves. Our fans deserve better. We’ve long partnered with […]
SuperTeam Handbook: Here Come the heroes
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierThe Mutants & Masterminds SuperTeam Handbook, the newest addition to the 3rd edition lineup, is just around the corner. The text is finished. The layout is finished. At this point we’re just waiting on the final art and proofreading! In just a few weeks, it’ll be in your hands, ready to help your table get […]
Ronin Roundtable: GAMA Trade Show
/in Green Ronin News /by Will SobelLast week Team Ronin made their way to beautiful Reno, Nevada to attend the GAMA Trade Show. GAMA, the Game Manufacturers Association, puts on this show every year for publishers, retailers, and distributors to get together and talk about their products, policies, and industry news. Publishers put up booths in an exhibit hall where retailers […]
Return to Freeport: A Love Letter to Freeport
/in Freeport, Green Ronin News, Pathfinder, Ronin Round Table /by Owen StephensI can’t properly express how excited I am to see Return to Freeport in its final, compiled form. This is a project that has been with me for a long time, and I couldn’t be more delighted with the final results. The idea of developing six adventures (by six amazing authors–Crystal Frasier, Jason Keeley, Jody […]
Faces of Thedas: Yvette? Really?
/in AGE RPG, Dragon Age RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Jack Norris(This round table contains mild spoilers for Fenris in Dragon Age 2. Yeah, it’s been 8 years but I still meet folks who just started playing it, Inquisition, and even Origins so erring on the side of spoiler alerts) Hey folks, this is Jack here to talk a bit about Faces of Thedas. Now no […]
Faces of Thedas: Preview
/in AGE RPG, Dragon Age RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Jack NorrisSo the long awaited Faces of Thedas supplement for Dragon Age has just released and is available for print+pdf pre-orders. When I say “long awaited”, we ain’t kidding. From the fans to the writers to myself and the other folks at Green Ronin? We’ve been waiting for this book to come out for some time. […]
The Expanse: Questions of Canon
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe Expanse series of novels details major characters and events that establish the setting where The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes place. Much of this is described in the core book, but when you’re writing an adventure, how much of the “canon” of the setting should affect what you’re writing and, if it does, does it […]
The Expanse: Doors and Corners
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe Expanse RPG tweaks the damage system from the AGE System a bit by changing Health to Fortune, a measure, not of how healthy and durable characters are, but how lucky and “important to the plot” they are (the durability aspect gets covered by a Constitution-based trait called Toughness instead). The “ablative” qualities of Fortune […]
The Expanse: Starting Points
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe setting described in The Expanse RPG is just after the events of the first novel, Leviathan Wakes, but that doesn’t mean you have to set your game at that point. You could go back to the beginning of Leviathan Wakes and tell a story that runs parallel to the adventures of the crew of […]
Nisaba Journal Issue 2 (PDF, mobi, epub)
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassToday we have for you the second issue of our fiction magazine Nisaba Journal: Adventures in the Dark. Nisaba Journal Open the Nisaba Journal and immerse yourself in original fiction gathered from your favorite worlds. Issue Two collects seven tales from three of Green Ronin’s most popular settings—Freeport, Blue Rose, and Mutants & Masterminds—and offers ideas for incorporating the heroes, […]
Dragon Age: Faces of Thedas Pre-Order and PDF
/in Dragon Age RPG News, Green Ronin News /by Evan SassPre-ordering is now activated for Dragon Age: Faces of Thedas in our Green Ronin Online Store. In addition, when you pre-order the physical book, you’ll be offered the PDF version for just $5! If you prefer to shop at a local store, make sure they’ve joined our GR Pre-Order Plus program, and you can get […]
The Expanse: Space Combat
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may […]
Green Ronin in 2019! Part 3: Dragon Age, Fantasy AGE, and Modern AGE
/in AGE RPG, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table, Titansgrave /by Chris PramasWelcome back to our look at Green Ronin’s 2019 plans. If you missed the first two entries, you can check them out here and here. In this final installment, I’ll be talking about Modern AGE, Fantasy AGE, and Dragon Age. Dragon Age All three of these games are powered by the Adventure Game Engine (AGE), […]
Green Ronin 2019! Part 2: Mutants & Masterminds, Sentinels of Earth-Prime, and 5E
/in Card Games, Critical Role, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime, The Lost Citadel /by Chris PramasWelcome back to our look at Green Ronin’s 2019 plans. Yesterday I talked about The Expanse, Nisaba Press, Freeport, and Blue Rose. Today I’ll be talking about Mutants & Masterminds, and 5E. Mutants & Masterminds Mutants & Masterminds is our longest-running RPG, now in its 3rd edition. Last year we released the Basic Hero’s […]
Green Ronin in 2019! Part 1: The Expanse, Nisaba Press, Freeport, and Blue Rose
/in AGE RPG, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Pathfinder, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Chris PramasIt’s January and that means it’s that magic time when I talk about Green Ronin’s plans for the coming year. We have quite a lot going on, so this year I’m going to be splitting this message into three parts that we’ll reveal Tuesday to Thursday this week. Today I’ll be talking about The Expanse, […]
The Expanse: Power Armor
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may […]
The Expanse: Character Creation!
