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Bruce Neidlinger
Bruce R. Neidlinger is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Bruce Neidlinger was one of the original principles of Iron Crown Enterprises, along with Pete Fenlon, S. Coleman Charlton, Richard H. Britton, Terry K. Amthor, Bruce Shelley, Kurt Fischer, Heike Kubasch, and Olivia Fenlon. By the end of 1982, ICE was profitable enough that Neidlinger went full-time and began taking a salary. Neidlinger later became the CEO of Mjolnir LLC Mjolnir LLC was a company that produced licensed products of the defunct game company Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) under an agreement with Aurigas Aldebaron LLC, who had purchased I.C.E.'s assets following its bankruptcy. History Iron Crown .... References External links Bruce Neidlinger :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive

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Game Designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in the form of gamification. Game designer and developer Robert Zubek defines game design by breaking it down into its elements, which he says are the following: * Gameplay, which is the interaction between the player and the mechanics and systems * Mechanics and systems, which are the rules and objects in the game * Player experience, which is how users feel when they're playing the game Games such as board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, video games, war games, or simulation games benefit from the principles of game design. Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations). Games have historically inspired ...
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Game Designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in the form of gamification. Game designer and developer Robert Zubek defines game design by breaking it down into its elements, which he says are the following: * Gameplay, which is the interaction between the player and the mechanics and systems * Mechanics and systems, which are the rules and objects in the game * Player experience, which is how users feel when they're playing the game Games such as board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, video games, war games, or simulation games benefit from the principles of game design. Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations). Games have historically inspired ...
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Role-playing Game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, 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 these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal role-playing game system, system of rules and guidelines. There are several forms of role-playing games. The original form, sometimes called the tabletop role-playing game (TRPG), is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing game, live action role-playing (LARP), players physically perform their characters' actions.(Tychsen et al. 2006:255) "LARPs can be viewed as forming a distinct category of RPG because of two unique features: (a) The players physically embody their characters, and (b) the game takes place in a physica ...
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Iron Crown Enterprises
Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the ''Rolemaster'' rules system, and its science-fiction equivalent, '' Space Master'', have been the foundation of ICE's business. History Early years and ''Rolemaster'' In college in the late 1970s, while running a six-year ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Pete Fenlon, S. Coleman Charlton, and Kurt Fischer began to develop a set of unique house rules; after most of them had graduated from the University of Virginia in 1980, many of the group's principals decided to turn their rules into a business and formed Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE), named after a regalia of Middle-earth. Besides Fenlon and Charlton, the original ICE also included Richard H. Britton, Terry K. Amthor, Bruce Shelley, Bruce Neidlinger, ...
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Pete Fenlon
Pete Fenlon (born 1955) is an American role-playing game cartographer, game designer, game developer, graphics designer and publisher. His works include stories, art and games (electronic and non) in the genres of science fiction, mystery, fantasy and historical fiction. Personal life He was born in Japan to an Air Force Colonel (Peter C. Fenlon) and Captain (Melba S. Fenlon, RN). He also lived in Germany and the US before settling in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School (1964–1987), where he served as Executive Officer of the Simulations Club. Fenlon began playing ''Dungeons & Dragons'' when it was introduced in 1974. After obtaining a degree in history and anthropology at the University of Virginia, he earned a Juris Doctor degree at the College of William & Mary Law School and passed the Virginia State Bar exam. In 1982, Fenlon married Olivia Johnston and moved to Charlottesville, Virginia. He has since worked as a game publisher. Fen ...
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Richard H
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ...
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Terry K
Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), American shot putter, world record holder in 1976 * Terry Antonis (born 1993), Australian association football player * Terry A. Davis, (1969–2018), American programmer * Terry Baddoo, CNN journalist * Terry Balsamo (born 1972), American lead guitarist for the rock band Evanescence * Terry Beckner (born 1997), American football player * Terry Bollea (born 1953), professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan * Terry Bowden (born 1956), American football coach and former player * Terry Bradshaw (born 1948), American former National Football League quarterback * Terry Branstad (born 1946), American politician * Terry Brooks (born 1944), American fantasy writer * Terry Brooks (basketball) (born c. 1968), American college basket ...
