New Millennium Entertainment – Unbound Publishing

Watch the Skies! For they are ‘The Grey’ and they mean us great harm…

With the successful launch of the Conspiracy X roleplaying game in early 1996, New Millennium Enterprises (the original publishers of game line and the precursors to Eden Studios) quickly realised they were on a winner and had captured an audience wanting to know more of the setting’s mythology and background. Either anticipating this interest or responding rapidly to its demand, Nemesis – The Grey Sourcebook was released a few months later.

This review continues my series of looking back on the various books, supplements and publications that have been released for Conspiracy X over the years, and in the processes looking at what insights this – once extremely popular – roleplaying game might reveal to us here in the 2020s.

One of the pleasures I have as an ‘archivist’ of some pretty cool – albeit it out-of-print – roleplaying games (such as www.stormbringerrpg.com & www.darkconspiracytherpg.info) is the opportunity to interview the creative forces behind the products that now lie on my (overburdened) shelves. In this role I’ve interviewed dozens of creatives, all of whom have graciously given their time to chat with me about the history of various games and roleplaying products, however, few has given me as much pleasure as this interview with Alex Jurkat – one of Eden’s Studio’s founding editors.

So, read on to hear about how Eden rose rose to become one of the leading lights of tabletop gaming industry in the late 90s and how they went from saving Conspiracy X from a false start, through to the arrival of the Unisystem mechanics and the publication of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG….

Tag: New Millennium Entertainment

[Review] Nemesis: The Grey Sourcebook – 1st Edition

[Interview] M. Alexander Jurkat – Founding Owner of Eden Studios