Mike Holmes and Ralph Mazza were members of the Gaming Outpost who were later among the founding members and prolific posters on the Forge, and worked together to develop a game using their ideas Universalis: The Game of Unlimited Stories.
[1]: 169 Mazza bought out the share of Universalis from Holmes in January 2003, so that he owned both the game and Ramshead Publishing alone.
[1]: 171 Ramshead published the Robots & Rapiers Quick Start Rules (2004) as a PDF at first, and then printed in book form at Gen Con Indy 2004.
[1]: 172 Adept Press, Burning Wheel, Driftwood Publishing, and Ramshead Publishing sponsored the Forge booth at Gen Con in 2004.
[2]: 408 Ramshead released its second complete game, Blood Red Sands (2013), first in May 2013 as a PDF to backers of its successful 2012 Kickstarter, with a print book published in early 2014.