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Best-selling FATE Developer Joins Revolutionary Game Designers To Forge A Whole New Line Of Products
Huntsville, Alabama, USA (November 8, 2010) — Revolutionary game designers and creators of the new card-based role-playing game (CBRPG ™), Untold, announced today that Mike McConnell, crafter of the best-selling Strands of Fate rulebook would be joining their ranks as the Line Developer for a whole series of new FATE-based products. These new products will build on McConnell’s phenomenal and ground-breaking work in Strands and take the line to another level entirely.
"We're delighted to be working with Mike to forge ahead into the future of FATE and WMS”, exclaimed Wandering Men Studios Co-founder, Brannon Hollingsworth. “The moment we read Strands, we knew two things distinctly: first, that it was destined to become *THE* Standard for FATE-based games to come and second, that in Mike, we had a kindred spirit. We’ve since been exceedingly blessed to meet and get to know Mike and we can safely say that both of our initial impressions where dead on. We thank God for his providence and will in bringing us together and look forward to the months and years ahead! "
“This is an exciting opportunity for Void Star and Strands of Fate!”, said Mike McConnell, lead designer and owner of Void Star Games. “Strands has been a huge success for us and this partnership with Wandering Men Studios will provide a strong foundation for an entire Strands of Fate game line. We’re all very exited about the road ahead!”
The new Strands of Fate line will be available online, at http://www.untoldthegame.com, via RPGNOW.com, as well as select card shops, book and comic retailers starting in the new year . The first release will be Strands of Power: Heroic Advantages, the first in the Strands of Power series. Wandering Men Studios plans to release several new genre-specific products, building on the almost implied synergy between Strands of Fate and their own ground-breaking game, Untold. Each of these products is focused on expanding the already massive options that both Strands of Fate and Untold offer RPG fans.
Strands of Fate is a standalone core rulebook for the FATE game system. It provides the Game Master with all the tools he needs to get any campaign, of any genre or power level, off the ground and running in minutes. Whether it’s classic fantasy, urban mystery, dashing super heroes, or far future action, this book is your guide.
Untold is a revolutionary new role-playing game (RPG) from Wandering Men Studios designed to combine all the best elements of Role Playing Games (RPG's) and Collectible Card Games (CCG's) and toss the rest. Untold is a CBRPG (™): Card-Based Role Playing Game. It is exactly the same as any other RPG, but the primary physical "tools" of the game are different. Instead of rulebooks and character sheets, the only "tools" you need in Untold are cards! Untold was created to be fast, flexible, furious, and fun. The underlying task of Untold's designers has been to take the toil out of playing RPGs and put the fun back in. As such, every single thing the guys over at Wandering Men Studios have done during the development of Untold has been driven by this maxim.
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About Wandering Men Studios
Wandering Men Studios developed Untold because we weren't satisfied with what is currently available in the world of RPG's. We wanted to return gaming to its roots: where fun, imagination and creativity are ''KING'' (not suits, bottom lines and profit margins) and where gamers are not forced to buy a new set of rulebooks every year or a new load of cards every week.
The Wandering Men are game designers, authors, artists, explorers, and a whole load of other things. Our founding principle is "Wandering Inspires Creativity". We've created fiction and designed games for several D20 publishers including: Paizo Publishing, Sword & Sorcery Studios, Green Ronin Press, Bastion Press, Sovereign Press, Necromancer Games, Atlas Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Eden Studios, Skeleton Key Games, Dark Quest Games, Ambient, Inc., and Citizen Games. We've also been published in several industry periodicals such as Dragon Magazine, Gaming Frontiers, and The EN World Player's Journal; written a fantasy novel entitled Skein of Shadows (currently in its second printing, through Dark Quest Publishing), and are working on its sequel, as well as many, many other projects.
For more information on Untold and Wandering Men Studios, please visit: http://www.untoldthegame.com.
About Void Star
Void Star Games’ first release was the popular Strands of Fate core rulebook. We saw the potential in the FATE game system, but also the desperate need to break the rules away from a specific setting. In doing so we also created the tools necessary to allow you to run any sort of game using FATE in a matter of minutes instead of hours, reducing the prep time required to get you to the game table.
The Strands of Fate product line will consist of a number of “toolkit” books designed to utilize and reinforce the core Strands of Fate book. In addition to providing you with more tools to craft your own personal FATE campaigns, these new products will show you what you can build with the tools you already have.
For more information on Void Star, visit http://voidstar.squarespace.com/.
Wandering Men Studios is proud to announce the official launch of their revolutionary new RPG, Untold. Untold is an RPG unlike any you’ve ever played – it’s a CBRPG ™, a Card-Based Role-Playing Game; there are no books, no character sheets; the rules are on the cards and all you need is a deck and a die ™. Untold is your familiar old RPG with a ton of cool, new, easy-to-learn features and mechanics that make creating characters uber-easy (you can create any level character in minutes) and learn to play the game in no time at all.
