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<blockquote data-quote="Egg Embry" data-source="post: 8922743" data-attributes="member: 6808965"><p>Years ago, I was at <a href="https://www.gencon.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Gen Con</strong></a> when Will Sobel, then <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/536/Green-Ronin-Publishing?affiliate_id=814082" target="_blank"><strong>Green Ronin’s</strong></a> media coordinator, told me about an exciting property that they were licensing for an RPG, N.K. Jemisin's <strong><em>Broken Earth Trilogy</em></strong>. This brings her work to tabletop where it’ll shine next to <a href="https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith" target="_blank">Mike Pondsmit</a><a href="https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith" target="_blank">h’s</a> <a href="https://rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk/" target="_blank"><strong><em>Cyberpunk 2020</em></strong></a><a href="https://rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk/" target="_blank"> and </a><a href="https://rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk/" target="_blank"><strong><em>RED</em></strong></a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Darker_Hue" target="_blank">Chris Spive</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Darker_Hue" target="_blank">y’s</a> <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/harlem-unbound-2nd-edition-pdf/" target="_blank"><strong><em>Harlem Unbound</em></strong></a> and <a href="http://www.darkerhuestudios.com/shop?category=Haunted+West" target="_blank"><strong><em>Haunted West</em></strong></a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/cypheroftyr" target="_blank">Tanya DePass</a>’ (who is working on this project) <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cypheroftyr/into-the-mother-lands-rpg" target="_blank"><strong><em>Into the Mother Lands</em></strong></a><strong>. </strong>With <strong>Green Ronin </strong>bringing <strong><em>The Fifth Season RPG</em></strong> to tabletop, I talked with Chris Pramas about N.K. Jemisin’s world.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]274308[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG EMBRY (EGG): Can you share an overview of </strong><a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game" target="_blank"><strong><em>The Fifth Season RPG</em></strong></a><strong>?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS PRAMAS (CHRIS)</strong>: <a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong></a> is an <strong><em>AGE</em></strong> system roleplaying game based on the award-winning <strong><em>Broken Earth Trilogy</em></strong> of novels by N.K. Jemisin, about a world where seismic and volcanic activity make survival such a struggle that “stonelore” concerning how to ensure the continuation of a community has governed life for thousands of years, and rare individuals, known as orogenes, are gifted (or cursed, depending on how you look at it) with the power to quell or cause geological catastrophes.</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: The books from N.K. Jemisin's </strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3j1HcD4" target="_blank"><strong><em>Broken Earth Trilogy</em></strong></a><strong><em>, </em>the foundation of this project, won Hugo Awards, a Locus Award, and a Nebula Award. Will this rulebook cover the entire <em>Broken Earth Trilogy</em> (<em>The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate,</em> and <em>The Stone Sky</em>) or just the first novel?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: <strong>The <em>Broken Earth Trilogy</em></strong> tells a specific story with a particular beginning, middle, and end which, without going into spoilers, changes many things. <strong>The <em>Fifth Season</em> RPG</strong> looks at telling <em>other</em> stories in the Stillness, the continent where people live on that world. So, you can say it’s set before the first novel, and it means those interested in the setting can read the novels without spoilers. (And if you haven’t read them you, you absolutely should — they’re fantastic.)</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]274311[/ATTACH]</p><p><strong>EGG: You’re using the <em>Adventure Game Engine (AGE)</em> system to power this tabletop roleplaying game. This engine was used for <em>The Expanse RPG</em>, the tabletop adaptation for <em>Dragon Age</em>, the <em>Modern AGE</em> including adapting Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s <em>Lazarus</em> comic series, and more. What makes the <em>AGE</em> system the right option for N.K. Jemisin’s story?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: The <strong><em>AGE</em></strong> system has proven really adaptable for all kinds of settings, as you note. We’ve used it for both original games and our own properties, like <strong><em>Fantasy AGE</em></strong> and <strong><em>Blue Rose</em></strong>, as well as licensed settings, from <strong><em>The Expanse</em></strong> to <strong><em>Dragon Age</em></strong><em>.