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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Fantasy AGE Lairs is now available for pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store. When you place the pre-order in your cart, you’ll be offered the PDF version of Lairs for just $5! To take advantage of the deal, make sure to press “Add To Cart” on the pop-up. If you’d rather support your local […]
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The Warflower inspires medieval sword masters and drug dealing alchemists alike, to discover its secrets—and kill for them. When this obscure 15th Century book gets stolen, strange, violent factions battle over its destiny, influenced by hidden forces who want the book’s secrets for themselves. Your team must uncover the secret contained in the Warflower’s pages—and […]
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I’m not normally a big fan of surprises, but I’ll make an exception for this one. When Joseph Carriker asked me if I’d like to write a Ronin Roundtable about making the jump from freelancer to developer, I was pretty psyched. I first inquired about writing for Green Ronin back in 2011, but my timing […]
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The Mutants & Masterminds RPG is old enough to vote this year. “The World’s Greatest Superhero Roleplaying Game” (tagline credit to the bombastic style of Stan Lee) turns eighteen years old in 2020, as well as Green Ronin Publishing’s 20th Anniversary! Alongside it, Earth-Prime, the official M&M setting also turns eighteen and, with the third […]
Welcome … to The Isle of Dr. Sersei! Today we present another issue in our Astonishing Adventures series for Mutants & Masterminds. Astonishing Adventures: The Isle of Dr. Sersei is an island-based Mutants & Masterminds PDF adventure for 4-6 heroes of Power Level 10. From ignored eco-activist to feared mad scientist, Dr. Sersei will save […]
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Last time I posted about Enemies & Allies I talked about some of the ideas that went into design and development, but I used the chapters on fantasy, horror, and science fiction to illustrate my points. See this post for a rundown on this book of characters and creatures and you’ll notice something: two more […]
Happy Valentine’s Day (or happy Friday if that’s not your thing) from all of us at Green Ronin! We are pleased to present you with Love Bites, a free Mutants & Masterminds novella by Roadtrip to Ruin author Skyer Graye. Things have a tendency to go wrong around privileged Twy and the whirlwind of violence […]
With Enemies & Allies for Modern AGE coming up for release in March (although the pre-order and PDF are available now!), I thought I’d briefly share the thinking that guided my development. On the surface, a book of NPCs and creatures seems pretty straightforward: Cram the game statistics in, do the art notes, and get […]
Pre-Order Enemies & Allies, the Modern AGE RPG NPC and creature sourcebook for modern fantasy, horror, near future SF, technothriller, & crime drama games.
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Modern AGE had a pretty good 2019! Last year saw the release of the Modern AGE Companion, a big book of optional rules and supplementary advice; and Threefold, the second Modern AGE setting (after World of Lazarus) and the all-original flagship setting for the game. The licensed World of Lazarus setting got some additional coverage […]
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Roadtrip To Ruin by Skyler Graye is a new Mutants & Masterminds novel from Nisaba Press, available for preorder and as epub and PDF eBooks, in our Green Ronin Online Store. (Print novel and two-formats-in-one eBook product are sold separately.) A construct, a shapechanger, a demon, a fighter, and a talking Pomeranian hit the road […]
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Last time I got so interested in Enemies & Allies’ cover I neglected to really get into the book’s contents. Let me correct that now. In short, Enemies & Allies is a book of Non-Player Characters and creatures for Modern AGE, but it’s a bit more than a manual of, er, “monsters.” The book contains […]
This time every January I write a message about our plans for the coming year. This is a special occasion though because 2020 is Green Ronin’s 20th year in business! We’ll be talking a lot more about that all year, looking back at our history and how we got here. I can say that when […]
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We are pleased to present Astonishing Adventures: Power Play, an urban Mutants & Masterminds adventure PDF for 4-6 heroes of PL 10! Power Play is now available in our Green Ronin Online Store. Bizarre heists and gang warfare rock the city as a new criminal organization—the Black Rose Syndicate—begins to seize control of the underworld. […]
Get Fantasy AGE RPG Basic Rulebook for 20% off in our Australian Bushfires Relief Sale, now through the end of January. As you’ve probably heard, bushfires have been ravaging Australia for weeks. This is another example of natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, and the results have been catastrophic. So far 18 million acres of […]
Enemies & Allies is Modern AGE RPG’s next release, due to hit stores this first quarter of 2020. Enemies & Allies is one of three Modern AGE books besides the Modern AGE Basic Rulebook that can be considered “core” releases. The Modern AGE Companion is the big book of rules options, while the Modern AGE […]
Brave heroes stand up to stop super-powered opponents whose abilities place them beyond the reach of most law enforcement. But what’s the villains plot? How do they lay the groundwork? And how do they react once a band of meddling kids starts sniffing around their scheme? It’s not a secret that Mutants & Masterminds is […]
Everyone at Green Ronin would like to wish you the very best this Holiday Season, and we’ll see you soon in the new year! Green Ronin Publishing will be closed from today, December 22nd and will return on January 6th.
