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#TeamTuesday

We recently introduced you (briefly!) to Pádraig Murphy, Cubicle 7’s new Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay producer. Today, we wanted to share a little more about Pádraig as part of our Meet the Team series. Pádraig, who hails from Galway in the west of Ireland, is a wargaming and boardgaming fan, but RPGs are his real passion — Warhammer, in particular (surprise, surprise!). With many, many years working in the publishing and print industry, extensive project management and graphic design experience, we are delighted to have Pádraig join our passionate team in County Meath, Ireland. 

I’m delighted to have joined the C7 team. Jumping straight into a project as exciting as the Enemy Within campaign is a real plus! The tremendous response and positive feedback from the community has been a real boon in finalising the print version of Enemy in Shadows. I look forward to getting more feedback on the Enemy in Shadows Companion, which was released in PDF last week. 

As you may be aware,

#TeamTuesday. This week we want to introduce one of our US team members, Chris Walz. Chris is a long time RPG fan and a staff editor for C7!

My love of roleplaying games began around the age of four or five, when I would go down to my older brother’s room and look at the pictures in his books. They had weird floating eye monsters, knights, sorceresses, and horned devils — I was hooked. I was lucky enough for him to bring me into his games as I grew up and ate up every piece of roleplaying content I could find, from actual gamebooks to video games and novels.

When it came time for university, I really had no idea what I wanted to do that would be ‘useful’, so I picked something I thought would be fun. Perhaps needless to say, but a degree in Classics and a keen interest in Cicero and Marcus Aurelius isn’t the most obviously marketable skillset. What this did give me, however, was a deep love for language and how people express themselves with words, no matter which language they might use.

#TeamTuesday. This week we want to introduce you to Walt Ciechanowski, Walt is a big Doctor Who and RPG fan who started working with C7 back in our Victoriana days, and if you have ever GM-ed or took part in our demos at US conventions you may of met Walt there!

Howdy!

I’ve been roleplaying since the tender age of almost-10, when I accidentally bought a Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set thinking it was an electronic game (that’s a boardgame with electronic bits for you millennials!). It took a few months to really “get it,” but I was hooked and from that point on most of my trips to the mall were spent in bookstores and hobby stores looking for the next great RPG to play with my friends!

My involvement with Cubicle 7 began just after I’d started writing professionally. I loved the first edition of Victoriana and got a writing gig (okay, begged incessantly until they said yes!) for the second edition. I soon found myself as line editor and helped guide Victoriana through its third edition.

#GenCon2019
Catch up with Cubicle 7 CEO Dominic McDowall at GenCon as he chats to Jeff from The Gaming Gang here.

GenCon Prep!

We have a hectic week ahead as the C7 team travels to GenCon from August 1-4 in Indianapolis! Known as The Best Four Days in Gaming™ and the largest gathering of tabletop gamers in North America, the C7 team are incredibly excited to meet lots RPG fans! Come say hello and find out more about our award winning RPGs at booth #2229!

Seminars, Workshops & More!

C7 CEO Dominic McDowall will be giving a seminar on Saturday at 3pm at the Stadium in Meeting Room B. Dom will be sharing lots of exclusive news, updates and maybe some sneak peeks!

WFRP fans would be mad to miss our special event at mid-day on Saturday 3rd August at the JW in room 311. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: 'A Rough Night of Your Very Own' - is an event hosted by legendary WFRP author Graeme Davis. Graeme will lead a collaborative session on how to design this unique type of scenario!

On Sunday 4th we are hosting a C7 Freelancer Workshop with our experts! If you are interested in working on WFRP, Age of

#SundaySummary

Afraid you missed some Cubicle 7 news this week? Fear not, below we recap on all the juicy bits in one post! As always, stay tuned to our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages for the latest news.

#MortalRealmsMonday

Lat Monday we discussed  another Archetype for Age of Sigmar: Soulbound — the enigmatic Knight-Incantor of the Stormcast Eternals. Read more here. Artwork by the super talented Carol Azevedo.

