Blue Rose: The AGE Roleplaying Game of Romantic Fantasy – Green Ronin Publishing (Late 2016)
In 2015 Green Ronin Publishing launched a very successful $85k+ Kickstarter project to update Blue Rose to take advantage of the Adventure Game Engine, or “AGE”, System which powers the company’s Dragon Age and Titansgrave titles. The gameplan is to expand Blue Rose from what were essentially D20 sourcebooks to a full blown core system with a multitude of new micro settings and series frameworks.
While Blue Rose isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea but the ideas and core concepts behind the world of Aldea – and the game’s take on romantic fantasy – is certainly interesting and I’m eager to see how the designers build upon the foundation of the first edition. At this point an exact release date hasn’t been established (in fact the Kickstarter promised an August 2016 availability) but the word on the street is we should see the 300+ page core PDF sometime before the end of the year.
There isn’t any specific sell sheet info about the upcoming edition but here’s the write up for the first edition from Green Ronin:
Adventure & Romance Await!
- A streamlined game system, requiring only a single twenty-sided die to resolve any action your heroes may take.
- Fast and dramatic action resolution, with systems for everything from fighting to social repartee.
- Complete and flexible rules for hero creation, with options to play rhydan (intelligent psychic animals) as well as humans, sea-folk, the night people, or the mystical vata.
- A complete system of arcane and psychic powers, from empathy to the darkest depths of sorcery.
- A system for defining your hero’s light and shadow natures, and using the strength of your hero’s conviction to influence the flow of the game.
- Narrator advice, and the introductory adventure The Curse of Harmony, everything you need to begin telling your own stories in the magical world of Blue Rose.
The word has gone out, the land of Aldis needs heroes! Will you answer the call? Join the Sovereign’s Finest and the Knights of the Blue Rose in safeguarding the kingdom and its people. Swear your allegiance to the Light and to the rightful Sovereign…
For Aldis, and the Queen!
2 Comments
Hi Jeff, a couple of months ago I released a new sci-fi RPG which was successfully kickstarted earlier this year – Starguild: Space Opera Noir. About 190 backers have copies, and I’ve had great feedback from them, but as a single person outfit with his first publication, I’ve not been able to get that much exposure for it.
I’ve included a link to the Drive Thru Rpg page for it in the ‘website’ link in this comment, although if you think it would be interesting enough to have a look at in more detail, I’d happily send you a complimentary pdf.
Other information about it is on the starguildrpg.com website too.
I hope you don’t mind me posting this, but you did ask if there were other lesser known RPGs which might benefit from some love 🙂
Cheers
Hi Alex,
By all means, shoot me an email to [email protected] and I’d be happy to peek at Star Guild.