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Dying Earth Roleplaying Game
''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'' is a tabletop role-playing game published by Pelgrane Press in 2001. Description ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'' is an adaptation of Jack Vance's ''Dying Earth'' novel series. The game situates players in Vance's world populated by desperately extravagant people. Publication history Pelgrane Press signed a contract with Robin Laws on 1 November 1999, and revealed on 20 January 2000 that Laws would be the core author of their upcoming roleplaying game based on the Jack Vance stories in the Dying Earth setting. Laws was the senior designer for ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'', and a sourcebook for the setting titled ''White-Walled Kaiin''. Phil Masters also contributed articles to ''The Excellent Prismatic Spray'', a magazine supporting ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'' by Pelgrane Press. After a number of releases in the ''Dying Earth'' line, by these authors and others, the license for the RPG was allowed to expire in 2009. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelgrane Press
Pelgrane Press Ltd is a British role-playing game publishing company based in London and founded in 1999. It is co-owned by Simon J Rogers and Cat Tobin. It currently produces GUMSHOE System RPGs, '' 13th Age'', the Diana Jones award-winning ''Hillfolk'' RPG, ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'', and other related products. It publishes fiction under the Stone Skin Press imprint. History Pelgrane Press was founded in 1999, and was initially owned by Simon Rogers, ProFantasy Software, and Sasha Bilton. It is co-owned by Simon J Rogers and Cat Tobin. GUMSHOE System The GUMSHOE System was designed by Robin D. Laws for running investigative, clue-finding games: * ''The Esoterrorists'' and '' Fear Itself'' by Robin D. Laws, based on the ''Book of Unremitting Horror'' by Adrian Bott and Dave Allsop * '' Trail of Cthulhu'' by Kenneth Hite * ''Mutant City Blues'', a near-future gritty police procedural Superhero setting by Robin Laws * '' Ashen Stars'', a darkly rebooted investigativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GUMSHOE System
The Gumshoe System (stylised as ''The GUMSHOE System'') is a role-playing game system created in 2007 by Robin Laws, designed for running investigative scenarios. The premise is that investigative games are not about finding clues, they are about interpreting the clues that are found. The ''Gumshoe System'' is used in various games published by Pelgrane Press. As a result of the Hillfolk kickstarter, the SRD for the ''Gumshoe System'' has been made available for use under two open licenses: the Open Game License (OGL) and Creative Commons Attribution. Of the games in the line, '' Trail of Cthulhu'' won the 2010 Lucca Games award for best role-playing game and '' Ashen Stars'' was a 2011 nominee for the Origins Award for best RPG. Concept The ''Gumshoe System'' is designed around the idea that investigative scenarios are difficult to run with most role-playing systems. The problem is identified as important clues being missed due to failed dice-rolls, resulting in play grinding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Laws Games
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Fantasy Role-playing Games
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British Role-playing Games
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Games Unplugged
''Games Unplugged'' was an American magazine dedicated to the adventure tabletop gaming industry. The bimonthly magazine, headquartered in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, ran for 34 issues, from June 2000 until May 2004. The company also had a website, GamesUnplugged.com, which is now defunct. Content It featured news, products, designers and their companies, and upcoming releases of non-electronic role-playing games, card games, board games, and miniature wargames. The magazine is most notable for running as a regular feature the most recent appearance of Larry Elmore's popular comic strip SnarfQuest. The magazine also featured writing by Margaret Weis on occasion. Publication history After running Archangel Entertainment, Ken Whitman next worked with Dynasty Presentations, in particular the new magazine ''Games Unplugged''. Timothy Brown, James Ward, Lester W. Smith, John Danovich, and Sean Everette founded the d20 company Fast Forward Entertainment Fast or FAST may refer to: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warpstone
