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Constantinople By Night
''Constantinople by Night'' is a supplement published by White Wolf Publishing in 1996 for the medieval horror role-playing game '' Vampire: The Dark Ages'', a spin-off of '' Vampire: The Masquerade''. Contents In 1996, White Wolf Publishing released ''Vampire: The Dark Ages'', which took their popular horror roleplaying game ''Vampire: The Masquerade'' and reset it in medieval Europe in the year 1197. The same year, White Wolf released the first supplement for ''Vampire: The Dark Ages'' titled ''Constantinople by Night'', a 128-page softcover book designed by Philippe Boulle, Joshua Mosqueria-Asheim, and Lucien Soulban, with illustrations by Michael Gaydos, Eric Lacombe, Chuck Regan, Andrew Ritchie, and Andrew Trabbold, and cover art by William O'Connor and Matt Milberger. The book provides details of medieval Constantinople, including history, geography, and notable persons. In addition to actual history, the book mixes in the fictional history of the Trinity of the Undea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Mosqueria-Asheim
Josh Mosqueira-Asheim is a game designer of both tabletop games and video games, and was game director during the creation of '' Diablo III'' at Blizzard Entertainment. Early life Josh Mosqueira, of Canadian-Mexican descent, played tabletop games '' Dungeons & Dragons'' and '' Warhammer 40,000'' while growing up in Canada. While attending university, he also served in the Canadian Armed Forces as a member of the Black Watch Regiment. Tabletop games In 1996, while still serving in the military and finishing university, Mosqueira became a writer for White Wolf Publishing, co-authoring two books for the '' Vampire: The Masquerade'' horror role-playing game, ''Constantinople by Night ''Constantinople by Night'' is a supplement published by White Wolf Publishing in 1996 for the medieval horror role-playing game '' Vampire: The Dark Ages'', a spin-off of '' Vampire: The Masquerade''. Contents In 1996, White Wolf Publishing re ...'' and ''Montreal by Night''. He also co-authored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ("the Great City"), Πόλις ("the City"), Kostantiniyye or Konstantinopolis ( Turkish) , image = Byzantine Constantinople-en.png , alt = , caption = Map of Constantinople in the Byzantine period, corresponding to the modern-day Fatih district of Istanbul , map_type = Istanbul#Turkey Marmara#Turkey , map_alt = A map of Byzantine Istanbul. , map_size = 275 , map_caption = Constantinople was founded on the former site of the Greek colony of Byzantion, which today is known as Istanbul in Turkey. , coordinates = , location = Fatih, İstanbul, Turkey , region = Marmara Region , type = Imperial city , part_of = , length = , width ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Game Books
Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses: * To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting; * To refer to taking a role of a character or person and acting it out with a partner taking someone else's role, often involving different genres of practice; * To refer to a wide range of games including role-playing video game (RPG), play-by-mail games and more; * To refer specifically to role-playing games. Amusement Many children participate in a form of role-playing known as make believe, wherein they adopt certain roles such as doctor and act out those roles in character. Sometimes make believe adopts an oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valkyrie (magazine)
''Valkyrie'' is a UK role-playing magazine that was published between 1994 and 2003. Publication history The magazine was started in 1994. Angus Abranson was one of the people involved in the creation of ''Valkyrie'', and continued to report news for the magazine while he was working at Leisure Games. It was published by Partisan Press and edited originally by David "Stig" Renton (original editor of ''Role Player Independent'') and then taken over by Jay Forster. Renton held the post from 1994 to 1998 and Forster from 1999 to 2003. Some claimed that it was the successor to ''White Dwarf'' amongst the UK role-playing community, with numerous contributors from across the hobby, including Phil Masters Phil Masters is a British role-playing game designer and author. Career Phil Masters' writing credits in role-playing games go back to ''White Dwarf'' Magazine #20 and the ''Fiend Folio'' of ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''. Masters wrote about h ... and Marcus Rowland. The magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSR, Inc
TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). Its earliest incarnation, Tactical Studies Rules, was founded in October 1973 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Gygax had been unable to find a publisher for ''D&D'', a new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, so founded the new company with Kaye to self-publish their products. Needing financing to bring their new game to market, Gygax and Kaye brought in Brian Blume in December as an equal partner. ''Dungeons & Dragons'' is generally considered the first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), and established the genre. When Kaye died suddenly in 1975, the Tactical Studies Rules partnership restructured into TSR Hobbies, Inc. and accepted investment from Blume's father Melvin. With the popular ''D&D'' as its main product, TSR Hobbies became a major force in the games industry by the late 1970s. Melvin Blume eventually transferred his shares to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Swan
