{"id":4902,"date":"2024-04-09T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:58:43","slug":"the-black-company-role-playing-game-in-development-at-arc-dream-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2024\/04\/the-black-company-role-playing-game-in-development-at-arc-dream-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Black Company Role-Playing Game’ In Development at Arc Dream Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Immediate Release
April 9, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact: Rachel K. Ivey
Arc Dream Publishing media liaison
info@arcdream.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VICTORIA, BC \u2014 The Black Company Role-Playing Game<\/strong><\/a><\/em> is in development by Shane Ivey and Dennis Detwiller, co-authors and publishers of the award-winning Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lady? Where had I encountered that word used that way, emphasized as though it was the title of a goddess? A dark legend out of olden times.\u2026<\/em> \u2014The Black Company<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In The Black Company<\/em> and its sequels, novelist Glen Cook redefined epic fantasy by writing with ordinary soldiers in mind. He opened the way for generations of authors of dark fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arc Dream Publishing proudly announces plans for a new tabletop role-playing game based on the Black Company<\/em> series. Licensed by Glen Cook, The Black Company Role-Playing Game<\/em> will put players at the heart of the adventures, dangers, and treacheries that surround the storied Black Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Black Company,<\/em> we follow an elite mercenary company through a continent-spanning war and desperate raids. A war between good and evil, the enemy might say, rebelling against the dark empress who employs the Company. A war between evil and far worse, if you ask those who know what drives the leaders of the rebellion. Don\u2019t ask the soldiers of the Black Company. They only want to do their job, look out for each other, and live another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I faced him. And the memory came. A devil\u2019s hammer drove spikes of ice into the belly of my soul. I knew why One-Eye did not want to cross the sea. The ancient evil of the north.\u2026 “I thought you people died three hundred years ago.”<\/em> \u2014The Black Company<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Glen Cook wrote The Black Company<\/em> as a veteran who wanted to see the soldier\u2019s experience in the wars and adventures of heroic fantasy. Arc Dream Publishing has spent decades capturing the experience of soldiers and government agents for RPG players. Arc Dream has received universal acclaim for its horror game Delta Green <\/em>and its World War II game of desperate superheroics, Godlike. <\/em>Detwiller and Ivey are writing The Black Company Role-Playing Game <\/em>to evoke the soldier\u2019s experience in a world of brutal bloodshed, shocking sorceries, and seemingly impossible odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been enthralled by The Black Company<\/em> since the first books came out,\u201d Ivey said. \u201cThis is the thrill of a career. We\u2019re writing the fantasy game that we\u2019ve always wanted to play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detwiller added, \u201cShane and I have long considered creating a dark fantasy game, and Delta Green always wanted a twisted, crazed little brother. The Black Company<\/em> is a perfect fit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again.<\/em> \u2014Soldiers Live<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Being a soldier of the Black Company makes you part of something greater than yourself. Yours is the tale of brothers and sisters who came before and those to follow. Your name and deeds will be recorded in the annals. When you fall, this bloody-handed family will fight and die to save or avenge you. And thanks to you, the Company will go on.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Frequenty Asked Questions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

GAME SYSTEM:<\/em><\/strong> The Black Company RPG<\/em> features a new game engine built to capture the suspense, terror, and savage heroics of the novels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCOPE:<\/em><\/strong> The Black Company RPG<\/em> will start with a core rulebook that features the Company\u2019s adventures serving the Lady and her Empire as described in the novel The Black Company. <\/em>Adventures and sourcebooks will delve into details of that era. Other books will explore new campaigns, settings, and times based on other stories in the series. The expansion of the Empire described in Shadows Linger<\/em> and Port of Shadows.<\/em> The Company\u2019s near escapes of the On the Long Run<\/em> story arc. The rebellion of The White Rose.<\/em> The changing Empire of The Silver Spike.<\/em> The Shadowmaster Wars of Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, Bleak Seasons, and She Is the Darkness<\/em>. The mysteries and horrors of glittering stone in Water Sleeps<\/em> and Soldiers Live.<\/em> And entirely new worlds that open in Soldiers Live <\/em>and in tales yet to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIMELINE:<\/em><\/strong> As of April 9, 2024, we do not have a firm timeline in mind. We will spend a great deal of time developing and playtesting The Black Company RPG<\/em> and writing its core book. When it is ready for the public, we will have a game to show our love of Cook\u2019s work and our pride in this chance to explore it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DELTA GREEN:<\/em><\/strong> In the meantime, we are working on a great many projects for Delta Green.<\/em> We will work on more as The Black Company RPG<\/em> comes together and after its launch. Black Company RPG<\/em> authors Dennis Detwiller and Shane Ivey work closely with Adam Scott Glancy and Caleb Stokes in creating new works for Delta Green\u2014half a dozen or so in the first half of 2024 alone\u2014and adapting the oldest works of Delta Green to this new age. Those remain our first priority even as The Black Company<\/em> carefully prepares for its coming campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More About Arc Dream & the Black Company<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Black Company Roleplaying Game<\/strong>
www.theblackcompanyrpg.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arc Dream Publishing<\/strong>
www.arcdream.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delta Green<\/strong>
www.delta-green.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Black Company on Wikipedia<\/strong>
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Black_Company<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annals of the Black Company<\/em> on Kindle<\/strong>
https:\/\/amzn.to\/49wY1Kq<\/a> (a paid affiliate link)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the Black Company novels and stories by Glen Cook, copyright \u00a9 by Glen Cook, and used with the express permission of Glen Cook. The Black Company™ is a trademark of Glen Cook. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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