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Mindjammer: The Core Worlds Sourcebook and The Mindjammer Companion – OUT NOW!

We’re delighted to announce the launch today of two brand new supplements for Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game!

First up is The Core Worlds Sourcebook, by Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, Achtung! Cthulhu, Legends of Anglerre, Monsters & Magic, The Chronicles of Future Earth), David Donachie (Mindjammer, Legends of Anglerre, Solipsist), Paul Mitchener (Mindjammer, Age of Arthur, Mythic Britain, Starfall), and John Snead (Mindjammer, Aeon Trinity, Exalted, Blue Rose, The Dying Earth).

The Core Worlds Sourcebook details a vast sector of Commonality Space for your Mindjammer games. Focussing for the first time on the ancient, decadent, and sophisticated heart of the Commonality, it provides you with deep background and material to explore this fascinating region. Play Fringe Worlders experiencing the strangeness of the Core first-hand, or Core Worlders, sure of their superiority, until they leave their homes and are found wanting. Play planetary sentiences ruling whole worlds, ancient dynasties with plans crossing millennia, illegal xenomorphs fighting oppression and neglect in the forbidden substrates beneath the towering arcologies. Push the boundaries of transhuman science-fiction gaming—explore what it means to be human itself. A bright, bizarre, and thought-provoking milieu for your Mindjammer games!

The Core Worlds Sourcebook includes:

The history and background of the Core, including lavish maps, new genotypes and strange subcultures.
Deep detail on Manhome, including maps and descriptions of Old Earth, Old Mars, Green Moon, and more!
The Fargate Network and the mysterious 3-Space Instrumentality.
Descriptions, artwork, and stats for the Custodians—the secret rulers of the Core Worlds.
Guides for Core Worlds campaigns. Go beyond what it means to be human!

Second up, the Mindjammer Companion welcomes you to the turbulent worlds of the Outremer subsector, out on the Commonality frontier. It’s the heart of the Rim Sector, a spectacular, violent place of feuding polities in the no-man’s land between the Commonality and the Venu Empire. In the aftermath of war, everything is up for grabs: Successor States rise and fall, the new xenomorph Sentient Alliance flexes its muscles, and the Commonality and the nefarious Venu jostle for position, knowing that war could break out again at any moment.</p

The Mindjammer Companion includes:

History and background of the Outremer Subsector, including subsector octant maps.
Essays on the conflicting economic systems which vie for supremacy out beyond the Frontier, far from the Resource Allocation Sentiences of the Commonality core.
The five generations of Commonality starship design.
New cultures and genotypes.
An octant map of the Heritage Contestation and planetary maps and writeups for 30 adventure-packed worlds!

The Mindjammer Companion presents material which originally appeared in the Mindjammer (Traveller Edition) sourcebook, converted and repurposed for use with the Fate Core system and Mindjammer—The Roleplaying Game. The Mindjammer—The Roleplaying Game core book is required for play.

Both The Core Worlds Sourcebook and the Mindjammer Companion are now available in PDF format on Modiphius.net and DriveThruRPG, with the print edition available from the 23rd November.

Children of Orion: The Venu Sourcebook – OUT NOW!

We’re delighted to announce the launch today of CHILDREN OF ORION – THE VENU SOURCEBOOK, the brand new supplement for our transhuman science-fiction RPG Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game, by Mindjammer creator Sarah Newton and David Donachie (Legends of Anglerre, Solipsist).

YOU WILL KNEEL BEFORE THE EMPEROR—OR DIE!

“To dwell on the past is weakness! We were born from nucleonic fire. We were forged in flame and suffering. And now we march to the stars and make the spawn of abomination burn!”

Welcome to the Bright Empire of Venu—the interstellar civilisation of the “bad guys” of Human Space! An ancient people of xenophobic human supremacists, survivors of an ancient war, now hellbent on cleansing the cosmos of abomination and bringing the purifying word of their undying God-Emperor to the stars.

