Countdown-timer at Green Ronin...? What's it all about?

[Finkin Swiftfingers]

I do not like typical RPG's on the computer/console but I can say that after viewing the demo at last years GenCon - I made the decision that I would be picking up Dragon Age. The game looked great and I really liked the background story that BioWare had constructed.

I'll probably check out the RPG when it is released but I am more invested in their Song of Ice and Fire game. I'll be curious to see if SoIaF takes a backseat with the new license announced. They are behind schedule on their release plans (Admittedly some of this is a George Martin issue) and the editing on the core rulebook was terrible. Hopefully Dragon Age can avoid these issues.

 

[Obryn]

I don't know if he meant it that way, but Mike Mearls' comment on Twitter about the Green Ronin announcement came off kind of snarky in my opinion...

I remember when tabletop gaming companies used to be the licensors, rather than the licensees.

Huh. It looks more wistful to me.

So, related topic, can I pre-emptively say this announced RPG is "too videogamey"?

-O

 

[Imaro]

I don't know if he meant it that way, but Mike Mearls' comment on Twitter about the Green Ronin announcement came off kind of snarky in my opinion...

I remember when tabletop gaming companies used to be the licensors, rather than the licensees.

Yeah, I agree... it did come off in a rather snarky manner... considering WotC has done a Wheel of Time rpg... he tries to clear it up after the fact with this comment...

The GR announcement sparked the last comment, but it isn't like it's a bad move by GR. It's the bigger trend in RPGs to license, not create.

...and it still comes off as a little bitter but also, IMO, slightly disingenuous... I just don't see a "bigger trend" in rpg's to license as opposed to create right now. There are tons of indie rpg's steadily coming out, but even looking at White Wolf, arguably, the second largest rpg company right now... they've created all their WoD lines (Mage, Werewolf,Vampire,Changeling, Hunter, Geist) Scion, Exalted, etc. if anything they've moved away from licensing over the past year to year and a half. I'm just not seeing what he's basing these statements on.

 

[mhensley]

I remember when tabletop gaming companies used to be the licensors, rather than the licensees.

I remember when there used to be D&D computer games. How's that coming?

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I don't know if he meant it that way, but Mike Mearls' comment on Twitter about the Green Ronin announcement came off kind of snarky in my opinion...

I remember when tabletop gaming companies used to be the licensors, rather than the licensees.

Mike must be older than I thought. My 1984 Middle Earth Role Playing books would otherwise disagree.

 

[Filcher]

Not that I'm not looking forward to Dragon Age as a computer game, but the addition of yet another more-or-less standard fantasy setting is totally meh.

This is my response, but I'm hoping I'm wrong in the end.

I play WAY too much Call of Duty 4 online, but I've not yet wanted to see it as a modern day RPG. The reasons I got to online gaming, and the reasons I go to pen and paper are not remotely linked. But again, maybe the story will be so awesome that I'll just have to expand it at home.

 

[Urizen]

I've never heard of Dragon Age.

maybe it'll be cool.

Dunno.

I'd have rather seen the 4th Age of Middle earth.

 

[mearls]

Huh. It looks more wistful to me.

I miss the excitement that came with the release of Deadlands, Shadowrun, and L5R. A lot of the companies that built really interesting new worlds are gone, or not interested in doing that any more.

There used to be a balance between new and licensed games, and as an RPG fan I miss that.

So yes, color me wistful.

 

[avin]

Early Dragon Age propaganda said you would be able to "slave entire nations with necromancy", of course they change their minds and http://www.rpgcodex.net make the usual fun

 

[Mournblade94]

Mike must be older than I thought. My 1984 Middle Earth Role Playing books would otherwise disagree.

I am sure WOTC would too since they have a successful STAR WARS line.

That comment he made was utter nonsense. Hopefully it was taken out of context.