</em> We’ve been able to apply all that we have learned and developed with the <strong><em>AGE</em></strong> system over the past decade (and multiple games) to framing the challenges of the <strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong><em>, </em>while also continuing to innovate and develop <strong><em>AGE</em></strong> in different ways, such as incorporating the setting’s use-castes and a system for creating comms (communities) and adding gameplay at the comm level in seasonal turns, actions, and events.</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: One of <em>AGE’s</em> secret sauces involves Stunt Points, options to buy cooler effects. In <em>The Fifth Season’s</em> version of the engine, will the “Stunt Points” be called that? What types of actions will players be able to obtain by spending those points?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: They are still called Stunt Points, and while players will find many of the familiar stunts from other <strong><em>AGE</em></strong> system games in <strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong>, there is also a focus on exploration, investigation, and social stunts over action and combat stunts, as well as relationship stunts, based off systems we used in <strong><em>Blue Rose</em></strong> and <strong><em>Modern AGE</em></strong><em>.</em> “Feral” orogenes are also handled with stunts, as are some of the skills and abilities of the different use-castes in the society of the Stillness.</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: You have a free </strong><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/424382/The-Fifth-Season-RPG-Quickstart-Free-PDF?affiliate_id=814082" target="_blank"><strong>quickstart</strong></a><strong> for this project. What does the quickstart include?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: The <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/424382/The-Fifth-Season-RPG-Quickstart-Free-PDF?affiliate_id=814082" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fifth Season Quickstart</em></strong></a> will be available for immediate download for folks to check out the game, the world, and its stories. The 45-page PDF comes with a complete, condensed overview of the rules of play, a walkthrough of the character sheet, an introduction to the world of the Stillness, a sample comm (home community), six ready-to-play characters with player reference sheets, and the 15-page introductory adventure “Stress Fractures,” set in our sample comm, giving players and Game Moderators a sense of the unique challenges faced by characters in the Stillness, as compared to many RPG “adventurers.” We’re also making the Quickstart available on <strong>Roll20</strong> so it will be even easier to get a game together to try it out.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]274309[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: Who is working on this project?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: The <strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong> has a terrific team behind it, including Joe Carriker, Hiromi Cota, Samantha Day, Tanya DePass, Steve Kenson, Monte Lin, Nell Raban, Alice Rendell, Eugenio Vargas, Kiara Vincent, and LaShawn M. Wanak, among others. In theme with the world, it really takes a community to bring everything together.</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: How much will N.K. Jemisin be involved in crafting this book? Will there be any original fiction from N.K. appearing in the rulebook?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: She has final approval of everything included in <strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong><em>,</em> of course, but is providing oversight rather than contributing directly to the book. More fiction and <strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong> screenplay adaptations don’t write themselves! She has graciously agreed to provide signed bookplates for a select number of early backers of the crowdfunder, however, which we’re excited to offer.</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: This project is crowdfunding on Backerkit. Why choose Backerkit for this project?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: We’ve used <a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game" target="_blank"><strong>Backerkit</strong></a> extensively and successfully for many of our previous crowdfunding projects, so when they announced they would be providing the front-end backing as well as after-funding support, it seemed like a natural for us to try it out.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]274310[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: Beyond <em>The Fifth Season RPG</em>, Green Ronin has a new <em>Fantasy AGE</em> edition coming? What can you tease about that project?