Green Ronin to produce a new Song of Ice and Fire RPG

[Aus_Snow]

Will it be full color?

To do this justice it's got to be full color.

 

[Krolik]

I thought it was because the guys behind the art (Super Unicorn or something) couldn't commit full time to the old M&M brand. I hold Crooks up as still one of the best looking books, heads and shoulders above say Instant Hero.

It's more to do with the fact that the artists SuperUnicorn choose to work with don't come cheap. There's a difference between $150.00 per page and $300.00 per page artists. Green Ronin is still working to pay off past freelancers due to the Osseum problem and so is choosing to not work with as many expensive artists, but the art has generally gotten better with each book. Instant Superheroes is somewhat if the enigma product as it uses some artwork from the Archetype Archives series, some of which is ok and some of which isn't.

I'd also ask what you think looks so great about Crooks' presentation besides the character art? The presentation is very stock looking: 2/3 page character portrait, almost always in the same place, and 1 1/3 pages of background. Except for the full color art and comic in the front Crooks could look like a Hero sourcebook based solely on layout. Crooks has some nice artwork, assuming you're into that iron age Image-like look, but the presentation, itself, is fairly bland, IMO.

 

[Nifft]

I hope GR gets the rights to the better artwork in the GoO book. Some of those spreads are just gorgeous, and I want future gamers to see it.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Son_of_Thunder]

I hope it's a new system. I'm very tired of d20 and it's iterations personally.

 

[Pramas]

If you come over to the GR forums, we have an active thread going on about the game and our plans.

http://www.greenronin.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7013&start=0

 

[Belen]

Meh....another licensed work that only appeals to the fans of the novels.

 

[Krolik]

Meh....another licensed work that only appeals to the fans of the novels.

Isn't the point of all licensed material to primarily appeal to the fans of said material?

 

[el-remmen]

Man!

But I loved the influence and reputation rules from GoO's AGoT and transferred them over to my D&D games. . . I hope they have something like that in this new version.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Isn't the point of all licensed material to primarily appeal to the fans of said material?

Star Wars Galaxies suggests otherwise.

 

[Belen]

Isn't the point of all licensed material to primarily appeal to the fans of said material?

I just do not understand how this is exciting news for all gamers everywhere. It is nice news for fans of the books, but it is just another license. The gaming system could be cool and I would be interested in seeing their ideas there, but I keep coming back to this as just another license.