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may […]
Lazarus: World of Lazarus as a Toolkit
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierBeing a game designer means being a tinkerer, and even as you develop a new game, a part of you thinks “this would be perfect for this other game I want to run…” And so I think every AGE book, regardless of the line, is a stealth toolkit for Gamemasters. At least that’s how I […]
World of Lazarus: Hazardous Contents
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierI am going to share something personal with all ya’ll here today: I love hazards. They’re probably my favorite item in the AGE GM toolkit. They’re a quick, versatile little element that helps you balance out the TNs and damage to throw out when you need to slow your players down or make them think. […]
The Expanse RPG In ENWorld’s 10 Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs of 2019
/in Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Evan SassWe are pleased to find The Expanse RPG listed among ENWorld’s 10 Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs of 2019. The game appears in some fine company on that list. The Expanse RPG core rulebook and Game Master’s Kit are on schedule for early 2019 release. ENWorld’s 10 Most Anticipated Tabletop RPGs of 2019
World of Lazarus: Handling Asymmetric Gameplay
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierA World of Lazarus campaign doesn’t need to include a Lazarus as a player character, and in fact much of the book assumes the players are ordinary people trying to survive in this extraordinary world. The gamemaster’s chapter includes four general campaign models: Family, Serf, Waste, and Resistance, with the first three focusing on the […]
WORLD OF LAZARUS: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Crystal FrasierOne of the major themes in the Lazarus comic books is humanity: What does it mean to be human and when do you stop being human? At the lowest end, the Waste of the world are treated as livestock to be used or discarded as needed and at worst as pests to be exterminated. The […]
Giving Tuesday, 2018: Tal’Dorei Map Wildfire Relief Fund Sale
/in Critical Role, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News /by Evan Sass[Updated Dec. 5 2018: We have extended this sale for another week, though Tuesday, December 11, 2018. Thank you for helping us help wildfire survivors!] We have created poster versions of the Realm of Tal’Dorei Map found in the Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting book. Available in framed, canvas-printed, and unframed versions, this gorgeous map by award-winning […]
World of Lazarus: It’s Time to Organize!
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierPlayers coming to World of Lazarus from other Green Ronin titles are probably vaguely familiar with the organization rules used in the Dragon Age Roleplaying Game, Fantasy AGE, and A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying. This simple, flexible system lets players take control of a noble family, thieves’ guild, mercenary company, or nation of […]
Ronin Round Table: The Wolfenmoot
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerHowly Wolfenoot! Recently, we became aware of the existence of a brand new holiday: Wolfenoot! Invented by an seven-year-old New Zealand boy, it celebrates people being kind to dogs. It’s a delightful notion, with households celebrating by eating roast meat and cakes decorated as moons, and the “Spirit of the Wolf” hides small gifts for […]
Welcome to the World of Lazarus
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Crystal FrasierThe World of Lazarus campaign setting for the Modern AGE roleplaying game is almost ready for launch. As our very first supplement and setting for Modern AGE, we’re both proud and nervous, but being huge fans of the critically-acclaimed comic book, we’re more excited than anything. For those of you who haven’t yet read Greg […]
The World of Lazarus Pre-Order and PDF
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Evan SassWe are big Lazarus nerds here at Green Ronin, so we’re giddy to announce that The World of Lazarus setting for the Modern AGE RPG is now available for pre-order and PDF download. And, when you pre-order the physical book, we’ll offer you the PDF version for just $5! If you prefer to shop in […]
Ronin Round Table: Using the Fantasy AGE Bestiary in Blue Rose
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerPart III One of the tremendous benefits of the Adventure Game Engine (or AGE) system is how quickly we’ve developed a diversity of applications for it. Not only does this give us a bunch of great games to play, but allows us to mix-and-match them to get ourselves a breadth of options beyond that of […]
Orktoberfest: November, Shmovember—Orks Am Ignore Sour Man Sense of Time!