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: It never rains but it pours! With our recently <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greenroninpub/cthulhu-awakens-roleplaying-game" target="_blank">crowdfunded </a><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greenroninpub/cthulhu-awakens-roleplaying-game" target="_blank"><strong><em>Cthulhu Awakens</em></strong></a><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greenroninpub/cthulhu-awakens-roleplaying-game" target="_blank"><strong> RPG</strong></a> in production, and <strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong> ready to go into crowdfunding at the time of this interview, we also have the <a href="https://greenronin.com/blog/2023/01/17/fantasy-age-2nd-edition/" target="_blank">second edition of our popular </a><a href="https://greenronin.com/blog/2023/01/17/fantasy-age-2nd-edition/" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fantasy AGE</em></strong></a><a href="https://greenronin.com/blog/2023/01/17/fantasy-age-2nd-edition/" target="_blank"><strong> RPG</strong></a> getting ready to head off to print and pre-order. <strong><em>Fantasy AGE</em></strong> second edition is the culmination of all of our development of the <strong><em>AGE</em></strong> system since the original <strong><em>Basic Rulebook</em></strong> was published back in 2015. There have been a lot of words under the bridge since then, and we felt it was time to re-launch <strong><em>Fantasy AGE</em></strong> with a new core rulebook that reflected all of that and incorporates some of the mechanical innovations of other <strong><em>AGE</em> RPGs</strong>. The new Peril system, for example, adapts the Churn rules from <strong><em>The Expanse RPG</em></strong>. Players will also find a new fourth character class (the social-focused Envoy), updated mechanics, more specializations, new and updated character ancestries, and expanded spell list and much more. The core book also introduces the <strong>Breakwater Bay</strong> starter setting and adventure and an introduction to the meta-setting we’re calling <strong>Stranger Shores</strong> that includes any fantasy realm you care to imagine.</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: For fans wanting to learn more about this crowdfunding project on Backerkit, where can they look? What about for Green Ronin?</strong></p><p><strong>CHRIS</strong>: Folks can visit the <strong>Backerkit</strong> landing page for <strong><em>Fifth Season</em></strong> to get the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/424382/The-Fifth-Season-RPG-Quickstart-Free-PDF?affiliate_id=814082" target="_blank"><strong><em>Fifth Season Quickstart</em></strong></a> right away. As always, [<a href="https://greenronin.com/" target="_blank">our website</a>] is our home for all of our news and information, and we encourage gamers interested in our work to check out our weekly streaming shows like <strong><em>ThursdAGE</em></strong> every Thursday, on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/Greenronin" target="_blank"><strong>YouTube</strong></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/Greenronin" target="_blank"> channel</a>.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]274312[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game" target="_blank"><strong>The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game</strong></a><strong> by </strong><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/536/Green-Ronin-Publishing?affiliate_id=814082" target="_blank"><strong>Green Ronin Publishing</strong></a></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">End Date: Feb 23, 2023 at 7:00pm PST.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“N.K. Jemisin’s multiple <strong>Hugo Award-winning <em>Broken Earth Trilogy</em> </strong>comes to tabletop RPGs in <strong><em>The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game</em></strong>!”</li> </ul><p><em>Egg Embry participates in the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, Noble Knight Games’ Affiliate Program, and is an Amazon Associate. These programs provide advertising fees by linking to DriveThruRPG, Noble Knight Games, and Amazon.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Egg Embry, post: 8922743, member: 6808965"] Years ago, I was at [URL='https://www.gencon.com/'][B]Gen Con[/B][/URL] when Will Sobel, then [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/536/Green-Ronin-Publishing?affiliate_id=814082'][B]Green Ronin’s[/B][/URL] media coordinator, told me about an exciting property that they were licensing for an RPG, N.K. Jemisin's [B][I]Broken Earth Trilogy[/I][/B]. This brings her work to tabletop where it’ll shine next to [URL='https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith']Mike Pondsmit[/URL][URL='https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith']h’s[/URL] [URL='https://rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk/'][B][I]Cyberpunk 2020[/I][/B][/URL][URL='https://rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk/'] and [/URL][URL='https://rtalsoriangames.com/cyberpunk/'][B][I]RED[/I][/B][/URL], [URL='https://twitter.com/Darker_Hue']Chris Spive[/URL][URL='https://twitter.com/Darker_Hue']y’s[/URL] [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/harlem-unbound-2nd-edition-pdf/'][B][I]Harlem Unbound[/I][/B][/URL] and [URL='http://www.darkerhuestudios.com/shop?category=Haunted+West'][B][I]Haunted West[/I][/B][/URL], and [URL='https://twitter.com/cypheroftyr']Tanya DePass[/URL]’ (who is working on this project) [URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cypheroftyr/into-the-mother-lands-rpg'][B][I]Into the Mother Lands[/I][/B][/URL][B]. [/B]With [B]Green Ronin[I] [/I][/B]bringing [B][I]The Fifth Season RPG[/I][/B][I] [/I]to tabletop, I talked with Chris Pramas about[I] [/I]N.K. Jemisin’s world. