Chaosium Names New CEO, Mike Mearls Departs Company

Stormonu · Saturday at 1:49 AM

I hate that Asmodee gutted FFG, they made some amazing stuff (notably X-Wing).

I hope Mearls is going to them to resurrect their RPG line.

M.T. Black · Saturday at 3:36 AM

As others have noted, Asmodee still have the rights to some good RPG IP (Star Wars, Legend of the Five Rings, Arkham Horror, Genesys, and more). Assuming that's where Mearls is going, I'll be fascinated to see where he takes these games.

agrayday · Saturday at 4:01 AM

Edge needs all the help they can get... they always seem about 14 months late, and hidden in the back corporate room. I don't see any innovation coming out of there or even strong community support, so of Mearls is going there good luck.

I am also curious on how long that Star Wars License is going to last for them, what would drive them to spend a bunch of money to renew it? If i recall correctly they picked it up in 2012.

Runequest wise that UK games con they kept calling it a "New Edition", and it sounded like more than 1 box set, but i could have heard wrong about more than one box set.

MGibster · Saturday at 4:47 AM

Stormonu said:
I hate that Asmodee gutted FFG, they made some amazing stuff (notably X-Wing).

I didn't play a whole lot of X-Wing, but I thought it was a good game. X-Wing was fairly popular in Little Rock for a while, but I think all that ended with 2nd edition. A lot of people just didn't see the need to update and the X-Wing scene kind of died. Armada was pretty much dead on arrival around here.

agrayday · Saturday at 5:07 AM

the person who headed FFG became in charge of the games division of Asmodee at the time of the great absorption of FFG. I believe they thought it was going to give them survival, but it just drained them.

Stormonu · Saturday at 5:40 AM

agrayday said:
Edge needs all the help they can get... they always seem about 14 months late, and hidden in the back corporate room. I don't see any innovation coming out of there or even strong community support, so of Mearls is going there good luck.

I am also curious on how long that Star Wars License is going to last for them, what would drive them to spend a bunch of money to renew it? If i recall correctly they picked it up in 2012.

Runequest wise that UK games con they kept calling it a "New Edition", and it sounded like more than 1 box set, but i could have heard wrong about more than one box set.

I feel like Asmodee sent the RPGs to Edge to die, I get the sense they only care about the board games and don't have any real interest in RPGs. At best the RPG titles they got from FFG seem to be just held onto and not advanced. Hopefully Mearls gets tapped to bring them back from the brink. And just noticing Edge just released an Arkham RPG, I wonder if part of the reason Mearls moved was to oversee the new RPG?

With the state of Star Wars recently, I'm not confident it will get renewed when it comes back up, or at least revive the RPG portion of it. Isn't there a new Star Wars CCG that's come out? Whose doing that?

agrayday · Saturday at 6:18 AM

Stormonu said:
I feel like Asmodee sent the RPGs to Edge to die, I get the sense they only care about the board games and don't have any real interest in RPGs. At best the RPG titles they got from FFG seem to be just held onto and not advanced. Hopefully Mearls gets tapped to bring them back from the brink. And just noticing Edge just released an Arkham RPG, I wonder if part of the reason Mearls moved was to oversee the new RPG?

With the state of Star Wars recently, I'm not confident it will get renewed when it comes back up, or at least revive the RPG portion of it. Isn't there a new Star Wars CCG that's come out? Whose doing that?

Edge is an RPG studio but they seem rudderless and un-developed. Not to mention they are based in the EU, so the FFG people had to transition to that style.

Not sure what's going on over there, but they seem lacking in leadership which Mearls could be hired to fill, because lord knows they need it.

I just cant think of the business sense of coming out with an Arkham horror RPG considering the flooded market in that theme, and the standard RPG's that have been in that space for a long time. Trying to convert boardgamers to RPGs in that area does not seem like a great business plan.

They OWN the star wars & L5R RPG market, and its just sitting there...

Lanefan · Saturday at 7:09 AM

The cool thing for me personally is that Neil played in my game some decades ago (he's responsible for the best-worst character name ever: Sir Kalvin of Hobbes); he once introduced me as his first DM, but technically I was his second.

Maxperson · Saturday at 7:18 AM

sevenbastard said:
I'd say you are missing out, but I also bailed on Runequest as soon as I saw ducks.

Michael Blackett · Saturday at 10:44 AM

That duck, oh dear...Lunar Empire auxiliary mascot?

I know I read in an older edition of Monster Coliseum that Ducks were considered in the gladiator arena as light entertainment and comedy. Yet I think that stretches it?

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