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Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in
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. Founded in 2000 by
Chris Pramas Chris Pramas is an American game designer and writer, as well as a founder of Green Ronin Publishing. He is best known as the designer of the ''Dragon Age'' RPG, ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' (second edition), and ''Freeport: The City of Adventu ...
and Nicole Lindroos, they have published several
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–related products. They won several awards for their games including multiple
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, ENnie, Pen & Paper, and Inquest Fan Awards.


History

In early 1996,
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secured the rights to '' The Whispering Vault'' from Mike Nystul as he was leaving the game industry, and together with his brother
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and their friend Neal Darcy, the three of them founded the company Ronin Publishing. This initial company published two role playing game supplements, ''The Book of Hunts'' (1997) for ''The Whispering Vault'' and '' Blood of the Valiant'' for ''
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''. Ronin Publishing came to an end when Chris Pramas went to work for
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in 1998. Pramas founded Green Ronin Publishing with his wife Nicole Lindroos in 2000. The first publication from Green Ronin published was ''
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'' in July 2000. His association with Wizards of the Coast gave promise Pramas had inside information on the d20 license, so Green Ronin's first d20 publication '' Death in Freeport'' was released on August 10, 2000, on the same day as the ''D&D'' third edition ''
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''. Green Ronin moved beyond adventures for Freeport in 2001 and into publishing
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and other d20 material. Pramas was laid off from Wizards of the Coast in March 2002 so he went full-time with Green Ronin, doubling company production that year. The first new role-playing game published by Green Ronin was ''
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'' (2002); Toren Atkinson of the rock band
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had some of his artwork published in ''Ork!'' and ''Death in Freeport'' and asked Pramas to publish a game based on the band's album ''Spaceship Zero Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' (2000). The other role-playing game published by Green Ronin that year was '' Mutants & Masterminds'' (2002), created by
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who Pramas had asked to design a new d20-based superhero game because of his previous freelance work on superhero role-playing games. In 2003, former
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graphic designer, art director and ''
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'' RPG brand manager Hal Mangold joined as partner, and the company formally established itself as an LLC. Mangold was Green Ronin's primary graphic designer and art director on a freelance basis since soon after the company's founding, doing the layout and design for the majority of the company's print output. (''
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'', laid out by Nicole Lindroos, and the '' Mutants & Masterminds'' game line, handled by the Super Unicorn design studio, were notable exceptions.) On May 12, 2010, Green Ronin Publishing announced a third edition of the superhero role-playing game ''Mutants & Masterminds'' would debut in the fall. This announcement came just nine days after the publisher announced that it would debut a new ''DC Adventures'' game in August, based upon ''Mutants & Masterminds''. According to Green Ronin President Chris Pramas, the two new games will "share a common ruleset." In 2013, Green Ronin Publishing used crowdfunding platform
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to redesign and enlarge the Freeport campaign setting for the ''
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''.


Games and products

Green Ronin wrote the second edition of ''
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'', which was published by Black Industries. Other notable products include ''Freeport: The City of Adventure'', "Green Ronin’s signature city setting" and "home to thousands of RPG campaigns since its launch in 2000", ''
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'', and ''
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'' d20 settings, '' Mutants & Masterminds'', ''
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'', and '' True20''. Licensed products include the '' A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying'' game, the ''
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'' roleplaying game, and '' DC Adventures'', a licensed roleplaying game based on the characters and setting found in ''
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''. The ''Spirosblaak'' (2005) setting from Green Ronin's ''Mythic Vistas'' series was supported by
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. They also created Fantasy AGE using the 'Adventure Game Engine' (source
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Reception

Green Ronin Publishing won the 2003 Silver ENnies">Ennie Award for "Best Publisher", and again in 2004, and the Gold for "Best Publisher" and Silver for "Fan's Choice for Best Publisher" in 2005, and Gold for "Fan's Choice for Best Publisher" in 2006.


References

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External links

* {{Authority control Companies based in Seattle ENnies winners Publishing companies established in 2000 Role-playing game publishing companies