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Biohazard Games
Biohazard Games is a company located in Columbia, Missouri that publishes role-playing games, most of them designed by Jeff Barber and Jim Heivilin. The company tends to work closely with Fantasy Flight Games. History Many Biohazard employees originally produced work for ''The Unspeakable Oath'' published by Pagan Press when it was located in Columbia, Missouri. But when Pagan founder John Scott Tynes moved the company to Seattle in 1994, a core of people including Jeff Barber chose to stay in Columbia. Barber subsequently founded Biohazard Games. As game historian Shannon Appelcline explained in the 2014 book ''Designers & Dragons'', "Many of the Pagan volunteers lived together there — and not all of them wanted to move. Jeff Barber and others would leave Pagan as a result. Sadly, their departure was not entirely amicable." Biohazard's first product was a 1995 supplement for modern-era role-playing games titled '' Killer Crosshairs''. Their next product, and the one they woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's fourth most-populous and fastest growing city, with an estimated 126,254 residents in 2020. As a Midwestern college town, Columbia has a reputation for progressive politics, persuasive journalism, and public art. The tripartite establishment of Stephens College (1833), the University of Missouri (1839), and Columbia College (1851), which surround the city's Downtown to the east, south, and north, has made the city a center of learning. At its center is 8th Street (also known as the Avenue of the Columns), which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse and the City Hall. Originally an agricultural town, education is now Columbia's primary economic concern, with secondary interests in the healthcare, insurance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Barber
Jeffrey Barber is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Jeff Barber was a gamer from Columbia, Missouri, who joined the volunteer staff of Pagan Publishing and collaborated with John Scott Tynes on early adventures and other games. He co-wrote "Grace under pressure" with Pagan publishing's staff, the book is currently out of print. When Pagan moved to Seattle, Barber and others left Pagan as a result, and went on to found Biohazard Games, publishers of '' Blue Planet'' (1997). Fantasy Flight Games spent 2000 pushing out a new line of RPG products: a new edition of Barber's and Greg Benage's ''Blue Planet''. He is one of the author of the Midnight Midnight is the transition time from one day to the next – the moment when the date changes, on the local official clock time for any particular jurisdiction. By clock time, midnight is the opposite of noon, differing from it by 12 hours. ... campaign setting. Bibliography Killer Crosshairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game company based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, card, and dice games. As of 2014, it is a subsidiary of Asmodée Éditions. History Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product (''Twilight Imperium'') in 1997, the company has been doing business as Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). Since that time, FFG has become one of the biggest names in the hobby games industry, being a marketplace leader in board games and maintaining strong businesses in the card game, roleplaying game, and miniature game categories. In 2008, FFG partnered with Games Workshop to represent ''Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000'' settings in role-playing, board, and card games. FFG announced the end of that partnership on September 9, 2016. Effective February 28, 2017, FFG no longer offers for sale any games made in conjunction with Games Worksho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unspeakable Oath
''The Unspeakable Oath'' is a game magazine that was published by Pagan Publishing from 1990 to 2001, and later by Arc Dream Publishing starting in 2010. History Pagan Publishing was founded in 1990 in Columbia, Missouri by 19-year-old John Tynes with a volunteer staff of gamers from Columbia including Jeff Barber, Brian Bevel, John H. Crowe III, Les Dean, and Chris Klepac. Together they created ''The Unspeakable Oath'' #1 (December 1990), the company's premiere publication, a digest-sized quarterly focusing on '' Call of Cthulhu''. That first issue caught the attention of Chaosium's Keith Herber, who helped Tynes recruit Cthulhu writers like Scott David Aniolowski and Kevin Ross. Meanwhile, Pagan published ''The Unspeakable Oath'' #2 (Spring 1991) and ''The Unspeakable Oath'' #3 (Summer 1991). The third issue led Dennis Detwiller to move to Columbia to join Pagan. In the beginning, ''The Unspeakable Oath'' was solely devoted to ''Call of Cthulhu''. The production values ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pagan Press
