# RedBrick Limited

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{{Short description|Role-playing game publisher}}
'''RedBrick Limited''' was a New Zealand game company that produced [role-playing game](/source/role-playing_game)s and game supplements. The company moved to the United States in 2010 and established business as RedBrick LLC. In 2018, RedBrick Publishing – the successor to RedBrick's earlier incarnations – started operations.

==History==
[FASA](/source/FASA) Corp granted RedBrick Limited an ''[Earthdawn](/source/Earthdawn)'' license in 2005 after they submitted a proposal.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}</ref>{{rp|127}} RedBrick named their line "Earthdawn Classic" to differentiate it from an ''Earthdawn'' edition published by [Living Room Games](/source/Living_Room_Games) and to emphasize that they were emulating the original art styles and setting of the original FASA products.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|127}} RedBrick began publication on this line with their ''Earthdawn Player's Companion'' (2005).<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|127}} ''Earthdawn'' had two companies in 2005 and 2006 simultaneously publishing material for the setting, but it was not long before RedBrick was the only remaining publisher of the game.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|127}} [Holistic Design](/source/Holistic_Design) licensed ''[Fading Suns](/source/Fading_Suns)'' to RedBrick Limited in 2007, and RedBrick stated their intention to publish new supplements utilizing the original Victory Point System, along with a third edition of the game, and began releasing adventures in PDF in 2007.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|324}} RedBrick continued to publish their edition of ''Earthdawn'' through 2009, at which time they published a third edition of ''Earthdawn'' using the [Flaming Cobra](/source/Flaming_Cobra) program at [Mongoose Publishing](/source/Mongoose_Publishing) for distribution.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|127}} RedBrick Limited brought several of their publications to Mongoose to publish through Flaming Cobra, starting with their third edition of ''Earthdawn''.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|400}} RedBrick LLC officially ceased operations in 2012 after RedBrick's owners set up a new business with one of the founders of FASA Corporation,<ref name="MyUser_Https:_March_12_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/12891/redbrick-retires-game-publishing-fasa-reborn |title=RedBrick "Retires" from Game Publishing, FASA Reborn? |date= |author= |accessdate= March 12, 2016}}</ref> transferring their licenses to the nascent FASA Games, Inc.{{cn|date=July 2018}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://redbrickpublishing.com RedBrick Publishing Official Homepage]

Category:Earthdawn
Category:Role-playing game publishing companies

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