What's Green Ronin Up To In 2018? The Expanse, Lazarus, & More!

Green Ronin has posted its plans for the first half of 2018, which include The Expanse RPG, being Kickstarted in a few months, Modern Age in the Spring, along with the World of Lazarus setting, a new edition of Freedom City for Mutants & Masterminds, and more!

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Here's the list for the first half of the year:

• The Expanse (Kickstarter in a few months, game releasing at Gen Con in August)
• Modern Age (Spring)
• The World of Lazarus setting for Modern AGE (Spring)
• Fantasy Age Companion
• Faces of Thedas (for Dragon Age)
• Aldis: City of the Blue Rose (for the Blue Rose RPG)
• Freedom City (for Mutants & Masterminds; out this week)
• Rogues Gallery (for Mutants and Masterminds; Spring)
• Shadowtide (Blue Rose novel)
• Ork! The Roleplaying Game (new edition)
• Return to Freeport (6-part adventure for Pathfinder; later spring)

Later in the year, we can expect to see:

• Basic Hero's Handbook (for Mutants and Masterminds)
• Superteam Handbook (for Mutants and Masterminds)
• A Mutants & Masterminds novel
• Sentinels of Earth Prime (card game)
• Lost Citadel (D&D 5E campaign setting)

Green Ronin also reports that its Song of Ice and Fire license has expired; they can continue selling existing books, but cannot produce new ones. Read more here!

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[jerryrice4949]

I wonder if they have any 5E plans for 2018 outside of Lost Citadel.

 

[RedBoxDwarf]

The Kickstarter for The Expanse isn't happening for a few months, and yet the game is going to be released in August?

 

[Egg Embry]

Modern Age (Spring) and The World of Lazarus setting for Modern AGE (Spring) for the win! I'm really looking forward to this setting!

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[Egg Embry]

The Kickstarter for The Expanse isn't happening for a few months, and yet the game is going to be released in August?

I think they're ahead of schedule on it. From Chris Pramas' blog:

"We announced that we’d licensed James S.A. Corey’s terrific series of scifi novels last year and since then Steve Kenson has been leading the team designing the core rulebook. In a few months we will be Kickstarting The Expanse RPG and the rules will actually be done before we even start the crowdfunding campaign."

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[JacktheRabbit]

I will be very interested in the Expanse RPG. Any idea what rules it will be similar to?

 

[darjr]

Can’t wait for the expanse rpg. Good one Mr Pramas! And designed by Mr Kenson?

 

[Mallus]

I wonder how similar/different the Expanse rules will be to the heavily-modified d20 Modern Ty Franck used to run his campaign?

 

[Aephix]

I wonder how similar/different the Expanse rules will be to the heavily-modified d20 Modern Ty Franck used to run his campaign?

It is using a version of the AGE system (used by Dragon Age, Fantasy AGE, and Blue Rose).

 

[Mallus]

It is using a version of the AGE system (used by Dragon Age, Fantasy AGE, and Blue Rose).

Thanks.

I'm not familiar with AGE. Is it crunchy? My gut feeling is Expanse as a game would benefit from relatively heavy, "crunch" mechanics with a FATE-like metacurrency system layered over top. I think you need both to emulate all the nods to SF "realism", the technical Tom Clancy-in-space stuff, while still allowing for the over-the-top heroics found all over the series.