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]274308[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B]EGG EMBRY (EGG): Can you share an overview of [/B][URL='https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game'][B][I]The Fifth Season RPG[/I][/B][/URL][B]? CHRIS PRAMAS (CHRIS)[/B]: [URL='https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game'][B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B][/URL] is an [B][I]AGE[/I][/B][I] [/I]system roleplaying game based on the award-winning [B][I]Broken Earth Trilogy[/I][/B] of novels by N.K. Jemisin, about a world where seismic and volcanic activity make survival such a struggle that “stonelore” concerning how to ensure the continuation of a community has governed life for thousands of years, and rare individuals, known as orogenes, are gifted (or cursed, depending on how you look at it) with the power to quell or cause geological catastrophes. [B]EGG: The books from N.K. Jemisin's [/B][URL='https://amzn.to/3j1HcD4'][B][I]Broken Earth Trilogy[/I][/B][/URL][B][I], [/I]the foundation of this project, won Hugo Awards, a Locus Award, and a Nebula Award. Will this rulebook cover the entire [I]Broken Earth Trilogy[/I] ([I]The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate,[/I] and [I]The Stone Sky[/I]) or just the first novel? CHRIS[/B]: [B]The [I]Broken Earth Trilogy[/I][/B] tells a specific story with a particular beginning, middle, and end which, without going into spoilers, changes many things. [B]The [I]Fifth Season[/I] RPG[/B] looks at telling [I]other[/I] stories in the Stillness, the continent where people live on that world. So, you can say it’s set before the first novel, and it means those interested in the setting can read the novels without spoilers. (And if you haven’t read them you, you absolutely should — they’re fantastic.) [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]274311[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B]EGG: You’re using the [I]Adventure Game Engine (AGE)[/I] system to power this tabletop roleplaying game. This engine was used for [I]The Expanse RPG[/I], the tabletop adaptation for [I]Dragon Age[/I], the [I]Modern AGE[/I] including adapting Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s [I]Lazarus[/I] comic series, and more. What makes the [I]AGE[/I] system the right option for N.K. Jemisin’s story? CHRIS[/B]: The [B][I]AGE[/I][/B] system has proven really adaptable for all kinds of settings, as you note. We’ve used it for both original games and our own properties, like [B][I]Fantasy AGE[/I][/B][I] [/I]and [B][I]Blue Rose[/I][/B], as well as licensed settings, from [B][I]The Expanse[/I][/B] to [B][I]Dragon Age[/I][/B][I].[/I] We’ve been able to apply all that we have learned and developed with the [B][I]AGE[/I][/B][I] [/I]system over the past decade (and multiple games) to framing the challenges of the [B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B][I], [/I]while also continuing to innovate and develop [B][I]AGE[/I][/B] in different ways, such as incorporating the setting’s use-castes and a system for creating comms (communities) and adding gameplay at the comm level in seasonal turns, actions, and events. [B]EGG: One of [I]AGE’s[/I] secret sauces involves Stunt Points, options to buy cooler effects. In [I]The Fifth Season’s[/I] version of the engine, will the “Stunt Points” be called that? What types of actions will players be able to obtain by spending those points? CHRIS[/B]: They are still called Stunt Points, and while players will find many of the familiar stunts from other [B][I]AGE[/I][/B] system games in [B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B], there is also a focus on exploration, investigation, and social stunts over action and combat stunts, as well as relationship stunts, based off systems we used in [B][I]Blue Rose[/I][/B] and [B][I]Modern AGE[/I][/B][I].[/I] “Feral” orogenes are also handled with stunts, as are some of the skills and abilities of the different use-castes in the society of the Stillness. [B]EGG: You have a free [/B][URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/424382/The-Fifth-Season-RPG-Quickstart-Free-PDF?affiliate_id=814082'][B]quickstart[/B][/URL][B] for this project. What does the quickstart include? CHRIS[/B]: The [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/424382/The-Fifth-Season-RPG-Quickstart-Free-PDF?affiliate_id=814082'][B][I]Fifth Season Quickstart[/I][/B][/URL] will be available for immediate download for folks to check out the game, the world, and its stories. The 45-page PDF comes with a complete, condensed overview of the rules of play, a walkthrough of the character sheet, an introduction to the world of the Stillness, a sample comm (home community), six ready-to-play characters with player reference sheets, and the 15-page introductory adventure “Stress Fractures,” set in our sample comm, giving players and Game Moderators a sense of the unique challenges faced by characters in the Stillness, as compared to many RPG “adventurers.” We’re also making the Quickstart available on [B]Roll20[/B] so it will be even easier to get a game together to try it out. