Green Ronin News Archive for April 2003

April 26, 2003

Bury Me in Freeport!

The latest issue of Gaming Frontiers features more Freeport fiction by Rob Toth, a short story called "Bury Me in Freeport."

>> Visit Gaming Frontiers Online <<

April 23, 2003

Mortality Radio to Interview Chris Pramas Live

This Friday night (April 25th) at 8pm Eastern Time, stop by Mortality Radio to hear a live interview with Chris Pramas!

April 14, 2003

Pen & Paper Fan Awards Winners Announced

Pen & Paper, home of the RPG Database, has announced the winners of their fan awards for 2002. We are very proud to have received several awards and runners-up nods. Thank you!

Best RPG:  Mutants & Masterminds
Best Cover Art:  Mutants & Masterminds
Best Interior Art:  Mutants & Masterminds
Best Graphic Design:  Mutants & Masterminds & Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Eden (tie)
Best Cartography:  Freeport: The City of Adventure
Fan Favorite Publisher:  Green Ronin Publishing

Along with these honors, our president, Chris Pramas was a runner-up for Fan Favorite Developer. Several of our talented partners and freelancers received nods as well: Spike Y Jones & Erik Mona (runners-up for Fan Favorite Editor); Brom & Todd Lockwood (runners-up for Fan Favorite Cover Artist); Wayne Reynolds (Fan Favorite Interior Artist) and Toren "MacBin" Atkinson, Storn Cook, & Ramon Pérez (runners-up, Fan Favorite Interior Artist). Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up, and thank you to all the fans!

Freeport Wins Travelling Man Award

In other awards news, at GAMA Trade Show Green Ronin was presented with a Travelling Man Award by David Salisbury. Travelling Man is a very cool chain of retail stores in England and they had their staff and customers vote in their first annual awards this year. Freeport: The City of Adventure was the winner in the Best New RPG Accessory category. Thanks to Nabil, David, and all the Travelling Man staff and fans for the honor!

April 13, 2003

Freedom City Map!

Here's a PDF map of Freedom City for your enjoyment. If it's hard to read on your monitor, make sure to print it out.

>> Freedom City Map <<

April 11, 2003

Bastards & Bloodlines Web Preview

Bastards & Bloodlines: A Guidebook to Halfbreeds arrived in distributors' warehouses today and should start showing up in stores tomorrow. If you'd like a sneak peak at all the freaky goodness inside, check out this preview of the Wyrd, a half-elf/half-ogre mage. The book contains 28 such half-races and 8 subraces, as well as 12 templates, over 30 feats, and the introduction of blood spells.

This week you can also check out a preview and enhancement of Bastards & Bloodlines on d20weekly.com by author Owen K.C. Stephens. This article includes one half-race from the book and two brand new ones.

>> Bastards & Bloodlines PDF Preview <<
>> Bastards & Bloodlines on d20Weekly.com <<

April 8, 2003

Public Voting Now Open for the Origins Awards!

They've opened the virtual voting booth for this year's Origins Awards. In case we haven't been vocal enough in mentioning the nominations we received this year (that we're very very proud of, by the way...), here's a recap:

Game of the Year: Mutants & Masterminds
Best Role-playing Game: Mutants & Masterminds
Best Graphic Presentation of the Book Product: Mutants & Masterminds
Best Role-playing Supplement: Freeport: The City of Adventure
Best Game Accessory: Pocket Grimoires

>> Please Vote in the Origins Awards <<

April 5, 2003

Spaceship Zero Adventure: Asteroid X

We have posted a brand-new, free adventure for Spaceship Zero called Asteroid X. Zeromeisters, make sure to download both the adventure PDF and the maps PDF--we split this print quality file into two parts to make it easier to download. If you have trouble opening the files in your browser, try right-clicking (or option-clicking) and saving the files to your hard drive. Then they should open just fine in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

>> Asteroid X <<
>> Asteroid X Maps <<
>> All About Spaceship Zero <<

April 3, 2003

Mail Orders On Hold Until April 15th

Nicole has been doing such a great job filling all our mail orders (and all the countless other things she handles every day) that we've packed her up and shipped her off, on vacation until April 15th. Mail orders placed after 4pm today won't be filled until she gets back. Thanks for your patience.