Evil Hat Productions, or Evil Hat, is a role-playing game publishing company, best known for producing the pay what you want RPG Fate Core.
History[]
Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue had created the Fate RPG in 2000 as a hack of the Fudge system. In 2005, their friend Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files series of novels, approached them about creating a role-playing game based on the Dresden Files series. This led to them founding Evil Hat Productions as a company, and producing a series of commercial RPGs, including the 1920s pulp adventure Spirit of the Century (using an updated version of the Fate system, Fate 3.0)[1] and the mind-bending game of super-powered insomniacs Don't Rest Your Head, both in 2006. In that same year, Fred Hicks started working for Evil Hat full time, receiving no salary for the work for several years.[2] They eventually published The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game in 2010.[1]
Evil Hat Productions was one of the original founding companies of the Bits and Mortar initiative in August 2010.[3]
In 2012, they launched a Kickstarter for their new edition of Fate, Fate Core. The Kickstarter was hugely successful, with over 10,000 backers pledging $433,365, transforming Fate Core into an expansive product line.[4]
As well as Fate Core products, which Evil Hat has released since the 2012 Kickstarter, they also publish games in other systems and genres, including Monster of the Week (an early Powered by the Apocalypse game), Bubblegumshoe (a Gumshoe game involving young protagonists), and Blades in the Dark (the game that created the Forged in the Dark genre).
Product list[]
Role-playing games and supplements using Fate[]
- Spirit of the Century (2006)
- The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game (2010)
- Fate Core System (2013)
- Fate Accelerated (2013)
- Fate System Toolkit (2013)
- Atomic Robo (2014)
- Atomic Robo: Majestic 12 (2016)
- Numerous Fate Worlds (2014-2019)
- Do: Fate of the Flying Temple (2016)
- Fate Adversary Toolkit (2017)
- Kaiju Incorporated (2017)
- Dresden Files Accelerated (2017)
- Uprising: The Dystopian Universe Roleplaying Game (2018)
- Fate Horror Toolkit (2018)
- Tachyon Squadron (2018)
- Shadow of the Century (2019)
- Fate Accessibility Toolkit (2019)
- Fate of Cthulhu (2019)
- Fate Space Toolkit (2019)
- Fate Condensed (2020)
Role-playing games and supplements using other systems[]
- Elizabethulhu (2001)[1]
- Don't Rest Your Head (2006)
- Don't Lose Your Mind (2008)
- Don't Rest Your Head: The Bad Man (2011)
- A Penny for my Thoughts (2009)
- Happy Birthday, Robot! (2009)
- Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (2009)
- Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple (2011)
- Do: The Book of Letters (2011)
- Monster of the Week (2015)
- Monster of the Week: Tome of Mysteries (2019)
- Bubblegumshoe (2016)
- Blades in the Dark (2016)
- Band of Blades (2019)
- For the Queen (2019)
- Agon (2020)
Books[]
Fiction:
- Dinocalypse Now ISBN 978-1-61317-003-8
- Beyond Dinocalypse ISBN 978-1-61317-016-8
- Sally Slick and the Steel Syndicate ISBN 978-1-61317-063-2
- Khan of Mars ISBN 978-1-61317-018-2
- King Khan ISBN 978-1-61317-019-9
- Don't Read this Book (2012) ISBN 978-1-61317-012-0
Non-Fiction:
- Improv for Gamers by Karen Twelves
- Designers & Dragons: The '70s by Shannon Appelcline
- Designers & Dragons: The '80s by Shannon Appelcline
- Designers & Dragons: The '90s by Shannon Appelcline
- Designers & Dragons: The '00s by Shannon Appelcline
(The first edition of Designers and Dragons was published by Mongoose Publishing.)
Boardgames and card games[]
- Channel A
- Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game
- Greedy Dragons
- Race to Adventure
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PK Sullivan, Lara Turner, Fred Hicks, et al. (2020). Fate Condensed, p.59 "What Version is This?".
- ↑ Fred Hicks (2018-06-30). "How I Got a Full Time Job in Tabletop Games". Deadly Fredly. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ↑ "Bits and Mortar". Publisher Coalition Forms Pro-Retailer Pro-PDF Initiative Bits and Mortar
- ↑ "Fate Core by Fred Hicks / Evil Hat Productions". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
External links[]
- Evil Hat Productions
- Evil Hat Productions at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Evil Hat Product Vitals