EN World has the full story here. Rebellion in the UK now owns T&T and the other Flying buffalo IPs. This is likely good news, as the ownership of T&T by an obscure holding company a couple years back looked like an odd move destined to kill T&T. Now it looks like T&T will have a new chance at life, and I happen to know it has a pretty decent following in the UK, too.
I went to Rebellion's site to see what they were all about. There's a Judge Dredd RPG mentioned, and something called Adventure Presents that looks sort of like the classic solo game books of yore.
They have an FAQ there talking about what's planned for Tunnels & Trolls, which includes:
--New planned releases, and an entirely new edition of the game;
--promise to let fan content continue (but see below);
--compatibility with old content is left as a question mark;
--existing content will remain available on Drivethrurpg as PDFs.
I had spoken with a couple people who indicated that there were active takedowns of published T&T compatible third party content going on at Onebookshelf sites. I don't know for sure if this is true or not, as I will be honest, I haven't kept up with what's been going on with 3PP for T&T in recent years. Maybe this was due to the planned sale, some one from the old ownership at the holding company tidying up to make the sale look more lucrative? Maybe Rebellion? I have no idea.
Still, its good to see T&T has a possible publishing future. Unfortunately it may now enter the realm of "Games that grew away from their creators" as I have no evidence, yet, that Ken St. Andre, Steve Crompton or any of the other T&T alumni may be involved in whatever Rebellion has planned....but who knows! Time will, as always, tell.
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