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Sean K. Reynolds
Sean K. Reynolds is an American professional game designer, who has worked on and co-written a number of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements for Wizards of the Coast, as well as material for other companies. Early life and inspiration Sean Reynolds was born in Chula Vista, California, and grew up there. He was introduced to the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game (with the red ''Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, Basic Set'' and the blue ''Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set, Expert Set'') in 1980 by his cousin, and soon began playing the ''AD&D'' game. TSR and Wizards of the Coast Reynolds began working for Time Warner Interactive in 1994, to develop their America Online and websites. Reynolds first entered the role-playing game industry in 1995, when he was hired by TSR, Inc., TSR as their online coordinator, beating out Bruce Cordell for the same position. According to Reynolds, "I had two goals: to get TSR a website, and to change the company's then-restrictive online policy to something more r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chula Vista, California
Chula Vista ( ; , ) is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. It is the second-most populous city in the San Diego metropolitan area, the Largest cities in Southern California, seventh-most populous city in Southern California, the List of largest California cities by population, 15th-most populous city in the state of California, and the List of United States cities by population, 81st-most populous city in the United States. The population was 275,487 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 243,916 as of the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. It is located in the South Bay (San Diego County), South Bay, about halfway——between the two downtowns of the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area, San Diego–Tijuana region. Chula Vista is named for its scenic location between San Diego Bay and coastal mountain foothills. The area, along with San Diego, was inhabited by the Kumeyaay before contact from the Spanish, who later claimed the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greyhawk
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for ''Dungeons & Dragons''—Dave Arneson's ''Blackmoor (campaign setting), Blackmoor'' campaign predated it by about a year—the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972, and after being published it remained associated with ''Dungeons & Dragons'' publications until 2008. The world itself started as simply a dungeon under a castle designed by Gary Gygax for the amusement of his children and friends, but it was rapidly expanded to include not only a complex multi-layered dungeon environment, but also the nearby city of Greyhawk, and eventually an entire world. In addition to the campaign world, which was published in several editions over twenty years, Greyhawk was also used as the setting for many adventures published in support o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghostwalk
''Ghostwalk'' is a role-playing game sourcebook published by Wizards of the Coast in 2003, for the 3rd edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. The book introduces and describes the campaign setting of the same name. Unlike settings such as Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance, ''Ghostwalk'' was designed to be released as a single book containing all the material for the world. Contents The central locale for the ''Ghostwalk'' setting is a city called Manifest, a mausoleum city built atop a geological feature known as the Veil of Souls. The Veil of Souls leads the spirits of the departed to the True Afterlife. In the immediate surroundings of the city of Manifest, the ghosts of the dead may cross the barrier into the land of the living, and interact with their loved ones as translucent beings composed of ectoplasm. The bodies of these ghosts are marked by whatever injuries killed them, and they are often driven by a craving for some aspect of the living wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Species
''Savage Species'' is a sourcebook for use as a supplement in the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, 3rd edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game, detailing the use of monstrous races as Player character, PC races. Contents ''Savage Species'' introduces Character class (Dungeons & Dragons), classes and outlines rules for playing monstrous races as player characters, and introduces taking racial levels in the player character's race instead of in a given class. Publication history ''Savage Species'' was written by David Eckelberry, Rich Redman, and Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, and was published in 2003. Cover art was by Jeff Easley, with interior art by Dennis Cramer, Brian Despain, Emily Fiegenschuh, Jeremy Jarvis, John and Laura Lakey, Alan Pollack, Vinod Rams, Wayne Reynolds, David Roach (comics), David Roach, Scott Roller, Mark Sasso, Arnie Swekel and Sam Wood (artist), Sam Wood. Wilkes proposed the project in 2000, "after a closing seminar at Gen Con in which a number of pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
The ''Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting'' is a role-playing game sourcebook first published by TSR (company), TSR in 1987 for the first edition of the fantasy role-playing game ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' that describes the campaign setting of the Forgotten Realms. It contains information on characters, locations and history. Various revised and updated editions have been produced over the years. 1st edition Contents The 1987 ''Forgotten Realms Campaign Set'' was sold as a box set containing two 96-page books, four maps, and two clear plastic overlays marked with hex grids. The maps were four full-color, 34" x 22" maps, two of which combine to form a large-scale (1" = 90 miles) map of the western half of the vast Realms continent, while the other two provide a more detailed (1" = 30 miles) map of the regions featured in the campaign pack. The ''Dungeon Master's Sourcebook of the Realms'' describes how to set up and run a campaign in the Forgotten Realms. A pair of short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living Greyhawk Gazetteer