''Warpstone'' was an independent magazine that covered the topic of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. The magazine was in circulation from 1996 to 2014. The name was derived from warpstone, a fictional mutagen in the ''Warhammer'' fictional universe and also in the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe during the first and second editions. ''Warhammer'' materials described warpstone as solidified dark magic with transmutatory and alchemical powers. History ''Warpstone'' was an unofficial ''Warhammer'' magazine. Launched in 1996 by John Foody and John Keane, it featured reviews of official products, interviews, comment pieces, and fan-written material. Some ''Warpstone'' articles have been collected into the book ''Corrupting Influence - The Best of Warpstone: Volume 1'' published by Hogshead Publishing Hogshead Publishing was a British game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. History In October 1994, James Wallis founded Hogshead Publishing, a company which specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alarums & Excursions
''Alarums and Excursions'' (''A&E'') is an amateur press association (APA) started in June 1975 by Lee Gold; publication continues to the present day. It was one of the first publications to focus solely on role-playing games. History In 1964, Bruce Pelz of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society (LASFS) began a monthly amateur press association known as ''APA-L''. In 1974, with the publication of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' by TSR, Inc., articles and comments about the new roleplaying game began to fill the pages of ''APA-L''. Pelz felt the discussion was taking up too much space, and he asked Lee Gold to start a new APA that would take this material and focus entirely on roleplaying games. The first issue of ''Alarums and Excursions'' appeared in June 1975, the title taken from an Elizabethan drama stage direction that moved soldiers across a stage. In addition to removing roleplaying games discussion out of ''APA-L'', the initial aim of the publication was to prevent roleplaying ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Gate (magazine)
''Black Gate'' is a fantasy magazine published by New Epoch Press. It was published in glossy print until 2011, after which it shifted online. History First launched in October 2000 using the slogan "Adventures in Fantasy Literature," ''Black Gate'' primarily features original short fiction up to novella length. It also features reviews of fantasy novels, graphic novels, and role playing game products. This is supplemented by columns and articles reflecting on fantasy literature's past as well as the occasional interview. Every print issue contained the comic ''Knights of the Dinner Table: Java Joint'' by Kenzer & Company of Knights of the Dinner Table fame. Much of the fiction is by lesser known or new authors, but noted contributors have included Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Charles de Lint and Cory Doctorow. As a semi-regular feature, ''Black Gate'' reprinted rare adventure stories from earlier decades or work from more recent years that the editors feel has been neglecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaean Reach
The Gaean Reach is a fictional region in space that is a setting for some science fiction by Jack Vance. All of his series and standalone works that are set in a universe evidently including the Gaean Reach, perhaps set inside it or outside it, have been catalogued as the Gaean Reach series or super-series. The Gaean Reach includes all worlds colonized by humans, among which trade and travel flow freely for the most part. Its name apparently means "the range (''reach'') of he people fromEarth ( ''Gaea'')"; it could also be derived from Old English 'rice' (pronounced reech-e), meaning 'realm' (cf. German ''Reich''). Some of these worlds are advanced and cosmopolitan, such as Alphanor; others, like Thamber, are inhabited by shipwrecked and forgotten people, who have reverted to feudalism. Some, like the world of Wyst in the Alastor Cluster, are undeniably strange in their culture and customs. The period of the Gaean Reach spans several centuries, if not millennia, at an indetermi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Staples
Greg Staples (born 27 May 1970 in Sheffield) is an English comic book artist. Biography Greg Staples' first job on leaving school was as a trainee draftsman in an architects office in Sheffield. He also spent time working in a comic and film memorabilia shop and also a computer game store, both also in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Greg spent some time working for the Computer Games Company Gremlin Graphics. Staples has also worked on video production for music videos for artists such as Muse (Sing For Absolution) and Shaznay Lewis (You). Staples is known for his work in the weekly British comic '' 2000 AD'', especially on ''Judge Dredd''. He has also produced work for the games company Wizards of the Coast and drawn numerous comic book characters including Batman and Spider-Man. Staples has illustrated cards for the collectible card game ''Magic: The Gathering'', and digital collectible card game '' Hearthstone''. Staples did the cover art for ''Dungeons & Dragons'' books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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