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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nikchick" data-source="post: 3646998" data-attributes="member: 344">I must object to this bit. Can you please point me to the announcement you're thinking of? Back in January of 2006 Pramas made one mention of Blue Rose "coming to an end" in the context of the third book in the series coming out. We meant that in the same way that one might say, "The Harry Potter saga is coming to an end with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in the series." We said often and repeatedly that Blue Rose was meant to be a three book set. In fact, shortly after Chris's 2006 New Year's message I responded to clarify that we were not "killing" the line. An excerpt:1. Why are you killing Blue Rose?! We're not "killing" Blue Rose. It was always conceived and designed as a three book game, as a small and self-contained line. We only ever announced three books for the line, we've never planned, announced, or even hinted that we would ever release anything other than a three book set. The books remain in print, we're continuing to sell them, we're continuing to use them to provide a gateway product for lovers of the romantic fantasy fiction genre to introduce them to roleplaying games. The product cannot achieve that objective if we add on book after book after book and endlessly expand the line: it was never intended to serve that purpose. This is the same reason we didn't release the book as a D20 supplement that required the D&D Player's Handbook: it is a self-contained game that is focused specifically on the emulation of the romantic fantasy genre. 2. But don't people want more? We've seen people using Blue Rose for all sorts of things besides playing in the world of Aldea! It's true, traditional gamers have been very willing to embrace True20, the system that drives Blue Rose. However, releasing more and more books for Blue Rose both dilutes BR's effectiveness as an introductory product for non-roleplaying fans of romantic fantasy-style fiction (which is what it was designed for and the role we want it to continue to fill) while still not meeting the needs of traditional roleplaying fans who embraced the system but not the genre. Instead, the True20 Adventure Roleplaying line is the where you'll see us taking Blue Rose's system in all sorts of different directions. 3. If you're killing Blue Rose, it must have been a failure, right? You wouldn't kill it if it didn't suck. We're not "killing" Blue Rose. It was our second best selling line in 2005, and the core book was our #2 SKU, behind only the Mutants & Masterminds rulebook. It won critical recognition, including three Silver ENnie awards last year (among them Best D20 Game) and an InQuest Gamer's Choice nomination. It is not going away. We did not announce that we were taking it off the market, we announced that we were releasing the last of the three planned books.Just wanted to clear that up. Again. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Nicole</blockquote>

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