Eos Press is an American game

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named for the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. It was established in 2001 in Seattle,

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, as "Hawthornn Hobgoblynn Press". Eos has operations in Suzhou (China), Taiwan and Singapore.

History

Financier and businessman Hsin Chen and Aron Anderson (game designer and owner of ''The Dreaming'', a

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comic and game store) founded Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press on January 12, 2001, to publish '' Godlike'', a game created by their friends

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. In 2003 they renamed the company "Eos Press" and business manager Brad Elliott became the third partner. Brad Elliott left the company in March, 2009, and the company was reformed by Hsin Chen (owner and director); adding Jesse Covner (partner and general manager) and David Ramirez (game project manager). In 2010, Eos signed famed

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(RPG) designer and

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creator Jenna Moran in an exclusive contract to create games and properties. Eos published the third edition of Nobilis and a supplement. In 2015, Jenna Moran cut ties with Eos because of deceptive behavior by the company and repeated non-delivery of books paid for by the ''Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine''

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. Later in the year, an anonymous donor contributed money to Jenna Moran so that

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copies could be distributed independently of Eos. As of 2020, the company is inactive and may be defunct, as the website has not been updated since 2017.

Products

Notable Eos Press products are card games'' Abuse: The Final Insult''; ''Creatures and Cultists'' and ''The Wormwood Tarot'', a Victorian, gothic

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set. Eos also publishes RPGs, including ''Godlike'', under the name ''Hobgoblynn'', as well as ''Unhallowed Metropolis'', a game of neovictorian horror. ''Weapons of the Gods'', the first licensed RPG published by Eos, is a

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game inspired by the eponymous comic.

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://eos-sama.com
Eos Press' page on RPG NowEos Press' page on RPG.net
Companies based in Seattle Privately held companies based in Washington (state) Publishing companies established in 2001 Role-playing game publishing companies