Fast Forward Entertainment will release the first volume in its CrossGen role-playing game this August.  The CrossGen Campaign System is a 288-page hardcover with a color cover and interior illustrations by some of CrossGen's top artists.  The deluxe 8.5' x 11' volume will retail for $34.95.  Written by industry veterans Jim Ward and Sean Everette, this compendium contains all the rules necessary for playing the characters in the CrossGen Universe.  The CrossGen Campaign System makes use of the Open Gaming License (OGL), which means that the powers and abilities of the CrossGen characters have been detailed for use with the Third Edition of the world's most popular role-playing game.  With its plethora of fantasy, science fiction, and adventure titles CrossGen is an ideal publisher for this sort of role-playing exploitation since the CrossGen Universe really does provide a diversity of themes and settings.  Two more volumes will flesh out the CrossGen RPG later this year.  The CrossGen Gamemaster Screen and Adventure is due out in October, while the CrossGen Mystic World Sourcebook arrives in November.

Fast Forward is also creating a collectible card game based on the universe of CrossGen comics (see 'Fast Forward Gets CrossGen Game License'), which will also make use of art created by CrossGen's stable of comic artists.