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Brennan Taylor
Brennan Taylor is an American role-playing games author and publisher. Career Brennan Taylor co-founded Indie Press Revolution 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 that this move would make IPR less friendly to the small press games companies that it was intended to serve. In 2010, Hero Games 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 Fiasco may refer to: * a failure or humiliating situation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional 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 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 (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 physical frame. Embodiment means that the physical actions of the player are regarded as those of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Press Revolution
Indie Press Revolution (also referred to as "IPR") is a sales network that acts as a fulfillment house for publishers of indie role-playing games. It was founded in 2004 by Ed Cha of Open World Press and Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games. IPR represents over 100 author/publishers involved in role-playing games. It offers games directly to the public and to game retailers. On June 17, 2010 DOJ, Inc. (which also owns Hero Games) announced that they have purchased a majority share of IPR. Brennan Taylor has stepped down as President and maintains a minority share. Jason Walters is now acting general manager, and much of IPR's energy is currently focused on expanding its convention presence, growing its retailer network, and attracting new publishers. Member companies * 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming * Archaia Studios * Atomic Sock Monkey Press * Bad Axe Games * Black & Green Games * Blue Devil Games * Bob Goat Press * BoxNinja * Bully Pulpit Games * Burning Wheel Catthulhu.com* Cherry Picked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Cha
Ed Cha is an American role-playing games author. Career In 2004, Ed Cha co-founded Indie Press Revolution with Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games. Previously, Cha had founded Open World Press, publisher of the "World of Whitethorn" series of adventure settings for the d20 system. In 2010, Hero Games purchased Indie Press Revolution from Taylor and Cha. "World of Whitethorn 1B: The Village of Oester" was nominated for an ENnie The ENNIE Awards (previously stylized as ENnie Awards) are awards for role-playing game (RPG) products (including game-related accessories, publications, and art) and their creators. The awards were created in 2001 by Russ Morrissey of EN World ... for "Best Adventure of the Year" in 2005. He stepped down as chairman of Indie Press Revolution in 2006. References Living people Role-playing game writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Rpg-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open World Press
Open World Press is a publisher of role-playing games, founded in 2001 by Ed Cha, best known for its "World of Whitethorn" series of adventure settings. It is a member of Indie Press Revolution, a fulfillment house for publishers of indie role-playing games. Open World Press was nominated as "The Most Exciting New Company to Emerge" in 2003 by GameWyrd.{{Cite web, url=http://www.gamewyrd.com/awards/wgwa2003.php, title = GNHome In 2005, "World of Whitethorn 1B: The Village of Oester" published by Open World Press was nominated for an ENnie as "Best Adventure of the Year". In that same year, Open World Press gave permission to author William Kooiker to publish the fantasy novel "Tower of Ruin" based on the characters and plotline in "World of Whitethorn 1B: The Village of Oester". List of Products * World of Whitethorn 1A: The Hamlet of Thumble * World of Whitehtorn 1B: The Village of Oester References See also *Indie Press Revolution Indie Press Revolution (also referred to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hicks
Fred Hicks is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Fred Hicks discovered the ''Fudge'' role-playing game system while online and used it for his games based on Roger Zelazny's ''The Chronicles of Amber''. Hicks had also 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 ... [...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 '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Edwards (game Designer)
Ronald Edwards (born September 4, 1964) is a game designer involved in the indie role-playing game (RPG) community, and a game theorist. He created the '' Sorcerer'' role-playing game, the GNS theory of gameplay, and The Big Model. Edwards is also co-founder of The Forge, an online community to support indie RPG design and publication. Early role-playing Ron Edwards first started playing RPGs in 1978 when he was 14, starting with ''Dungeons & Dragons'', which had been published four years earlier. He also tried other RPGs such as ''Tunnels & Trolls'', ''Runequest'', and his early favorite, ''The Fantasy Trip''. Through high school and university, he continued to play RPGs, and entered an experimental phase in the 1980s and 1990s, playing as many as 200 different RPGs, including ''Champions'', ''Stormbringer'', ''GURPS'', ''Rolemaster'', ''Cyberpunk 2020'', '' Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game'' and '' Over the Edge''. Game design While Edwards was a graduate student and biolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 MacDonald and Steve Peterson, from San Mateo, California, printed 1,000 copies of a 64-page rulebook for Champions, their super-hero role-playing game, to take to a Bay Area gaming convention. It sold very strongly, enough to form a company, Hero Games. Later, the pair recruited Ray Greer as their sales and marketing partner. In the following years, the company published two more editions of Champions, two dozen adventures, and several self-contained role-playing games using the Champions core rules as a universal role-playing system: Danger International, Justice, Inc., Robot Warriors, Fantasy Hero and Star Hero. The games were very compatible, but each differed slightly, using new rules or costs. Hero Games used the term Hero System to de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galileo Games
Galileo Games is a role-playing games publisher, best known for its games ''Bulldogs!'', ''Mortal Coil'', and '' How We Came To Live Here''. It is the publishing imprint of Brennan Taylor, who is also the CEO of Indie Press Revolution. See also *Indie Press Revolution Indie Press Revolution (also referred to as "IPR") is a sales network that acts as a fulfillment house for publishers of indie role-playing games. It was founded in 2004 by Ed Cha of Open World Press and Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games. IPR repre ... External links * Role-playing game publishing companies {{rpg-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How We Came To Live Here
''How We Came To Live Here'' is an independently published role-playing game written by Brennan Taylor and published by Galileo Games. Development Brennan Taylor began work on a role-playing game based on the legends of the ancestral Puebloans in 2005, but had then set it aside to instead finish ''Mortal Coil''. He began work again in fall 2006, calling it "The Fifth World", but had to change the name because of the impending publication of a post-apocalyptic RPG called ''The Fifth World'' (2006). Taylor publicly asked for comments on a number of alternative names including "Twin Souls," "Up from the Fourth World," "So That This World Will Not Be Destroyed," "Into the Light," and "How We Came to Live Here"; Taylor would eventually settle on the last, because it evoked the mythic feeling of the game. The game that would become ''How We Came to Live Here'' originally used the mechanics of Clinton Nixon's '' The Shadow of Yesterday'', but Taylor found this confining, and it soo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiasco (role-playing Game)
''Fiasco'' is a role-playing game by Jason Morningstar, independently published by Bully Pulpit Games. It is marketed as a " GM-less game for 3–5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation". It is billed as "A game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control" and "inspired by cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong—films like ''Blood Simple'', '' Fargo'', ''The Way of the Gun'', ''Burn After Reading'', and '' A Simple Plan''."Fiasco ''Fiasco'' was the winner of the eleventh Diana Jones Award and has been one of the featured games on Tabletop. Setting/playsets ''Fiasco'' is designed to simulate the caper-gone-wrong subgenre of film. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Role-playing Game Designers
Indie is a short form of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming * Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies * Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game **Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development **Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry **Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means *** Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products Music *Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers **Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop **Indie electronic, a music genre ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
