Welcome to the Chronicle System Guild

Welcome to the Chronicle System Guild, where you can create game supplements and adventures that are compatible with Sword Chronicle by Green Ronin Publishing, and make them available through DriveThruRPG.

The following information contains most everything you need to know to get started, so read everything closely! The more prepared you are when you embark on your journey as an Alliance member, the more successful you will be. 

Remember, you are creating content that is compatible with Sword Chronicle by Green Ronin Publishing. You may use any of the game terms from these rulebooks, and short references to rules or stats are permissible. 

However, copying large swaths of text or references, more than 30 or so words, we ask that you refer the reader to the appropriate core rulebook or supplement. 

 

Product Types

You may publish the following through the Chronicle System Guild program:

• Adventures and Campaign Settings.

• Statistics and descriptions for Creatures and Non-Player Characters

• New Ancestries and Qualities.

• New Houses and forces using the Warfare rules in Sword Chronicle.

• New equipment, including magical items.

• New sorcery Arts, Works, rituals, and spells.

We are talking about expanding the kinds of product types allowed in the future, but at this time only the above are permissible.

You may NOT publish the following:

• Stand-alone games, or anything that does not require the Sword Chronicle core rulebook.

• Expansions to the Shattered Era setting in Sword Chronicle.

• Anything referring to the works of George R. R. Martin, N. K. Jemisin, the A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying Game, or the Fifth Season Roleplaying Game, or supplements for either game.

• Full replacements for existing Sword Chronicle game systems, such as character creation, combat, warfare, intrigue, or sorcery.

 

Media 

The Chronicle System Guild is for roleplaying game materials only. It does not cover fiction except for short vignettes in an RPG work. It does not cover software or comics.

 

Art

No art can be used from Green Ronin publications. 

 

Logos and Trade Dress

The Chronicle System Guild logo must appear on the cover of your work.

It must be discernible and legible at normal full-screen viewing size. You may not use the trade dress affiliated with the Sword Chronicle RPG, other Green Ronin titles, or the Green Ronin logo or the Chronicle System logo.

 

Required Assets and Language to Include in your Product

Cover Requirements: 

• Your original primary logo or title graphic. 

• Chronicle System Guild logo.

• The following text: 

 

Requires the Sword Chronicle roleplaying game from Green Ronin Publishing for use. 

If you are so inclined, you may include links to those products in your PDF: 

Credits and Acknowledgements Page: 

You must include following text within your product, whether it is the first page, or in a place that you have listed other contributors, collaborators, and abt legal and copyright information.

Replace the bracketed texts in the copy below with Fantasy AGE or Modern AGE, depending on the setting you chose: 

This product was created under license. Sword Chronicle, The Chronicle System, and their logos, and the Chronicle System Guild and its logo are trademarks of Green Ronin Publishing, LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. 

This work contains material that is copyright Green Ronin Publishing, LLC and/or other authors. Such material is used with permission under the Community Content Agreement for Chronicle System Guild.

All other original material in this work is copyright [year] by [your legal name or company name] and published under the Community Content Agreement for Chronicle System Guild.

When preparing to submit your work, you must the following language in the Product Description field in the DriveThruRPG submission process: 

 

Requires the Sword Chronicle roleplaying game from Green Ronin Publishing for use. 

We Shouldn’t Have to Say this, Right? 

Neither your Work nor any advertising, promotions, press releases, or other documents affiliated with the Work may contain racist, homophobic, discriminatory, or other repugnant views; depictions or descriptions of criminal violence against children; rape or other acts of criminal perversion; or other obscene material without the express written permission of Green Ronin Publishing, LLC in a document separate from this License.

Neither your Work nor any advertising, promotions, press releases, or other documents affiliated with the Work may contain any claim that you or the Work has been sanctioned or approved by Green Ronin Publishing, or is affiliated with Green Ronin Publishing in any way, other than to acknowledge that the Work is produced and distributed as part of the Chronicle System Guild program.

Contact Person: Troy Hewitt troy@greenronin.com