Children of Orion—the Venu Sourcebook provides a whole new universe of adventure for your Mindjammer games—a harsh and violent interstellar empire beyond the Commonality frontier. Play rebels against the domineering rule of the God-Emperor, mutated troopers and servitors of the sinister Dark Radiance fighting against the cultural inroads of the Commonality—or Commonality agents themselves, working behind enemy lines to defeat an implacable foe which once devastated the Core Worlds! It’s a completely different vibe for your Mindjammer games—darker, more desperate, where the survival of an entire people is at stake.

Children of Orion—the Venu Sourcebook includes:

Prehistories and histories of the Empire of Venu
The strange powers of the Dark Radiance
Starmaps and world descriptions
Full details for creating Venu characters, including genotypes, occupations, and cultures
Venu tech and starships
Guidelines for playing Venu campaigns. Fight against the Venu, or play a Venu character yourself!

Also check out Sarah Newton’s blog post today on the genesis of the Venu and Children of Orion.

Children of Orion—the Venu Sourcebook is now available in PDF format on Modiphius.net and DriveThruRPG, with the print edition available from the 23rd November.

Novel release: THE WORM WITHIN – THE FIRST CHRONICLE OF FUTURE EARTH

“Classic fantasy packed with exquisite and original touches…” – Jaine Fenn, author of the Hidden Empire series.

Mindjammer Press is delighted to announce the release today of THE WORM WITHIN, the new cosmic fantasy novel from ENnie Award-winning writer Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, Achtung! Cthulhu, Monsters & Magic, Legends of Anglerre). Subtitled “The First Chronicle of Future Earth”, this is the first in a series of epic fantasy novels set in the strange world of Earth’s very far future, a world of uncanny gods and demons, weird sorceries, and ancient and deadly technologies.

In the last centuries of the Fifth Cycliad, a great malaise fell on the lands of humankind…

It is the far future. Our civilisation, and its glorious technological future, is gone. Only rusted ruins and tunnels beneath the ancient cities hint at what once was. In the Chronomancer’s Tower, a young apprentice stumbles upon a secret which will change the world; an ancient evil, little more than a fairy tale to frighten children, is real, and threatening to return. But is everything what it seems? Wheels turn within wheels, and political machinations wrought by selfish men and women bring the world to the brink of devastation. Can Iago and his unlikely allies unravel the knot in time, and fathom the mystery of… the Worm Within?

Some said it was the end of days. Some said it was only the beginning. These pages tell the story of that time yet to come. These are the Chronicles of Future Earth.

THE WORM WITHIN is available right now in physical (trade paperback) and ebook versions, from the following outlets:

In trade paperback and ebook bundle (PDF, epub, Kindle MOBI) from our awesome distribution partner, Modiphius Entertainment.
In ebook bundle (PDF, epub, Kindle MOBI) and (very shortly) trade paperback from DriveThruFiction and DriveThruRPG.
In trade paperback and Kindle version from Amazon (.com, .co.uk, .ca, .de, .fr, etc).
In bookstores via Ingram Group distribution (please ask your bookstore to order you a copy if they don’t have it in yet!).
Available via other major ebook retailers (iBooks, Barnes & Noble, etc) in the new few days.

THE WORM WITHIN marks the start of a major new line of fiction and RPG titles from Mindjammer Press, to be followed by our Chronicles of Future Earth RPG crowdfunding campaign later in 2017.

Just us, and take up the cry for Heroes, to stand against the dying of the light and save the world from the sins of its past. The Autocracy abides!

“Thrilling, inventive, and full of wonder.” – Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Desert of Souls.

“The start of an absolutely fantastic new series!” – GMS Magazine

The Monsters & Magic RPG back in print!

Mindjammer Press and Modiphius Entertainment are delighted to announce the release of the acclaimed Monsters & Magic roleplaying game, available now in a brand new print edition (including a complementary PDF!) for just £19.99 on DriveThruRPG.com.

“Honestly, this looks set to become one of my new favourite games. I give it a 5 of 5 for Substance.” — RPG.net review

Created by Sarah Newton, author of the ENnie award-winning Mindjammer roleplaying game, Monsters & Magic features old school fantasy with new school play, letting you play your beloved old 1st edition modules and campaigns using this modern rules set with an old school vibe—with little or no conversion!

