Ramshead Publishing is an American game company that produces

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s and game supplements.

History

Mike Holmes and Ralph Mazza were members of the Gaming Outpost who were later among the founding members and prolific posters on the

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, and worked together to develop a game using their ideas ''Universalis: The Game of Unlimited Stories''. Holmes and Mazza published ''

Universalis ''Universalis'', subtitled "The Game of Unlimited Stories", is a role-playing game (RPG) published by Ramshead Publishing in 2002 that stresses interactive storytelling. The game uses a unique system, based on "coins" that are used to make add ...

'' (2002) through Ramshead Publishing. Mazza had been using his initials since childhood, and based the name of this company on his initials. Mazza bought out the share of ''Universalis'' from Holmes in January 2003, so that he owned both the game and Ramshead Publishing alone. Ramshead published the ''Robots & Rapiers Quick Start Rules'' (2004) as a PDF at first, and then printed in book form at Gen Con Indy 2004.

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, Burning Wheel, Driftwood Publishing, and Ramshead Publishing sponsored the Forge booth at

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in 2004. Ramshead released its second complete game, '' Blood Red Sands'' (2013), first in May 2013 as a PDF to backers of its successful 2012

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, with a print book published in early 2014.

References

{{reflist Role-playing game publishing companies