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Author Topic: Rebma?  (Read 11434 times)

Jason D

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Rebma?
« Reply #45 on: September 20, 2019, 03:18:10 AM »
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Haven't been on this site for ages (and haven't been playing much role playing games for the last 20 years or so)... But I re-registered again, just to post this.


I haven't been here for a long while, but the thread alert told me about this strange necromancy. :)

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I stumbled over some file called Rebma, from an unknown origin, without any artwork. Well, I did find the cover, so that's covered (ouch, poor pun).

It's a pity the (Amber) system more or less disappeared (though you can still buy it as a PDF, I believe).


No one is super-happy about the game being gone. The system itself lives on in Lords of Gossamer & Shadow, but the Amber IP license is, I believe, still tied up with the television series deal and an (IIRC) an unresponsive literary agent.

It is still available via pdf by Diceless by Design, who unfortunately do not have the ability to produce any new Amber material for the line.

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Anyway, reading it now and enjoying it. Jason, if it's the one you wrote (no way I can confirm that) then all I can say thus far it's pretty much in line with the previous books. Someone, somewhere, probably put an old copy online and / or stripped the artwork.


That's probably it. It was apparently ready for press when Erick has a crisis of confidence about publishing anything, and basically killed the line, begrudgingly completing the Amberzine subscriptions and releasing nothing but t-shirts.

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Any other projects you are currently involved with?


I'm the line editor for RuneQuest/BRP with Chaosium, working on the next wave of books after the award-winning core book set, and am also (hypothetically) editing a new edition of Dark Conspiracy once the publisher's insolvency issues are handled. I am also the line manager of Conan from Modiphius, working on the third wave of books for that game line. I'm going to be editing another big line game line (solely as a consulting editor, not a line manager) for Modiphius, but can't talk about it yet.