Brennan Taylor is an American
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 ...
s author and publisher.
Career
Brennan Taylor co-founded
Indie Press Revolution
Indie Press Revolution (also referred to as "IPR") is a sales network that acts as a fulfillment house and distributor for publishers of indie role-playing games. It offers games directly to the public and to game retailers. Justin Joyce for Polyg ...
with
Ed Cha of
Open World Press in 2004 and was its first CEO.
When Taylor hired
Fred Hicks of
Evil Hat Games as a part-time staff member,
Ron Edwards left IPR claiming that this move would make IPR less friendly to the small press games companies that it was intended to serve.
In 2010,
Hero Games
Hero Games (''DOJ, Inc dba Hero Games'') is the publisher of the Hero System, a generic roleplaying rules set that can be used to simulate many different genres, and was the co-developer of the '' Fuzion'' system.
History
In 1981, George MacD ...
purchased Indie Press Revolution from Taylor and Cha.
Although Taylor stepped down as president, he maintains a minority share.
Taylor served as president prior to the next CEO Jason Walters.
Taylor is also the owner of
Galileo Games,
publisher of the games ''Bulldogs!'', ''Mortal Coil'', and ''
How We Came To Live Here''. He is also the author of ''Hard Boilded Empires: Solara,'' ''Old Gods: A Mortal Coil Campaign Frame,'' and ''The Jersey Side'' playset for the independent RPG, ''
Fiasco''.
References
External links
Galileo Games official website*http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/help.php?section=about
*http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/search.php?mode=search&page=1
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Indie role-playing game designers
Living people
Role-playing game designers
Year of birth missing (living people)