The Dresden Files RPG

Silver Spring, Maryland (February 24, 2010) – Alliance Game Distributors and Evil Hat Productions are proud to announce that they will be teaming up to bring The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game to adventure-hobby retailers in June, 2010!

The Dresden Files RPG is based upon the wildly popular series of books by New York Times best selling author Jim Butcher. With eleven books published in the series, and Changes, the 12th book set to release on April 6, 2010, the Evil Hat crew had a wealth of characters and plot to draw from.

“We are delighted that Evil Hat will be expanding its existing distribution network to include Alliance,” said Mike Webb, VP of Marketing and Customer Service for Alliance Game Distributors. “Evil Hat has a well deserved reputation for putting out some of the finest in independent roleplaying products. And from the previews we have seen, The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game hits on all cylinders with the industry. Jim Butcher’s vision and characters are a wonderful modern take on fantasy noir. Combining Butcher’s world with Evil Hat’s gamecraft is a winning combination!”

“When it came time for us to decide if we were going into distribution, there wasn’t any question about who we’d want in our corner,” said Fred Hicks, Co-President of Evil Hat Productions. “The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game is the first game we’ve done on this kind of scale. Partnering with Alliance to get the game into retail stores everywhere is a straight-up no-brainer. Their track record speaks for itself!”

In addition to the Dresden Files RPG, Alliance will also be offering Evil Hat’s backlist of products – including the award-winning Spirit of the Century RPG, based on the Fate game system—the same engine which drives the ruleset for Dresden Files!

The Dresden Files RPG: Volume 1 – Your Story [EHP3001] and The Dresden Files RPG: Volume 2 – Our World [EHP3002] will make their first appearance at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio June 23, 2010.

About Evil Hat

Evil Hat Productions believes that passion makes the best games. With this passion, they create award-winning games such as Spirit of the Century and Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, delivering the best in small-press gaming.

For more information about Evil Hat, contact
Fred Hicks, Co-President
feedback@evilhat.com
www.evilhat.com

For more information about The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game, visit the game’s website at www.dresdenfilesrpg.com

About Alliance

Alliance Game Distributors is the largest hobby-game distributor in the US, with 4 warehouses and 5 sales offices servicing North America and the world. Alliance leads the industry in retail support, with a robust B2B web presence and the industry leading preorder publication, Game Trade Magazine – which has proved an invaluable tool to retailers and consumers for over 10 years.

For more information, contact
Mike Webb, VP of Marketing and Customer Service
mew@alliance-games.com ·   410-602-8000 x1005

Evil Hat Productions Brings The World of Harry Dresden To Life With The Dresden Files Role Playing Game

Silver Spring, Maryland (January 26, 2010) - After 4 years in the making, Evil Hat Productions is not only pleased but proud to officially announce The Dresden Files Role Playing Game (RPG) will release at the Origins Game Fair, June 23, 2010. Fred Hicks, one of the founding partners of Evil Hat, said, “Stars and stones! This project has been a labor of love for a great many people for a few years now. The thought of sharing these books with people, getting them in their hands, and having people role playing in the Dresden-verse is making me all misty.”

The Dresden Files RPG is based upon the wildly popular series of books by New York Times best selling author Jim Butcher. With eleven books published in the series, and Changes, the 12th book set to release on April 6, 2010, the Evil Hat crew had a wealth of characters and plot to draw from. “When Jim came to us a few years back, and asked us if we wanted to work on a role playing game based on his books, it took us about a millisecond to say ‘yes!’ He has been one of our biggest supporters on the project, and is just wonderful to work with” said Hicks.

Hicks went on to say, “We based The Dresden Files RPG on the ’Fate’ game system we used on the award-winning Spirit of the Century. We took everything we learned from Spirit, and then updated, revised, play-tested, and fine-tuned it to produce an experience that closely matches the novels themselves. That experience is also defined by the wealth of background we were able to add to the game from Jim’s amazing stories, including a comprehensive look at all the characters and creatures from the first ten books. We are sure that along with being a phenomenal game, it will also be a fantastic resource for fans of the books.”

“Originally, we were planning to do this game in a single volume. As time went on and word count grew…so did the amount of flat-out awesome we knew we had on our hands. And so our game grew out of the confines of one book, into two gorgeous volumes,” Hicks added.

The Dresden Files RPG: Volume 1 – Your Story and The Dresden Files RPG: Volume 2 – Our World will make their first appearance at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio June 23, 2010.

“We wanted to release these books in a bit more of an intimate setting, so we chose to make our big ‘coming out’ at Origins. It’s a small enough show that we feel like we will be able to spend more time with the fans, and thank the community that has been so supportive as we have been working on this. All plans point to physical copies of the books being available for the release event. But  if Fate (ahem) intervenes and they do not arrive for the show floor, we will offer an ‘instant content pre-order.’ This will allow folks to walk away with full PDFs of the books right there, and have the books shipped directly to them,” Hicks said.

Preorders may begin prior to Origins, depending on how the production timeline works out.  Shortly after Origins, The Dresden Files RPG Volumes 1 & 2 will then go on sale both to Retailers and Consumers through the Evil Hat online store, as well as through Indie Press Revolution.

-        The Dresden Files RPG: Volume 1 – Your Story ISBN 978-0-9771534-7-3. Price UPDATED (2/26) – $49.99. 400 pages, full color interior, hardcover.

-        The Dresden Files RPG: Volume 2 – Our World ISBN 978-0-9771534-8-0. Price UPDATED (2/26) – $39.99, 270 pages, full color interior, hardcover.

-        Retailers, for more information on how to order Evil Hat’s full line-up of titles, please visit http://www.evilhat.com/home/retailer-information/

-        For more information on Evil Hat Productions, visit: http://www.evilhat.com

-        For More information on The Dresden Files and Jim Butcher, visit: http://www.jim-butcher.com

-        Follow The Dresden Files RPG on Twitter @Dresdenfiles

-        Press contacts, please email feedback@evilhat.com