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]274309[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B]EGG: Who is working on this project? CHRIS[/B]: The [B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B] has a terrific team behind it, including Joe Carriker, Hiromi Cota, Samantha Day, Tanya DePass, Steve Kenson, Monte Lin, Nell Raban, Alice Rendell, Eugenio Vargas, Kiara Vincent, and LaShawn M. Wanak, among others. In theme with the world, it really takes a community to bring everything together. [B]EGG: How much will N.K. Jemisin be involved in crafting this book? Will there be any original fiction from N.K. appearing in the rulebook? CHRIS[/B]: She has final approval of everything included in [B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B][I],[/I] of course, but is providing oversight rather than contributing directly to the book. More fiction and [B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B] screenplay adaptations don’t write themselves! She has graciously agreed to provide signed bookplates for a select number of early backers of the crowdfunder, however, which we’re excited to offer. [B]EGG: This project is crowdfunding on Backerkit. Why choose Backerkit for this project? CHRIS[/B]: We’ve used [URL='https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game'][B]Backerkit[/B][/URL] extensively and successfully for many of our previous crowdfunding projects, so when they announced they would be providing the front-end backing as well as after-funding support, it seemed like a natural for us to try it out. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]274310[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B]EGG: Beyond [I]The Fifth Season RPG[/I], Green Ronin has a new [I]Fantasy AGE[/I] edition coming? What can you tease about that project? CHRIS[/B]: It never rains but it pours! With our recently [URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greenroninpub/cthulhu-awakens-roleplaying-game']crowdfunded [/URL][URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greenroninpub/cthulhu-awakens-roleplaying-game'][B][I]Cthulhu Awakens[/I][/B][/URL][URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greenroninpub/cthulhu-awakens-roleplaying-game'][B] RPG[/B][/URL] in production, and [B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B] ready to go into crowdfunding at the time of this interview, we also have the [URL='https://greenronin.com/blog/2023/01/17/fantasy-age-2nd-edition/']second edition of our popular [/URL][URL='https://greenronin.com/blog/2023/01/17/fantasy-age-2nd-edition/'][B][I]Fantasy AGE[/I][/B][/URL][URL='https://greenronin.com/blog/2023/01/17/fantasy-age-2nd-edition/'][B] RPG[/B][/URL] getting ready to head off to print and pre-order. [B][I]Fantasy AGE[/I][/B] second edition is the culmination of all of our development of the [B][I]AGE[/I][/B] system since the original [B][I]Basic Rulebook[/I][/B] was published back in 2015. There have been a lot of words under the bridge since then, and we felt it was time to re-launch [B][I]Fantasy AGE[/I][/B] with a new core rulebook that reflected all of that and incorporates some of the mechanical innovations of other [B][I]AGE[/I] RPGs[/B]. The new Peril system, for example, adapts the Churn rules from [B][I]The Expanse RPG[/I][/B]. Players will also find a new fourth character class (the social-focused Envoy), updated mechanics, more specializations, new and updated character ancestries, and expanded spell list and much more. The core book also introduces the [B]Breakwater Bay[/B] starter setting and adventure and an introduction to the meta-setting we’re calling [B]Stranger Shores[/B][I] [/I]that includes any fantasy realm you care to imagine. [B]EGG: For fans wanting to learn more about this crowdfunding project on Backerkit, where can they look? What about for Green Ronin? CHRIS[/B]: Folks can visit the [B]Backerkit[/B] landing page for [B][I]Fifth Season[/I][/B][I] [/I]to get the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/424382/The-Fifth-Season-RPG-Quickstart-Free-PDF?affiliate_id=814082'][B][I]Fifth Season Quickstart[/I][/B][/URL] right away. As always, [[URL='https://greenronin.com/']our website[/URL]] is our home for all of our news and information, and we encourage gamers interested in our work to check out our weekly streaming shows like [B][I]ThursdAGE[/I][/B][I] [/I]every Thursday, on our [URL='https://www.youtube.com/c/Greenronin'][B]YouTube[/B][/URL][URL='https://www.youtube.com/c/Greenronin'] channel[/URL]. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]274312[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [URL='https://www.backerkit.com/c/green-ronin-publishing/the-fifth-season-roleplaying-game'][B]The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game[/B][/URL][B] by [/B][URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/536/Green-Ronin-Publishing?affiliate_id=814082'][B]Green Ronin Publishing[/B][/URL] [LIST] [*]End Date: Feb 23, 2023 at 7:00pm PST. [*]“N.K. Jemisin’s multiple [B]Hugo Award-winning [I]Broken Earth Trilogy[/I] [/B]comes to tabletop RPGs in [B][I]The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game[/I][/B]!” [/LIST] [I]Egg Embry participates in the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, Noble Knight Games’ Affiliate Program, and is an Amazon Associate. These programs provide advertising fees by linking to DriveThruRPG, Noble Knight Games, and Amazon.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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