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On these pages you'll find all the official Press Releases from ICE and our business partners. If you have any questions about any of the information please feel free to email me.
ICE CONTACT:
Bruce Neidlinger, CEO
Iron Crown Enterprises
112 Goodman St., Charlottesville, VA 22902
phone: 434.244.0881 | fax: 434.244.2661
email: bruce@ironcrown.com
website: www.ironcrown.com
May 15, 2006 - Politically Incorrect Games (PIG) announces that
it will be developing Disposable Heroes Paper Minis for use
with
HARP
- High Adventure Role Playing, under license from Iron Crown
Enterprises (ICE). Select, customize, and download paper miniatures
and counters to enhance your HARP gaming experience.
HARP is short for High Adventure Role Playing and it's ICE's newest, award winning, fantasy roleplaying system. HARP has everything you love about fantasy roleplaying: flexible character creation, exciting combat, critical hits, and magic. Fast and fun, HARP will have your friends up and running with new characters and everything they need to play in about an hour. HARP won a Silver ENnie in 2004 for Best Non-d20 Game.
Disposable Heroes are full color, downloadable paper miniatures that can be customized through an online interface. You can specify which figures are downloaded to a PDF file, as well as whether or not they are labeled and/or numbered. In addition, entire pages of duplicate figures can be downloaded, making the creation of armies a breeze. Plus, flat counters can also be created. When printed, the minis are sharp and detailed (black & white figures can also be downloaded for those with older non-color printers). The next generation of downloadable paper minis are here -- affordable and customizable, you can't go wrong with Disposable Heroes.
About Iron Crown Enterprises
Originally founded in 1980, Iron Crown Enterprises produced and sold worldwide
a variety of highly-successful original fantasy and science fiction role
playing and table-top games. In December 2001 Aurigas Aldebaron, LLC purchased
the corporate assets and licensed Mjolnir LLC dba Iron Crown Enterprises
to continue the tradition of creating highly sought-after adventure games.
ICE's current game lines includes Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing, Spacemaster
Science Fiction RPG, Shadow World RPG, Silent Death table-top
miniatures game, and Run Out the Guns! adventure game. Visit http://www.harphq.com for the official HARP website.
About Politically Incorrect Games
Incorporating one of the first e-publishing RPG companies,
Politically Incorrect Games is known for its diverse line-up
of clear and concise roleplaying games, and its commitment
for developing new ways of working with downloadable content.
PIG's current game lines include genreDiversion games such
as HardNova 2 and Coyote Trail for low-cost, ready-to-play
entertainment; Iron Gauntlets for customizable heroic fantasy
gaming; Active Exploits Diceless for universal diceless roleplaying
with that familiar 'dice' feel; Two-Fisted Tales for thrilling
pulp action; Rune Stryders for mixing fantasy and magic with
living machines; and more.
Disposable Heroes fantasy, critters, pulp, and modern sets are available directly from Politically Incorrect Games, with other sets in development. For more information, visit the Politically Incorrect Games website at http://www.pigames.net
ICE CONTACT:
Bruce Neidlinger, CEO
Iron Crown Enterprises
112 Goodman St., Charlottesville, VA 22902
phone: 434.244.0881 | fax: 434.244.2661
email: bruce@ironcrown.com
website: www.ironcrown.comMay 29, 2002 - Iron Crown Enterprises has issued a non-exclusive license to The Guild Companion (www.guildcompanion.com) to create new RPG products based on ICE's popular Rolemaster and Spacemaster RPG systems. These new products will also be fully compatible with the d20 System and be published under the Open Gaming License.
The Guild Companion will produce hybrid d20 System-Rolemaster and d20 System-Spacemaster products as electronic books available online as PDF downloads. They have plans to create adventure, campaign, and setting modules in the first year, and will later develop other types of sourcebooks. The first two products planned for release as electronic books are:
- City of Archendurn - a setting module to launch the Aernth World product line. This is a low to medium fantasy setting, suitable for realistic campaigns. In addition to detailing an entire city, this module includes a host of key NPCs (with complete Rolemaster and d20 System statistics) and a series of scenario hooks to get a great campaign underway. City of Archendurn will be followed by ready-to-run adventures and setting modules.
