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Christopher Kubasik
Christopher Kubasik, also known as Chris Kubasik (born 1963), is an American author of several role-playing games, sourcebooks, adventures and fiction novels set in them, and has created his own TV series. Career Kubasik worked at FASA Corporation for five years from 1987-1992. Kubasik has contributed to '' Earthdawn'', ''BattleTech'', ''Shadowrun'', '' Star Wars'', ''TORG'', and ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing games. He has written tie-in novels for ''Earthdawn'', ''BattleTech'' and ''Shadowrun''. Greg Gorden designed the rules for ''Earthdawn'', while Kubasik created the world for the game. Kubasik has done screenwriting for New Line Cinema. In 2006 he worked as the Head Writer for the Internet show "Stranger Adventures," which was nominated for three Emmy Awards for Broadband Entertainment in 2006. He also was the creator and head writer of the television series ''The Booth At The End''. In 2008, he compared the Internet's effect on film-making to the Wild Wes ... [...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 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of BattleTech Novels
More than one hundred full-length ''BattleTech'' or '' MechWarrior'' science fiction novels have been published by FASA Corporation and later by ROC, and have been translated into at least fifteen languages. The novels take place in the fictional BattleTech universe of the 31st and 32nd centuries. They can be considered space opera. History The first official ''BattleTech'' novel was William H. Keith's ''Decision at Thunder Rift'' (1986); the last from FASA was Loren L. Coleman's ''Endgame'' (2002) which resolved plot lines and character arcs from many previous works. Subsequent publications jump ahead chronologically to the 32nd-century '' MechWarrior: Dark Age'' setting, beginning with Michael A. Stackpole's ''Ghost War'' (2002) and ending with Kevin Killiany's ''To Ride the Chimera'' (2008). The 2008 closure of WizKids delayed the release of further novels. Steven Mohan Jr's. ''A Bonfire of Worlds'' (2010) was initially advertised with an electronic cover showing a ''Batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Dungeons & Dragons Game Designers
A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette (from french ''oublier'' meaning to ''forget'') or bottle dungeon is a basement room which is accessible only from a hatch or hole (an ''angstloch'') in a high ceiling. Victims in oubliettes were often left to starve and dehydrate to death, making the practice akin to—and some say an actual variety of—immurement. Etymology The word ''dungeon'' comes from French ''donjon'' (also spelled ''dongeon''), which means "keep", the main tower of a castle. The first recorded instance of the word in English was near the beginning of the 14th century when it held the same meaning as ''donjon''. The proper original meaning of "keep" is still in use for academics, although in popular culture it has been largely misused and come to mean a cell or "oubliet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Novelists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Destiny Map
''The Destiny Map'' is an adventure published by West End Games (WEG) in 1990 for the cross-genre role-playing game ''Torg''. Description The Storm Knights (player characters) in the United States (now a part of the primitive pseudo-reality of Baruk Kaah) discover a fragment of an ancient map that may lead to weapons the Storm Knights can use against the invading aliens. The Storm Knights must follow clues across the world to uncover more fragments of the map before their enemies can. The original WEG publication also included a gamemaster's screen. Publication history WEG published the ''Torg'' role-playing game in 1990, and quickly followed up with a series of supplements and adventures, including ''The Destiny Map'', a 64-page book written by Christopher Kubasik, with interior art by Thomas Baxa, and cover art by David Dorman. A cardstock gamemaster's screen was also included. ''The Destiny Map'' was the first part of the ''Relics of Power'' trilogy, and was followed by '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Living Land
''The Living Land'' is a cross-genre tabletop role-playing game, tabletop role-playing supplement, written by Christopher Kubasik, with cover art by Daniel Horne and interior illustrations by Jeff Menges, and published by West End Games in 1990. The first sourcebook published for ''Torg'', detailing the mist-filled jungle and its primitive dinosaur people that had invaded two areas of North America. It received mixed reviews in game periodicals including ''Games International'', ''White Wolf (magazine), White Wolf'', and ''Dragon (magazine), Dragon''. A rewritten version was published in 2018 by Ulisses Spiele for ''Torg Eternity''. Contents In 1990, West End Games released ''Torg'', a game in which aliens had overlaid a psychic landscape on various areas of the Earth, forcing reality to change to their whims. ''The Living Land'', published the same year, was the first supplement, and describes the prehistoric realm that the alien overlord Baruk Kaah has laid over the reality of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
