Green Ronin “Winter is coming”! A Song of Ice & Fire has gone to print!

Two years ago, after the demise of Guardians of Order, George R.R. Martin made the exciting announcement that Green Ronin would be publishing his new “A Song of Ice and Fire” RPG…

Now, finally, after a long wait, Green Ronin have announced that “A Song of Ice and Fire” has gone to print!

(Ed – Opinion: Woo-Hoo! I can’t wait… I already have a lovely shiney special edition of the d20 / tri-stat “Game of Thrones” RPG from Guardians of Order but I’m keen to see what Green Ronin do with the setting as I think they do a great job with dark settings. The quick start rules which have been available for a while look pretty good!)

A Gamer’s view of some big RPGs…

Shane Carr (see sidebar for link) has written an interesting post here on some of the bigger Fantasy RPGs (D&D 3.5, D&D 4.0, Exalted and Dark Heresy). He has some interesting things to say – well worth the read! I have included a few exerpts below:

In much the same way 1st edition was defined by its adventures and 2nd edition by its plethora of campaign settings, 3rd edition will mainly be remembered for all those broken feats and prestige classes that made making a character so much fun and made playing a character so annoying.

I have to say (without really playing it but after owning the game and reading the core rules several times) I agree in the main with what he has to say about Exalted:

I CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW THE MOVEMENT RULES WORK. As near as I can tell, everyone gets a free move action every second of combat whether its their turn or not, but that just strikes me as both retardedly complicated and unrealistic even for a hyper-kinetic martial arts RPG: Why would anyone stand still for even a second?

Food for thought at least…