About

"The Golden Hart" is a fanlisting for the tabletop RPG Blue Rose using the AGE(Adventure Game Engine) system published by Green Ronin.

What is Blue Rose?
"Blue Rose is a roleplaying game of romantic fantasy, where you and your friends take on the roles of the main characters in this fantastic world, creating your own stories about the heroes of Aldis, their triumphs and their tragedies—like writing your own fantasy novel but where you play the heroes!

The world of Blue Rose brings players a fantastic realm where brave heroes, gifted with arcane powers, live and work side-by-side with intelligent animal companions. The heroes of the peaceful Kingdom of Aldis strive to uphold the ideals of fairness, justice, and equality, while protecting their homeland against its aggressive neighbors, including the fundamentalist Theocracy of Jarzon and the dark land of Kern with its monstrous rulers."
-From the introduction of the Blue Rose core rulebook

What is Romantic Fantasy?
"Blue Rose is a roleplaying game about romantic fantasy, but what is that, exactly? In the high fantasy quests of authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, or the larger-than-life swords and sorcery of Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, and others, heroic loners or small groups of rebels, outcasts, or eccentrics perform great deeds and go on quests to obtain power and glory or to protect the world from some dire threat.

Few of these novels contain elves, dwarves, or similar fantasy races, and many contain few or no other humanoid species at all. Instead, humans share their world with one or more types of intelligent or semi-intelligent animals, sometimes with a few magical human subspecies. Some of the intelligent animals are simply bright psychic pets, while others are free-willed, powerful spirits with animal bodies.

Romantic fantasy novels are often set in highly egalitarian societies, where people’s occupations and aspirations are not limited by fixed gender roles. In these books, cultures and individuals that are sexist or homophobic are either ignorant and see the error of their ways somewhere in the series, or they are enemies who are eventually vanquished.

The heroes of romantic fantasy novels are usually environmentally conscious. Protecting wilderness areas and animals from depredation is a common plot element. In all romantic fantasy worlds, nature is a positive magical force, and anyone who protects it is on the side of good.

Attitudes about magic also differ from other fantasy novels. Instead of the scholastic magic of some stories— magic as a rare and powerful discipline involving complex rituals and arcane lore— many characters have innate psychic or arcane powers as natural to them as sight and hearing.

Blue Rose takes these elements of romantic fantasy to create a world of adventure, where you can build your own heroes and forge your own stories."
-Excerpts from the introduction of the Blue Rose core rulebook

Links
-https://greenroninstore.com/products/blue-rose-the-age-rpg-of-romantic-fantasy
-https://greenroninstore.com/collections/blue-rose
-https://greenronin.com/blog/tag/blue-rose/
-https://freeronin.com/
-https://www.facebook.com/groups/410322779347506
-https://ttrpgfans.com/wardens-of-the-blue-rose-rpg/
-https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/green-ronin-publishing/simple-age-presents
-https://www.facebook.com/BlueRoseRPG/
-https://blueroserpg.com/
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Rose_(role-playing_game)