About 13th Realm

Hello, welcome to my playground...the 13th Realm.

13th Realm was started out of a desire to publish my own set of rules. Over the years I have played numerous games of all types including historical, fantasy and science fiction. The one thing I acquired a taste for was modifying existing rules. I was constantly trying to tweak them so the game ran smoother, had more depth, changed the turn sequence or any number of things in between. Many times I was driven to modify existing rules to fit a setting that I liked. Usually, they became house rules or a collection of notes, never a finalized set of rules. Mainly, this was because I always felt that if I was going to revamp an entire setting or game system, I would rather just put the time and effort into creating my own set of rules. But it just never seemed to happen.

In 2003, I became involved in the development of Epic Armageddon. This eventually led to my writing the Lost and Damned army list for EA plus some articles for Specialist Games. All during this time, I kept mentioning to my gaming friends that I wanted to create a set of survival horror rules for miniatures. After the crumble of Specialist Games, I began helping Dark Realm Miniatures put together a set of rules for their 6mm sci-fi line. I was brought in during the initial development, so I was able to help with the rules as well as other things like starting their forum, helping with the newsletter and other odds and ends. DRM is a great group to work with and Doug and Paul have put a ton of work into it. But even while working on DRM stuff I kept thinking about producing my own set of rules and how I should be doing something to begin my own company.

Finally, I decided it was time to put my energy and efforts into my own game and start down the path to get it ready for publication. Thus 13th Realm was born, as a way to publish my own rules, express my own vision and create an opportunity to pursue other ventures. I have many plans of what I want to do with 13th Realm and where I would like to go, but for now the path starts here and it has led to Forsaken.

-Audrey Ewing

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