What’s Going on with the Round Table TCG?
When we were growing up, we used to play something called Middle Earth Roleplaying Game or MERP. It was basically Dungeons & Dragons, but set in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. We loved creating characters, writing scenarios and playing for hours as we sat around a dining room table eating taco pizza from Casey’s General Store (don’t knock it until you’ve tried it) and drinking Dr. Pepper.
MERP is part of the reason we became writers. When we created characters we had to come up with backgrounds, what kind of languages they spoke, what their talents were, what they looked like, and more. It taught us how to make multi-faceted characters that went beyond stereotypes, and it was the part of the game that we loved the most. Our love for MERP is why we introduced gaming into the Grey Griffins series, but tabletop roleplaying games had gone out of style when we started writing, so we created Round Table, a hybrid that mixes a traditional tabletop roleplaying game or RPG (complete with D10 dice) with a Trading Card Game or TCG (similar to Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh).
But Round Table became more than a game. It afforded our characters an opportunity to learn how to fight monsters and dark faeries without getting hurt.
We had no idea that the Grey Griffins would end up selling nearly a million copies in the initial trilogy, nor were we ready for the popularity of Round Table. Five years after its inception, we still get a lot of requests from people wondering when Round Table will be available for purchase. Unfortunately, we’re not sure.
It was in development at an incredible gaming company called WizKids. They created something called Heroclix, a kind of chess meets RPG with miniature superhero action figures. Unfortunately WizKids folded in the middle of Round Table’s devlopment cycle, and though the company was later sold to NECA, HeroClix was the only property that survived the transition.
At one point it looked like someone was going to create an online version, but that fell through as well. So for now, we’re concentrating on wrapping up the Clockwork Chronicles trilogy with The Paragon Prison. Once that’s done, we’ll sit down and decide what comes next.
We want you to know how much we appreciate all of your support over the years. And we hope that one day we’ll be able to provide you with an opportunity to play Round Table!
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I was wondering if there are cards from Round the Table. If there is can you please tell me the adresses where they’re sold?!? Please, and Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!
They just finished explaining that there weren’t any cards yet… not to be mean
Hi, I was wondering if this book (Nex) was siluabte for a 12 year old girl? (My daughter) I have every intention of reading a copy myself and therefore finding out for myself if it’s siluabte, but I’m still deep in another book. I’ve not found any kind of rating for any of your books, apologies if I’ve just not looked hard enough!Cheers.Tony
Definitely suitable. A lot of the fans here are around that age. There’s even been a few as young as seven that have read it in a single sitting. I was never able to do that at seven, so I was pretty impressed.
I LOVE these books. Best books EVER. I LOVE these authors and would like to know if they have written any other books. These books made me enjoy reading again. I would love more books to read about the grey griffins so MAKE MORE BOOK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite books ever. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THESE BOOKS
Sincerely:Madelyn H Krueger
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginable.
Thank you so much
These are some very decent books you are writing. I like them alot. They are great!Good Job and keep them coming.
i love your books a lot!!! i haven’t been on my account for a really long time. i still need to buy The Fall of the Templar. i can’t wait to read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent! Thanks!
I would pay big money lol for a card game of round the table (like in the books) it would be the best thing ever
Yes it would. The game is completely designed. Just need a company to pick it up!
Hey Derek and Jon, the following website is the contact page for Konami, the company that does Yu-Gi-Oh! https://www.gaming.konami.com/contact.html
Hello, I love reading your storys and have always waited for the Round Table Trading Card Game. It seem fun in the books and I hope it is just as fun in real life. several of the cards I just can’t wait to get my hands on are: Crypt Sentinel, Doppelgangers, Dragons, Frost Giants, Gargoyles, Ice and Inferno Imps, Skreechers, Snatchers, Tundra Troll, Werewolfs, and most of all The Shadow King. If you can work as hard as you can to produce Round Table TCG, it would be greatly appericated.
I think you’re right. I would love to play a Crypt Sentinel myself. What we need to do with the card game is to find a new game company to make it. The previous company (who rocked, BTW) had to close operations due to the economy.
2 questions! when is the encyclopedia coming out? and, are you guys going to write more books?
encyclopedia?
I was never a big reader all through school and im not even one now. But the initial trilogy has been an amazing adventure to experience in my mind. You guys are so good at putting the reader right there in the story. Ive read the trilogy two times and now starting my third time. I cant get enough. Thank you guys for being amazing artists! P.s. I would love if you guys could draw me a tattoo!
Thanks VERY much. We’re honored!
As for tattoos… well, I don’t think we’re quite that good.
OMG! That would be awesome! But I’m not eighteen…
The Revenge of the Shadow King was my first “favorite book”. Im 13 now and have loved the entire grey griffens series for 5 years since age 8. My parents read them, I got my friends to read them. Best books I have truly ever read even compared to series such as game of thrones, harry potter, and the inheritance cycle. First I just want to thank you for 5 years of the best reading I’ve ever done. Second, have you ever considered the option of a tv show? Third, I beg you not to give up on the series or the trading card game. Id hate to see one of the world’s best creations to just disappear one day. I think I speak for most fans when I say thank you…
This is a truly awesome email. Thank you very much, from both Jon (JS) and me.
Im waiting with anticipation for the game and so are all of my friends. We cant wait!!!
You are so not alone on this one.
Hello sirs im new to you books (only read The Fall of the Templar ) AND I LOVE YOUR BOOKS! I did not see when this was posted. Sorry if this is late but. If and when ( key word WHEN) you make them E-MAIL! Thanks!
Thank you!
Hello, I was just wondering if maybe you guys could post the rules you created for the game, how to play and what not, maybe a few pictures on the cards you’ve already made yourself? I just want to get a better idea of what sounds like an excellent game from the many small hints in the series.
It be really cool if someone responded, please and thank you
Great question. And one that we get asked a lot. We’d like to explore more opportunities to turn it into the kind of game you’d really like to see, before we reveal all its secrets on a blog. A few years back, it was soooo close to being in all your favorite stores. And then the economy collapsed.
hey i was just thinking you guys should make a movie that is just as amazing as amazing as the book and round table card game to go with it that would be so cool if you guys could do that there is no doubt this best book series i`v ever read that would be so so so cool if you guy could do that for all the people out there that love this book as much as i do i have finished reading the first series grey griffins series and i have to say that is the best book series ever i am now reading the brimstone key and almost done i am excited to read the next book that would just be so amazing if you guys could make a movie or to on the grey griffins that would be amazing if you could also put round table cards in the market thanks
A movie would be amazing. Need a miracle, since it’s been optioned for several years now already. What would REALLY work is if we got some movie producer/directors whose kids loved the book enough to tell their moms and dads the same thing you just said…