Dresden Files RPG Press Release

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 $TBD.
  • The Dresden Files RPG: Volume 2 – Our World ISBN 978-0-9771534-8-0. Price $TBD.
  • 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: https://www.jim-butcher.com
  • Follow The Dresden Files RPG on Twitter @Dresdenfiles
  • Press contacts, please email feedback@evilhat.com

15 thoughts on “Dresden Files RPG Press Release”

  1. great. now i have to leave my parent’s basement and go find some friends.

  2. WOW! Dresden Files RPG released in MY HOME TOWN!!!!! I’ll be there! Twice!!!!

  3. This is great. I’ve been hoping that this would come out soon. I wonder if I can get work to shell out the cash for me to go to Origins.

  4. Now time to start getting people together to play this game. Hummmm….

  5. can’t wait to see it, I loved the system… didn’t realize they had gotten that far along yet.

  6. Fantastic! I’ve been looking forward to this for a while! My restraint in not trying to run a Dresden game in d20 Modern has finally paid off! 🙂

  7. LOL@ Morley.
    As for the long-awaited game, just waiting for the price TBD so I can order them. Dresden RPG…w00t!!

  8. Finally an official system! After two years of having to run with a modified world of darkness rule set i can’t express how pleased i am to see this on the horizon. Hopefuly it will make it’s way to the UKs misty shores with all due haste!

  9. I think that I’m in love here folks, a Dresden RPG, Finally! Hallelujah!

  10. Aw crap. Now I have to decide between Dresden Files and D&D… Too bad I don’t know enough people really into the book series besides myself and my dad.

  11. if you know people who roleplay, talk em into reading a book, or just show them the sheer scope to dfrpg, I’m sure they’ll want to play – that’s how we will be doing it. oh and the price has been published over at dresdenfilesrpg.com

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