In this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at the Dark Tales expansion for Folklore the Affliction.Where players try to stop evil from advancing into the heart of the land.
I think I will get to play this October.
The Ed Greenwood Group
Twin Fire Productions
Creative Coterie: TEGG and Twin Fire Join Forces
TORONTO and DETROIT—The Ed Greenwood Group (TEGG) and Twin Fire Productions (TFP) today reached a creative coterie, a partnership, with The Archmage himself, Mr. Ed Greenwood.
In 2014, TFP unveiled an ingenious board game called Folklore: The Affliction, a release that was received with great critical acclaim as well as broad public support. As TFP finishes polishing and tweaking the game in time for a spring 2016 release, creative director Will Donovan will be working with Ed Greenwood on initializing two new aspects to the game: first, a series of roleplaying game (RPG) adventures; second, a series of novels from TEGG authors tied to the setting Folklore: Tales of the Affliction. Both aspects will use characters from the existing board game and also feature new characters in new adventures from the TEGG Sessorium of Creatives. Greenwood and Donovan will work together to guide the continuing folklore adventures in both the fiction and RPG lines.
“I grew up reading books and playing adventures written by Greenwood… That he loved what we created was awesome…that we now get to create together is incredible! The creative opportunity to extend our realm’s reach by adding novels and RPG adventures by working with Steven Schend and Ed Greenwood is fantastic,” said Will Donovan, creative director at TFP. “We’ve already got some great ideas flowing—the fans are going to be well pleased.”
The Ed Greenwood Group, a new transmedia publishing company from the creator of the Forgotten Realms®, launches this fall with its first novel, a brand-new Ed Greenwood title. Your World Is Doomed is the first novel in an urban fantasy setting called Hellmaw; 6 story arcs, 86 novels, 14 anthologies, 5 games, and 9 Artifacts are planned between Mr. Greenwood’s first novel in 2015 and the end of the sixth story arc, projected for October 2022. Next year (2016) will see the launch of a more traditional sword-and-sorcery setting code-named Pony Island Adventures. More settings in more genres will follow over the next ten years—For Wolf & Empire (steampunk), Lost Princesses of Mars (space opera), and In So Deep (sex fantasy), to name only a few. Quickblade, designed by TEGG head of game development Steven Schend and Ed Greenwood, is The Ed Greenwood Group’s RPG house rules and will serve as a master rules set for all adventures from all settings.
“I love what the gang at Twin Fire have done thus far,” said Ed Greenwood, president and publisher at TEGG. “It’s really beautiful stuff all around, and I am very much looking forward to working and creating both stories and adventures with them. This is going to be fun!”
For more information, please visit:
o Twitter: @TwinFireGames | Facebook: www.facebook.com/FolkloreTheAffliction
o Twitter: @TheEdVerse | Facebook: facebook.com/TheEdVerse
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While at Origins I took some time with TwinFire Production and looked in detail at Folklore the Affliction. Folklore the Affliction is a Kickstarter project scheduled for the fall of 2014. The game is a classic horror storytelling game that uses nuances of table top role playing with board game mechanics. We did this from the Crown with only natural light, I think it kind of adds to the theme of the the game.
At Origins I had a chance to sit down with Twinfire Productions and chat about their game Folklore the Affliction. Folklore the Affliction is a classic horror cooperative RPG story board game that will be on Kickstarter this fall. I even had the chance to see the greens for the miniatures.
Nino and Will spent a great deal of time sharing their prototype with me, make sure you check out the other videos.
You can visit them at Folklore the Affliction, read about the game on Board Game Geek.
