Editing Eos Press

{{Short description|Game publisher}}
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{{Infobox company
|name             = EOS SAMA LLC, dba Eos Press
|logo             = Eos Press logo.png
|type             = [[Privately held company|Private]] 
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|foundation       = 2001
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|location         = [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], United States 
 [[Suzhou, Jiangsu]], China
|locations        = 2
|key_people       = [[Hsin Chen]], [[Brad Elliott]], [[Jenna Moran]], [[Jesse Covner]], David Ramirez
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|industry         = [[Role-playing game|Role-playing]] and [[card game]]s publisher
|products         = ''[[Weapons of the Gods (role-playing game)|Weapons of the Gods]]'', ''[[Lesser Shades of Evil]]'', ''[[Abuse: The Final Insult]]'', ''[[Creatures & Cultists]]'', ''[[Unhallowed Metropolis]]'', [[Delta Green]]
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|homepage         = {{URL|http://eos-sama.com}}
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'''Eos Press''' is an American game [[publisher]] named for the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. It was established in 2001 in Seattle, [[Washington (state)|Washington]], 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 [[Seattle]] comic and game store) founded Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press on January 12, 2001, to publish ''[[Godlike (role-playing game)|Godlike]]'', a game created by their friends [[Dennis Detwiller]] and [[Greg Stolze]].<ref name="designers"/> In 2003 they renamed the company "Eos Press" and business manager Brad Elliott became the third partner.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7|pages=249}}</ref> 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 [[role playing game]] (RPG) designer and [[Nobilis]] 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'' [[Kickstarter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710667762/the-chuubos-marvelous-wish-granting-engine-rpg/posts/1280330|title=Current Status|last=Moran|first=Jenna|website=[[Kickstarter]]|date=1 July 2015|access-date=7 October 2015}}</ref> Later in the year, an anonymous donor contributed money to Jenna Moran so that [[print on demand]] copies could be distributed independently of Eos.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1710667762/the-chuubos-marvelous-wish-granting-engine-rpg/posts/1363001|title=General Update|last=Moran|first=Jenna|website=[[Kickstarter]]|date=24 September 2015|access-date=7 October 2015}}</ref>

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 [[tarot]] set.
 
Eos also publishes RPGs, including [[Godlike (role-playing game)|''Godlike'']], under the name ''Hobgoblynn'', as well as ''Unhallowed Metropolis'', a game of neovictorian horror.  [[Weapons of the Gods (role-playing game)|''Weapons of the Gods'']], the first licensed RPG published by Eos, is a [[Wuxia]] game inspired by the eponymous comic.

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{Official website|http://eos-sama.com}}
*[http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_10130&manufacturers_id=120/ Eos Press' page on RPG Now]
*[http://index.rpg.net/display-generalinfo.phtml?key=publisher&value=Eos+Press Eos Press' page on RPG.net]
*[http://www.warehouse23.com/info/eos.html/ Eos Press' page on Warehouse 23.com]

[[Category:Companies based in Seattle]]
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