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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CBS Brian" data-source="post: 654407" data-attributes="member: 6019">Those of you wondering what the heckthe signature at the bottom of my name meant finally have an answer as Crimson Blade Studios opens it virtual doors on the web."To be clear, CBS isn't just another publisher."  announced President Brian Murphy.  "In fact CBS isn't a publisher at all.  Instead Crimson Blade is a grouping of lesser-known to completely unknown d20 developers, writers, and hopefully one day, artists, working together for the common cause of generating exposure, and getting their foot in the door of the roleplaying freelancing industry."The organization, founded by university-student Brian Murphy, along with co-founders Glen Russell and Chris Deduke (also university students), aims to focus on creating a d20 development team the whole of which "greatly exceeds the sum of its parts".Among plans for the small organization are creation of game mateial and possibly fiction for the Ravenloft and Spelljammer campaign settings, Call of Cthulhu d20 (potentially), as well as the creation of certain netbooks in the future.  Also in the works is Dune d20, a game based on the classic 1960's novel series by Frank herbert, and a pet project of Brian's.  Dune d20 is not endorsed in any way by the Frank Herbert Limited Partnership and would be completely free of charge."It's important that people understand CBS is concerned with creating games, not selling games.  The RPG industry is filled with so many different publishers, I don't see any benefit into jumping into the fray.  I'd rather let someone else worry about profit margins and type-sizes.  I mainly just want to create game material, I'll let someone else worry about getting that material out there."People are encouraged to visit the CBS website at <a href="http://www.geocities.com/crimsonbladestudios" target="_blank">www.geocities.com/crimsonbladestudios</a></blockquote>

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