/in Green Ronin News, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardSo, this is the capstone on the Orktoberfest series, where I went over some of the notable elements of Ork!: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition. Subtlety is not especially orky, so I’ll lay it out: This was to make you interested in it, so you would buy it. Krom, god of the orks, is a […]
Shadowtide: A Blue Rose Novel (Print Pre-Order and Three Electronic Formats)
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassWe’re excited to announce that Shadowtide: A Blue Rose Novel, by Joseph D. Carriker Jr., is now available for pre-ordering and in three electronic formats from our Green Ronin Online Store. When two envoys from the Sovereign’s Finest disappear on a critical mission, an unlikely band of allies, led by Soot, a rhy-crow with dark and […]
Orktoberfest: Magic of the Orks!
/in Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardOne of the new things about Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition is the role of magic. Ork!’s mastermind, Todd Miller, requested that this edition include better rules for magic. Previously, magic was mostly left to the Orkmaster, who used it as an excuse to have village warlocks (then called shamans—we changed the terminology to […]
Orktoberfest: Pleasing Krom—and Cheating Him!
/in Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardThis past couple of Orktoberfest weeks we’ve talked about the basics of Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition (Pre-Order Link!), starting with Frequent Ork Questions (the FOrkQ) and moving to the core system, where you battle a god, and combat, glorious combat! Now in this and previous Ork! articles we’ve tried to get across a […]
Orktoberfest: Combat!
/in Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardLet’s talk about the most important system in all roleplaying games: Combat! Okay, maybe not all roleplaying games. Maybe you play games where it’s all Angsty Debate Team or you roll for self-actualization. Ork! The Roleplaying Game (Like goes to pre-order: KROM DEMANDS PRE-ORDER) brings you back to your senses, filling them with a red […]
Orktoberfest: Ork’s System!
/in Green Ronin News, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardNaturally, one of the biggest chapters in Ork! The Roleplaying Game is combat. We’re not going to pretend otherwise. Ork! is a game that unflinchingly tells you the truth: Combat is the most important system in roleplaying games! ARRRRRGH! Ahem. Yet we understand you might want to identify stupid plants or sneak up on people […]
Orktoberfest Begins with: The FOrkQ
/in Green Ronin News, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardWe’re known for many, many different games, from Mutants and Masterminds to Adventure Game Engine system releases like Fantasy AGE, Blue Rose, and Modern AGE, but the oldest game in the lot got submerged beneath it all—until now. I’m talking about Ork! The Roleplaying Game, which ships a new edition into retail channels this month! […]
Charitable Giving Sale: The Innocence Project
/in Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News /by Nicole LindroosEach month, Green Ronin selects a worthy cause to support through raised awareness and financial donation. For a limited time, we’ve placed Fantasy AGE Basic Rulebook and Fantasy AGE Companion on sale for 20% off, with 20% of proceeds to be donated to help the amazing work being done by the Innocence Project. Support the Cause. Shop the Sale. About […]
Ronin Roundtable: THE ARCHETYPES: SOLAR RAY
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierWith the arrival of the Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook, the world of Earth Prime has a few new heroes illustrating the eight heroic archetypes presented in the books. Four of these characters also appear in the upcoming Mutants & Masterminds Quickstart as pregenerated player character sheets, and so they needed names, personalities, and […]
Ronin Round Table: Using the Fantasy AGE Bestiary in Blue Rose
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerPART II One of the tremendous benefits of the Adventure Game Engine (or AGE) system is how quickly we’ve developed a diversity of applications for it. Not only does this give us a bunch of great games to play, but allows us to mix-and-match them to get ourselves a breadth of options beyond that of […]
Ronin Roundtable: Ronin Ramblings!
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Card Games, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ork!, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime, The Expanse RPG /by Chris PramasWith summer beginning to fade, I thought this would be a good time to give you all a general update about goings on at Green Ronin. These last couple of months have been a whirlwind. We had a great GenCon and released Aldis: City of the Blue Rose, Modern AGE and its GM’s Kit, as […]
Ronin Round Table: Minions!
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, Titansgrave /by Jack NorrisHey folks, Jack here. Long time no Round Table, but we’ve been busy on wrapping the Campaign Builder’s Guide and preparing for the push to finish Lairs, our next book after that for Fantasy AGE. Now originally I had intended to do the third Iconic character from our “core three” heroes featured on our covers […]
Modern Monday: What’s Up? And Your Cool Idea From Gen Con
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardModern Monday isn’t as frequent as it used to be, because Modern AGE is out! Buy it, play it, talk about it online. Today I’m going to talk about what’s happening with the game before finishing off with a cool idea put forth by multiple gamers at Gen Con. (Want to dip your toes in […]
Ronin Roundtable: Expanse Kickstarter Flip ‘n’ Burn!