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You can now pre-order Abzu’s Bounty, an adventure path for The Expanse RPG, though our Green Ronin Online Store. When you do, the store software will offer you the PDF version for just $5, so make sure to click the Add To Cart button in the pop-up window. If print books aren’t your thing, you […]
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I love working on book covers. It’s not my primary skill set, but I’ve done enough now to feel vaguely competent, and I’ve gotten to work with some incredible artists, so I’ve learned a lot. But this is the first time I’ve written “The Pomeranian is the wrong shade of green. We need him to […]
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Orbit and Green Ronin are partnering up to present a drawing for fans of The Expanse. (Open to US residents only. Ends 1/2/2020.) One lucky winner will get the chance to win a boxed set of the first three books in hardcover that has been signed by the cast of The Expanse show, The Expanse RPG core […]
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One of the fascinating things about jumping in as a game line developer after the game is pretty well established is that you have to go from a casual fan of the game (and it’s various products) to a real expert. That process takes time – I’m still not as expert as I’d like to […]
Green Ronin is at PAX Unplugged this weekend, exhibiting in booth 3649 in the Expo Hall and running games all weekend (with the able assistance of our Freebooters) in the Tabletop Freeplay hall.
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It’s almost here! Kickstarter backers of The Expanse Roleplaying Game should be on the lookout for the PDF of Abzu’s Bounty this coming week. Pre-orders and PDFs will be available on the Green Ronin website soon after that, and those of you at PAX Unplugged will have a chance to get your hands on physical […]
So, here I am the Fantasy AGE developer with tons and tons of d20 adventures sitting on my shelves. A lot of them are really cool concepts, from a tour through the waters around Freeport to more than a hundred Adventure Path volumes from my former employer. I definitely want to run more Fantasy AGE […]
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Green Ronin is very excited to be attending PAX Unplugged again this year. PAX Unplugged is Penny Arcade’s completely analog convention. It’s become known as the convention where people actually play games – a lot of them! Crazy, right? So, if you are in Philadelphia the weekend of December 6 – 8, please come join […]
Abzu’s Bounty, the first campaign for The Expanse RPG, is almost ready to go. The layout is complete, and we’re waiting for a few final pieces from the artists. And speaking of art, I want to take a moment to say that the artwork in this book is gorgeous! It has everything you’d expect to […]
Me am understand you am following hype and word of mouth. Mouths am stupid, except for eating! And insults! Me am hear of game called “The Expanse.” It am based on “book:” little marks on sliced up trees! Trees am stupid. If trees am sliced up, it means they am also weak! Could not fight […]
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With Halloween fast approaching, this is a time for seasonal merriment, and there are few things merrier than punching self-important super villains in the face! To celebrate this spooky time of year—a favorite around the Green Ronin offices—we’ve prepared a special treat: A free adventure for Mutants & Masterminds, Third Edition! Nothing to Fear is […]
It all started a little over two years ago when Steve Kenson asked me if I’d be interested in writing for the forthcoming roleplaying game based on The Expanse novels by James S.A. Corey. I jumped at the opportunity not only because was I looking for freelance work, but I was a huge fan of […]
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“The door of the Great Tower of Uln finally shatters inward, sending splinters flying. It turns out it’s been smashed by a Blade Troll, like the one you fought in the Polemarsh, but bigger, and better-armored. Okay Amanda, it’s your turn. Your mage Soidhe is still on top of the tower, though she can see […]
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From the very founding of the kingdom of Aldis, its Sovereigns have been beacons of hope, catalysts for change, and exemplars of Aldin ideals to the best of their ability. Anyone who has played a game of Blue Rose can’t miss the importance and impact of the setting’s Sovereigns, even if they never make an […]
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Threefold is in stores now, though you can of course get it from us, too. I’ve used a lot of words to, frankly, sell you on this setting, for my selfish advantage and because I think you’ll really like it. I like to think it has a thematic core that comparable wide-open settings lack. Threefold […]
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Not too long ago I said I’d talk about Threefold’s speculative fantasy concept. What is it? While you can play any genre in this vast Modern AGE setting, we wanted to create a distinct default way to run the game. Speculative fantasy describes Threefold’s ability to ask, “What if?”—what if Earth were just one […]
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Pit of Vipers, Blue Rose novel by Joseph D. Carriker, Jr.: Spry Robin visits Serpent’s Haven to fulfill a promise, but conspiracy strikes. He and Ydah will need all their cunning to escape alive.
