Renegade Sport Studios has had a long-standing settlement, courting again to 2018, to provide tabletop video games primarily based on iconic non-Dungeons & Dragons IPs owned by Hasbro (which additionally owns Wizards of the Coast, writer of D&D). These IPs embody Transformers, GI Joe, Energy Rangers, MASK, My Little Pony, JEM and the Holograms, and ROM the Spaceknight, together with a bunch of board video games like Diplomacy and Axis & Allies.
This license has been renewed, with Marianne James (Hasbro Licensing) saying that video games are being deliberate for “2027 and the years past”.
Renegade already introduced new 5.5E-powered variations of Transformers, GI Joe, and Energy Rangers earlier this 12 months, with the brand new editions of those video games dropping their very own Essence20 recreation engine in favour of the ruleselt which powers Dungeons & Dragons. On the time, Renegade indicated that gross sales of the E20 variations have been inadequate to proceed with the system. Renegade will launch a BackerKit crowdfunding marketing campaign for the brand new video games, with Transformers and GI Joe operating first and a Energy Rangers BackerKit coming at a later time.
On the identical time, White Wolf introduced its plans to make a brand new version of Vampire the Masquerade. White Wolf introduced final 12 months that they have been build up their in-house improvement group, after a number of years of counting on Renegade as their main licensed writer. Each firms not too long ago posted statements indicating that their relationship was ending, with V:tM shifting again from Renegade to White Wolf. Renegade shall be releasing two extra books for White Wolf in October 2026–Courts of the Damned for Vampire: The Masquerade, and Tribes of Gaia for Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
White Wolf thanks Renegade for years of creativity, craft, and dedication to the World of Darkness. Noth firms are happy with what they constructed collectively, and grateful to the neighborhood whose ardour carried the partnership each step of the way in which.
Renegade itself introduced that it will likely be publishing the official TTRPG of the Anne Rice vampire books. Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe Roleplaying Sport launches later this month on BackerKit.
The sport contains a bespoke recreation system which incorporates harm tracks for bodily, psychological and emotional harm, and a ‘Flashback System’ which permits gamers to revisit occasions of their characters’ previous. The sport will initially characteristic a starter set, a hardcover rulebook, equipment like cube, luggage, and journals, and ‘marketing campaign unique collectibles’ accessible solely throughout the BackerKit marketing campaign.
