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Pagan Publishing is a
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publishing company founded by
John Scott Tynes John Scott Tynes (born 1971) is an American writer best known for his work on role-playing games such as ''Unknown Armies'', '' Delta Green'', '' Puppetland'', and for his company, Tynes Cowan Corporation. Under its imprint, Pagan Publishing, T ...
in 1990. It began by publishing a '' Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game
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, '' The Unspeakable Oath''. In 1994, the company moved from
Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1821 as the county seat of Boone County, Missouri, Boone County and had a population of 126,254 as recorded in the 2020 United States census, making it the List of cities in Misso ...
to
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,
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where it incorporated. The staff at this time included John Tynes as editor-in-chief, John H. Crowe III as business manager, Dennis Detwiller as art director, and Brian Appleton and Chris Klepac as editors. Tynes, Detwiller, and Adam Scott Glancy released the ''
Delta Green ''Delta Green'' is a contemporary era setting for the ''Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Scott Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishi ...
'' modern ''Call of Cthulhu'' campaign setting in 1996. Pagan has released multiple other ''Call of Cthulhu'' products, including a foray into card games with '' Creatures & Cultists'' and miniature games with '' The Hills Rise Wild!''. Pagan is based in Seattle, Washington and comprises Adam Scott Glancy as business manager and John H. Crowe III and Brian Appleton as editors. It continues to occasionally produce ''Call of Cthulhu'' books as well as non-gaming fiction and non-fiction under the Armitage House imprint.


History

Pagan Publishing was founded in 1990 in
Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1821 as the county seat of Boone County, Missouri, Boone County and had a population of 126,254 as recorded in the 2020 United States census, making it the List of cities in Misso ...
by the 19-year-old John Tynes, who loved the work of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Chambers. The company started with the magazine '' The Unspeakable Oath'', with issue #1 (December 1990) as a digest-sized quarterly publication focusing on '' Call of Cthulhu'' material. Dennis Detwiller joined the company due to his interest in the magazine, contacting Tynes after he saw ''The Unspeakable Oath'' #3 (Summer 1991) and spending time volunteering for the company. Pagan Publishing released compilations of ''The Unspeakable Oath'' material, including: the anthology ''Courting Madness'' (1992); the card game ''Creatures & Cultists'' (1992) from ''The Unspeakable Oath'' #4 (Fall 1991); and ''The Weapons Compendium'' (1993) of weapon statistics both from the magazine and new weapons as well.


Products


Call of Cthulhu Supplements

* ''Alone on Halloween'' by Scott David Aniolowski and John Tynes * '' Devil's Children'' by
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, David Godley and David Witteveen * '' Mortal Coils'' * ''Walker In The Wastes'' by John H. Crowe III * ''
Coming Full Circle ''Coming Full Circle'' is a 1995 role-playing game adventure for '' Call of Cthulhu'' published by Pagan Publishing. Contents ''Coming Full Circle'' is a set of four adventures that are loosely connected and take place over a span of ten years, ...
'' by John H. Crowe III * ''The Realm of Shadows'' by John H. Crowe III * '' The Golden Dawn'' * '' The Resurrected 1: Grace Under Pressure'' * ''The Resurrected 2: Of Keys & Gates'' * ''The Resurrected 3: Out of the Vault'' * ''Final Flight'' by John H. Crowe III * ''The Mysteries of Mesoamerica'' by Brian Appleton, John H. Crowe III, and Clint Staples * ''Bumps in the Night'' by John H. Crowe III


Delta Green

* ''
Delta Green ''Delta Green'' is a contemporary era setting for the ''Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Scott Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishi ...
'' (February 1, 1997), the basic sourcebook; . * ''Delta Green: Countdown'' (1999), the 2000s sourcebook, by John Tynes, Dennis Detwiller and Adam Scott Glancy, . * ''Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 1: Machinations of the Mi-go'' . * ''Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 2: The Fate''. * ''Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 3: Project Rainbow'' . * ''See No Evil'' (Unspeakable Oath 16/17) * ''Delta Green'' (May 2007), the basic sourcebook with dual BRP/ D20 stats; . * ''Delta Green: Eyes Only'' (November 2007), a compilation of the ''Eyes Only'' chapbooks with additional material; .


Fiction

* ''Delta Green: Alien Intelligence'' (Tynes Cowan Corp, March 1998), short stories collection, . * ''Delta Green: Dark Theatres'' (Armitage House, 1999), short stories collection, . * ''Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement'' (Tynes Cowan Corp, 2000), novel by John Tynes, . * ''Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy'' (Impressions, 2003), novel by Dennis Detwiller, . * ''The King in Yellow'' (Armitage House, 2006), play by Thom Ryng, .


Other Games

* ''The Hills Rise Wild'' miniature game * ''Creatures & Cultists'' card game


Non-Fiction

* ''A Cthulhu Mythos Bibliography & Concordance'' * '' The Lurker in the Lobby''


References


External links


Pagan Publishing
- official site. Checked March 3rd 2023, no longer available.
Armitage House
- official site. *{{bgg publisher, 266 Role-playing game publishing companies Book publishing companies based in Seattle Publishing companies established in 1990 Publishing companies based in Columbia, Missouri