Combining the atmosphere of classic fantasy games with modern RPG mechanics, Monsters & Magic lets you use old school fantasy gaming material with little or no conversion with a new and innovative set of rules. Battle giants, defeat dragons, explore deadly dungeons and mysterious wilderlands—and bring your favourite adventures, supplements, spellbooks, and bestiaries to brilliant new life!

Monsters & Magic features:

• the Effect Engine, a modular open-license rules system
• action-packed adventure from 1st to 20th level and beyond
• rules for castles, kingdoms, guilds, and warships
• Silvermoon, an introductory adventure for levels 1-4
• new rules for alignment, hazards, encounters, treasures, epic and mythic gaming, and more!
• 140 pages, black & white interior.

Dust off your spell book, polish that suit of +1 plate armour, and unsheathe your vorpal blade. Adventure awaits!

Monsters & Magic is a complete fantasy roleplaying game—you need nothing else to play. However, please note that while Monsters & Magic is a standalone game, featuring rules which can take you to 20th level and beyond, it’s also specifically designed to work with your favourite classic fantasy bestiaries and spell books. As such, it contains 1st and 2nd level spells and just over 20 sample monsters—enough to cater for your first 4 or so levels of play. Although the rules can take you much further, you’ll want to use your own classic bestiaries or spellbooks for higher level characters, or any of those available for free online!

Keep an eye out for our other Monsters & Magic products now in development, including:

• All Under Heaven — Oriental Monsters & Magic (coming soon!)
• The Heroic Companion — Hero Scale Adventures for Monsters & Magic.
• The Horror of Haugling Hall — a Monsters & Magic adventure for levels 1-4.

We hope you’ll take the chance to enjoy this brand new printed version of this classic fantasy roleplaying game and look out for more great Monsters & Magic titles appearing soon!

Buy the 140-page softback edition of Monsters & Magic today!

Mindjammer – Traveller edition now available!

Modiphius Entertainment and Mindjammer Press are delighted to announce the release of Mindjammer – Transhuman Adventure in the Second Age of Space (“Mindjammer Traveller”), a complete 384-page hardback setting supplement for the second edition TRAVELLER RPG from Mongoose Publishing. The ENnie Award-winning transhuman science-fiction RPG setting returns, in a brand new edition for use with the TRAVELLER roleplaying game!

Available now in print + PDF bundle and PDF-only version from the Modiphius webstore and in PDF-only version from RPGNow / DriveThruRPG.

Mindjammer Traveller has been written by Sarah Newton and John Snead (who did all the heavy-lifting on the conversion), with gorgeous layout and artwork from Jason Juta and his team of visioneers, and features:

full rules for starships, organisations, and culture operations;
detailed character cultures, genotypes, and new careers – play a sentient starship!
new and innovative systems for describing planets, star systems, and alien life;
deep setting material on the New Commonality of Humankind;
rules for the Mindscape and virtual worlds;
starmaps and planet descriptions, histories, and background.

THE UNIVERSE AWAITS!

Never has there been a greater time of opportunity. The universe is in flux, and for the first time in ten thousand years no one knows what the future will bring. Charge your blaster, thoughtcast your orders to the starship sentience, and fire up the planing engines. Come and defend the light of humanity’s greatest civilisation as it spreads to the stars!

(Requires the use of the Traveller Core Rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing.)

Print + PDF bundle and PDF-only version from the Modiphius webstore.
PDF-only version from RPGNow / DriveThruRPG.

Mindjammer: BLUE now available!

We’re delighted to announce that the new Mindjammer adventure BLUE is now available for order, in physical version (with complimentary PDF) and PDF version. You can buy the physical version + complimentary PDF from the Modiphius webstore here, and the PDF version from DriveThru / RPGNow here. The physical version will be available in your friendly local game store in the new year.

