Lawrence Whitaker is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Lawrence Whitaker had worked on

Chaosium Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fic ...

fanzines. Whitaker gained experience with the ''

Basic Role-Playing ''Basic Role-Playing'' (''BRP'') is a tabletop role-playing game which originated in the ''RuneQuest'' fantasy role-playing game. Chaosium released the ''BRP'' standalone booklet in 1980 in the boxed set release of the second edition of ''RuneQ ...

'' system of ''

RuneQuest ''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson (game designer), Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford (game designer), Gre ...

'' while working on the ''Eternal Champion'' games from Chaosium in the 1990s.

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

hired Whitaker in 2007, where he wrote their fourth ''RuneQuest'' setting, ''Elric of Melniboné'' (2007). Whitaker authored many books for Mongoose in their ''RuneQuest'' line, particularly throughout their universal, ''Second Age'' and ''Elric'' lines. Whitaker and Pete Nash began to revamp the ''RuneQuest'' game for Mongoose in 2010, which resulted in ''RuneQuest II''. Whitaker left Mongoose later in 2010 after four years with the company. After Mongoose's license to ''RuneQuest'' expired, Mongoose kept the game in print under the title ''Legend''. Meanwhile, Whitaker and Nash formed a company, The Design Mechanism, to pick up the ''RuneQuest'' license and publish a sixth edition of the game in 2012. That edition remained in print until 2016, when it was retitled ''Mythras''. Whitaker has also worked for Alephtar Games.

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