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonSo, here’s hoping the Expanse RPG Kickstarter burns just as hard at the end as it did in the beginning, because we have lot of momentum to shed before it all comes to an end at 9:00 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 22nd. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for you to back […]
The Expanse RPG Kickstarter News
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Chris Pramas1000% Funded! New Reward Tier! New Stretch Goals! Today we crested $300,000 in The Expanse RPG Kickstarter, so we are now 1000% funded. Thank you, backers! We are beyond psyched at the response and we’ve still got 8 days to go. At $300,000 we unlocked the James S.A. Corey Flash Fiction stretch goal. As part […]
Ronin Roundtable: The Expanse Versus Modern AGE
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Malcolm SheppardI’ve been back from Gen Con for nearly a week, having carried back some great memories—and annoying microorganisms. I got “con crud” in whatever form managed to hit my throat, chest and sinuses, while mixing in a fever. I’m running hot right now. And yet, through the haze of my illness, I remember many, many […]
Press Release: Freeport Video Game Coming In 2019
/in Freeport, Green Ronin News /by Evan SassFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FREEPORT VIDEO GAME COMING IN 2019 Drowning Monkeys Games to Bring Classic Tabletop Setting to CRPGs August 2, 2018—SEATTLE, WA: Green Ronin Publishing and Drowning Monkeys Games are proud to announce the first Computer Role Playing Game (CRPG) based on Green Ronin’s original tabletop fantasy setting Freeport: The City of Adventure. “How […]
Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition: Pre-Order and PDF
/in Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents /by Evan SassLongtime Green Ronin fans will recall that our very first product, released eighteen years ago, was Ork! The Roleplaying Game. This beer ‘n’ pretzels RPG was a blast to play. We’ve had a lot to do since then, however, and Ork! didn’t see additional releases. Until now! Ork! The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition is now available […]
Ronin Roundtable: Nisaba Press update!
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Jaym GatesSo, by now, I’m sure you’ve all seen the announcement about Nisaba Press’s first novel, Shadowtide, by Blue Rose’s own, beloved Joe Carriker. Joe turned the final manuscript over to me a couple of months ago, and I worked on the edits while I was in New Orleans for a convention. Readers, this book is […]
Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook: Pre-Order and PDF
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Evan SassThe Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook is now available to pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store and through participating brick-and-mortar retailers. And, when you pre-order the physical book, you can get the PDF version right away for just $5! (If your favorite local game or book retailer doesn’t know about the pre-order deal, please […]
The Expanse Roleplaying Game Kickstarter: Here Comes the Juice!
/in Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Steve KensonThe Expanse Roleplaying Game is funding now on Kickstarter. The Expanse RPG brings the science fiction universe of James S. A. Corey’s bestselling novels to tabletop gaming.
Basic Hero’s Handbook preview: THE ARCHETYPES: ANANSI
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierWith the arrival of the Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook, the world of Earth Prime has a few new heroes illustrating the eight heroic archetypes presented in the books. Four of these characters also appear in the upcoming Mutants & Masterminds Quickstart as pregenerated player character sheets, and so they needed names, personalities, and […]
Aldis: City of the Blue Rose Pre-Order and PDF
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News /by Evan SassAldis: City of the Blue Rose is now available to pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store and through participating brick-and-mortar retailers.And, when you pre-order the physical book, you can get the PDF version right away for just $5! (If your favorite local game or book retailer doesn’t know about the pre-order deal, please point them […]
Ronin Roundtable: Gamemastering Basics
/in DC Adventures News, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Steve KensonAs Mutants & Masterminds developer Crystal Frasier is demonstrating in previews leading up to pre-orders, The Basic Hero’s Handbook has a lot to offer both old and new players interested in the World’s Greatest Superhero RPG. “But what about Gamemasters?” you ask. Fear not! As it happens, The Basic Hero’s Handbook (or M&M Basic […]
Ronin Roundtable: Ork! Lore and More Gore!
