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Blair Reynolds
Blair E. Reynolds is a fantasy artist and writer whose work has appeared in various tabletop role-playing games and periodicals. ''The Unspeakable Oath'' In 1990, John Tynes founded Pagan Publishing as a vehicle for material related generally to the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and specifically to the horror role-playing game ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu''. The company's first publication was the photocopied digest-sized fanzine ''The Unspeakable Oath''. The black & white cover art was by 26-year-old artist Blair Reynolds, who also contributed some of the interior art. As the magazine developed into a professionally printed magazine, Reynolds continued to produce the cover art, which reviewer Allen Varney called "unsettling". In Issues #2 and #4 of ''The Unspeakable Oath'', Reynolds also contributed the first two installments of a serial graphic novel, "Remnant". Reynolds also contributed a written piece to Issue #4 (December 1991), "From the Investigativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSR, Inc
TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). Its earliest incarnation, Tactical Studies Rules, was founded in October 1973 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Gygax had been unable to find a publisher for ''D&D'', a new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, so founded the new company with Kaye to self-publish their products. Needing financing to bring their new game to market, Gygax and Kaye brought in Brian Blume in December as an equal partner. ''Dungeons & Dragons'' is generally considered the first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), and established the genre. When Kaye died suddenly in 1975, the Tactical Studies Rules partnership restructured into TSR Hobbies, Inc. and accepted investment from Blume's father Melvin. With the popular ''D&D'' as its main product, TSR Hobbies became a major force in the games industry by the late 1970s. Melvin Blume eventually transferred his shares to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Delta Green
''Delta Green'' is a contemporary era setting for the ''Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Scott Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishing. The setting first appeared in a 1992 RPG scenario and revolves around a secretive organization tasked with protecting the United States from paranormal and alien threats. ''Delta Green'' combines the classic 1920s Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft with modern conspiracy fiction. In August 2011, Arc Dream Publishing and the Delta Green Partnership announced development of a standalone ''Delta Green'' role-playing game. Funding began in 2015 and in 2016 the ''Agent's Handbook'' was released followed by the ''Handler's Guide'' in 2018. Arc Dream Publishing also made a partnership with Pelgrane Press to release a prequel named ''The Fall of DELTA GREEN'' using the Gumshoe System in 2018. Premise ''Delta Green'' is a contemporary setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Winninger
Ray Winninger is a game designer who has worked on a number of roleplaying games, including the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. He is the former Executive Producer for the Wizards of the Coast '' Dungeons & Dragons'' studio. Career Ray Winninger was a competitive chess player as a child, and at age nine he discovered Avalon Hill games and '' Dungeons & Dragons'' while looking for chess opponents at a local hobby shop/game store. He designed his first game as "a futuristic man-to-man miniatures system", and by age fourteen he had designed an enormous campaign world for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game system. His first published work was an adventure called ''Countdown!'' for FASA's ''Doctor Who'' role-playing game. He worked for TSR, including work on ''Dungeons & Dragons'', throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Winninger was the co-designer of ''DC Heroes'' and ''Torg''. He then worked on staff at Mayfair Games, and became Editorial Director for Mayfair af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biohazard Games
Biohazard Games is a company located in Columbia, Missouri that publishes role-playing games, most of them designed by Jeff Barber and Jim Heivilin. The company tends to work closely with Fantasy Flight Games. History Many Biohazard employees originally produced work for ''The Unspeakable Oath'' published by Pagan Press when it was located in Columbia, Missouri. But when Pagan founder John Scott Tynes moved the company to Seattle in 1994, a core of people including Jeff Barber chose to stay in Columbia. Barber subsequently founded Biohazard Games. As game historian Shannon Appelcline explained in the 2014 book ''Designers & Dragons'', "Many of the Pagan volunteers lived together there — and not all of them wanted to move. Jeff Barber and others would leave Pagan as a result. Sadly, their departure was not entirely amicable." Biohazard's first product was a 1995 supplement for modern-era role-playing games titled '' Killer Crosshairs''. Their next product, and the one they wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Planet (role-playing Game)
''Blue Planet'' is an environmentalist science fiction role-playing game first published by Biohazard Games in 1997, set on the planet Poseidon. Setting ''Blue Planet'' is set on the alien water world Poseidon, where human colonists fleeing an irreparably damaged Earth, Terran megacorporations looking for a rare ore and the indigenous aliens who live in the extensive oceans clash over how to use and steward the planet's resources. The game includes genetically "uplifted" dolphins and orcas as playable characters on either side of the native/Terran dichotomy. First edition (BPv1): Biohazard Games The first edition (BPv1), a 348-page book dedicated to Jacques Cousteau, was demonstrated and released at Origins in 1997 to critical acclaim, receiving a nomination for the ''Game of the Year'' Origins award. Approximately 250 of the 348 pages of the rulebook are dedicated to background about the planet Poseidon. The first edition uses a complex percentile (d100) system to resol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games Designers Workshop
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers. History Game Designers' Workshop was originally established June 22, 1973. The founding members consisted of Frank Chadwick, Rich Banner, Marc Miller, and Loren Wiseman. GDW acquired the Conflict Games Company from John Hill in the early 1970s. GDW published a new product approximately every twenty-two days for over twenty years. In an effort to bridge the gap between role players, board wargamers and miniature wargamers, the company published RPGs with fantastic settings alongside games with realistic themes including rulesets for 15mm and 20mm miniatures set during the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the modern era; and boardgames involving these eras such as the ''Air Superiority'' series and ''Harpoon''. The company disbanded February 29, 1996 after suffering financial troubles. Products Role-playin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digest Group Publications
Digest Group Publications was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. History Editors Gary L. Thomas and Joe D. Fugate, Sr. founded Digest Group Publications (DGP) in 1986 as a business that they ran part-time while working at other jobs. Marc W. Miller wrote a letter to DGP in 1987, asking them to help him make ''Traveller'' material more accessible. ''MegaTraveller'' (1987–1992), often shortened to ''MT'', was published by GDW but designed by DGP which published the popular ''Traveller's Digest'' (later the ''MegaTraveller Journal'') ''Traveller'' support magazine. The game system used revised versions of the Classic Traveller mechanics with ideas first developed in the ''Traveller's Digest'' (and later also adapted to Traveller: 2300). DGP's final publication, ''The MegaTraveller Journal'' #4 (1993), featured a huge campaign for ''MegaTraveller'' set in the Gateway sector, authored by William H. Keith, Jr. William H. Keith (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gencon
Gen Con is the largest tabletop game convention in North America by both attendance and number of events. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, and strategy games. Gen Con also features computer games. Attendees engage in a variety of tournament and interactive game sessions. In 2019, Gen Con had nearly 70,000 unique attendees. Established in 1968 as the Lake Geneva Wargames Convention by Gary Gygax, who later co-created ''Dungeons & Dragons'', Gen Con was first held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The convention was moved to various locations in Wisconsin from 1972 to 1984 before becoming fixed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1985, where it remained until moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2003. Other Gen Con conventions have been held sporadically in various locations around the United States, as well as internationally. In 1976, Gen Con became the prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. The name "Cthulhu" derives from the central creature in Lovecraft's seminal short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in 1928. Richard L. Tierney, a writer who also wrote Mythos tales, later applied the term "Derleth Mythos" to distinguish Lovecraft's works from Derleth's later stories, which modify key tenets of the Mythos. Authors of Lovecraftian horror in particular frequently use elements of the Cthulhu Mythos. History In his essay "H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos", Robert M. Price described two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos. Price called the first stage the "Cthulhu Mythos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
