Ultima Online - Catskills
The Society gets its start in UO. Over the years, hundreds of role-players "take the rose and swords".
Founded in 1997 on the Catskills shard of Ultima Online, The Black Rose Society is an organization of mature role-players drifting together across various MMO and virtual tabletop games.
The Society gets its start in UO. Over the years, hundreds of role-players "take the rose and swords".
As Britannia quieted, the Society carried the rose through Allegiance, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, Shadowbane, Star Wars Galaxies (Kettemoor), Vanguard, and Age of Conan. Different worlds, same people.
The first thread of Khevoran - a dark fantasy world at the start of the Society's lore. Run on Neverwinter Nights, it sets the tone for the long-form tabletop work to come.
The first foray into Virtual Tabletop, the story of the Society in Khevoran continues using Fantasy Grounds and the Warhammer Fantasy RP ruleset.
A Battletech-adjacent saga in The Last Legion; a weird-West reckoning in Abilene: The Dickenson County War; and Khevoran - The Emperor of Nothing. Fantasy Grounds becomes the table.
A modern fantasy run in Savage Worlds on Fantasy Grounds.
A sci-fi campaign in a far-flung human colony, centuries removed from the rest of mankind. Born in Mongoose Traveller on FoundryVTT, carried into Fate Core.
A Blades in the Dark campaign by John Harper, set in an Edinburgh where the dead refuse to stay buried.
A persistent rumor of a return to space - fleet hangared, shipyards waiting. The Society will get there when the verse is ready. Or shortly thereafter.