E-RPG System

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The E-RPG System

Designer(s)	Ruel Knudson (US)
Publisher(s)	Ironwood Omnimedia Company, LLC
Publication date	2006
Genre(s)	Universal
System	Custom

The E-RPG System is a generic role-playing game system published in 2006 by Ironwood Omnimedia.

The role-playing game system is described in The Game Master Lodestar, while three campaign settings are described in the three "Saga Books" - The Fantasy Sagas, The Modern Sagas and The Sci-Fi Sagas. The decision to split the system books from the setting books is common in RPG design, as explained by the designer:

“Sagas is the name of the game while e-rpg is the name of the rule set. Initially there was only Sagas. For me, having developed the game for almost 8 years as Sagas I can sometimes forget the two different aspects. We decided to differentiate the two to allow for better licensing agreements. This would allow someone to purchase publishing rights to use the E-RPG system for their own setting or to publish with us a game in their own setting. Alternatively one could opt to publish content specifically for Sagas which would have a separate publishing or development agreement.

The differences become more apparent once we start opening up development to everyone (which is a big plan for the future after we get the other core books finished). In that scenario anyone can develop content for E-RPG or Sagas which we can publish for them (provided certain standards are met). In that event E-RPG will refer to the entire scope of products developed with the same basic rules while Sagas will remain our primary product for RPGs."''^[1]