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[Signe]

Eden Studios, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios Power Up the City of Heroes Roleplaying Game

ALBANY, New York, March 14, 2005 – Eden Studios announces today an agreement with Cryptic Studios™ and NCsoft® Corporation for the design and production of the City of Heroes® table-top roleplaying game (RPG), based on the wildly popular comic book inspired massively multiplayer online roleplaying computer game by the same name. The City of Heroes (http://www.cityofheroes.com) computer game released last year to critical acclaim and continues to garner awards for its groundbreaking innovation. The highly anticipated player-versus-player sequel, City of Villains™ is due for release later this year.


“We are very excited about getting the opportunity to produce this super-powered game,” George Vasilakos, President of Eden Studios, announced. “We worked with Jack Emmert, City of Heroes lead designer, on our first roleplaying game, Conspiracy X. His imagination and storytelling have always been tremendous. He and his City of Heroes team have created a rocking good game that has been chewing up most of our free time for over a year now. We plan to translate that experience to the table-top while adding the richness of face-to-face roleplaying.”

“I started my game production career in paper-and-pencil roleplaying,” added Emmert. “It’s a great medium for storytelling and a boat load of fun. I’ve worked with the guys at Eden Studios in the past, and they’ve only gotten better since then with quality licensed games like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Army of Darkness. Their games are great and their production values are second to none. This is a wonderful addition to the City of Heroes franchise.”

The City of Heroes roleplaying table-top game will use a special version of CJ Carella’s Unisystem, Eden's in-house roleplaying game rules, that captures the highlights of the online experience yet remains compatible with other Unisystem games. Players take the role of super-powered heroes with a full array of power choices. They take the fight to numerous villains, including Circle of Thorns mages, Council thugs, Clockwork robots, Vahzilok zombies, and others popularized in the online game.

The Registration Manual core book will be authored by Eden insider M. Alexander Jurkat, editor of the majority of Eden’s Unisystem game books, designer of the Army of Darkness card game, and author of GURPS Conspiracy X. The core book will be followed by the Paragon City source book, the Monitor’s Support Pack, the Super-powered Operative’s Dossier and other supplements.

More information is coming soon to www.cohrpg.com.

Eden Studios makes cool games. Their latest offering, the Army of Darkness non-collectible card game sold through the first print run in four months. Their licensed roleplaying games, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, received delighted gamers when released in 2002 and 2003, and continue to be strong sellers. All Flesh Must Be Eaten, the zombie survivor horror roleplaying game shambles across roleplayers’ tables world-wide. Eden also produces CJ Carella's WitchCraft, the roleplaying game of dark secrets and magic, Conspiracy X, the roleplaying game of aliens and government cover-ups, Terra Primate, the roleplaying game of intelligent apes, and Armageddon, the roleplaying game of war and the end of days. On the lighter side, Eden Studios offers HACK!, a humorous card game based on the Knights of the Dinner TableTM comic book by Kenzer and Company, and Abduction, the fast and furious card game of alien abduction. Check out all the Eden Studios products at www.edenstudios.net.

http://plaync.com/about/2005/03/eden_studios_nc_1.html

Hmmm....

[AOFanboi]

Actually, superheroes as a genre has had quite a few PnP RPGs. At least two editions of Marvel Superheroes from TSR, 3-4 editions of DC Heroes, the old Villains & Vigilantes, Heroes & Heroines... even more obscure stuff like White Wolf's Exalted.

But they all bow before the might that is Champions.

If you want to piss on Marvel re the suit, get TSR/Wizard's card-based version of MSH, then write "City of Heroes" with a marker pen while giggling. It helps that the game is actually fun.

[eldaec]

with quality licensed games like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Army of Darkness.

How on earth do Buffy and Angel require different role playing games?

[Big Gulp]

How on earth do Buffy and Angel require different role playing games?

How on earth did TSR have the balls to release Dungeons and Dragons, Expert Dungeons and Dragons, Immortal Dungeons and Dragons, oh, and for those who hated the boxed sets, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (in 2 editions!).

It's all about the Benjamins.

[Furiously]

BTW - nice title Signe.

[Riggswolfe]

with quality licensed games like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Army of Darkness.

How on earth do Buffy and Angel require different role playing games?

While Angel couild have been done as a large sourcebook the reasoning is that the two shows have different themes. Buffy is about being a teenager and growing up. Angel is about day to day life and just soldiering on. The Angel book covers things like making demon characters in great depth and how to make organizations (like Wolfram and Hart) while the Buffy book has stuff about how to deal with teenage characters, and monsters of the week and such.

Very different tone. To me it's akin to DC vs Marvel. Both are comics about super heroes, but there are enough differences to need 2 games.

[Strazos]

Yeah, but who has been silly enough to buy and Play this stuff?

[WindupAtheist]

Betcha tabletop CoH has street clothes.   :-D

[Llava]

You mean secret identities?  Cause the game has had street clothes since release, and is about to add more.

[schmoo]

But wait!  There's more... 

From the latest CoH newsletter:

CoH Collectible Card Game Coming!
Why only play CoH online? It’s time to put some cards in the hands of the people! Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and Cryptic Studios are pleased to announce that they are in collaboration on a venture that will utilize characters and dynamics from City of Heroes and adapt them into a fast-paced, strategy card game. AEG is famous for their high quality collectible card games (Legend of the Five Rings, Warlord) and their dedicated fan base, which made them the ideal choice for this project! The game is expected out sometime this year, so watch for upcoming details on the Official City of Heroes web site .

[AOFanboi]

But wait!  There's more... 

Hum. Make your own cards instead.

[schild]

But wait!  There's more... 

Hum. Make your own cards instead.

This will be a lot better when the goddamn quote bit starts working. It will be an excellent grief image tool.

[schmoo]