ADVENTURE IN THE RUINS OF AN ALIEN WORLD

Blue. A beautiful yet alien world. Until six hundred years ago it was the home of an unimaginably advanced alien species, poised in splendid isolation on the brink of transcendence, refusing even to communicate with the lesser intelligences which had colonised its planetary twin. That’d be us—homo variens, the diverse and curious descendants of the colonists from Old Earth. Even our probes and telescopes were deflected, leaving us with tantalising glimpses of wonders beyond our ability to understand.

Then, six hundred years ago, the alien civilisation fell. Almost overnight: the lights on the surface of the planet Blue went out, the aliens’ structures seemed to dissolve, and the barrier which had protected them from prying eyes for millennia collapsed. But where had they all gone? Amid magnificent ruins we found devolved life forms, as confused and as uncomprehending as we.

None of us ever knew what had been lost. Until now. Now the Blues are back—and no one knows if even the Commonality can resist them. Let’s hope they want to be friends…

There’s been a murder on the fallen world of Blue, a planet of ragtag survivors and curious human colonists researching the remains of a near-transcendent alien civilisation. But the culprit is stranger than anyone had imagined; and, as factions manoeuvre for influence and control, a mystery is uncovered which threatens to change the Commonality forever!

BLUE includes:

Two whole alien worlds: maps, ecosystems, exointelligences, cultures, and more;
A multi-session adventure of intrigue, conspiracy, and mystery spanning an entire star system;
Secrets of the Commonality and the Mindjammer setting!

Buy your copy of BLUE today, in physical version + comp PDF copy, or in PDF-only version. The Commonality salutes you!

BLUE – Adventure in the Ruins of an Alien World.

Softback, 80 pages.

A Mindjammer adventure.

Mindjammer Press at UK Games Expo, 3-5 June 2016

Sarah Newton is going to be at the UK Games Expo this coming weekend, representing Mindjammer Press at the Modiphius booth. She will be arriving mid-morning on Saturday 4th June and will be there until the end of Sunday.

There will be hard copies of the Mindjammer RPG, Hearts and Minds, The City People, the Dominion Quickstart, and even the Mindjammer novel.

We’re also hearing rumours in the Mindscape that Graham Spearing will be planing in from the Far Havens too – keep an eye out for the co-author of the brand new Mindjammer campaign pack launching this month! Please stop by and say hi, and chat about our product lines and what’s in the pipeline!

UK Games Expo

NEC Birmingham

North Ave, Birmingham B40 1NT, United Kingdom

Mindjammer Press at the “Comédie Du Livre”, Montpellier, 28-29 May 2016

Sarah Newton of Mindjammer Press, author of Mindjammer, The Chronicles of Future Earth, Achtung Cthulhu, Legends of Anglerre, etc, will be a guest at the literary festival “La Comédie du Livre” in the beautiful French city of Montpellier this weekend, the 28-29 May 2016. She’ll be joining the writers and editors of Deadcrows Studio, publishers of the Capharnaum RPG and translators of the Mindjammer RPG into French, at the Stand Manoir (stand P5A). She’ll be demoing Mindjammer from 10am to 1pm Saturday and Sunday (sign up at the Deadcrows Studio stand), and will be signing books and chatting about Mindjammer, Capharnaum, and lots more at the stand each afternoon!

If you’re at the festival – which promises to be huge this year – please stop by and say hi!

Festival La Comédie du Livre

Montpellier

27-29 May 2016

http://comediedulivre.fr

Announcing the Capharnaum RPG in English and the Mindjammer RPG in French!

Mindjammer Press and Deadcrows Studio announce translation agreements for French-language MINDJAMMER and English-language CAPHARNAUM roleplaying games

20^th May 2016—Mindjammer Press and Deadcrows Studio are delighted to announce their agreements to translate the CAPHARNAUM and MINDJAMMER roleplaying games into English and French respectively.

