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Fiend Folio
''Fiend Folio'' is the name of three separate products published for successive editions of the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). All three are collections of monsters. The bulk of the material in the first edition came from the British gaming magazine ''White Dwarf'', rather than being authored by Gary Gygax, the game's co-creator. Readers and gamers had submitted creatures to the "Fiend Factory" department of the magazine, and the most highly regarded of those appearing in the first thirteen issues were selected to be in the publication. Publication history ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' 1st edition Games Workshop, with Don Turnbull as editor, originally intended to develop and publish the ''Fiend Folio'' tome () in late 1979 as the second ''Monster Manual'' volume, and would be officially recognized by TSR as an ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' product, with the monsters mostly taken from submissions to ''White Dwarfs "Fiend Factory" column. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Turnbull (game Designer)
Don Turnbull was a journalist, editor, games designer, and an accomplished piano and pinball player. He was particularly instrumental in introducing ''Dungeons & Dragons'' into the UK, both as the managing director of TSR UK Ltd and as the editor of the '' Fiend Folio''. Early career In his early career Turnbull was as a high-school teacher of mathematics in the north of England. However, he was an early and enthusiastic follower of wargaming, subsequently winning awards as a designer. A feature which assisted his work as a game developer was the use of correspondence to run board games. ''Albion'' magazine In July 1969 he published the first issue of ''Albion'' magazine, one of the first European zines, supporting correspondence play of the board game ''Diplomacy''. Although it only had a few subscribers, ''Albion'' was influential and ran to fifty issues. In 1974 it won the Charles S. Roberts Award for ''Best Amateur Wargaming Magazine''. It was an informal publication that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svirfneblin
In the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, gnomes are one of the core races available for play as player characters. Some speculate that they are closely related to dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons), dwarves; however, gnomes are smaller and more tolerant of other races, nature, and Magic of Dungeons & Dragons, magic. Depending on the setting and subrace, they are often skilled with illusion magic or engineering. Gnomes are small humanoids, standing tall. Publication history The gnome is a player character race "often stereotyped as buffoons, illusionists, and mad inventors", and many players play them as intentionally "wacky" or "anachronistic"; a gnome often conforms to the trickster archetype, and is "predisposed towards a 'good' moral alignment". Gnomes were originally introduced to ''Dungeons & Dragons'' as a new alternative to Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons), dwarves, Elf (Dungeons & Dragons), elves, and Halfling (Dungeons & Dragons), halflings. They were developed fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erol Otus
Erol Otus is an American artist and video game designer, game designer, who contributed art to the fantasy role-playing game (RPG) genre, especially early in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' franchise. He created art for the award winning ''Star Control II'' as well as providing the voice for one of the character races, the Chmmr, in the same game. Biography Otus graduated from high school in Berkeley, California. A self-taught artist since childhood, Otus developed an interest in role-playing games. His first professional artwork in the genre was for the ''Arduin Grimoire'' in 1977. He won an honorable mention in a fanart contest in ''Dragon (magazine), Dragon'' magazine No. 13, which also led to employment in the art department of game company TSR, Inc., TSR in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in the 1970s. After leaving the company, he studied painting at University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley and also took classes at the Academy of Art University, Academy of Art in San Francisco. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Nicholson
Russ Nicholson (died 10 May 2023) was a British illustrator, best known for his black and white fantasy art. Early life and education Nicholson was born in Scotland, and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (which later became part of Dundee University). He moved to England in the 1970s where, save for a brief sojourn in Papua New Guinea, he lived for the rest of his life. Career Following graduation, Nicholson became a freelance illustrator, but found "the work was meagre, so I had to find a weekly paying job, this came in the form of an advertising sweatshop (so to speak) in London, with very little money. It was not the best of times." In order to survive, Nicholson took post-graduate training in order to become an art teacher and art college lecturer, which became his full time occupation for much of his life. Fantasy artist Nicholson became an important contributor to early fantasy game-related titles such as ''The Warlock of Firetop Mountain'', th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Hunter (artist)
Alan Hunter may refer to: *Alan Hunter (VJ) (born 1957), video jockey on MTV from 1981 to 1987 * Alan Hunter (author) (1922–2005), English author of crime fiction * Alan Hunter (soccer) (born 1964), Australian football (soccer) player * Alan Hunter (Australian rules footballer) (born 1944), Australian rules footballer for Footscray * Alan Hunter (athlete) (1913–2002), Scottish athlete * Alan Hunter (singer), New Zealand singer-songwriter *Alan Hunter (astronomer) Alan Hunter CBE (9 September 1912 – 11 December 1995) was an English astronomer who spent his career at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, serving as Director between 1973 and 1975. Early life Alan Hunter was born in East Ham, then in Essex bu ... (1912–1995), English astronomer, Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory See also * Allan Hunter (other) * Al Hunter (other) {{hndis, Hunter, Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albie Fiore
