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Metropolis Ltd
Metropolis Ltd was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. History After leaving Iron Crown Enterprises full-time in 1992, Terry K. Amthor co-founded Metropolis Ltd. in order to produce the English-language version of the controversial Swedish modern-horror game '' Kult''. In 1992–1994, Amthor edited, co-authored and art-directed several books for the line. Target Games/Äventyrsspel offered Iron Crown Enterprises the opportunity to translate their role-playing game ''Kult'' into English, but instead ICE founder Terry Amthor took on the translation of ''Kult'' as a freelance project with funding and distribution from Heartbreaker Hobbies and Games. The new company Metropolis Ltd. was dedicated to the production of ''Kult'' in the United States with Amthor as president, and was the first company formed in America specifically to publish an English version of a foreign-language role-playing game. Metropolis produced an English version of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal role-playing game system, system of rules and guidelines. There are several forms of role-playing games. The original form, sometimes called the tabletop role-playing game (TRPG or TTRPG), is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing game, live action role-playing (LARP), players physically perform their characters' actions.(Tychsen et al. 2006:255) "LARPs can be viewed as forming a distinct category of RPG because of two unique features: (a) The players physically embody their characters, and (b) the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Crown Enterprises
Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the ''Rolemaster'' rules system, and its science-fiction equivalent, ''Space Master'', have been the foundation of ICE's business. History Early years and ''Rolemaster'' Pete Fenlon was running a six-year ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign set in Middle-earth while he was attending college in the late 1970s, when he started developing unique house rules with S. Coleman Charlton and Kurt Fischer (game designer), Kurt Fischer. When most of them graduated from the University of Virginia in 1980, they wanted to make a business out of their special game rules, so they founded Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE), named after a regalia from Middle-earth. Aside from Fenlon and Charlton, ICE originally included Rick Britton, Richard H. Britton, Terry K. Amthor, Bru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry K
Terry is a unisex diminutive nickname for the given names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence, Terrance (masculine). People Male * Terry A. Canales, American politician * Terry A. Doughty (born 1959), American district judge * Terry A. D. Strickland (born 1992), American convicted murderer * Terry A. Osborn, American academic and professor of education * Terry A. Simmons (1946–2020), Canadian-American lawyer and cultural geographer * Terry A. White (born 1959), American prelate * Terry A. Willkom (born 1943), American former politician * Terry A. Yonkers (born 1949), American former Air Force civilian * Terry Ablade (born 2001), Ghanaian-born Finnish professional footballer * Terry Abram (born 1947), American retired ice hockey player and coach * Terry Acox (born 1969), American former professional basketball player * Terry Adail, birth name of Doc Terry (1921–2001), American blues musician * Terry Adams, several people * Terry Adamson (born 1948), English for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kult (role-playing Game)
''Kult'' (Swedish for "Cult", stylized as KULT) is a contemporary horror role-playing game originally created by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén with illustrations by Nils Gulliksson, first published in Sweden by Äventyrsspel (later Target Games) in 1991. ''Kult'' is notable for its philosophical and religious depth as well as for its mature and controversial content. The first three English editions were published from 1993–2004 by Metropolis Ltd. In 2018 current licensor Helmgast released the fourth edition, ''Kult: Divinity Lost'', created by Robin Liljenberg and Petter Nallo. This edition updated the setting from the 1990s to the 2010s and was completely rewritten with new art and layout, and a ruleset based on ''Powered by the Apocalypse''. The fourth edition was well received by critics and fans and won two Ennies for Best Writing and Best Cover 2019, and was also nominated for Best Interior Art. Setting The default backdrop is that of our present-day large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Target Games
Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (meaning "adventure games"). Publications They published much of their early material in the form of stapled books in G5 (169 × 239 mm) format in a box together with dice. Until the mid-1990s Target Games published their Swedish role-playing games under the brand name (meaning "adventure games"). Äventyrsspel released the role-playing games (1982), (1984) (with the later versions ''Mutant'' (1989), (1992) and ''Mutant Chronicles'', (1991), (1985, a translation of ''Chill''), (1986, a translation of ''Middle-earth Role Playing'') and (1988, a translation of the WEG ''Star Wars'' role-playing game). Target Games also published the miniature wargames '' Warzone'' and '' Chronopia'', and several collectible card games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartbreaker Hobbies And Games
''Beef or Chicken?'' is the first studio album by Teriyaki Boyz. It was released on November 16, 2005. It peaked at number 4 on the Oricon Albums Chart The Oricon Albums Chart is the Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Oricon originally published LP, CT, Cartridge and CD charts prior to the establishment of the Oricon A .... Track listing Charts References External links * {{Authority control 2005 debut albums Def Jam Recordings albums Albums produced by Mark Ronson Albums produced by Thomas Bangalter Albums produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Albums produced by Dan the Automator Albums produced by the Neptunes Albums produced by Just Blaze Albums produced by DJ Premier Albums produced by DJ Shadow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. They are best known for the free indie RPG system ''Fate'', '' Blades in the Dark'', and '' Thirsty Sword Lesbians'', all of which have won multiple awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others to run LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest starting in 1999, and came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves. While on a trip to Lake Tahoe, friends Hicks and Donoghue developed a new game based on a conversation about running another ''Amber'' game and fixing some problems with '' FUDGE''; the result was ''Fate'' which Hicks and Donoghue would publish under the name Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released a complete first-edition of ''Fate'' through Yahoo! Groups (January 2003) then cleaned up the technical writing and slightly polished the system for a second edition (August 2003). Hicks and Donoghue began work on the licensed '' Dresden Files Roleplaying G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutant Chronicles
''Mutant Chronicles'' is a pen-and-paper role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world, originally published in 1993. It has spawned a franchise of collectible card games, miniature wargames, video games, novels, comic books, and a film of the same title based on the game world. ''Mutant Chronicles'' was developed by the Swedish company Target Games as an independent spinoff to their '' Mutant'' RPG series, specifically Mutant RYMD released the year before. Unlike previous Swedish role-playing games, ''Mutant Chronicles'' was released in English, and focused on reaching an international audience. The rights to the game are now owned by Paradox Entertainment. In 2015, Cabinet Holdings acquired Paradox Entertainment Inc. and all subsidiaries and their properties, including Mutant Chronicles. Story The game takes place in a distant future where the Earth has long since been depleted of natural resources and abandoned. Humanity has spread to the worlds of Venus, Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nephilim (role-playing Game)
''Nephilim'' is a role-playing game about powerful elemental entities reincarnating into human beings. The players take the roles of these beings as they adapt to their newly symbiotic existence and learn the secrets hidden behind veils of obscurity and mysticism, seeking the path toward enlightenment, Agartha. The game contains much symbolism, primarily related to the Hermetic tradition. History was originally published in 1992 by the French company Multisim . The first edition used Chaosium Basic Role-Playing, and in 1994 was translated into English by Chaosium as well, with some additional research and writings by Kenneth Hite. Since then, ''Nephilim'' had three other editions (all three in French, from Multisim/) - the second edition was still akin to the BRP system while the third edition, ''Nephilim : La Révélation'' (The Revelation) uses a radically different, descriptor-based, system. It also introduces Ar-Kaïm and intuitive magic in the style of '' Mage: The As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