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Sometimes, stories don’t tie up as neatly as we might like. In February, we released Shadowtide, the first novel from Nisaba Press set in Green Ronin’s Blue Rose game setting. Shadowtide’s story focuses on a trio of the Sovereign’s Finest who are far from home in the hive of scum and smugglers known as Serpent’s […]
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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 Chronicle System, 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 AGE RPG, 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 […]
Fantasy AGE Lairs Pre-Order and PDF
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News /by Evan SassFantasy AGE Lairs is now available for pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store. When you place the pre-order in your cart, you’ll be offered the PDF version of Lairs for just $5! To take advantage of the deal, make sure to press “Add To Cart” on the pop-up. If you’d rather support your local […]
Warflower (Modern AGE Missions PDF) Now Available
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Evan SassThe Warflower inspires medieval sword masters and drug dealing alchemists alike, to discover its secrets—and kill for them. When this obscure 15th Century book gets stolen, strange, violent factions battle over its destiny, influenced by hidden forces who want the book’s secrets for themselves. Your team must uncover the secret contained in the Warflower’s pages—and […]
From Freelance to Dev (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Chronicle System, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Stephen Michael DiPesaI’m not normally a big fan of surprises, but I’ll make an exception for this one. When Joseph Carriker asked me if I’d like to write a Ronin Roundtable about making the jump from freelancer to developer, I was pretty psyched. I first inquired about writing for Green Ronin back in 2011, but my timing […]
Leap Day Sale! All Fantasy AGE PDFs 10% Off
/in Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Titansgrave /by Evan SassTime Goes By (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table /by Steve KensonThe Mutants & Masterminds RPG is old enough to vote this year. “The World’s Greatest Superhero Roleplaying Game” (tagline credit to the bombastic style of Stan Lee) turns eighteen years old in 2020, as well as Green Ronin Publishing’s 20th Anniversary! Alongside it, Earth-Prime, the official M&M setting also turns eighteen and, with the third […]
Astonishing Adventures: The Isle of Dr. Sersei (Mutants & Masterminds PDF)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Evan SassWelcome … to The Isle of Dr. Sersei! Today we present another issue in our Astonishing Adventures series for Mutants & Masterminds. Astonishing Adventures: The Isle of Dr. Sersei is an island-based Mutants & Masterminds PDF adventure for 4-6 heroes of Power Level 10. From ignored eco-activist to feared mad scientist, Dr. Sersei will save […]
Modern AGE’s Enemies & Allies: Getting Normal (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardLast time I posted about Enemies & Allies I talked about some of the ideas that went into design and development, but I used the chapters on fantasy, horror, and science fiction to illustrate my points. See this post for a rundown on this book of characters and creatures and you’ll notice something: two more […]
Love Bites: A FREE Mutants & Masterminds Novella (ePub & PDF)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassHappy Valentine’s Day (or happy Friday if that’s not your thing) from all of us at Green Ronin! We are pleased to present you with Love Bites, a free Mutants & Masterminds novella by Roadtrip to Ruin author Skyer Graye. Things have a tendency to go wrong around privileged Twy and the whirlwind of violence […]
Developer’s Notes for Enemies & Allies (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardWith Enemies & Allies for Modern AGE coming up for release in March (although the pre-order and PDF are available now!), I thought I’d briefly share the thinking that guided my development. On the surface, a book of NPCs and creatures seems pretty straightforward: Cram the game statistics in, do the art notes, and get […]
Pre-Order Enemies & Allies; PDF Available Now
/in Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG /by Evan SassPre-Order Enemies & Allies, the Modern AGE RPG NPC and creature sourcebook for modern fantasy, horror, near future SF, technothriller, & crime drama games.
