Sovereign Press, Inc

Sovereign Press, Incorporated is a publisher and distributor of role-playing games based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It was founded in 2001 by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin and is one of two companies that Weis owns.

Games produced

Sovereign Press released the Sovereign Stone role-playing game, based on the Sovereign Stone novels,[1] by Larry Elmore and Don Perrin and had the license from Wizards of the Coast to release new Dragonlance role-playing products. The publishing of fiction set in the Dragonlance milieu is still handled by Wizards of the Coast.

Products produced for Dragonlance were:[2]

Under the Sovereign Stone imprint, Sovereign Press produced ten books[3] and all save one were using the d20 system.[4]

After the founding of Margaret Weis Productions

In 2004, after Margaret Weis and Don Perrin divorced, Margaret Weis founded Margaret Weis Productions[5] which used the Sovereign Stone system as the basis for the Cortex System and the Serenity RPG. The Sovereign Stone website was deleted at the end of July 2004.[6] In early 2008 the rights to Dragonlance reverted to Wizards of the Coast[7] with the final book in the line, Dragons of Spring, being produced in January 2008.[8] The Sovereign Press website closed down at the end of 2008[9] with dragonlance.com not being updated after June 2009 and being taken down in early 2011[10]

References

  1. Haring, Scott D. (1999-09-10). "Pyramid Review: Sovereign Stone". Pyramid (online) (Steve Jackson Games). Retrieved 2008-02-23.
  2. Dragonlance.com products listing
  3. Web.archive.org products listing for sovstone.com
  4. RPG Geek listing of the Sovereign Stone book
  5. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  6. Web.archive.org record of sovstone.com
  7. Web.archive.org link for dragonlance.com
  8. Dragonlance.com products listing
  9. Web.archive.org listing - site disappeared between November 1 2008 and February 1 2009
  10. Web.archive.org listing of Dragonlance.com

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