Rick Swan is a game designer and author who worked for TSR. His work for TSR, mostly for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, appeared from 1989 to 1995. Swan also wrote ''The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games'' (1990), published by St. Martin's Press. He was a regular columnist for InQuest Gamer. Publications *"Monstrous Compendium: Dragonlance Appendix", 1989 *"Monstrous Compendium: Kara-Tur Appendix", 1990 *" The Complete Wizard's Handbook", 1990 *"Marvel Super Heroes The Uncanny X-MEN Adventure Book", 1990 *"The Complete Ranger's Handbook", 1993 *"The Complete Paladin's Handbook", 1994 *"The Complete Barbarian's Handbook", 1995 *" The Complete Book of Villains", 1994 *"In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil", 1995 (with Wolfgang Baur) *"The Great Glacier", 1992 *"Nightmare Keep (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons/Forgotten Realms module FA2)", 1990 *" Dragon Magic", 1989 *"The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games", 1990 *"The Heart of the Enemy", 1992 *"Ronin Challenge (Advanced Dungeons and Dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon (magazine)
''Dragon'' is one of the two official magazines for source material for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products, along with ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon''. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, ''The Strategic Review''. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched ''Dragon'' as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The last published issue was No. 430 in December 2013. A digital publication called ''Dragon+'', which replaces the ''Dragon'' magazine, launched in 2015. It is created by Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and its numbering system for issues started at No. 1. History TSR In 1975, TSR, Inc. began publishing ''The Strategic Review''. At the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Plc
Future plc is an international multimedia company established in the United Kingdom in 1985. The company has over 220 brands that span magazines, newsletters, websites, and events in fields such as video games, technology, films, music, photography, home, and knowledge. Zillah Byng-Thorne has been CEO since 2014. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1985–2012 The company was founded as Future Publishing in Somerton, Somerset, England, in 1985 by Chris Anderson with the sole magazine ''Amstrad Action''. An early innovation was the inclusion of free software on magazine covers; they were the first company to do so. It acquired GP Publications so establishing Future US in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, the company published ''Arcane'', a magazine which largely focused on tabletop games. Anderson sold Future to Pearson plc for £52.7m in 1994, but bought it back in 1998, with Future chief executive Greg Ingham and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Masquerade
Masquerade or Masquerader may refer to: Events * Masquerade ball, a costumed dance event * Masquerade ceremony, a rite or cultural event in many parts of the world, especially the Caribbean and Africa * Masqueraders, the performers in the West Country Carnival Books * ''The Masquerader'' (novel), a 1904 novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston * '' The Masqueraders'', a 1928 novel by Georgette Heyer * ''Masquerade'' (book), a 1979 children's book by Kit Williams that sparked a worldwide treasure hunt * ''Masquerades'' (novel), a 1995 Forgotten Realms novel by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb * '' Maskerade'', a 1995 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett * ''Masquerade'', a 2007 '' Blue Bloods'' novel by Melissa de la Cruz Theatre * ''The Masquerade'' (play), a 1719 play by Charles Johnson * ''Mascarade'', a 1724 comedy play by Ludvig Holberg * ''Masquerade'' (play), an 1835 Russian play by Mikhail Lermontov * ''The Masqueraders'', an 1894 English play by Henry Arthur Jones * ''The Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Soulban
Lucien Moussa Shukri Soulban is a Saudi Arabian game designer and writer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Personal life Lucien Soulban was born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived for 12 years before attending school in Texas. He later moved to Montreal. Career Lucien Soulban wrote game material for White Wolf, Dream Pod 9, and other companies before being hired by Guardians of Order in 2000, and began work on '' Heaven & Earth'' (2001). Soulban also developed Guardians of Order's superhero role-playing game ''Silver Age Sentinels'' (2002). He subsequently went to White Wolf Games where he wrote the ''Orpheus'' role playing game and a tie-in novel for '' Vampire: The Requiem''. Soulban was a guest at Otakuthon in 2007, and 2008. His ''D&D'' work includes the game supplement ''Children of the Night: The Created'' (1999), and Dragonlance novels such as ''The Alien Sea'' (2006) and ''Renegade Wizards'' (2009). He has written the script for the games: '' Tom Clancy's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Darkness
''World of Darkness'' is a series of tabletop role-playing games, originally created by Mark Rein-Hagen for White Wolf Publishing. It began as an annual line of five games in 1991–1995, with '' Vampire: The Masquerade'', '' Werewolf: The Apocalypse'', ''Mage: The Ascension'', '' Wraith: The Oblivion'', and '' Changeling: The Dreaming'', along with off-shoots based on these. The series ended in 2004, and the reboot ''Chronicles of Darkness'' was launched the same year with a new line of games. In 2011, the original series was brought back, and the two have since been published concurrently. The games in the series have a shared setting, also named the World of Darkness, which is a dark, gothic-punk interpretation of the real world, where supernatural beings such as vampires and werewolves exist in secrecy. The original series' setting has a large focus on lore and overarching narrative, whereas ''Chronicles of Darkness'' setting has no such narrative and presents the details of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
