Seattle-based Green Ronin Publishing has announced an agreement with novelist Glen Cook to license his classic fantasy series, The Black Company.  Green Ronin plans on publishing The Black Company Campaign Setting in the fall of 2004.  The d20-based volume will be the definitive guide to the world and characters of The Black Company and will draw on the entirety of the ten-book series.  Cook's Black Company saga, which dates from the eponymous first volume, which was published in 1984, is a hardboiled dark fantasy series about the last of the fabled 'Free Companies of Khatovar' -- a group of tough-as-nails mercenaries who battle ferociously against assorted dark forces in this very popular muscular fantasy series.