Wanted to share a few interesting items i found over at the Green Ronin web site. Game of Throne fans will really like their new offerings this summer.
A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying (SIFRP)( Game of Thrones)
I think it's fair to say that 2011 was a great year for fans of A
Song of Ice and Fire. A Dance with Dragons was released, HBO's excellent
Game of Thrones TV show debuted, and our
SIFRP Chronicle Starter
was released in time for the holidays. This confluence of events lead
to a big spurt of SIFRP sales and it soon became clear that by 2012 we'd
be out of core rulebooks. We could have just reprinted but the rising
tide of Ice and Fire enthusiasm argued for something grander.
This May we'll be releasing "A Game of Thrones Edition" of A Song of
Ice and Fire Roleplaying. This takes the existing core rulebook and
appends the entirety of the Peril at King's Landing adventure. This will
give you all the rules and a full adventure in one glorious 320 page,
full color package. We've commissioned a new cover from Michael Komarck
that we're expecting any day now. We also replaced a dozen pieces of
interior art, and of course we're fixing errata and such. If you already
have SIFRP, there's no need to panic. Nothing major is changing in the
rules and you don't have to re-buy them. We just want to take the
opportunity to make our core rulebook bigger and better. And having a
sexy new book to sell during season 2 of the TV show is no accident.
We'll be following that up this summer with The Night's Watch. Yes,
it's a full sourcebook about the black clad heroes who hold the Wall.
The book includes rules and advice on running a Night's Watch campaign,
as well as providing the order's history, organization, personalities,
and so on. Then later in the year we'll be doing a SIFRP Starter Set
aimed at introducing the game to new players and gamers. As awesome as
the new edition of SIFRP is going to be, it's not the sort of thing you
want to drop in a newbie's lap and say, "Here, read this!" With all the
attention the novels and TV show are getting, we want to have an
accessible entry point to SIFRP and that'll be the Starter Set.
Another thing the "A Game of Thrones Edition" lets us do is name the
game's system. We've dubbed it the Chronicle System and Hal Mangold is
designing a logo for it. This will allow us to release material that is
useable with the rules but not specific to Westeros. As with the AGE
DLC, you'll see a series of Chronicle System PDFs this year that expand
the rules in different ways. You can use these options in your SIFRP
game if you like or use the rules in other settings.
Mutants & Masterminds and DC Adventures
The year is starting off right for the World's Greatest Superhero RPG. The
Gamemaster's Guide for
Mutants & Masterminds Third Edition is in stores this week. We also just wrapped up the Threat Report series with the
free Atom Family PDF, and started a new PDF series last week called
Power Profiles.
In each Power Profile, Steve Kenson takes a look at a particular type
of super-power in Mutants & Masterminds game terms, and presents of
plethora of ready-built powers and options you can choose from. These
are a steal at 99 cents, as they make creating themed characters much
easier.
The next print product for Mutants & Masterminds is the Threat
Report. This collects all the PDFs of that series along with a few
additional villains to challenge your super-heroes. Then this summer
we'll be releasing our new setting for Mutants & Masterminds:
Emerald City. We had previously announced this title as a softcover book
but we decided that wouldn't do it justice. We're thus upgrading it a
full boxed set with multiple books and a poster map. Emerald City is a
great place to kick off a new campaign. It's also in the "Freedomverse,"
so it's fully compatible with our previous Freedom City books.
We're rounding out the year in Mutants & Masterminds with a
mysterious October release. We'll have more to say about this later. We
believe you'll find it more treat than trick.
Last but by no means least is DC Adventures. As you know, our license
with DC was for four books only. Two have been published already (the
Hero's Handbook and
Heroes & Villains Volume I).
The remaining two should come out this year. Heroes & Villains
Volume II is in for approvals now and we're shooting for a March
release. The last book, Universe, is scheduled for this Fall.
With all of our licensed material, the thing to remember is that we
don't control the approvals process and this can affect our release
dates. We do our best and so do our partners but sometimes patience is
required. We'll keep you updated as the year progresses.
