Ulisses games

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The Ulisses Media & Game Distributions GmbH and Ulisses Games is a role- Verlag from the Hesse Waldems -Steinfischbach.

Companies

The company was founded on December 9, 1991 under the name Ulisses Spiele in Hofheim by Ulrich Roos. About the naming, company founder Ulrich Roos said that he was very impressed by James Joyce 's novel Ulysses when it was founded. This is how the name Ulisses came about, alluding to his first name Ulrich. In addition, the reference to Odysseus and his adventurous wanderings seemed appropriate to Roos for the risky venture of founding a company with start-up capital of DM 1,000 .

Ulisses games is in the field of fantasy - and science fiction - Games active (there are role playing, tabletops, board games or card games ) and has over time - in addition to Pegasus Games become one of the largest distributors in the industry -. On April 20, 2007, Ulisses-Spiele took over the production of the largest and most successful German-language role-playing game Das Schwarze Auge with numerous additional products from Fantasy Productions , which is still marketed today. Since September 18, 2009, Ulisses Spiele has also published the German version of the Pathfinder RPG as a licensee of Paizo Publishing . The publisher was a licensee of Warmachine and Hordes , two tabletop games from Privateer Press and the science fiction tabletop Infinity by Corvus Belli.

In 2009 John Sinclair , a so-called "adventure game", was released, which was awarded the special prize of the RPC Fantasy Award. At SPIEL 2010, Ulisses Spiele brought out the Justifiers adventure game together with Markus Heitz .

Ulisses Spiele is the rights holder for the role-playing game series Das Schwarze Auge, HeXXen 1733, Torg and Fading Suns. The publisher has been relying on crowdfunding since the sales activity was ceased , for example for Vampire die Maserade , Werewolf , Fragged Empire , Ninja All Stars , Manuals of the Dragon , I am Zombie , Kobold Press Manuals, Das Land Og as well as various products for Pathfinder and Das Schwarze Auge .

In 2016, a rule wiki was opened for Das Schwarze Auge , under which all rule elements of the role-playing game are available. In addition, the Scriptorium Aventuris has existed since 2016 and the publisher supports the local community with various layout packages and YouTube tutorials.

Reorientation towards publishing activities

On July 5, 2017, Ulisses Spiele announced in a press release that it would hand over the wholesale, sales and support of its tabletop sales licenses (with immediate effect) to Brauer & Pfeiffer Brett- und Rolenspieler Team GmbH (BURST for short) and in future to rely on the Want to concentrate on activities as a game publisher / publisher.

Products

Ulisses Spiele publishes the following games or game systems:

Role play

Board games

  • Orkensturm - influencing important personalities in the Middle Kingdom to decide the crisis between the usurper Answin and the guardian Brin.
  • Aventuria - card game with two game modes: a duel mode and a cooperative adventure mode in which the heroes have to face an adventure together against the game.
  • Fireteam Zero - Cooperative dungeon crawler in an alternate World War II with supernatural enemies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulisses Spiele focuses on publishing activities. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .