Genesis of Legend Publishing Inc. is a small independent publishing house founded in the summer of 2009. We are primarily focused on producing tabletop roleplaying games that explore big questions of society and identity. We also occasionally develop fiction, live-action roleplaying games, board games, and card games.
Stories matter. They teach us new ways to think, to live, and to love. Our mission is to help you tell your own meaningful stories through the medium of games. Our games, your stories.
Agendas and Principles
We pride ourselves in taking the time to produce quality games in an ethical manner so we can leave the world a little brighter than how we found it. To this end, our company’s principles are as follow:
Anti-Fascist: We will not produce any games which glorify or encourage fascist, supremacist, or colonialist violence. There is more than enough of that in the world as-is.
Accessible: Whenever possible, we will use accessibility features in our electronic products and online presence. All of our products are further designed with consideration of colour-blind customers.
Safety-Conscious: We will not condone racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise prejudiced behaviour. We care about providing a healthy, collaborative, and inclusive gaming scene for everyone. This means we will not support or attend any game convention which does not have an anti-harassment policy.
DRM-Free: We do not watermark, lock, or otherwise restrict the use of our electronic products. We trust our audience and won’t sell any products which are artificially limited in that way.
Flexible Pricing Model: There’s a large number of roleplaying game fans who are economically disadvantaged or marginalized, and unable to purchase luxury goods like games due to their circumstances. If you want some of our games and this describes your circumstances, please contact us and we will do our best to help.
Green Publishing: We take efforts to maximize digital production and to print our books on environmentally sustainable paper stock such as EcoLogo or Forest Stewardship Council certified paper.
Open Culture: We recognize serious flaws with the current intellectual property laws and work to turn the tide. Accordingly, we release our products under Creative Commons licenses by default, and periodically release some of our older products into the public domain.
Open Hiring: We will occasionally contract skilled freelance writers, designers, editors, illustrators, and other professionals to help us on our projects. If you are interested to hear about potential opportunities, visit our Freelancer page.
Our Team
Genesis of Legend Publishing is an independent game publisher without full-time employees. That said, there are several hard-working folks who contribute to our projects on a regular basis on a contractual basis.
Jason Pitre (He/Him) is owner and primary employee of Genesis of Legend Publishing. He acts as a game designer, writer, editor, layout professional, and occasional barista. Jason works as a bureaucrat, law-geek and occasional ecologist by day, working on games in the evenings. Jason is also the mind behind the RPG Design Panelcast which shares recorded panels and seminars about game design.
Christopher Rothwell (He/Him) is a disabled Canadian editor, writer, and retired game store professional. He works as Genesis of Legend’s in-house lead editor, contributing to projects such as The Goblin Republic and Sig: City of Blades.
Memberships
We are a member of a number of organizations with the common goal of getting more games out there from diverse designers.
Jason is one of the founding members of the Indie Game Developer Network (IGDN). The IGDN is an international volunteer trade organization that supports indie game developers creating, publishing, and promoting fantastic games. The IGDN brings together a wide variety of developers–including pen and paper, card game, LARP, and board game designers–in a private environment where each and every member strives for excellence.
We are a member of the Tabletop Game Designers Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Tabletop Game Designers of all types of tabletop games, including board games, role playing games, card games, miniature games, and others, whether mass market, specialty, or hobby. TTGDA.
We are a member of the Candian Creators United group, supporting roleplaying game developers from across the country currently known as Canada.
We are a member-publisher of Indie Press Revolution, spreading diverse indie tabletop games worldwide. More information over at http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/
And of course, we are proud members of the Ottawa-Gatineau indie game community and volunteer for the local game convention, CanGames.