Ramshead Publishing
Ramshead Publishing is an American game company that produces role-playing games and game supplements.
History
[edit]Mike Holmes and Ralph Mazza were members of the Gaming Outpost who were later among the founding members and prolific posters on the Forge, and worked together to develop a game using their ideas Universalis: The Game of Unlimited Stories.[1]: 168–169 Holmes and Mazza published Universalis (2002) through Ramshead Publishing.[2]: 411 Mazza had been using his initials since childhood, and based the name of this company on his initials.[1]: 169 Mazza bought out the share of Universalis from Holmes in January 2003, so that he owned both the game and Ramshead Publishing alone.[1]: 171 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.[1]: 172 Adept Press, Burning Wheel, Driftwood Publishing, and Ramshead Publishing sponsored the Forge booth at Gen Con in 2004.[2]: 408 Ramshead released its second complete game, Blood Red Sands (2013), first in May 2013 as a PDF to backers of its successful 2012 Kickstarter, with a print book published in early 2014.[1]: 173
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.
- ^ a b Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.