Albie may refer to: *Albie (given name) Albie is a given name, a variant spelling of Alby (nickname), Alby and a pet form of Albert (given name), Albert. Notable people and characters with the name include: People * Albert Axelrod (1921–2004), American Olympic medalist foil fencer * ... * ''Albie'' (TV series), British animated series See also * Alby (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel (artist)
Emmanuel is the name used by an artist. Career Emmanuel's works have included covers and illustrations for early issues of ''White Dwarf'' magazine, as well as illustrations for '' Imagine''. Emmanuel also supplied the cover and several interior illustrations for the original ''Fiend Folio'' (1981), and regarding the cover Steve Jackson in 2022 noted that he "commissioned Emmanuel to paint the famous Githyanki cover and I'm still the proud owner of the original painting." Emmanuel also illustrated the cover for the Puffin Books edition of the ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebook A gamebook is a work of printed fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices. The narrative branches along various paths, typically through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages. Each narrative typically does not ... '' The Citadel of Chaos'' (1983). References External links * Fantasy artists Fighting Fantasy Games Workshop artists Living people Role-playing game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Dee
Jeff Dee is an American artist and game designer. He was the youngest artist in the history of pioneering role-playing game company TSR when he began his work at the age of 18. He also designed the ''Villains and Vigilantes'' superhero game. He was a co-host on '' The Atheist Experience'' and Non-Prophets atheism advocacy podcasts. Biography In the late 1970s, while Dee was still a teenager, he and Jack Herman created ''Villains and Vigilantes'', the first complete superhero role-playing game. The game was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1979. Dee and Herman persuaded Scott Bizar to produce a second edition, which was published in 1982. Dee came up with the idea of creating a role-playing game based on cartoons when he, Greg Costikyan, and other designers were discussing which genres had no role-playing game systems yet; although they agreed that it would be impossible for such a game to be designed, a few years later Costikyan designed '' Toon'' as a full game with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Baker (artist)
Christopher Baker (usually known as Chris Baker but also professionally as Fangorn), (born 17 August 1960 in Birmingham, England) is a cover artist for British and German versions of the ''Redwall'' books, as well as a storyboard and film conceptual artist, most notably with filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Tim Burton. Baker's pseudonym "Fangorn" is derived from the name of a forest in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' novel. Biography Baker received his education at the Bournville School of Art. In the early 1990s, Fangorn provided art for Games Workshop, including the covers art of boxed games Advanced Space Crusade, the Space Hulk supplements '' Deathwing'' and ''Genestealer'', and Battle for Armageddon, as well as the covers of several issues of ''White Dwarf'' magazine. He also worked alongside Stan Nicholls creating the art for the David Gemmell graphic novels ''Legend'' and ''Waylander''. In addition to his many covers in the Redwall series, Fangorn also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Moldvay
Thomas Steven Moldvay (November 5, 1948 – March 9, 2007) was an American game designer and author, best known for his work on early materials for the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (D&D). Career During the 1970s while a student at Kent State University in Ohio, Moldvay was a writer for the science fiction fanzine ''Infinite Dreams''. Moldvay was a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' player brought into TSR by the head of design and development, Lawrence Schick, during a time of substantial growth at TSR. After the publication of the core handbooks for ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'', Moldvay wrote a second edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set'' (1980). As an employee of TSR, Moldvay authored or co-authored landmark D&D adventure modules such as '' Castle Amber'', '' Isle of Dread'', the rewrite of ''Palace of the Silver Princess'', and '' Secret of the Slavers Stockade'', all published in 1981. Of these, X1 – ''Isle of Dread'' was one of the most widely pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Livingstone
Sir Ian Livingstone (born 29 December 1949) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of the '' Fighting Fantasy'' series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that series. He co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 and helped create Eidos Interactive as executive chairman of Eidos Plc in 1995. Early life Livingstone attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, where, according to him, he only earned one A-level, in Geography. He has kept his close links with the school and has visited it on numerous occasions. Career Games Workshop Livingstone co-founded Games Workshop in early 1975 with flatmates John Peake and Steve Jackson. They began publishing the monthly newsletter ''Owl and Weasel'', and distributed copies of the first issue to fanzine ''Albion'' subscribers; Brian Blume received one of these copies, and sent them a copy of the new game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' in return. Livingstone and Jacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firbolg (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, giants are a collection of very large humanoid creatures based on giants of legend, or in third edition, a "creature type". Description Giants are humanoid creatures of great strength and size with a self-involved social focus and are usually presented as the "bad guys" in the game. They "often create their own societies away from the other races". All giants have low-light vision. As a group, they have no other special abilities or immunities. Dwarves have a bonus to their armor class against attacks from creatures of the giant type, due to their experience with fighting these oversized foes. Creative origins Giants are based both on the giants from mythology and those appearing in J.R.R. Tolkien's work. Their stone-throwing ability indicates their creative roots in wargaming. Publication history Giants were some of the earliest creatures introduced in the ''D&D'' game, appearing in the first 1974 edition. ''Dungeons & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
