Green Ronin News Archive for November 2003

November 26, 2003

Four New Green Ronin Books / Introducing Our Advanced Rulebooks!

We're happy to announce four new products! The first two will be released in March of 2004, with the other two to follow soonafter.

Corwyl: Village of the Wood Elves

This companion product to Bow & Blade is the latest addition to our Races of Renown product line. Within its covers Christina Stiles and Patrick Sweeney have detailed a complete wood elf village designed to fit easily into any fantasy campaign.

Advanced Bestiary

The first product in our new series of d20 System Advanced Rulebooks. Matthew Sernett brings you over 100 new monster templates and other tools designed to put the power back into the GM's hands.

Also on the way:
Advanced Player's Handbook by Skip Williams and Advanced Gamemaster's Guide by Owen K. C. Stephens. Click to their product pages to zoom in on the cover images by William C. Eaken.

>> Read the Advanced Rulebooks press release <<

Happy Thanksgiving from Green Ronin!

November 25, 2003

Witch's Handbook 3.5 Update

Well, the title sums it up: Now we've got the Witch's Handbook 3.5 Update for you.

>> Witch's Handbook 3.5 Update <<

November 23, 2003

Noble's Handbook PDF Preview

The Noble's Handbook, the next release in our d20 System Master Class series, will hit store shelves this week! To celebrate, we present to you a preview of the rules for noble houses. Find out how to start (or take) and lead a noble house, how to properly care for your followers, and all about the Strength Rating of noble houses.

>> Noble's Handbook PDF Preview <<

November 20, 2003

Shaman's Handbook 3.5 Update Posted on New Errata & Updates Page

Steve Kenson has sent us a Shaman's Handbook 3.5 Update, and now we give it to you. We've put it on our new Official Errata page, where you can also find links to fixes and updates for more of our books. Coming soon: Witch's Handbook 3.5 Update!

>> Green Ronin Errata & Updates <<
>> Shaman's Handbook 3.5 Update <<

November 12, 2003

Revised Schedule Announcement

As you've all probably noticed over the past few months, our schedule has been a bit fluid. This is partially due to our convention appearances this past summer (we did five shows in about ten weeks), but was also impacted by the structure of the company. We have a small core staff and use literally hundreds of freelance writers, artists, editors, and graphic designers on our array of projects. Inevitably, some people blow their deadlines and things get thrown off schedule. One project impacts another and pretty soon things have gone off the rails.

We are doing what we can to minimize this sort of things by building in extra time to our schedule and giving reliable freelancers more work. We’ve worked hard over the past few months to get caught up and we’re nearly there. Crooks! and Skull & Bones came out at last, Torches & Pitchforks debuted in time for Halloween, and Mindshadows is out this week. With one exception, we should have everything back on track by January. I thought I'd take this opportunity to go over our revised schedule, so you'd have the most up-to-date info on our releases.

The Noble's Handbook just finished printing and will be out in November. Black Sails Over Freeport and the Book of Fiends are entering production now and should come out in December, along with Martial Arts Mayhem. In January we'll release the Psychic's Handbook and the Mutants & Masterminds Annual #1. And as we just announced, Aasimar & Tiefling and the Medieval Player's Handbook will be out in February.

This leads to the one exception: the Nocturnals book. This one falls largely on my shoulders, as I was doing the game design portion. The good news is that Dan is done with new comic story, now 17 pages, and it's awesome. He's also finished all the background material on the world of the Nocs and I think fans are going to love it.

Last week we decided to re-solicit the book for a March release. Dan and I agreed that we don't want to rush the book out and get sloppy. We waited to put out Skull & Bones until it was ready, and I think you'll all agree that S&B delivered. The same will be true with the Nocturnals book. We will put that extra time to good use and you'll see the results this March.

Mutants & Masterminds fans shouldn't worry about the rest of the line. We have separate teams working on the Annual and the book following, so the Nocs book won't affect the game's 2004 schedule.

We hope you stay with us in 2004. We've got a lot of exciting stuff coming up. More on that soon!

Chris Pramas
11/12/03

November 11, 2003

Steve Kenson Seminar: Creating Worlds for Fun and Profit

Want to build great worlds for your roleplaying game? Award-winning game designer Steve Kenson will conduct a seminar on "Creating Worlds for Fun and Profit" at 4 p.m. on Saturday, November 15 at the Space-Crime Continuum bookstore in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Kenson has contributed to books for Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire, and many other games. Earlier this year, he won the coveted gold Ennie Award for "Best D20 Game" for Mutants & Masterminds, as well as a silver Ennie for "Best Campaign Setting" for his book Freedom City. A professional freelance writer, he lives in New Hampshire.

The seminar will cost $10, but participants can get two free passes to the seminar with purchase of Mutants & Masterminds, Freedom City, or the new Mutants & Masterminds supplement Crooks!.

The Space-Crime Continuum is located at 92 King Street in Northampton, MA. For more information call 413-584-0994, visit spacecrime.com or email seminars@spacecrime.com.

November 10, 2003

Skull & Bones Character Sheet (Hi-Rez)

Oops--we've replaced the Skull & Bones character sheet PDF (and the zipped PDF) with higher resolution files, to ensure better printing.

>> Hi-Rez Skull & Bones Character Sheet <<

November 9, 2003

Skull & Bones Character Sheet

Ye've got to have the proper papers aboard before setting out to ply yer honest trade in treacherous waters. This document is a good start.

>> Skull & Bones Character Sheet <<

November 6, 2003

Pramas Bay Area Store Tour

Chris Pramas is going down to San Fran on Friday to do a weekend game store tour with Peter Adkison to help promote GenCon SoCal. Aaron (Book of the Righteous) Loeb will be appearing with Chris.

7-Nov 6-8PM Strategic Games Fair Oaks, CA
8-Nov 1-3PM Gator Games San Mateo, CA
8-Nov 4:30-6:30PM End Game Oakland, CA
9-Nov noon-2PM Great Escape Games Sacramento, CA

November 2, 2003

Mindshadows Preview #2

Mindshadows has shipped to distributors! To celebrate we have a PDF preview for you, featuring an overview of the lands, people, and powers found in the Mindshadows setting.

>> Mindshadows PDF Preview #2 <<


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