- The Collector - the first in a trilogy of campaign modules set in the high-powered fantasy world of Golandra. The epic storyline will be continued in the sequels The Rightful Heir and The Return of the Collector. The Guild Companion intends to further support the Golandra World product line by publishing freely available spin-off scenarios in upcoming ezine issues.
Nicholas Caldwell, editor-in-chief of The Guild Companion, said: "We're really excited by the opportunities made possible by this license. Rolemaster and Spacemaster are truly excellent RPGs, which we're proud to have supported over the past four years through our ezine. This new license allows us to take that support to the next level by providing the source material in terms of new worlds and settings that Rolemaster and Spacemaster fans have been asking to have for years. By making our products fully compatible with the d20 System as well, we'll have the widest possible audience and give d20 players and GMs a whole new perspective on gaming."
About Iron Crown Enterprises
Originally founded in 1980, Iron Crown Enterprises produced and sold worldwide a variety of highly-successful original fantasy and science fiction role playing and table-top games. In December 2001 Aurigas Aldebaron, LLC purchased the corporate assets and licensed Mjolnir LLC dba Iron Crown Enterprises to continue the tradition of creating highly sought-after adventure games. ICE's current game lines includes Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing, Spacemaster Science Fiction RPG, Shadow World RPG, Silent Death table-top miniatures game, and Run Out the Guns! adventure game.
About The Guild Companion
The Guild Companion is an independent and free monthly online webzine located at www.guildcompanion.com. Established in December 1998, it is the successor to a series of short-lived and/or infrequently published paper magazines. Its editorial and technical staff include many erstwhile freelance authors and playtesters for ICE's product lines. Its primary content focus is on ICE product lines as well as industry news, gaming reviews, fiction, and d20 System articles. Over 5,000 gamers view The Guild Companion each month.
ICE CONTACT:
Bruce Neidlinger, CEO
Iron Crown Enterprises
112 Goodman St., Charlottesville, VA 22902
phone: 434.244.0881 | fax: 434.244.2661
email: bruce@ironcrown.com
website: www.ironcrown.comMay 2, 2002 —ICE is excited to announce it's publishing all-new and original Shadow World products for it's Rolemaster fantasy role playing game. Shadow World is one of ICE's oldest and most admired campaign settings, and now players all over the world will be able to adventure in the mysterious and powerful land of Kulthea armed with all new sourcebooks!
In a new deal with Terry K. Amthor-Shadow World's original creator-ICE will be publishing several new titles over the next few years. Scheduled for 2002 are the 256-page Shadow World Master Atlas to be released Sept. 2002, and the 128-page Haestra: Emer I to be released Nov 2002. Scheduled for 2003 release are 4 new titles: Citybook: Haalkitaine, Emer II: the Northeast, Powers of Light & Darkness, and Artifact & Lost Technology.
Detailing the classic world of Kulthea, the Shadow World Master Atlas provides material on everything from the flora and fauna of the world to an updated timeline and new color map. Haestra: Emer I is an exciting new sourcebook providing in-depth information about the cultures, kingdoms and powers of Emer-the pre-eminent land of Kulthea.
A planet hanging on the threshold between Order and Chaos, the Shadow World is a focus of strange powers and portals to alien dimensions. This is a world where sorcery clashes with ancient technology, impulsive and unpredictable deities make war, and the Dragonlords walk as men. Against them all rises the Unlife, a force whose dark servants seek the destruction of all that lives...
About Iron Crown Enterprises
Originally founded in 1980, Iron Crown Enterprises produced and sold worldwide a variety of highly-successful original fantasy and science fiction role playing and table-top games. In December 2001 Aurigas Aldebaron, LLC purchased the corporate assets and licensed Mjolnir LLC dba Iron Crown Enterprises to continue the tradition of creating highly sought-after adventure games. ICE's current game lines includes Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing, Spacemaster Science Fiction RPG, Shadow World RPG, Silent Death table-top miniatures game, and Run Out the Guns! adventure game.
