Thursday, July 26, 2018

The Expanse is being turned into an RPG

Long before it was a television show and prior to the book series by James S.A. Corey, The Expanse was originally a game. Now, the futuristic sci-fi world is headed back to its roots, thanks to Green Ronin Publishing, which launched a new role-playing game adaptation of The Expanse through Kickstarter earlier this week.

In 2001, series creator and co-author Ty Franck began to develop the world that would become The Expanse. Inspired by books like Alfred Bester’s novel The Stars My Destination, he had begun writing the early sketches of the world for a possible game, and when a Chinese internet company was interested in ideas for an exclusive game for its users, he developed it as a potential MMORPG.

That online game never went...

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