Adam Williams, President
Osseum Entertainment, LLC
Phone: 206-568-6700
Fax: 206-374-2955
E-mail: adam@osseum.com

“Bad Axe Games excited us right from the beginning with some of the best artwork and production values we’ve seen in a D20® game. Obviously content is key, but good art can really inspire and set the tone of a game or campaign. Good art gets you excited and can help add nuance and subtleties to a character or make a place seem more real. Their first book in the Heroes of High Favor series, Dwarves, does just that. Just one look at The Battlerager, a fighter-barbarian prestige class, and you know it’s just right for that kill-first-ask-questions-later guy in your game group,” says Osseum President Adam Williams.

The Heroes of High Favor series will detail all the core races including dwarves, elves, gnomes, half-elves, halflings, half-orcs and humans. Each book will contain new feats specific for each race. Dwarves includes fighting styles, style specializations and mystical Runecrafting feats, as well as traditional dwarven craft skills such as armorsmithing, weaponsmithing and stonemasonry. It also goes beyond the “masterwork” concept by adding a complete ruleset to create such items as adamantine swords or mithral plate.

Each book is 64 pages and perfect bound. It’s unique 6″ x 9″ trim size allows for portability and it’s $9.95 price point makes it one of the most affordable sourcebooks on the market.

To find out more about Heroes of High Favor: Dwarves and see a sample interior, visit:

http://www.osseum.com/publishers/bad_axe_games/heroes_of_high_favor_dwarves

Bad Axe Games Release Schedule

August
Heroes of High Favor: Dwarves BA02101 0972041605 $9.95

October
Heroes of High Favor: Half-Orcs BA02102 0972041613 $9.95

December
Heroes of High Favor: Elves BA02103 0972041621 $9.95

Osseum Entertainment, LLC, exclusively distributes Bad Axe Games worldwide to the hobby and book trade.

For additional information or review copy contact:

Jim Fallone, Director of Marketing
Osseum Entertainment
Phone: 425-271-5308
Fax: 206-374-2955
E-mail: jim_fallone@osseum.com
Web: http://www.osseum.com

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March 17, 2002 (Lombard, IL) — The publishing community has a new colleague with the entry of Bad Axe Games, LLC. The company focuses on high-quality, professionally written and produced materials for players of the world’s most popular fantasy roleplaying game.

Drawing on the talents of professionals from within and without the industry, Bad Axe Games has a twofold approach: Provide great game materials from a genuine players’ perspective, and maintain the most professional standards in writing, design, illustration, and production.

“There are a limited number of top-notch d20 publishers out there who are able to keep their gamer roots and still maintain the level of professionalism that customers demand. Bad Axe Games is one of those companies,” says founder Benjamin Durbin. “It’s important to love gaming, and to find the time to play as often as possible, to really understand the rules and the players’ needs.

“You don’t have to sacrifice your gamer’s soul or your professionalism– they can co-exist. They have to, if you’re going to connect with your customers and deliver product that is both creative and rules compliant.”

The staff is equally committed to their motto, Games With Grit. “We set the mood that the world is a dark and dangerous place– then provide the rules to make it so. We keep things dark, stark, and focused on the character and the action– two-fisted, kick-in-the-door gaming. That means delivering products with plenty of ‘crunchy bits’ for the players, and avoiding as much as possible the kind of syrupy ‘high fantasy’ prose that permeates some products. We believe the characters should define the world, not the other way around.”

The Partners

Bad Axe Games was founded by a staff of dedicated gamers, which by happy circumstance also includes professional writers, illustrators, lawyers, web designers, business managers, editors, graphic designers, and more. Bad Axe Games draws on this pool of creative and technical talent to bring their products to market.

Benjamin Durbin has nibbled around the edges of the RPG industry for many years, having done design work on collectible card games, video games, and toys, all the while enviously watching his friends in the industry from the sidelines. He’s ready to take a bite of the whole pie.

Andrew Hale is an artist that has been working in and out of the gaming industry since graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995. He resides in Kansas with his wife Sarah and daughter Mary Kathryn.