“The Capharnaum—The Mark of the Dragon RPG line is an absolutely beautiful series of game books focussed on an Arabian Nights-inspired setting with strong elements of ancient worlds mysteries, Crusades, and a Mediterranean fantasy ethos which I’ve loved for many years,” said Sarah Newton, director of Mindjammer Press (Mindjammer, The Chronicles of Future Earth, Monsters & Magic, Burn Shift, Achtung! Cthulhu). “It has the depth, detail, and sophisticated world-building which I love and which fans have come to expect from Mindjammer Press, and I’m proud to have this wonderful opportunity to bring the whole series to English-speaking gamers everywhere. At the same time, after our successful Mindjammer Kickstarter last December, it’s very exciting to have signed our first translation agreement to enable the great people at Deadcrows Studio to bring the Mindjammer RPG and fiction range to the French market. We’re looking forward to a very fertile and productive working relationship!”

“The Mindjammer roleplaying game is a pure transhumanist Space Opera offering unique and unusual adventuring opportunities, mixing exploration, discovery, intrigue, technology, cultural conflict, and epic combat. The richness of the Mindjammer setting opens infinite perspectives,” said Francois Cedelle of Deadcrows Studio (Capharnaum, Venzia, AmnesYa 2K51). “But it’s also a toolbox, permitting GMs to create and manage cultures, civilisations, planets, starships, and more. It contains everything you need to develop exciting and compelling scenarios in a coherent universe—and all driven by the fantastic FATE system.”

“Mindjammer is already a magnificent game line, with a very complete core rulebook and a rich and beautifully illustrated line of supplements,” added Deadcrows Studio’s Stephan Barat. “We’re therefore particularly proud to announce that Mindjammer will be our first translated RPG, and we’re over the moon at the idea of working together with Sarah Newton and the whole Mindjammer Press team!”

Deadcrows Studio will be launching a crowdfunding campaign for the French-language version of Mindjammer in 2016, for publication in 2017. Mindjammer Press expects to release the Capharnaum RPG core book in early 2017, with a range of supplements to follow in 2017 and 2018.

MINDJAMMER PRESS is a British games publisher founded by Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, Achtung! Cthulhu, Monsters & Magic, Legends of Anglerre, Fate Core – Burn Shift, The Chronicles of Future Earth) and Chris McWilliam to produce roleplaying games and related fiction, including: the transhuman science-fiction roleplaying game Mindjammer for Fate Core, and its series of supplements and novels; The Chronicles of Future Earth; and Monsters & Magic. Find out more about Mindjammer Press at http://www.mindjammerpress.com or follow them on Twitter @MindjammerPress or Facebook (www.facebook.com/MindjammerPress), or by email at info@mindjammerpress.com.

DEADCROWS STUDIO is a French editorial collective, an open team gathering together a wide range of artists, writers, and creatives. They began their venture with the AmnesYa 2K51 RPG in 2005, and have been developing the game line for the Capharnaum—The Mark of the Dragon RPG since 2007. In 2013 they produced their latest RPG, Venzia. Find out more about Deadcrows Studio at http://deadcrows.net or follow them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/StudioDeadcrows.

Ian Liddle joins Mindjammer Press as Operations Manager

Hi everyone! We’re delighted to welcome Ian Liddle to the Mindjammer Press team today as our new operations manager. Ian’s an experienced hand in the roleplaying games industry, having spent twelve years publishing as Applied Vectors, undertaking freelance games conversion, and doing writing and layout work for such luminaries as FASA Games Inc, Battlefield Press, BTRC, Utherwald Press, and most recently Shades of Vengeance.

As Mindjammer Press operations manager, he’ll be immediately taking over the management of our online presence, including the Mindjammer Press website, forums, and social media, as well as assisting with the day-to-day running of the company. Since our successful Mindjammer Kickstarter last December, we’ve been delighted to find ourselves increasingly busy, and can’t wait for Ian to join the team and help pilot Mindjammer Press into the future!

Ian joins me, Sarah Newton (Mindjammer Press director), and Jason Juta (our art director) on the management team, together with our fantastic team of writers, designers, and artists, including John Snead, Graham Spearing, Paul Mitchener, David Donachie, Michal Cross, Andy Wintrip, Ian Stead, Eric Lofgren, and Daniel Voss.

Welcome aboard, Ian!