headquarters williams bay wisconsin united states website http www.margaretweis.com margaret weis productions ltd. is a games publisher located in williams bay wisconsin united states and founded in 2004 after margaret weis and don perrin the two founders of sovereign press inc divorced . 1 contents 1 games 1.1 cortex system games 1.2 cortex plus games 2 list of games 3 references 4 external links games edit margaret weis productions is principally a producer of tabletop role playing games although it also publishes some e books by margaret weis and in 2008 published the dragon lairds boardgame created by james m. ward and tom wham . 2 to date almost all their role playing games have been licensed games using either the cortex system or cortex plus . in 2006 it took over production of dragonlance d20 supplements from sovereign press . both companies are run by many of the same people and both are owned by margaret weis . citation needed cortex system games edit mwp s first game was the serenity in late 2005 to coincide with the release of joss whedon s feature film serenity . due to licensing issues they couldn t use any of the characters that appeared exclusively in the television series firefly . the company received a gamer s choice best roleplaying game of the year origins award and the gold medal in the best production values of the 2006 ennie awards for this game . 3 4 two serenity supplements have won origins awards for best roleplaying game supplement serenity adventures in 2009 and big damn heroes handbook in 2010 . 5 6 in 2007 margaret weis productions published the battlestar galactica role playing game 7 following it with demon hunters in 2008 and supernatural role playing game in 2009 . 8 cortex plus games edit in 2010 margaret weis productions published the smallville roleplaying game using the new cortex plus system which won the judges spotlight award at the 2011 ennies . 9 this was followed in 2011 with the leverage the roleplaying game rpg nominated for the 2011 origins award for best rpg . 10 in february 2012 margaret weis productions launched marvel heroic roleplaying the fourth licensed role playing game in the marvel . 11 marvel heroic roleplaying went on to win the 2012 ennie award for best rules and the silver awards for best game and product of the year . 12 in 2013 the basic set won the origins award for the best roleplaying game and the civil war event book won best roleplaying supplement . 13 in april 2012 they announced that for economic reasons they would not be renewing the license . 14 on november 8 2013 margaret weis productions announced that a new firefly rpg would be available for pre order having previously launched a playtest version at gen con 2013 . 15 this will use a different system from the previous serenity rpg . 16 it also suffers a mirror of the serenity license in that it only licenses characters that appeared in the firefly tv series list of games edit serenity role playing game 2005 battlestar galactica role playing game 2007 cortex system role playing game 2008 demon hunters role playing game 2008 based on the films demon hunters and demon hunters dead camper lake by dead gentlemen productions dragon lairds 2008 a board game supernatural role playing game 2009 leverage the roleplaying game 2010 smallville roleplaying game 2010 marvel heroic roleplaying 2012 firefly role playing game 2014 references edit shannon appelcline 2011 . designers & dragons . mongoose publishing . isbn 978 1 907702 58 7 . ward james m. ; wham tom 2008 . dragon lairds . isbn 978 1 931567 60 2 . 2005 origins award winners announced . 2006 ennie awards winners 35th origins awards winners origins 2010 origins awards winners rpg geek listing rpg geek supernatural profile rpg geek profile of smallville rpg geek profile margaret weis productions press release 2012 ennie awards icv2 list of the 39th origins award winners web.archive.org record of the press release mwp press release nearly enough dice review of the gencon exclusive preview external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title margaret weis productions & oldid 687683963 categories companies based in wisconsinpublishing companies of the united statesrole playing game publishing companiesvideo game publishershidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 october 2015 at 02 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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