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Bruce Shelley
Bruce Campbell Shelley is a board and video game designer. He is primarily associated as the co-designer of the video games ''Railroad Tycoon'' and ''Civilization'' with Sid Meier, and later the '' Age of Empires'' series. Shelley had worked with Avalon Hill to develop a number of board games for the company, including '' 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons'', inspired by Francis Tresham's railroad-based game '' 1829''. Around 1988, Shelley recognized that the board game market was weakening against the growing video game market, and was able to get a position at Meier's Microprose. Shelley soon became Meier's direct assistant to designing new video games, several of which were inspired by Shelley's past board game experience. Their first collaboration, ''Railroad Tycoon'', was partially based on Shelley's work on ''1830''. Subsequently, the two worked together to create ''Civilization''. The person who hired Shelley left the company after one year and gradually Shelley b ...
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Kurt Fischer (game Designer)
Kurt Fischer is the name of: * Kurt Fischer (politician) (1900–1950), German politician * Kurt Joachim Fischer (1911–1979), German journalist, film critic, and screenwriter * Kurt Rudolf Fischer (1922–2014), Jewish-Austrian philosopher * Kurt W. Fischer Kurt W. Fischer (June 9, 1943 – March 30, 2020) was an educator, author, and researcher in the field of neuroscience and education. Until his retirement in 2015, he was the Charles Bigelow Professor of Education and Director of the Mind, Brain, ... (1943–2020), American professor of education See also * Kurt von Fischer (1913–2003), Swiss musicologist and classical pianist * Curtis Fischer (1921–1991), American football coach for whom Fischer Field Stadium in Newton, Kansas, is named {{Hndis, Fischer, Kurt ...
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Heike Kubasch
Heike A. Kubasch is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Heike Kubasch was one of the original principles of Iron Crown Enterprises, along with Pete Fenlon, S. Coleman Charlton, Richard H. Britton, Terry K. Amthor, Bruce Shelley, Bruce Neidlinger, Kurt Fischer, and Olivia Fenlon. Kubasch wrote '' Angmar'' (1982), the first Middle-earth campaign supplement book published by ICE as a ''Rolemaster'' supplement. Kubasch later became the President of Mjolnir LLC, with Bruce Neidlinger as CEO. Kubasch and Tim Dugger authored the game '' HARP: High Adventure Role Playing'' (2003) for Mjolnir. Her ''D&D'' design work includes ''Monstrous Compendium The ''Monstrous Compendium'' is a series of accessories for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game released from 1989 to 1998. The title was then used for a series of 5th Edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements released ... Volume 1'' (1989) and ''Monstrous Compendium Volum ...
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Olivia Fenlon
Olivia may refer to: People * Olivia (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Olivia (singer) (Olivia Longott, born 1981), American singer * Olívia (basketball) (Carlos Henrique Rodrigues do Nascimento, born 1974), Brazilian basketball player * Olivia Lufkin (born 1979), also known mononymously as Olivia, Japanese-American singer * Olivia Trappeniers (born 1997), also known mononymously as Olivia, Belgian Flemish singer * Oliva of Brescia (died 138), Christian martyr * Olivia of Palermo (448–463), Christian martyr Places * Olivia, Mauritius, a place in Mauritius * Olivia, Minnesota, United States * Olivia, North Carolina, United States * Olivia, Pennsylvania, United States * Lake Olivia, in Highlands County, Florida Arts and entertainment Fictional characters *Olivia (fictional pig), in children's books by Ian Falconer * Olivia (''Twelfth Night''), in Shakespeare's play * Olivia (''The Walking Dead''), in the comic book and TV franchise ...
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Mjolnir LLC
Mjolnir LLC was a company that produced licensed products of the defunct game company Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) under an agreement with Aurigas Aldebaron LLC, who had purchased I.C.E.'s assets following its bankruptcy. History Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) was a game company that produced role-playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games such as ''Middle-earth Role Playing'', ''Rolemaster'', and ''Spacemaster'' for twenty years. When I.C.E. went bankrupt in 2000, holding company Aurigas Aldebaron LLC purchased the rights to I.C.E.'s name and intellectual properties. Shortly afterwards, it licensed these out to Phoenix LLC, a company headed by CEO Bruce Neidlinger and President Heike Kubasch. Phoenix LLC renamed itself Mjolnir LLC and using the name "I.C.E.", began publishing I.C.E. products in 2002. The following year, Mjolnir released a new role-playing game, ''High Adventure Role Playing'' (''HARP''), a simplified version of I.C.E.'s ''Rolemaster ''Ro ...
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