Contact Beantree:
John Ambrose
Phone: 920-954-0807APPLETON, WI - April 24th, 2002 -- Beantree, Inc., announced the launch of a new online store for Iron Crown Enterprises, www.ironcrown.com. Iron Crown Enterprises in one of the oldest and well-known adventure game manufacturers in the world. While planning for their new online store, Iron Crown required a solution that could launch quickly, handle high sales volume, and support the international sales that Iron Crown enjoys. Iron Crown chose Beanbasket, a customizable, secure e-commerce service created by Beantree, Inc.
According to Bruce Neidlinger, Iron Crown CEO, "we were looking for an online shopping cart that would support the sale of our physical products as well as the real-time purchase and download of electronic goods. ICE has sold its books and other gaming products online for years, and now we are offering our customers the ability to purchase and download PDF documents and software utilities to support our roleplaying and miniatures games. Beanbasket was the one product that would allow us to do all that we wanted with our online store. It was easy to implement and is very easy to maintain." The Beanbasket store was launched in less than two weeks and fit seamlessly into their site design.
About Iron Crown Enterprises
Originally founded in 1980, Iron Crown Enterprises produced and sold worldwide a variety of highly-successful original fantasy and science fiction role playing and table-top games. In December 2001 Aurigas Aldebaron, LLC purchased the corporate assets and licensed Mjolnir LLC dba Iron Crown Enterprises to continue the tradition of creating highly sought-after adventure games. ICE's current game lines includes Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing, Spacemaster Science Fiction RPG, Shadow World RPG, Silent Death table-top miniatures game, and Run Out the Guns! adventure game.
About Beantree
Beantree was founded in 1999 to meet the needs of the growing electronic economy by constructing reliable Internet applications. As a Beantree customer, you can expect us to meet your goals and deliver sophisticated, Internet-based enterprise class services to your suppliers, strategic partners, and customers.Contact Beantree: John Ambrose
Phone: 920-954-0807
ICE CONTACT:
Bruce Neidlinger, CEO
Iron Crown Enterprises
112 Goodman St., Charlottesville, VA 22902
phone: 434.244.0881 | fax: 434.244.2661
email: bruce@ironcrown.com
website: www.ironcrown.comFebruary 25, 2002 — Iron Crown Enterprises is back in business and taking distributor and retailer orders for their full line of original adventure gaming products: Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing®, Rolemaster Standard System®, Silent Death®, Spacemaster® and Run Out the Guns!®.
Already taking customer orders via its online store at www.ironcrown.com, ICE is now soliciting orders from distributors and retail stores in the US and overseas via email, fax and phone. If you are a distributor or retailer and you want more information, please feel free to contact Bruce Neidlinger at the above email, fax or phone.
Officially known as Mjolnir, LLC DBA Iron Crown Enterprises, ICE is operating with a core in-house staff of five ICE veterans that include: Bruce Neidlinger, CEO and founding father; Heike A. Kubasch, President and founding mother; Tim Dugger, System Editor; Sherry Robinson, Pagemaker. Also involved in the creation of ICE's myriad gaming products are contributing designers, writers and artists from the US and overseas.
With a warehouse full of existing product, ICE is ready for the future and already has seven new gaming products scheduled for publication in 2002. For more information, contact: Bruce Neidlinger, phone: 434.266.0881, fax: 434.244.2661, email: bruce@ironcrown.com or visit the ICE website.
About Iron Crown Enterprises
Originally founded in 1980, Iron Crown Enterprises produced and sold worldwide a variety of highly-successful original fantasy and science fiction role playing and table-top games. In December 2001 Aurigas Aldebaron, LLC purchased the corporate assets and licensed Mjolnir LLC dba Iron Crown Enterprises to continue the tradition of creating highly sought-after adventure games. ICE's current game lines includes Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing, Spacemaster Science Fiction RPG, Shadow World RPG, Silent Death table-top miniatures game, and Run Out the Guns! adventure game.