The ''Living Greyhawk Gazetteer'' (''LGG'') is a sourcebook for the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, 3rd edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game. Despite the title, the ''Living Greyhawk Gazetteer'' is not exclusive to the Living Greyhawk Campaign. Other publications linked to the ''Living Greyhawk Gazetteer'' have treated it as superior to the ''Dungeons & Dragons Gazetteer, D&D Gazetteer'' and used it in the ''D&D Gazetteers place. Contents The ''Living Greyhawk Gazetteer'' expands upon material covered by previous products, such as Gary Gygax's ''World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting'' and Carl Sargent, Carl Sargent's ''From the Ashes (Dungeons & Dragons), From the Ashes'' (TSR, 1993). Publication history The ''Living Greyhawk Gazetteer'' was published in November 2000. It was written by Gary Holian, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining, and featuring a cover by William O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D20 System
The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast, originally developed for the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, 3rd edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The system is named after the Dice#Common variations, 20-sided dice which are central to the core mechanics of many actions in the game. Much of the d20 System was released as the System Reference Document (SRD) under the Open Game License (OGL) as Open gaming, Open Game Content (OGC), which allows commercial and non-commercial publishers to release modifications or supplements to the system without paying for the use of the system's associated intellectual property, which is owned by Wizards of the Coast. The original impetus for the open licensing of the d20 System involved the economics of producing role-playing games (RPGs). Game supplements suffered significantly more diminished sales over time than the core books required to play the game. Ryan Dancey, Brand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west. Nicknamed "the Hoosier State", Indiana is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 38th-largest by area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 17th-most populous of the List of states and territories of the United States, 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th state on December 11, 1816. Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous resistance to American settlement was broken with defeat of the Tecumseh's confederacy in 1813. The new settlers were primarily Americans of British people, British ancestry from the East Coast of the United States, eastern seaboard and the Upland South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Bulmahn
Jason Bulmahn is an American game designer especially known for his work on the fantasy role-playing game ''Pathfinder''. Early life & education Jason Buhlman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended Milwaukee High School of the Arts, and became an avid player of tabletop games. He attended his first Gen Con convention in Milwaukee while in high school, and developed an interest in role-playing games such as ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). Bulmahn graduated from high school in 1994, and enrolled at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. While attending classes, Buhlman also became a competitive '' Magic: The Gathering'' player, and played in the 1995 World Championship in Seattle, as well as Pro Tour New York in 1996. Buhlman was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture in 1998. Architecture After graduating, Bulmahn was employed as an Associate Designer at American Design Incorporated, an architecture firm in Milwaukee. He also began to volunteer at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
The ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game'' is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing. The first edition extends and modifies the System Reference Document (SRD) based on the revised 3rd edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') published by Wizards of the Coast under the Open Game License (OGL) and is intended to be backward-compatible with that edition. A new version of the game, ''Pathfinder Second Edition'', was released in August 2019. It continued to use the OGL and SRD, but significant revisions to the core rules made the new edition incompatible with content from either Pathfinder 1st Edition or any edition of D&D. Starting in 2023, the game instead uses the ORC license, though it remains backwards-compatible with the existing OGL-licensed Second Edition rules. ''Pathfinder'' is supported by the official ''Pathfinder'' periodicals and various third-party content created to be compatible with the game. Gameplay ''Pathfinder'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paizo Publishing
Paizo Inc. (; originally Paizo Publishing) is an American role-playing game publishing company based in Redmond, Washington, best known for the tabletop role-playing games '' Pathfinder'' and '' Starfinder''. The company's name is derived from the Greek word , which means 'I play' or 'to play'. Paizo also runs an online retail store selling role-playing games board games, comic books, toys, clothing, accessories and other products, as well as an internet forum community. History Paizo was formed by Lisa Stevens, Vic Wertz, and Johnny Wilson in 2002 to take over the publication of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' magazines ''Dragon'' and '' Dungeon'', formerly published in-house by Wizards of the Coast. Paizo publisher Erik Mona is the former editor-in-chief of ''Dragon'', while former editor-in-chief of ''Dungeon'' James Jacobs oversees the ''Pathfinder'' periodicals. The company started producing a bimonthly magazine called ''Undefeated'' in 2003, and in 2004, resurrected t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Mona
Erik Mona (born April 1974) is an American game designer who lives in Seattle, Washington. Career Mona was the Managing Editor of issues 1 and 2 of the ''Oerth Journal'', an online publication devoted to the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting, and the Editor-in-Chief from issues 2–7. Mona had the opportunity to talk to designers like Robert J. Kuntz, Robert Kuntz on the GreyTalk mailing list in 1990s, where Kuntz shared stories of the early days of the Greyhawk campaigns. Mona became the head publisher of Paizo in April 2006. Mona served as the editor-in-chief of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game magazines ''Dragon (magazine), Dragon'' beginning in 2004 and ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon'' from 2004 to 2006; at the time, both magazines were published by Paizo until the license through Wizards of the Coast expired in September 2007. Mona and other editors at Paizo were fans of Greyhawk, and thus featured the setting in ''Dragon'' and ''Dungeon'' magazines while Pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
