Modiphius Entertainment
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Game company |
| Founded | 2012 in London |
| Founders | Chris Birch, Rita Birch |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
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| Website | www |
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Modiphius Entertainment is an RPG and tabletop game publisher based in Fulham, London. Modiphius was founded in 2012 by husband-wife team Rita and Chris Birch to publish their first game, Achtung! Cthulhu.[2] The company have since published a number of product lines based on independent licenses and established brands.
Games[edit]
Achtung! Cthulhu[edit]
In 2013 the company raised £177,000 through Kickstarter to create Achtung! Cthulhu, a tabletop RPG set in the Second World War inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft.[3] The first series of adventures for Achtung! Cthulhu is called "Zero Point," with the first two chapters called "Three Kings" and "Heroes of the Sea" by Sarah Newton.[4] The game was well-received in the RPG community, and won several awards, including Best Roleplaying Game at the 2014 UK Games Expo.[5] In 2018 a videogame based on the franchise - called Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics - was released by Auroch Digital.[6]
Mutant Chronicles[edit]
In 2013 Modiphius released the 3rd edition of popular post-apocalyptic RPG Mutant Chronicles.
Fallout[edit]
In 2017 the company acquired the license for Bethesda property Fallout and in 2018 released Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, a tabletop wargame featuring characters and settings from the videogame series.[7] The company announced in 2019 that they would be working on an RPG expansion to Fallout: Wasteland Warfare to be released in the same year.
Modiphius would also develop a Fallout tabletop RPG using their 2d20 system called Fallout the Roleplaying Game. The game would enter beta in 2019 with a projected release in 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fallout the Roleplaying Game would release digitally in March 2021, with a physical release in July the same year.[8]
Other Franchises[edit]
The company have released a number of games based on popular videogame and pop culture franchises:
- In 2014 the company released Thunderbirds, a co-operative board game designed by Matt Leacock based on the popular British children's TV show Thunderbirds.[9]
- In 2015, the company announced a licensing deal for Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian property, with the publication of a roleplaying game, Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, and an ongoing line of supplements in that setting taking place beginning in February 2016.[10]
- In 2017 the company released their first edition of Star Trek Adventures, an RPG series based on the television series Star Trek.[11]
- In 2018 the company announced they would be working with Dreamworks Studios to produce a board game based on the children's films Kung Fu Panda.[12]
- In the same year, they also announced a John Carter of Mars roleplaying game and line of supporting material,[13] based on the early-1900s pulp science fantasy series of the same name by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The John Carter RPG began shipping in early 2019.[citation needed]
- In 2019 the company released a promotional miniature of the Dragonborn from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, announcing that they were working on a skirmish-level wargame based on the franchise.[citation needed]
- In 2024 the company released the quick start guide for the second edition of Star Trek Adventures as a free PDF.[14] The full core rules for the second edition will release in August 2024 at Gen Con with a start set to release that fall. [15]
References[edit]
- ^ "Companies House Profile". Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ "ABOUT". Modiphius. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "Achtung! Cthulhu - The WW2 Keeper's & Investigator's Guides". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "Discover the Secret History of World War Two in Achtung! Cthulhu – Black Gate". 27 October 2012.
- ^ "ACHTUNG! CTHULHU". Modiphius. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "FALLOUT". Modiphius. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "FalloutRPG". Modiphius. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ "THUNDERBIRDS". Modiphius. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "Modiphius Brings Robert E. Howard's Conan To Tabletop RPGs". VR World. 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "STAR TREK". Modiphius. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "KUNG FU PANDA". Modiphius. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ "JOHN CARTER". Modiphius. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
- ^ website, Jeff McAleerFounder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang; Dispatch, host of The Gaming Gang; media, other TGG; any, Jeff tackles; Strategy, All Sorts of Games but Has a Special Fondness for; Sims, Conflict; Plus, roleplaying games; Opinion, He's Certainly Never at a Loss for an (2024-04-24). "Score the Free Star Trek Adventures 2E Quickstart in PDF - The Gaming Gang". Retrieved 2024-04-27.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ "Modiphius Announces 'Star Trek Adventures RPG 2E'". icv2.com. Retrieved 2024-04-27.