ICE CONTACT:
Bruce Neidlinger, CEO
Iron Crown Enterprises
112 Goodman St., Charlottesville, VA 22902
phone: 434.244.0881 | fax: 434.244.2661
email: bruce@ironcrown.com
website: www.ironcrown.comNovember 19, 2001 — John R. Seal, a long time ICE fan, acquired the majority of the Iron Crown Enterprise, Inc. assets. These assets were purchased at an auction run by a Federal bankruptcy court in Charlottesville, Virginia. John R. Seal will place these assets into Aurigas Aldebaron LLC ("Aurigas"). Aurigas will then enter into a Master License with Phoenix LLC, which will be charged with the full promotion and use of the assets.
Phoenix LLC ("Phoenix") is largely owned and operated by certain ex-ICE employees, Bruce Neidlinger, Heike Kubasch, and Stephen Hardy. Phoenix (dba Iron Crown Enterprises) will start immediate operations using the large amount of inventory and intellectual property acquired at the auction.
Members of both Phoenix and Aurigas are very excited to have ICE back in operation! We were thrilled to hear from many fans after the bankruptcy, and we are grateful not only for your current enthusiasm, but for the unwavering support ICE has experienced over the years!
Extensive modifications to the ICE website (our website remains the same at www.ironcrown.com) are underway in order to support and strengthen the Rolemaster and ICE community. We will be adding forums and other new features to ironcrown.com to provide fans with additional gaming tools, complete and up-to-date information on ICE and ICE products, and improved communication with and amongst fans. A new emphasis will be placed on listening to what the fans, our customers, want, and we encourage you to use ironcrown.com to keep us informed!Phoenix is working to restore the customer service and sales infrastructure, and process the large number of built-up direct mail orders. We were prevented from fulfilling them due to circumstances caused by the bankruptcy. Our top priority is to fulfill the orders as fast as possible now.
Phoenix´s new offices are being set-up and contact information will be posted on the website and announced on the various industry lists and forums.
Phoenix will be contacting the old ICE authors about future use of their products. All authors should read the author update that will be accessible from the ICE home page for details about how the products sold in the auction will be treated and how we will operate in the future. No Middle-earth assets were included in the sale and neither Phoenix nor Aurigas has anything to do with any Middle-earth rights.
We plan to start releasing new products for Rolemaster™ and Spacemaster™ in the middle of next year. We have several new projects and gaming worlds in the works and we will be letting everyone know about these soon via ironcrown.com. We hope to finish the planned Spacemaster product line after we finish acquiring the necessary rights.
Phoenix will be aggressively pursuing a licensing strategy for use of the purchased intellectual property for paper products and electronic products. All companies that wish to pursue such a license should contact Bruce Neidlinger at bruce@ironcrown.com.
We will hire a distributor and retailer sales person as soon as possible. Until then all contacts or inquiries should be sent to Bruce Neidlinger at bruce@ironcrown.com.
About Aurigas Aldebaron LLC
Aurigas is in the process of being formed and will be majority controlled and operated by John R. Seal. John has over twelve years of international investment banking experience and has been an active fan of roleplaying games since 1979. For the last three years, he has actively studied and pursued acquisitions in the role playing game industry. Aurigas will not have any direct operations and all inquiries should be directed to Bruce Neidlinger at bruce@ironcrown.com.About Iron Crown Enterprises
Originally founded in 1980, Iron Crown Enterprises produced and sold worldwide a variety of highly-successful original fantasy and science fiction role playing and table-top games. In December 2001 Aurigas Aldebaron, LLC purchased the corporate assets and licensed Mjolnir LLC dba Iron Crown Enterprises to continue the tradition of creating highly sought-after adventure games. ICE's current game lines includes Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing, Spacemaster Science Fiction RPG, Shadow World RPG, Silent Death table-top miniatures game, and Run Out the Guns! adventure game.
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