Untold utilizes awesome, new card design and printing technologies that allow us to offer not only dual-sided cards, but also quad-cards (with 4 active playing areas) that integrate our unique Swapping and Downgrading mechanics – not to mention, it gives you 2x (or 4x) the amount of cards for your purchasing dollar. Also, when you purchase a deck of Untold cards, you know exactly what you’re getting – our deck listings are online BEFORE you buy and on every package as well – no more blind packaging and NO RANDOMIZATION.
And, if that weren’t enough, you can also use the exact same Untold cards to play a hard-hitting, head-to-head fighting version of Untold called Untold: Battle ™. So whether RPG’s are the thing you love or you yearn for visceral card-based combat, Untold is for you.
Please join us on our newly re-designed website to: learn how to play with our free online Primer or download the rules for free; absorb the tons of free campaign setting information (ecologies, characters, races, regions, fiction and much more); check out our Untold: Battle factions; join our ever-growing community (over 250 strong); find out about our Untold Demo Program (the Untold Boost Team); subscribe to our RSS feed and monthly newsletter and so much more through our weekly site updates.
Interested yet? Unlock your Untold potential now @ http://www.untoldthegame.com!
All Aboard for Chattacon!
Thursday, 24 January 2008
ALL ABOARD!
The Wandering Men are packing up and heading out - towards Chattanooga, Tennessee - for Chattacon! This will be our first time attending this convention and I have to say that we're all pretty "stoked" about it! [more...]
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Transmog Released (Men: the Wandering Cards - Set II)!
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
"I'm telling you - something happened to us on that ship - something terrible! I have no doubt now that it was tied to the relic, but what it did to us I still cannot fathom... Somehow, it changed us, morphed us - it made us into something far less than we were to begin with! I feel thin and shallow, like watery little ink, scratched upon the flat surface of parchment!"
- Tenet, beginning to realize the True Horror of Transmog
Behold the next edition of our Men: the Wandering cards - just in time for our trip to Chattacon! [more...]
Now that Christmas is getting closer - the Wandering Men are giving out gifts! HO HO HO!
That's right, Wandering Guys and Gals! The grand prize in the latest Wandering Men contest is precisely that - an Ipod Shuffle! The world's smallest digital music player can be yours - 1 GB of glorious musical pleasure! Not only that, but the winner of this contest will also receive a beautiful "Triple F" T-shirt, and a full color, glossy 8x12 poster (literally suitable for framing) of ONE of the Skein of Shadows heroes of your choice!
So, what's the catch, you ask? What does one have to do to win such a fabulous and monumentally awesome prize? Sell one's soul? Nah. Give us one's firstborn to a small guy with a hard-to-pronounce name? Of course not! It's actually quite simple... One might say deceptively simple...
Get all the info, rules, and details here...
Looks like it was "Media Exposure Week" at The Wandering Men Camp! Why do we say that? Check out all the buzz below!
The Wandering Men are back from an awesome trip to head to Con on the Cob, books are in, and pre-sales are over! There's a ton going on at the website, too!
This was the last full week before The Wandering Men head out for Con on the Cob, and we really tried to out-do ourselves with several days of double-updates!
The Wandering Men are gearing up to head to Con on the Cob, so there's lots of posts centered around that this week, but not all: a new contest, a novella excerpt, and our novel (with forward by Keith Baker) goes into pre-sales!
Lots of folks on several other boards wanted a bit more explanation of these round-up posts, so I thought I'd post it over here as well. Maybe this will shed a bit more light about the hyperlinks above. :) Feel free to ask me anything about 'em!
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Axiomatic Anarchy is a on-going piece of serialized fiction set in the world of Crown that details the struggles of a lost oltreggan (a new race from the Crown Campaign Setting) as he battles his way out of a subterranean prison/arena and tries to find his way home.
Fiend Fighter is a novella published by Dark Quest Games (again, set in the Crown campaign setting) and we're making excerpts available - the story centers around a bone-weary dwarven gladiator who is an expert in fighting fiends, but he soon finds that he's being manipulated by one and sets out to gain his vengeance!
Into the Bayou is part of the Wandering Men's Fort Exploring series. The Wandering Men is a group of adventuring authors - we seek to do the things we write about, which we feel lends an air of realism and truth to our writing. Into the Bayou is a story about us heading out into the swamps of Louisiana in search of a ruined Civil War Battery! :)
Bishop's Mitre is a serialized fiction short story about a Scottish solider in WWII struggling to survive and still maintain his faith and his humanity in the midst of the horror and chaos of war.
