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Chris Thomasson
Chris Thomasson is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Chris Thomasson was Paizo Publishing's editor for ''Dungeon'' magazine when he announced " The Shackled City Adventure Path" in 2003. His ''D&D'' design work includes the third edition ''Fiend Folio'' (2003), ''Monster Manual III'' (2004), '' Dungeon Master's Guide II'' (2005), ''Magic of Eberron'' (2005), ''Complete Psionic'' (2006), and ''Complete Champion ''Complete Champion'' is a supplement for the 3.5 edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Contents Somewhat of a sequel to ''Complete Divine'', the book is geared for characters who fight for a cause. Publication histor ...'' (2007). References External links * American game designers Dungeons & Dragons game designers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{Rpg-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeon Master's Guide II
The ''Dungeon Master's Guide II'' is a book of rules for the 3.5 edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' seminal fantasy role-playing game. Contents Like the ''Dungeon Master's Guide'', this book focuses on providing Dungeon Masters with assistance in running the game. It provides advice on aspects of running the game as well as complex pregenerated characters (often using Prestige Classes). Player types The ''Dungeon Master's Guide II'' introduces Dungeon Masters to various types of people who enjoy the ''D&D'' game, and it explains what they enjoy. Examples include: * Brilliant planner—A leader-type who is happiest when planning for the night's adventure * Cool guy—Player who likes to get cool powers and cool weapons * Lurker—Someone who is happiest when left to his own devices * Outlier—An oddball player who likes to see his character lose, seeing it as a victory more than a defeat * Psychodramatist—A player who likes exploring the background of his or her c ... [...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 Game Designers
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 * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complete Champion
''Complete Champion'' is a supplement for the 3.5 edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Contents Somewhat of a sequel to ''Complete Divine'', the book is geared for characters who fight for a cause. Publication history ''Complete Champion'' was written by Ed Stark, Chris Thomasson, Rhiannon Louve, Ari Marmell, and Gary Astleford, and was published in May 2007. Cover art was by Eric Polak, with interior art by Steve Argyle, Stephen Belledin, Miguel Coimbra, Thomas Denmark, Eric Deschamps, Wayne England, David Griffith, Fred Hooper, Ralph Horsley, Howard Lyon, Eva Widermann, and Sam Wood. Thomasson defined the use of "champion" in the title to mean a "champion of faith", rather than in the more general sense of the term: "All characters have the potential to be champions; this book is focused on the divine, specifically divine magic and the religions of D&D --the goal we had was to make those elements of the game more accessible to characters other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complete Psionic
''Complete Psionic'' is a supplemental rulebook for the 3.5 edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game published by Wizards of the Coast and released in April 2006. It is the first 3.5 edition supplemental rulebook published by Wizards of the Coast which focuses on psionics since the ''Expanded Psionics Handbook''. Contents It presents additional material relating to psionics, including three new classes and a variant of the psion, eight new prestige classes, a new psionic race and many feats and psionic powers. Complete Psionic also explores the concept of illithid heritage through new character options: nine illithid heritage feats and a prestige class, the Flayerspawn Psychic. The 160-page book was notable for using a recent formatting style adopted by Wizards of the Coast which generally involves an increase in page count for a given amount of information, by including more background information. For example, classes and prestige classes include additional i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Of Eberron
''Magic of Eberron'' is a supplement to the 3.5 edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. Contents ''Magic of Eberron'' is an accessory for the Eberron setting that exposes the magic and eldritch wonders of Eberron. In addition to presenting new arcane and divine spells, feats, prestige classes, and magic items, ''Magic of Eberron'' offers new options and infusions for artificers, explores dragon totem magic and the twisted experiments of the daelkyr, sheds light on the process of elemental binding, and touches on other types of magic present in the world. Publication history ''Magic of Eberron'' was written by Bruce R. Cordell, Stephen Schubert, and Chris Thomasson, and published in October 2005. Cover art was by Wayne Reynolds, with interior art by Anne Stokes, David Michael Beck, Draxhall Jump Entertainment, Eric Deschamps, Francis Tsai, Lucio Parrillo, Mark Tedin, Steve Prescott, and Tomas Giorello Tomas may refer to: People * Tomás (given name), a Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Manual III
''Monster Manual III'' is a manual published in September 2004 by Wizards of the Coast, for use with the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. It is the first of the monster specific books published by Wizards of the Coast to be made for the 3.5 edition of the game. It cites sources from ''Dragon'' magazine, ''Manual of the Planes'', the ''Planes of Law'' Campaign Expansion, and the first edition of ''Fiend Folio''. The book is notable for being published for use with the two main endorsed campaign settings of Forgotten Realms and Eberron with many creatures containing sections explaining where they might be found in the campaign setting. Contents The book contained more monsters and was originally published in the v3.5 format. It is notable for its descriptions of where the monsters might be found in the Eberron and Forgotten Realms campaign settings. Chris Perkins explained: "Almost all of the monsters in the ''Monster Manual III'' are new. We didn't want to give gamers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiend Folio
''Fiend Folio'' is the name of three separate products published for successive editions of the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). All three are collections of monsters. The bulk of the material in the first edition came from the British gaming magazine ''White Dwarf'', rather than being authored by Gary Gygax, the game's co-creator. Readers and gamers had submitted creatures to the "Fiend Factory" department of the magazine, and the most highly regarded of those appearing in the first thirteen issues were selected to be in the publication. Publication history ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' 1st edition Games Workshop, with Don Turnbull editing the project, originally intended to produce and publish the ''Fiend Folio'' tome () in late 1979. The ''Fiend Folio'' was intended to be the second volume of the ''Monster Manual'', and would be officially recognized by TSR as an ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' product, with the monsters mostly taken from su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shackled City Adventure Path
''The Shackled City Adventure Path'' (or simply ''Shackled City'') is a role-playing game Adventure Path designed for ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''), originally appearing as a series of modules in ''Dungeon'' magazine, and later collected in a hardcover edition collecting all previous installments plus an additional chapter written especially for the book release. Various elements of the game were revised for the collection; the setting was enlarged to better suit the needs of a typical high-level game. Campaign information Location ''Shackled City'' is primarily set in the city of Cauldron. Cauldron itself is nominally located in the ''World of Greyhawk'', although the series is designed to be easily adapted to other ''D&D'' campaign settings. ''Shackled Citys impact on Cauldron The Adventure Paths were widely lauded throughout the gaming industry, and the collected issues of ''Shackled City'', including extensive background and location notes on Cauldron and its res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
