Because each member of our company, Autarch, wants something different, we think a game that suits all of us might be useful to you too. Are you:
a world-building gamemaster who needs an economy thoroughly integrated into the rules to make the settings you create feel and function as if they were real? So is Alexander Macris, who's used his role as publisher of the Escapist to make it a home for great articles on tabletop roleplaying, not least his own Check for Traps column.
an on-the-fly referee who needs tables that harness the oracular power of dice to generate an internally consistent world you discover along with your players? So is Tavis Allison, who's published for 3E as Behemoth3, freelanced for 4E with WotC, and furthered the old-school renaissance as a blogger at The Mule Abides and an assistant designer on the DCCRPG.
a player who needs fantasy with a consistent grounding so that your real-world intuition can guide your character's wildest schemes? So is Greg Tito, whose move from doing theater in Brooklyn to writing about games in Durham brought our team together. Greg co-designed some of the earliest third-party 4E material with Tavis, wrote about a ton of games (tabletop and otherwise) for Alex, and told each of these guys the stories about the others' campaigns that started this ball rolling.
an artist inspired by visions derived from the history of the ancient world, surprisingly extrapolated from the first principles of Arneson and Gygax, and outside the well-trodden paths of Eurocentric fantasy? So is Ryan Browning, whose participation in the Dungeons & Dragons in Contemporary Art panel Tavis organized catalyzed a switch away from doing only "fine art" and toward illustrations like the cover of Adventurer Conqueror King.