#WarhammerWednesday

Last Wednesday we announced the release of Ubersreik Adventures: The Mad Men of Gotheim PDF. This title is now number 1 on DrivethruRPGs bestselling list, pick it up now for just $4.99 or read more here.

But that wasn't all, we had a bumper #Warhammer Wednesday and shared a sneak peak of the amazing cover art for Volume 3 of WFRP: Power Behind the Throne – Enemy Within Campaign and its companion. Catch up here.

#TORSday

We couldn't wait to share the cover art  by Johan Grenier for the he One Ring – The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying game

Ben from Beasts of War interviewed Cubicle 7's Age of Sigmar: Soulbound Producer Emmet Byrne last week, in case you missed it you can find it here or we have added the text below to make it easier.

Ben: How was it that you got involved with the Age Of Sigmar Roleplaying Game project?

Emmet: I joined the company back in September of last year when C7 moved to Ireland. When I came on board, I asked if I could be part of the development team for the (then titled) Age of Sigmar Roleplaying Game and Dom, our CEO, very kindly said yes!

B: If you were to describe a typical session of the AoS RPG how would it play out? Is it very typical of other dungeon crawling adventures or does it take a different tone?

E: I think what sets Age of Sigmar: Soulbound apart is that it is less about going out and exploring lost dungeons and recovering treasure in this grand frontier, and more about securing what you have and trying to survive. The Mortal Realms, particularly after the Shyish Necroquake, are

As our team continues to expand here at Cubicle 7 we want to share more insights from team members on their love of RPGs, their careers and the work they do here at Cubicle 7. This week we hear from Elaine, one of our amazing freelance writers!

Greetings mortals and monsters! I’m Elaine, a freelance writer at Cubicle 7 currently working away on Age of Sigmar: Soulbound and soon to be working on Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory.

My love for storytelling was forged among the twisted, wyrdstone laced ruins of an old world city. One spoken of only in hushed words... “Mordheim”. Like many drawn to this hobby, I grew up on wargames, video games and my mother’s massive hand-me-down horde of pulp sci-fi and fantasy paperbacks. I have no doubt that I spent most of my formative years exploring other worlds rather than living in my own. But it wasn’t until my gaming group discovered the wonders of emergent storytelling that the warpflame spark of creativity ignited my mind.

No longer was I simply

For this weeks #TeamTuesday we hear from another of C7's incredibly talented artists - JG O'Donoghue. We recently revealed some of JG's amazing art for our upcoming release WFRP Rough Nights & Hard Days and we look forward to sharing more very soon!

My interest in fantasy art started as a pre teen when I saw the cover of The Hobbit, I was just blown away by the majesty of the idyllic nature and I still remember it to this day. I didn’t actually read Tolkien until my parents locked me in my brothers attic room to study for my final school exams (The Leaving Cert) and I found his copy of The Lord of the Rings. As one can imagine I didn’t do very well in the Leaving Cert, but what a great book!

I currently work for Cubicle 7 as a staff artist. My arts entire purpose is to be the hand for the leg up and over the wall for your imagination, as you wonder through our amazing deep fantasy worlds. Before this, I spent many years working in archaeological illustration, reconstructing heritage

This week we have legendary Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game designer Graeme Davis taking us through his journey with WFRP and his current work with Cubicle 7. We hope this makes you all as excited as we are here at C7 for whats to come in 2019!

Hello, everyone!

My name’s Graeme Davis, and I’m proud to say I’ve been involved with WFRP since the very beginning.

In early 1986, I was a not-terribly-successful graduate student at Durham University in England, researching prehistoric burial practices and spending far too much time playing AD&D, Call of Cthulhu, and Bushido. I had been writing articles for White Dwarf since 1982 – my first, in issue 32, was an AD&D subsystem for drug addiction, but then it was the early 80s! – as well as for the short-lived Imagine magazine published by TSR UK, the British arm of D&D’s original publishers. But 150 miles south, in Nottingham, events were in motion that would change my whole life.

Games Workshop’s early success