Modern AGE in 2020 (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardModern AGE had a pretty good 2019! Last year saw the release of the Modern AGE Companion, a big book of optional rules and supplementary advice; and Threefold, the second Modern AGE setting (after World of Lazarus) and the all-original flagship setting for the game. The licensed World of Lazarus setting got some additional coverage […]
Roadtrip To Ruin, A New Mutants & Masterminds Novel
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassRoadtrip To Ruin by Skyler Graye is a new Mutants & Masterminds novel from Nisaba Press, available for preorder and as epub and PDF eBooks, in our Green Ronin Online Store. (Print novel and two-formats-in-one eBook product are sold separately.) A construct, a shapechanger, a demon, a fighter, and a talking Pomeranian hit the road […]
Modern AGE Enemies & Allies: What’s In It? (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardLast time I got so interested in Enemies & Allies’ cover I neglected to really get into the book’s contents. Let me correct that now. In short, Enemies & Allies is a book of Non-Player Characters and creatures for Modern AGE, but it’s a bit more than a manual of, er, “monsters.” The book contains […]
20 Years of Green Ronin! (Ronin Roundtable 2020 preview)
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Card Games, Chronicle System, Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ork!, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Chris PramasThis time every January I write a message about our plans for the coming year. This is a special occasion though because 2020 is Green Ronin’s 20th year in business! We’ll be talking a lot more about that all year, looking back at our history and how we got here. I can say that when […]
Astonishing Adventures: Power Play (Mutants & Masterminds PDF)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News /by Evan SassWe are pleased to present Astonishing Adventures: Power Play, an urban Mutants & Masterminds adventure PDF for 4-6 heroes of PL 10! Power Play is now available in our Green Ronin Online Store. Bizarre heists and gang warfare rock the city as a new criminal organization—the Black Rose Syndicate—begins to seize control of the underworld. […]
Australian Bushfires Relief Sale
/in Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News /by Chris PramasGet Fantasy AGE RPG Basic Rulebook for 20% off in our Australian Bushfires Relief Sale, now through the end of January. As you’ve probably heard, bushfires have been ravaging Australia for weeks. This is another example of natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, and the results have been catastrophic. So far 18 million acres of […]
Explaining the Cover of Enemies & Allies (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardEnemies & Allies is Modern AGE RPG’s next release, due to hit stores this first quarter of 2020. Enemies & Allies is one of three Modern AGE books besides the Modern AGE Basic Rulebook that can be considered “core” releases. The Modern AGE Companion is the big book of rules options, while the Modern AGE […]
HEED THE CALL TO ADVENTURE! (Ronin Roundtable)
/in DC Adventures News, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierBrave heroes stand up to stop super-powered opponents whose abilities place them beyond the reach of most law enforcement. But what’s the villains plot? How do they lay the groundwork? And how do they react once a band of meddling kids starts sniffing around their scheme? It’s not a secret that Mutants & Masterminds is […]
Happy Holidays from Green Ronin Publishing!
/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 TemplarEveryone at Green Ronin would like to wish you the very best this Holiday Season, and we’ll see you soon in the new year! Green Ronin Publishing will be closed from today, December 22nd and will return on January 6th.
Abzu’s Bounty Pre-Order and PDF
/in Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Evan SassYou can now pre-order Abzu’s Bounty, an adventure path for The Expanse RPG, though our Green Ronin Online Store. When you do, the store software will offer you the PDF version for just $5, so make sure to click the Add To Cart button in the pop-up window. If print books aren’t your thing, you […]
Roadtrip to Ruin: a new Mutants & Masterminds novel (Ronin Roundtable)
/in Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Jaym GatesI love working on book covers. It’s not my primary skill set, but I’ve done enough now to feel vaguely competent, and I’ve gotten to work with some incredible artists, so I’ve learned a lot. But this is the first time I’ve written “The Pomeranian is the wrong shade of green. We need him to […]
Orbit and Green Ronin Partner Up For The Expanse Drawing
/in Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Evan SassOrbit and Green Ronin are partnering up to present a drawing for fans of The Expanse. (Open to US residents only. Ends 1/2/2020.) One lucky winner will get the chance to win a boxed set of the first three books in hardcover that has been signed by the cast of The Expanse show, The Expanse RPG core […]
Fantasy AGE: Campaign Builder’s Guide – More Than a GM Guide (Ronin Roundtable)
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, Titansgrave /by Owen StephensOne of the fascinating things about jumping in as a game line developer after the game is pretty well established is that you have to go from a casual fan of the game (and it’s various products) to a real expert. That process takes time – I’m still not as expert as I’d like to […]
Green Ronin Is At PAX Unplugged
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Critical Role, Dragon Age RPG News, Events: Freebooter, Events: Green Ronin Official, Events: Staff Appearances, Fifth Edition, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ork!, The Expanse RPG /by Evan SassGreen Ronin is at PAX Unplugged this weekend, exhibiting in booth 3649 in the Expo Hall and running games all weekend (with the able assistance of our Freebooters) in the Tabletop Freeplay hall.
