UK Role Players » Wild Talents http://www.ukroleplayers.com An online meeting place for UK role players Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:25:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Wild Talents: Blood of the Gods http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/wild-talents-blood-of-the-gods/ http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/wild-talents-blood-of-the-gods/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:48:00 +0000 Dave McAlister http://www.ukroleplayers.com/?p=1278 Blood of the Gods as a setting for Wild Talents. Written by our very own dr_mitch (Paul Mitchener), Blood of the Gods is a setting for heroic roleplaying in the ancient Greece of myth and legend. Blending well-researched history with the power and savagery of Greek mythology, it lets players take the role of heroes and heroines who are descended from the gods themselves, gifted with powers from their divine forebears and from the gods they have chosen as patrons. Dozens of prewritten Gifts detail powers that are ready to play. Sample characters, monsters of mythology, a complete adventure, and half a dozen adventure seeds provide everything you need to launch a Wild Talents campaign of epic danger in the ancient world.]]> Arc Dream Publishing have released Blood of the Gods as a setting for Wild Talents. Written by our very own dr_mitch (Paul Mitchener), Blood of the Gods is a setting for heroic roleplaying in the ancient Greece of myth and legend. Blending well-researched history with the power and savagery of Greek mythology, it lets players take the role of heroes and heroines who are descended from the gods themselves, gifted with powers from their divine forebears and from the gods they have chosen as patrons. Dozens of prewritten Gifts detail powers that are ready to play. Sample characters, monsters of mythology, a complete adventure, and half a dozen adventure seeds provide everything you need to launch a Wild Talents campaign of epic danger in the ancient world.

]]> http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/wild-talents-blood-of-the-gods/feed/ 0 [Cubicle 7] Department 7 Recruiting… http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/cubicle-7-department-7-recruiting/ http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/cubicle-7-department-7-recruiting/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:21:07 +0000 Dave McAlister http://www.ukroleplayers.com/?p=956 Department 7, Cubicle 7 Entertainment’s official demo team, is recruiting.

They’re looking to strengthen their demo teams with people interested in running, and teaching, our games at conventions, clubs and game stores in their local areas and at regional and national games conventions.

They, along with our publishing partners, now produce a wide variety of games and are adding more all the time. To date they’ve been exclusively publishing Roleplaying Games but they’re also complimenting these with card and board games in the future.

Their games, and supported systems, include:

  • 3:16 – Carnage Amongst The Stars
  • Barbarians of Lemuria
  • Basic Roleplaying (BRP Rome, etc)
  • Call of Cthulhu (Cthulhu Britannica)
  • Carnage Amongst the Tribes
  • De Profundis
  • Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space
  • Houses of the Blooded
  • Humanydyne
  • Legends of Anglerre (Fantasy FATE)
  • The One Ring: Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game
  • Pathfinder (TBA)
  • Qin: The Warring States
  • Reign
  • Savage Worlds (Thrilling Tales, Mars, Hellfrost, Suzerain, etc)
  • SLA Industries
  • Starblazer Adventures (Sci-Fi FATE)
  • Victoriana
  • Wild Talents
  • And more to come…

They’re looking for friendly, outgoing people with a sense of humour and team spirit that love playing games and teaching others.

A Rewards Scheme is in place to thank active Department 7 Agents as well as sneak peeks and playtest opportunities.

They’re currently actively looking for people to run games at GenCon and a whole variety of conventions around the world so if you’re interested in joining the team please email them on department7@cubicle7.co.uk for further information and an Agents Starter Pack!

]]> http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/cubicle-7-department-7-recruiting/feed/ 0 Cubicle 7 and Arc Dream Publishing Announce Partnership http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/cubicle-7-and-arc-dream-publishing-announce-partnership/ http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/cubicle-7-and-arc-dream-publishing-announce-partnership/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:44:42 +0000 Dave McAlister http://www.ukroleplayers.com/?p=688 Arc Dream Publishing and Cubicle 7 Entertainment are pleased to announce a new publishing partnership. Cubicle 7 will publish the “Wild Talents” game line developed and produced by Arc Dream, beginning in January 2010 with the Second Edition of the “Wild Talents” roleplaying game. The “Wild Talents” sourcebooks “The Kerberos Club,” “This Favored Land,” and “Grim War” will follow in February, March, and April, with further releases planned throughout the year.

Arc Dream Publishing’s president and managing editor Shane Ivey said, “We’re very excited about the dynamic approach that Cubicle 7 is taking with its game lines, and we’re thrilled to be working with Angus and Dom to bring ‘Wild Talents’ to a broader audience than ever before.”

“Arc Dream, in my opinion, are one of the big up-and-coming companies. They continually come up with top quality ideas and realize them in astounding products packed full of inspirational words and artwork. They have a great creative team working with them and we’re very pleased to now be part of the process allowing their games to reach stores and fans around the world.” added Angus Abranson of Cubicle 7 Entertainment.

“Wild Talents,” written by Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze, Kenneth Hite, and Shane Ivey, first appeared in 2006 in a limited edition of 1,000 books, published by Arc Dream with the help of hundreds of fans of its World War II superhero roleplaying game “Godlike.” Arc Dream’s president Shane Ivey explained: “Manufacturing a full-color, hardback game book like Wild Talents would have been ruinously expensive for a modest outfit like ours, so we took the matter to the fans directly. We set up a sort of ‘pledge drive.’ Fans of the game could pledge to place a pre-order, but we would ask them to commit to the actual orders only if and when enough pledges came in to finance the book. We expected it would take a month or so to generate all the pledges we’d need. It took 36 hours. That showed us very clearly the enthusiasm among our fans for Wild Talents. We released the limited edition and immediately set to work developing the next edition of the game.”

About Arc Dream Publishing
Arc Dream Publishing is a partnership between publisher Shane Ivey and game designer Dennis Detwiller. In addition to “Wild Talents,” Arc Dream publishes the acclaimed World War II roleplaying game “Godlike” and the multiple Ennie Award-nominated “Monsters and Other Childish Things.” Arc Dream also works with Pagan Publishing to develop new sourcebooks for the Origins Award-winning “Delta Green” game setting.

About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series) and 7th Circle’s Chinese fantasy Qin. In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group.

Victoriana is a fabulous fusion of Victorian adventure and fantasy myth, SLA Industries is a gritty futuristic urban horror fuelled by classic British punk imagery, whilst Starblazer Adventure is set firmly in the heart of classic 80’s space opera where gigantic fleets prowl the starlanes and devilish scientists operate enormous engines of destruction. The English translation of French publisher 7th Circle’s Qin propels players in to the epic fantasies and tragic events of ancient Chinese legend.

Arc Dream Publishing
arcdream.com

Cubicle 7 Entertainment
cubicle7.co.uk

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