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Snake Pipe Hollow
''Snakepipe Hollow'' is an adventure published by Chaosium in 1979 for the fantasy role-playing game ''RuneQuest'', then revised and republished in various editions. Plot summary ''Snakepipe Hollow'' is set in a section of unclaimed land in the northern part of Dragon Pass beset by many monsters. The adventure is divided into four parts: # A description of the region # Possible story hooks to bring the player characters to this region # The first part of the scenario # The climax of the scenario in the Chaos Caves. Publication history Chaosium published the fantasy role-playing game ''RuneQuest'' in 1978, and quickly followed up with a number of supplements and adventures. One of these was ''Snakepipe Hollow'', a 48-page softcover book with a yellow cover written by Greg Stafford and Rudy Kraft, with interior art by Luise Perenne and cover art by William Church. It was published by Chaosium in 1979. That same year, Judges Guild published their first licensed ''RuneQuest'' adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by 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, Robin Laws, Penelope Love, Mark Morri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broken Tree Inn
''Broken Tree Inn'' is a 1979 fantasy tabletop role-playing game adventure for ''RuneQuest'' published by Judges Guild. It is a RuneQuest Gateway product and so not set in Glorantha. Plot summary ''Broken Tree Inn'' contains three separate adventures that takes place in a dangerous border area between The Human Empire and the non-human inhabitants of the Tall Seed Forest. Publication history After GDW's '' Traveller'' game, the next of Judges Guild's licenses with companies other than TSR was for Chaosium's ''RuneQuest''. These books were centered on adventures from the start. Their first publication was Rudy Kraft's ''Broken Tree Inn'' (1979), a notable supplement because it featured material cut from Chaosium's own '' Snake Pipe Hollow'' (1979) — though the Glorantha references were removed in the Judges Guild publication. Reception Forrest Johnson reviewed ''Broken Tree Inn'' in ''The Space Gamer ''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-player Characters
A non-player character (NPC), or non-playable character, is any character in a game that is not controlled by a player. The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster or referee rather than by another player. In video games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer (instead of a player) that has a predetermined set of behaviors that potentially will impact gameplay, but will not necessarily be the product of true artificial intelligence. Role-playing games In a traditional tabletop role-playing game such as '' Dungeons & Dragons'', an NPC is a character portrayed by the gamemaster (GM). While the player characters (PCs) form the narrative's protagonists, non-player characters can be thought of as the "supporting cast" or "extras" of a roleplaying narrative. Non-player characters populate the fictional world of the game, and can fill any role not occupied by a player character. Non-pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games International
''Computer Games Magazine'' was a monthly computer and console gaming print magazine, founded in October 1988 as the United Kingdom publication ''Games International''. During its history, it was known variously as ''Strategy Plus'' (October 1990, Issue 1) and ''Computer Games Strategy Plus'', but changed its name to ''Computer Games Magazine'' after its purchase by theGlobe.com. By April 2007, it held the record for the second-longest-running print magazine dedicated exclusively to computer games, behind '' Computer Gaming World''. In 1998 and 2000, it was the United States' third-largest magazine in this field. History The magazine's original editor-in-chief, Brian Walker, sold ''Strategy Plus'' to the United States retail chain Chips & Bits in 1991. Based in Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Overbey
Taylor, Taylors or Taylor's may refer to: People * Taylor (surname) **List of people with surname Taylor * Taylor (given name), including Tayla and Taylah * Taylor sept, a branch of Scottish clan Cameron * Justice Taylor (other) Places Australia * Electoral district of Taylor, South Australia * Taylor, Australian Capital Territory, planned suburb Canada * Taylor, British Columbia United States * Taylor, Alabama * Taylor, Arizona * Taylor, Arkansas * Taylor, Indiana * Taylor, Louisiana * Taylor, Maryland * Taylor, Michigan * Taylor, Mississippi * Taylor, Missouri * Taylor, Nebraska * Taylor, North Dakota * Taylor, New York * Taylor, Beckham County, Oklahoma * Taylor, Cotton County, Oklahoma * Taylor, Pennsylvania * Taylors, South Carolina * Taylor, Texas * Taylor, Utah * Taylor, Washington * Taylor, West Virginia * Taylor, Wisconsin * Taylor, Wyoming * Taylor County (other) * Taylor Township (other) Businesses and organisations * Taylor's (de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Purcell