/in Green Ronin News, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardOkay, I’ve been busy talking about Modern AGE but there’s another game I’m developing. It’s nastier, brutisher, and shorter—and stylistically, promotes the use of words like “brutisher.” That’s Ork! The Roleplaying Game, 2nd Edition. Ork! was Green Ronin’s first release, and its dank, beer-stained roots can be found in Chris Pramas’ NYC games with Ork! […]
Ronin Round Table: Maps of Aldis Preview
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerThe past few months have been some pretty hard work finishing up the upcoming Blue Rose sourcebook Aldis: City of the Blue Rose. As a developer and a cartography nerd, I love a good city-focused setting book, so being able to help detail the wondrous and near-idyllic capital city at the heart of the Blue […]
Ronin Roundtable: Playtesting and Origins!
/in Card Games, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Chris PramasThe past few months have been focused on the design and playtesting of the decks of Sentinels of Earth-Prime and I’m happy to report that it’s going great. The fourth version of the playtest decks are currently having their tires kicked and everything is coming together nicely. Earlier this month, both Green Ronin and Greater […]
[Charitable Giving] Origins Pride Sale
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Evan SassWe are pleased to have three books nominated for Origins Awards. Atlas of Earth-Prime, Blue Rose Narrator’s Kit, and Blue Rose: The AGE RPG of Romantic Fantasy are all in the running this year. To celebrate, we’ve put all three books, along with the Mutants & Masterminds Deluxe Hero’s Handbook, on sale at 20% off, in […]
Modern Monday: Modern AGE is Out! What’s It About?
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardYes, Modern AGE is available for print pre-order! This means you can also order the PDF immediately, either on its own, or with your book as part of Green Ronin Pre-Order Plus program. Tell your friends! Post on websites! Don’t believe every placeholder date you see posted in Amazon and vendor sites! Even as we […]
Ronin Roundtable: LET’S GET BACK TO BASICS
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierAs we put the finishing touches on the Rogue’s Gallery, the Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook was slowly percolating in the background. Now that it is nearly ready to ship to the printers as well, I’m happy to show the results of several months of work and writing! Mutants & Masterminds is a great game […]
Now Pre-Ordering: Modern AGE Basic Rulebook
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Evan SassThe Modern AGE Basic Rulebook is now available for pre-ordering in our Green Ronin Online Store and through participating brick-and-mortar retailers! And, when you pre-order the physical book, you can get the PDF version right away for just $5! (If your favorite local game or book retailer doesn’t know about the pre-order deal, please point […]
Modern Monday: Genres
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardModern AGE is currently undergoing final touches before the advance PDF and preorders start, so this Modern Monday’s going to be a short one talking about genres, modes and the reason we give them special emphasis. The Modern Conundrum Dungeons and Dragons invented its own genre. Yes, it grabbed elements from numerous sources in fantasy […]
Ronin Round Table: Using the Fantasy AGE Bestiary in Blue Rose
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerPART I One of the tremendous benefits of the Adventure Game Engine (or AGE) system is how quickly we’ve developed a diversity of applications for it. Not only does this give us a bunch of great games to play, but allows us to mix-and-match them to get ourselves a breadth of options beyond that of […]
Ronin Roundtable: Rogues Gallery
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonVillains, can any superhero game or setting ever really have enough of them? Villains are one of the driving forces in a superhero series, since it is their schemes and plans the heroes are looking to foil, and therefore their motives and activities to call the good guys to take action. The newly […]
Too-Modern Tuesday: All the AGEs
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardHi folks! It’s Memorial Day, so Modern Monday is coming in a little late. In response to some online questions last week, I want to clarify what the Adventure Game Engine (AGE) roleplaying games are, how they’re connected, and who’s managing them. When I talked about plans for Modern AGE, a few of you were […]
Modern Monday: What’s Coming?
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardSo, after answering some questions last week, general chatter compels me to talk about what we have planned for Modern AGE. In most cases, I’m going to talk about the current state of each release. Then I’ll answer a common question about how Modern AGE compares to its sister, Fantasy AGE. In Production The following […]
Jump into the Action! Modern AGE Quickstart Is Out!
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Malcolm SheppardA disease with no Earthly origin strikes. A legendary monster stalks back streets. Refugees from another world hide in our own, afraid of secret authorities. Gates between worlds, a sly demigod and a conspiracy introduce the Modern AGE roleplaying game with its new quickstart! The Modern AGE Quickstart contains streamlined rules for Modern AGE, a […]
Modern Monday: Occasionally Asked Questions
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardFor this Modern Monday I’ve harvested Modern AGE questions from the Ronin Army forums. Instead of just copying and pasting them, I’ve synthesized some repeated questions into stuff I can answer in one go. I also made up a couple of questions I figured you’d want answered. Is it a standalone game? Absolutely. You don’t […]