Eden Studios, creators of the Angel and Buffy RPGs, announced an agreement with Amber Benson and Christopher Golden for the design, production, and distribution of a role-playing game based on the Ghosts of Albion property.  Currently in development, the game is slated to hit retail in the fourth quarter of 2004.  Benson and Golden originally created Ghosts of Albion as a series of original 12-minute animated shorts, which appeared on the BBC online service, and which proved to be very popular.  In addition to the agreement with Eden Studios for the RPG, Benson and Golden are writing a series of Ghosts Of Albion original novels for Del Rey, the first of which is due out in 2005.  Benson, who played the white witch Tara on Buffy, also has several impressive writing credits, while Christopher Golden is a Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist, who has also written Buffy and Angel tie-in novels as well as comic book stories for Batman, Spider-Man, Doctor Fate, Punisher, and Hellboy.

 

The Ghosts of Albion property is set at the dawn of the Victorian age.  In the RPG, players fight to keep the ever-present forces of evil at bay.  Player can choose to be normal humans, ghosts, faeries or even the 'Protectors' themselves, the brother and sister team who enlist the help of the mystical Ghosts of Albion, a trio of restless and heroic spirits from England's past, (Lord Nelson, Lord Byron, and Queen Bodicea) to protect Great Britain from an ancient evil that threatens to destroy the world.