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/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Ian LemkeIt’s almost here! Kickstarter backers of The Expanse Roleplaying Game should be on the lookout for the PDF of Abzu’s Bounty this coming week. Pre-orders and PDFs will be available on the Green Ronin website soon after that, and those of you at PAX Unplugged will have a chance to get your hands on physical […]
Fantasy AGE and You – Using Adventures from Other Games
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Owen StephensSo, here I am the Fantasy AGE developer with tons and tons of d20 adventures sitting on my shelves. A lot of them are really cool concepts, from a tour through the waters around Freeport to more than a hundred Adventure Path volumes from my former employer. I definitely want to run more Fantasy AGE […]
PAX Unplugged and Freebooting
/in A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying News, AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Chronicle System, Critical Role, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Fifth Edition, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ork!, Pathfinder, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG, The Lost Citadel /by Veronica TemplarGreen Ronin is very excited to be attending PAX Unplugged again this year. PAX Unplugged is Penny Arcade’s completely analog convention. It’s become known as the convention where people actually play games – a lot of them! Crazy, right? So, if you are in Philadelphia the weekend of December 6 – 8, please come join […]
Abzu’s Bounty is Coming Soon!
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Ian LemkeAbzu’s Bounty, the first campaign for The Expanse RPG, is almost ready to go. The layout is complete, and we’re waiting for a few final pieces from the artists. And speaking of art, I want to take a moment to say that the artwork in this book is gorgeous! It has everything you’d expect to […]
You Am Get Ork Too!!!
/in Green Ronin News, Green Ronin Presents, Ork!, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardMe am understand you am following hype and word of mouth. Mouths am stupid, except for eating! And insults! Me am hear of game called “The Expanse.” It am based on “book:” little marks on sliced up trees! Trees am stupid. If trees am sliced up, it means they am also weak! Could not fight […]
Spooky Superhero Times!
/in DC Adventures News, Green Ronin News, Mutants & Masterminds News, Ronin Round Table, Sentinels of Earth-Prime /by Crystal FrasierWith Halloween fast approaching, this is a time for seasonal merriment, and there are few things merrier than punching self-important super villains in the face! To celebrate this spooky time of year—a favorite around the Green Ronin offices—we’ve prepared a special treat: A free adventure for Mutants & Masterminds, Third Edition! Nothing to Fear is […]
Abzu’s Bounty, a campaign for The Expanse Roleplaying Game
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Ian LemkeIt all started a little over two years ago when Steve Kenson asked me if I’d be interested in writing for the forthcoming roleplaying game based on The Expanse novels by James S.A. Corey. I jumped at the opportunity not only because was I looking for freelance work, but I was a huge fan of […]
What’s the “Deal” With Fantasy AGE Arcana Cards?
/in AGE RPG, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table /by Owen Stephens“The door of the Great Tower of Uln finally shatters inward, sending splinters flying. It turns out it’s been smashed by a Blade Troll, like the one you fought in the Polemarsh, but bigger, and better-armored. Okay Amanda, it’s your turn. Your mage Soidhe is still on top of the tower, though she can see […]
Ronin Round Table: Sovereigns of the Blue Rose Introduction
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerFrom the very founding of the kingdom of Aldis, its Sovereigns have been beacons of hope, catalysts for change, and exemplars of Aldin ideals to the best of their ability. Anyone who has played a game of Blue Rose can’t miss the importance and impact of the setting’s Sovereigns, even if they never make an […]
Threefold and the Future of Modern AGE
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardThreefold is in stores now, though you can of course get it from us, too. I’ve used a lot of words to, frankly, sell you on this setting, for my selfish advantage and because I think you’ll really like it. I like to think it has a thematic core that comparable wide-open settings lack. Threefold […]
GMing Threefold with Speculative Fantasy
/in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table /by Malcolm SheppardNot too long ago I said I’d talk about Threefold’s speculative fantasy concept. What is it? While you can play any genre in this vast Modern AGE setting, we wanted to create a distinct default way to run the game. Speculative fantasy describes Threefold’s ability to ask, “What if?”—what if Earth were just one […]
Pit of Vipers: A Blue Rose Novella by Joseph D. Carriker Jr.
/in Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction) /by Evan SassPit of Vipers, Blue Rose novel by Joseph D. Carriker, Jr.: Spry Robin visits Serpent’s Haven to fulfill a promise, but conspiracy strikes. He and Ydah will need all their cunning to escape alive.
Ronin Round Table: Pit of Vipers
/in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Ronin Round Table /by Joseph D. CarrikerSometimes, stories don’t tie up as neatly as we might like. In February, we released Shadowtide, the first novel from Nisaba Press set in Green Ronin’s Blue Rose game setting. Shadowtide’s story focuses on a trio of the Sovereign’s Finest who are far from home in the hive of scum and smugglers known as Serpent’s […]