Morrigan Press Acquires Talislanta

[morrigan]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2004 - Morrigan Press Inc. is pleased to announce that it has acquired the license to the unparalleled roleplaying game setting of Talislanta. Taking over from Shooting Iron Design, Morrigan Press strives to take the exciting and unique world of Talislanta to another level, and build on the cult status that it currently enjoys among gamers. The Talislanta game was originally created by renowned game designer Stephan Michael Sechi in the 1980’s. In the intervening years, Talislanta was further developed by Wizards of the Coast (Jonathan Tweet) and Shooting Iron Designs (John Harper). Continuing this evolution, Morrigan Press is confident that a whole new generation of gamers is ready to experience this unique world from a freshly creative perspective. Scott Agnew, Morrigan’s founder and president had this to say: “As a long time Talislanta fan myself, I am very excited about this license acquisition. Talislanta is one of the most complex, unique and exciting settings in the industry and we look forward to bringing it to a whole new generation. We will also be maintaining support for the existing Talislanta material in print so fans of the current game need not worry: the game they know and love is not going anywhere.” With this new acquisition, Morrigan adds to its’ already diverse and exciting line of products. Morrigan Press Inc. currently designs and develops the Jeremiah Roleplaying Game based on the critically acclaimed television series by J. Michael Straczynski, the same person behind the Babylon 5 phenomenon. Jeremiah is being published by Mongoose Publishing, one of the most respected names in the RPG industry. Morrigan Press also publishes an Organized Crime line of sourcebooks for the d20 Modern system, has a licensed sci-fi game in development from Platinum Studios and is working with the Horror Writers Association on a line of horror RPGs. In addition, two in-house games are currently slated for release in early 2005: an historical fantasy game entitled High Medieval and the dark, modern supernatural game, Lazarus Effect.

About Morrigan Press Inc.
Morrigan Press Inc is incorporated in New Brunswick, Canada and publishes multiple lines of roleplaying games for the Adventure Game market. Their first foray into the wild and chaotic roleplaying marketplace was with the Jeremiah Roleplaying game based on the popular television series of the same name. Morrigan has since secured other licenses as well as developing game lines of their own creation. (www.morriganrpg.com)

About Stephan Michael Sechi
Stephan Michael Sechi is the creator of the Talislanta RPG, which was originally published by the company he started back in 1981, Bard Games. SMS also created the Compleat Fantasy Series and Atlantean Trilogy for Bard Games, and for a time worked as a freelance writer for other game companies such as Atlas Games and WotC. After returning to his original profession in the music biz, SMS founded the Kool Kat Production Music Library, which produces music for films, TV, and radio and is distributed in the USA and around the world.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Any chance of getting the Atlantias rights from Stephan Michael Sechi as that would make a perfect setting for d20? A lot of the classes there woudl be perfect to make into PrCs.

 

[Razuur]

I really love the 4th editions magic system. I hope that it is expanded upon for the D20 OGL treatment.

I did a home bre conversion of the magic system for sorcerers, because it is so different. The players love it. It really makes the Sorcerer as a different type of magic wielder.

Hopefully we'll start seeing some products!

Any ideas when the first will be out? And what the first will be for that matter)

Congradulations!

Razuur

 

[JoeGKushner]

Just a heads up. A lot of talk going on at RPG.net. Seems that there are some fans of the series wondering at the OGL thing and some fans of d20, like myself, wondering if that's the best route to go.

 

[Ranger REG]

If you don't mind, I'd like to avoid RPG.net forums. I must confess that I'm not familiar with Morrigan Press. If they want to cater to the Talislanta fanbase -- I don't know how many are there -- then they should opt for OGL and make it a standalone product.

But if they want to cater to a much larger audience, they should go for the d20 logo. The more public exposure you have with the RPG audience, back up with good-quality game products, should give you the company recognition that you can pretty much go OGL publishing, like Mongoose.

 

[Topfashiongames]

I remember the old Talislanta system... a friend of mine had it in high school, strange... but in a really cool sort of way. Don't remember much about it other than the variety of races... would like to see it again.