Steven Ross Purcell (born October 1, 1961) is an American cartoonist, animator, game designer and voice actor. He is the creator of the media franchise ''Sam & Max'', for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007. The series has grown to incorporate an animated television series and several video games. A graduate of the California College of Arts and Craft, Purcell began his career creating comic strips for the college newsletter. He performed freelance work for Marvel Comics and Fishwrap Productions before publishing his first ''Sam & Max'' comic in 1987. Purcell was hired by LucasArts as an artist and animator in 1988 and worked on several LucasArts adventure games, including the first three ''Monkey Island'' games, ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' and ''Sam & Max Hit the Road.'' Purcell collaborated with Nelvana to create a ''Sam & Max'' television series in 1997, and briefly worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic after leaving LucasArts. He is curr ... [...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. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, '' Fate'', which has won numerous 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 Game'' in 2004, but publication was held up because they decided to use '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glorantha
Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford. It was first introduced in the board game '' White Bear and Red Moon'' (1975) by Chaosium and then in a number of other board, roleplaying and computer games, including '' RuneQuest'' and '' HeroQuest'', as well as several works of fiction and the computer strategy game ''King of Dragon Pass''. The Gloranthan world is characterised by its complex use of mythology, heavily influenced by the universalist approaches of Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade, its sword and sorcery ethos, its long and distinctive history as a setting for role-playing games, its community development and expansion, and its relative lack of Tolkienesque influence, which is uncommon among early American fantasy role-playing games. Stafford first wrote about in Glorantha in 1966 as a way to deepen his own understanding of mythology. He founded the company Chaosium to publish the board wargame '' White Bear and Red Moon'' in 1975, which was set in Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leading publishers of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' related materials. Its flagship product, ''City State of the Invincible Overlord'', was the first published RPG supplement to feature a fully developed city environment. The supplement was followed closely by numerous ancillary cities, maps, and other materials published by Judges Guild. History Judges Guild was founded on July 4, 1976, utilizing concepts developed by co-founder Bob Bledsaw, in his home ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') campaign. Bledsaw, along with partner Bill Owen, travelled to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to visit the headquarters of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), publishers of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', on July 17, 1976. Bledsaw and Owen had hoped to convince TSR to publish some of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company's "Hasbro Gaming" division. Avalon Hill introduced many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming, including the use of a hexagonal grid (a.k.a. hexgrid) overlaid on a flat folding board, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at a location, and board games based upon historical events. History The Avalon Game Company Avalon Hill was started in 1952 outside Baltimore in Catonsville, Maryland by Charles S. Roberts under the name of "The Avalon Game Company" for the publication of his game '' Tactics''. It is considered the first of a new type of war game, consisting of a self-contained printed map, pieces, rules and box designed for the mass-market. Other war games published over the prior half-century, which R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Player Characters
A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs). The actions of non-player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games, or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role-playing games. The player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling the character. Video games typically have one player character for each person playing the game. Some games, such as multiplayer online battle arena, hero shooter, and fighting games, offer a group of player characters for the player to choose from, allowing the player to control one of them at a time. Where more than one player character is available, the characters may have distinctive abilities and differing style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuneQuest
''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. It was first published in 1978 by The Chaosium. Beginning in 1984, publication passed between a number of companies, including Avalon Hill, Mongoose Publishing, and The Design Mechanism, before finally returning to Chaosium in 2016. ''RuneQuest'' is notable for its system, designed around percentile dice and an early implementation of skill rules, which became the basis for numerous other games. There have been several editions of the game. History In 1975, game designer Greg Stafford released the fantasy board game '' White Bear and Red Moon'' (later renamed ''Dragon Pass''), produced and marketed by The Chaosium, a publishing company set up by Stafford specifically for the release of the game. In 1978, The Chaosium published the first edition of ''Rune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
