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The Nine Doctrines Of Darkness
''The Nine Doctrines of Darkness'' is a fantasy role-playing game adventure (role-playing games), adventure and setting published by Dimension Six in 1980. Description ''The Nine Doctrines of Darkness'' is a "generic" adventure (one that was not designed for a specific game system such as ''Dungeons & Dragons'' or ''Tunnels & Trolls'') that the gamemaster must adapt to a specific game system. The majority of this book outlines a fantasy setting in a country called Opar and notable characters who inhabit it. A short adventure involves a book of arcane knowledge that disappeared and then reappeared as a possession of a good king of the elves. Publication history Dimension Six, based in Englewood, California, appeared in 1980 and published a number of products that year for fantasy role-playing including ''Furioso (Dimension Six), Furioso'', ''Mountain of Mystery'', ''The Temple to Athena'', and ''The Nine Doctrines of Darkness''. The latter was a typewritten 24-page saddle-stapled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Englewood, California
Englewood (formerly Englevale) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located east-southeast of Redcrest, at an elevation of 364 feet (111 m). In 2009, the area was the site of a few homes and a derelict Eel River Sawmills mill. Englewood post office was opened in 1880 "on the Davis place 7 miles from Camp Grant," with Henry D. Davis as postmaster. It operated from 1880 to 1891. The Englevale post office operated from 1893 to 1894. H.S. Shaw was editor of the Englewood ''Star'' newspaper "some years before" 1888. In August 1888, H.H. Niebur wrote in a newspaper article that he and his family had traveled, while "on a pleasure trip," from Phillipsville to Englewood, a distance of 22 miles, "mostly through redwoods, with very little oak, either white or red," passing over the mouth of the South Fork of the Eel River at then to the Englewood prairie Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the creation of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', SJ Games created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes. SJ Games' early titles were microgames initially sold in 4×7 inch ziploc bags, and later in the similarly sized Pocket Box. Games such as ''Ogre'', '' Car Wars'', and ''G.E.V'' (an ''Ogre'' spin-off) were popular during SJ Games' early years. Game designers such as Loren Wiseman and Jonathan Leistiko have worked for Steve Jackson Games. Today SJ Games publishes a variety of games, such as card games, board games, strategy games, and in different genres, such as fantasy, sci-fi, and gothic horror. They also published the book '' Principia Discordia'', the sacred text of the Discordian religion. Raid by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Allston
Aaron Dale Allston (December 8, 1960 – February 27, 2014) was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably ''Star Wars'' novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game setting Mystara. His later works as a novelist include those of the '' X-Wing'' series: '' Wraith Squadron'', ''Iron Fist'', '' Solo Command'', '' Starfighters of Adumar'', and ''Mercy Kill''. He wrote two entries in the '' New Jedi Order'' series: '' Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream'' and '' Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand''. Allston wrote three of the nine Legacy of the Force novels: ''Betrayal'', '' Exile'', and '' Fury'', and three of the nine Fate of the Jedi novels: '' Outcast'', '' Backlash'', and ''Conviction''. Early life and education Allston was born December 8, 1960, in Corsicana, Texas, to Tom Dale Allston and Rose B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer''. History ''The Space Gamer'' (''TSG'') started out as a digest quarterly publication of the brand new Metagaming Concepts company in March 1975. Howard M. Thompson, the owner of Metagaming and the first editor of the magazine, stated "The magazine had been planned for after our third or fourth game but circumstances demand we do it now" (after their first game, ''Stellar Conquest''). Initial issues were in a plain-paper digest format. By issue 17, it had grown to a full size bimonthly magazine, printed on slick paper. When Steve Jackson departed Metagaming to found his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Temple To Athena
''The Temple to Athena'' is a fantasy role-playing game adventure published by Dimension Six in 1980. Contents ''The Temple to Athena'' is a "generic" adventure (one that was not designed for a specific game system such as ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' or ''Tunnels & Trolls'') set at a temple in the middle of a large swamp. Although it can be played as a stand-alone adventure, it can also be treated as the direct sequel to another Dimension Six adventure, ''Mountain of Mystery''. In this case, the player characters are teleported from the Mountain of Mystery setting directly to the temple in this adventure. The adventure involves a series of quests that the adventurers agree to do for various groups and characters they meet on the way to the Temple to Athena. Publication history Dimension Six, based in Englewood, California, appeared in 1980 and published a number of products that year for fantasy role-playing including ''Furioso (Dimension Six), Furioso'', ''The Nine Doctrines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Of Mystery
''Mountain of Mystery'' is a role-playing game adventure published by Dimension Six in 1980. Contents ''Mountain of Mystery'' is a "generic" adventure (one that was not designed for a specific game system such as ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' or ''Tunnels & Trolls'') set in a dungeon. The player characters investigate a long-abandoned stronghold that is now inhabited by a variety of monsters. It can be run as a stand-alone adventure, or it can also be treated as the direct prequel to another Dimension Six adventure, ''The Temple to Athena''. If this is the case, then at the end of this adventure, the player characters are teleported to the temple setting of the sequel. Publication history Dimension Six, based in Englewood, California, appeared in 1980 and published a number of products that year for fantasy role-playing including ''Furioso (Dimension Six), Furioso'', ''The Nine Doctrines of Darkness'', and ''Mountain of Mystery''. The latter is a typewritten 24-page saddle-sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furioso (Dimension Six)
''Furioso'' is a fantasy role-playing game adventure published by Dimension Six in 1980. Contents ''Furioso'' is an adventure based on part of Ludovico Ariosto's ''Orlando Furioso''. An ancient and deadly weapon that had been lost is rediscovered. A way must be found to destroy it before it can be used by evil forces. Publication history Davy Davis originally designed the role-playing scenario ''Furioso'' as a tournament adventure that was presented at Genghis Con II, a games convention in Denver, Colorado. The adventure was subsequently published in 1980 by new games company Dimension Six of Englewood, California Englewood (formerly Englevale) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located east-southeast of Redcrest, at an elevation of 364 feet (111 m). In 2009, the area was the site of a few homes and a derelict Eel Riv ... that also published a number of other products that year including '' Mountain of Mystery'', '' The Temple to Athena'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSR (company)
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 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient mythology, myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic (paranormal), magic or other supernatural elements as a main Plot (narrative), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon (magazine)
''Dragon'' is one of the two official magazines for source material for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products, along with '' Dungeon''. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, ''The Strategic Review''. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched ''Dragon'' as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The last published issue was No. 430 in December 2013. A digital publication called ''Dragon+'', which replaces the ''Dragon'' magazine, launched in 2015. It is created by Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and its numbering system for issues started at No. 1. History TSR In 1975, TSR, Inc. began publishing ''The Strategic Review''. At the time, roleplaying g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamemaster
A gamemaster (GM; also known as game master, game manager, game moderator, referee, or storyteller) is a person who acts as an organizer, officiant for regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a multiplayer role-playing game. They are more common in co-operative games in which players work together than in competitive games in which players oppose each other. The act performed by a gamemaster is sometimes referred to as "Gamemastering" or simply "GM-ing". The role of a gamemaster in a traditional table-top role-playing game (pencil-and-paper role-playing game) is to weave the other participants' player-character stories together, control the non-player aspects of the game, create environments in which the players can interact, and solve any player disputes. The basic role of the gamemaster is the same in almost all traditional role-playing games, although differing rule sets make the specific duties of the gamemaster unique to that system. The role of a gamemaster in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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