Since their founding, Renegade has maintained a strong organized play program. They have a diverse catalog of games that range from traditional board games to RPGs to living card games. They took the next step in 2024 when they launched the HeroScape Battle Network (https://playheroscape.renegadegamestudios.com/), a one-stop shop for all events, strategy, rankings, and community outreach. The launch has been a massive success, with more than 1500 events since launch. Now Renegade is adding more support to help grow games like Diplomacy. This past week, Renegade put out the following statement:
“We’re thrilled to officially launch the Renegade Heroes Community Program!
The Renegade Heroes Program is a grassroots initiative built for passionate fans of Renegade Games who want to help us do what we love most: bring innovative, fun, and unique games to tables everywhere.
This program is all about supporting local champions who want to spread the joy of gaming—whether at conventions, game stores, community events, or kitchen tables. If you love Renegade games and want to help others discover them, this is your call to action!
We’re kicking things off by migrating our incredible group of over 200 existing Renegade Heroes from Slack into our brand-new Discord channel, where this community will live and grow. These folks have already supported us at events like Gen Con and beyond, and we’re excited to bring them into this next chapter.
Led by Thomas Haver, the Renegade Heroes Program will coordinate grassroots marketing efforts regionally, giving our Heroes the tools, guidance, and support they need to succeed. Soon, we’ll begin recruiting new Heroes to expand our ranks! More details to come. For now, get ready. The Renegade Heroes are just getting started.
Join the mission to share fun. Be the spark in your community!”
Since I’ve been tapped to lead this initiative, I thought I’d share some details for Diplomacy players and what this means. We have an existing network of volunteers across the world, with some individuals focused on specific games. We’re gathering new volunteers to supplement the existing group with added support to help facilitate games.
The goal is to uplift these volunteers to teach games at local game stores, game cafes, conventions, local libraries, and pretty much anywhere else they want to play. Examples of support can include event promotion, material support (e.g., games and swag), financial support (e.g., hotel badges, hotel rooms, travel vouchers). For Diplomacy players, one of the biggest challenges is getting seven people together for a game. Leveraging public places with publisher support is a good means of promoting more widely and getting new & existing players to show up. We want more people playing Diplomacy.
There is no commitment on time investment – everyone can set their own level of involvement. If you want to run monthly Diplomacy games at your game store, we can help facilitate that by working with the store owners and getting promotion out there. If you want to run games at a convention, we can help there as well. The program is also a wonderful means to connect the most passionate members of the community in one place so we can collaborate.
If you’re interested in the Renegade Heroes program, then please apply at the link below. Feel free to join the Renegade Discord server as well.
Renegade Official Discord:
Renegade Heroes Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewsNydGzMGLalIsq48OrRe5moUPX1hI_WpqN-QSL8O5DU6FQ/viewform
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