''The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein'' is a 2007 book written and published by John Lauritsen, which defends the unorthodox hypothesis that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the real author of ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818). The book also argues that the novel "has consistently been underrated and misinterpreted", and that its dominant theme is "male love." Summary Lauritsen argues that Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the real author of ''Frankenstein'' (1818), that the book "has consistently been underrated and misinterpreted", and that its dominant theme is "male love" or homoeroticism. Lauritsen criticizes feminists for constructing "a Mary Shelley myth, according to which she was a major literary figure, one whose genius had been overshadowed - not only by her husband, but also by the other ''male'' Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats." According to Lauritsen, Percy Bysshe Shelley did not want hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Tynes Cowan Corp. produces third-party books for the '' Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game under license from Chaosium as well as fiction and non-fiction books under its imprint, Armitage House. Career John Tynes founded Pagan Publishing in 1990 at the age of 19 in Columbia, Missouri, with a volunteer staff. Tynes founded Pagan's ''The Unspeakable Oath'' magazine. Dennis Detwiller got in touch with Tynes after seeing an issue of ''The Unspeakable Oath'', and then started volunteering with the company. Tynes designed the board game '' Creatures & Cultists''. In May 1994, Tynes took a job with Wizards of the Coast, working under the new Wizards RPG department lead, Jonathan Tweet. Tynes was the first content lead on the ''Magic: The Gathering'' ... [...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 ''Spir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer Crosshairs
''Killer Crosshairs'', subtitled "What Gun Control Was Meant To Be!", is the first product published by Biohazard Games, a role-playing game supplement released in 1995. Description ''Killer Crosshairs'' is a hit-location system intended to be used for any role-playing game system. The supplement contains two transparent plastic overlay grids, and a 24-page rulebook. Included in the rule book are ten silhouettes of various targets from men and women to horses and cats. Before making a missile attack against an opponent using any weapon from a thrown axe to a modern firearm, the attacker places one of the plastic overlay sheets over the silhouette that most closely matches the target. After making a die roll for an attack, the player consults the Systems Conversion section of the rules for the particular role-playing system being used to determine a location value. The player then uses the location value on the plastic overlay sheet to determine exactly what part of the body the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Planet (role-playing Game)
''Blue Planet'' is an environmentalist science fiction role-playing game first published by Biohazard Games in 1997, set on the planet Poseidon. Setting ''Blue Planet'' is set on the alien water world Poseidon, where human colonists fleeing an irreparably damaged Earth, Terran megacorporations looking for a rare ore and the indigenous aliens who live in the extensive oceans clash over how to use and steward the planet's resources. The game includes genetically "uplifted" dolphins and orcas as playable characters on either side of the native/Terran dichotomy. First edition (BPv1): Biohazard Games The first edition (BPv1), a 348-page book dedicated to Jacques Cousteau, was demonstrated and released at Origins in 1997 to critical acclaim, receiving a nomination for the ''Game of the Year'' Origins award. Approximately 250 of the 348 pages of the rulebook are dedicated to background about the planet Poseidon. The first edition uses a complex percentile (d100) system to resol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RedBrick Limited
RedBrick Limited was a New Zealand game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. The company moved to the United States in 2010 and established business as RedBrick LLC. In 2018, RedBrick Publishing – the successor to RedBrick's earlier incarnations – started operations. History In 2005, FASA Corp granted RedBrick Limited a license for ''Earthdawn'' based on a very professional proposal they submitted. RedBrick named their line "Earthdawn Classic" to differentiate it from Living Room Games' edition and to show that they were staying closer to the art styles and setting of the original FASA line than Living Room Games had. RedBrick's line kicked off with the ''Earthdawn Player's Companion'' (2005). In 2005 and 2006, ''Earthdawn'' had two companies simultaneously publishing "official" material - but RedBrick was soon the only publisher of the game. In 2007, Holistic Design licensed ''Fading Suns'' to RedBrick Limited. RedBrick promised new supplements using t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FASA
Fasa ( fa, فسا, Fasā, also Romanized as Fassa) is a city and capital of Fasa County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 110,825, in 33,379 families. Fasa is the fourth most populous city of the province. The city dates back to the Achaemenid period. Fasa's economy is based on agriculture and Pastoralism. Jahrom, Darab, Sarvestan, Kherameh and Estahban are neighbours of Fasa. This city is located on the road from Shiraz to Kerman, This has made Fasa a strategic and important city. Name The name Fasa is derived from the older form Pasā. Various etymologies for this name have been proposed. Local tradition holds that Fasa is named after a legendary prince named Pasa, son of Fars and grandson of Tahmuras. In Ibn al-Balkhi's retelling the legend, Fars granted the town of Fasa to Pasa; in Hamdallah Mustawfi's version, Pasa founds the city himself (in this version, he is directly the son of Tahmuras). Harold Bailey proposed on linguistic grounds that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Establishments In Missouri
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA World Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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