Uncommon Evil is a pet project of one of the Wandering Men - he likes to take what are often "under used or utilized" monsters from the Monster Manuals and give them what it takes to truly be a formidable and evil opponent - this week - phase spiders! :)
This week @ The Wandering Men webiste - a preview of a new race, a free novella excerpt, a fully statted NPC with tons of goodies and much, much more! Check it all out:
This week: a FREE 20+ page Player's Primer, free fiction, our first contest winner and more!
Check out what's been going on @ the Wandering Men's website over the past week!
WOW! Talk about a landslide response! Davis Riddle, Wandering Man, attended the first day of Hub Con yesterday and even on the first day of the Con, was met with loads of potential followers...er...I mean...interested folks!
Read more & see pics here!
Descend into the pits of despair and death with Dark Quest Games and the Wandering Men's latest release in the Skein of Shadows series of electronic novellas! In Fiend Fighter, you will meet a dwarf with skin as hard-as-nails, with a soul to match - Farulazar Fiend Fighter!
The second in a series of five novellas to be released this month, Fiend Fighter comprises part two of the growing tale that will only be fully told in the upcoming novel Skein of Shadows! Be sure and grab the latest in this stunningly crafted fantasy series, and if you're able, meet the author at Hub Con this weekend! Buy Skein of Shadows: Fiend Fighter now!
Fiend Fighter - Cover image here
There is always excitement every week at The Broken Valor, where gladiators fight for wealth, fame, or simply survival. Gold passes hands with every fight, and the were-rats perform their grim duty on the corpses of the losers. But for Farulazar, a dwarf expelled from the dwarvish fortress known as Dwarfhome, pit fighting is just a job, a lousy, stinking job. Each week he fights and then spends his winnings on drink, biding his time until the next match. Once every year, in commemoration of the beginning of the Demon Scourge, he marches into the pits to slay yet another fiend. It is what he does, for he is Farulazar Fiend Fighter.
As the annual demon fights draw nigh, a storm has descended on Crown. For Farulazar, a storm of a different kind begins to form inside him. His manipulative partner, Alfem is a halfling with dark secrets. Strangely, an assassin has wounded him a week before he is to fight a demon. Convinced that Alfem arranged the attack, Farulazar sets out to discover his motives. What the Fiend Fighter discovers sends him in a pursuit which could cost him his life and bring destruction to Crown.
If you're looking for more information, point your browser to http://wanderingmen.com where you'll find sneak peeks of the book, character excerpts and bios, additional Crown fiction, D20 stats, podcasts, and much, much more!
One of the Wandering Men, Davis Riddle, will be present at Hub Con this weekend. He'll be promoting the upcoming novel, Skein of Shadows, passing out fliers with yet unseen artwork from the novellas, free fiction from the web, other swag, and he'll be doing a Q&A session! Besides that, he's just a great guy to talk to, so anyone down south should stop by and say hello!
Also, the Wandering Men website has been seeing alot of updates this week, with Part 3 of an ongoing serial, Grey Beginning and an in-depth (and hilarious) interview with one of the Wandering Men, Hall! And there's more on the way!!
Dark Quest Games and the Wandering Men are very proud to announce the release of the first in the Skein of Shadows series of electronic novellas! Over the next five weeks the series will grow with a new novella offered each week - all highlighting the exciting, new Dark Quest Games campaign setting: Crown, while simultaneously building towards the climatic publication of the new novel, Skein of Shadows!
Do not miss out on this stunningly crafted fantasy series ? after reading them, you will never look at fiction in the same way again! Get Skein of Shadows: Vendetta now!
Vendetta - cover image here.
Elves have human generations to perfect their craft, and Arastin's chosen profession is death. An expert assassin, he's orchestrated the demise of hundreds, but the years of constant vigilance have worn on him. It's time to give up the trade but he's approached for one last job: assassinate a member of the Iceskull League. A vile group lead by white dragons, the League has plagued Crown on numerous occasions, and more importantly -- ages ago they drove the elves from their ancestral lands and destroyed their way of life.
The hook is baited, there's no one better suited - it's a matter of revenge. But the job is a sham, Arastin finds himself an unwilling pawn in a complex plot that threatens all of Crown, and he hates being had. The fate of the city rests on this unlikely hero's shoulders.
If you're looking for more information, point your browser to http://wanderingmen.com where you'll find sneak peeks of the book, character excerpts and bios, additional Crown fiction, D20 stats, podcasts, and much, much more!
WOWWEEZOWWEE.COM is proud to announce our first official contest: the Magic Item Madness Contest - where you could win a copy of the upcoming Wizards of the Coast Accessory, the Magic Item Compendium!
For more info - check out the links above! ;)
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