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Ringworld Companion
''Ringworld Companion'' is a 1984 role-playing game supplement published by Chaosium for ''Ringworld''. Contents ''Ringworld Companion'' is a supplement in which descriptions are included for 11 new hominid races, six new aliens, 21 new animals, alien plants, Human Space and Ringworld technology, and additionally an errata sheet. The supplement also features two adventure scenarios. Publication history ''Ringworld Companion'' was written by John Hewitt, Lynn Willis, Greg Stafford, Sherman Kahn, Sandy Petersen, and Charlie Krank, and was published by Chaosium Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fic ... in 1984 as an 80-page book. Reviews *''The Last Province'' (Issue 4 - June / July 1993)https://rpggeek.com/rpgissuearticle/53986/revenants References {{reflist Role-playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft''; RuneQuest Glorantha''; ''Pendragon (role-playing game), Pendragon'', based on Thomas Mallory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur''; and ''7th Sea (role-playing game), 7th Sea'', "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th-century Europe. Many of Chaosium's product lines are based upon literary sources. While Stafford himself has been described as "one of the most decorated game designers of all time" and "the grand shaman of gaming", multiple other notable game designers have written for Chaosium. These include David Conyers, Matthew Costello, Larry DiTillio, Paul Fricker (game designer), Paul Fricker, David A. Hargrave, Rob Heinsoo, Keith Herber, Jennell Jaquays, Katharine Kerr, Reiner Knizia, Charlie Krank, Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringworld (role-playing Game)
The ''Ringworld'' science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing system for its rules and Larry Niven's ''Ringworld'' novels as a setting. Setting The setting is a distant future based on extrapolation of as much hard science as Niven had available. Specifically, it's the 29th century. "Known Space" (also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10,000 stars, including Human Space (40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, two-thirds on Earth), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations. Important Alien civilisations include the Puppeteers, paranoid pacifist herbivore centaurs, and the Kzinti, carnivorous warlike felines, who fought multiple wars over hundreds of years against the Humans, being defeated each time. Human allies include intelligent dolphins and orcas. "Known Space" only serves as a background for the gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hewitt (game Designer)
John Hewitt may refer to: * John Hewitt (priest) (died 1588), English Roman Catholic priest and Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 * John Hewitt (antiquary) (1807–1878), English official * John Hill Hewitt (1801–1890), newspaper editor * John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (1859–1937), linguist * John Hewitt (herpetologist) (1880–1961), South African zoologist and archaeologist * John Haskell Hewitt (1835–1920), American classical scholar and educator * John Hewitt (poet) (1907–1987), poet from Northern Ireland * John Hewitt (mayor) (1943–2011), New Zealand local-body politician * John Hewitt (entrepreneur) (born 1949), U.S. entrepreneur * John Hewitt (footballer) (born 1963), Scottish former footballer and manager * John Hewitt (pentathlete) (born 1925), British Olympic pentathlete * John Hewitt, author of the Ringworld role-playing game * John K. Hewitt (born 1952), behavioral geneticist from Hampshire, England * John Marshall Hewitt (1841–1888), member of the Arkansa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Willis
Lynn Willis (died January 18, 2013) was a wargame and role-playing game designer, best known for his work with Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), and Chaosium. Biography Willis began by designing science fiction wargames for Metagaming Concepts, starting with '' Godsfire'' in 1976. He designed the MicroGames '' Olympica'' (1978) and ''Holy War'' (1979). Chaosium published '' Lords of the Middle Sea'' (1978), and Willis joined Chaosium in 1978. GDW published '' Bloodtree Rebellion'' (1979). Willis's relationship with Chaosium proved the most enduring; he would turn to role-playing games. He helped founder Greg Stafford trim and refine the ''RuneQuest'' rules into ''Basic Role-Playing'', the rules that would serve as the base for many of Chaosium's RPG lines. He wrote the '' Call of Cthulhu'' campaign ''The Masks of Nyarlathotep'' (1984) with Larry DiTillio. He was included in the design credits for '' Worlds of Wonder'' (1982) and the ''Ringworld'' RPG (1984). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Stafford (game Designer)
Francis Gregory Stafford (February 9, 1948 – October 10, 2018) was an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism. Stafford is most famous as the creator of the fantasy world of Glorantha, but he was also a prolific games designer. He was designer of '' Pendragon'', he was co-designer of the ''RuneQuest'', ''Ghostbusters'', ''Prince Valiant'' and ''HeroQuest'' role-playing systems, founder of the role-playing game companies Chaosium and Issaries, designer of the '' White Bear and Red Moon'', '' Nomad Gods'', '' King Arthur's Knights'' and '' Elric'' board games, and co-designer of the ''King of Dragon Pass'' computer game. Gaming industry career 1970s: Chaosium Greg Stafford began wargaming with ''U-Boat'' by Avalon Hill, and in 1966 as a freshman at Beloit College he began to create the fantasy world of Glorantha. After rejection from a publisher, Stafford created '' White Bear and Red Moon'' set in Glorantha, and after three different companies were u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherman Kahn
Sherman most commonly refers to: *Sherman (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname ** William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891), American Civil War General *M4 Sherman, a World War II American tank Sherman may also refer to: Places United States * Sherman Island (California) * Mount Sherman, Colorado * Sherman, Connecticut, a New England town ** Sherman (CDP), Connecticut, the central village in the town * Sherman, Illinois, a village * Sherman, Kansas * Sherman, Kentucky * Sherman, Maine, a town * Sherman, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Sherman, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Sherman, Mississippi, a town * Sherman, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Sherman, New Mexico, an unincorporated community * Sherman (town), New York ** Sherman (village), New York * Sherman, South Dakota, a town * Sherman, Texas, a city * Sherman, Washington, a ghost town * Sherman, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Petersen
Carl Sanford Joslyn "Sandy" Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer. He worked at Chaosium, contributing to the development of ''RuneQuest'' and creating the acclaimed and influential horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), ''Call of Cthulhu''. He later joined id Software where he worked on the development of the Doom (franchise), ''Doom'' franchise and Quake (video game), ''Quake''. As part of Ensemble Studios, Petersen subsequently contributed to the ''Age of Empires'' franchise. Biography Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and developed a love for dinosaurs at age 3. He studied zoology at Brigham Young University and later attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in entomology. Work Chaosium He became a full-time staff member at Chaosium in 1982. His interest for role-playing games and H. P. Lovecraft were fused when he became principal author of Chaosium's game ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Krank
Charlie Krank is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Early life Charlie Krank was born in 1957 in San Francisco. Career Charlie Krank was working as an employee at the San Francisco game store Gambit, when he began to volunteer to playtest for Chaosium in 1978 and two years later he was hired as a paid employee. Krank designed the collectible card game ''Mythos'', which won the 1996 ''Best Card Game'' award at Origins. Krank was a long-time employee and part owner of Chaosium when Greg Stafford founded Issaries, Inc. and left the company after 25 years, so Krank became the new president of Chaosium. Chaosium nearly shut down in 2003, but Krank ran the company out of his house for a time without any paid staff. On September 11, 2008, Krank informed the public that his friend and fellow long-time Chaosium employee Lynn Willis had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Krank later reported that Willis died on January 18, 2013. In a forum posting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |