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Dave Carson
Dave Carson (born 1955) is a Northern Ireland-born artist and novel illustrator. Career Carson has been presented with five British Fantasy Awards for Best Artist during more than twenty years of illustration. He is most famous for his illustrations in H. P. Lovecraft's novels, and his work for Games Workshop. His role-playing game artwork includes '' Call of Cthulhu'', '' Palladium Fantasy'', ''Nightbane'' and ''Beyond the Supernatural''. Carson provided illustrations for ''The Clock of Dreams'' (1978) and the Fighting Fantasy gamebook ''Beneath Nightmare Castle'' (1987). He contributed artwork to the H. P. Lovecraft anthology ''Shadows Over Innsmouth''.Sawicki, Steven (January 2002). "Shadows Over Innsmouth", ''Science Fiction Chronicle DNA Publications was an American publishing company that existed from 1993 to 2007 and was run by the husband-and-wife team of Warren Lapine and Angela Kessler. Initially based in Massachusetts, DNA Publications relocated to Radford, Virginia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are ''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''. Founded in 1975 by John Peake (game designer), John Peake, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (UK), Steve Jackson, Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris and Go (board game), Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right, expanding from a bedroom mail-order company in the process. It expanded into Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia in the early 1990s. All UK-based operations were relocated to the current headquarters in Lenton, Nottingham in 1997. It started promoting games associated with The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy in 2001. It al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Of Cthulhu (role-playing Game)
''Call of Cthulhu'' is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as ''CoC'', is published by Chaosium; it was first released in 1981 and is in its seventh edition, with licensed foreign language editions available as well. Its game system is based on Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing (BRP) with additions for the horror genre. These include special rules for sanity and luck. Gameplay Setting ''Call of Cthulhu'' is set in a darker version of our world based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation (from his essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature") that "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." The original edition, first published in 1981, uses Basic Role-Playing as its basis and is set in the 1920s, the setting of many of Lovecraft's stories. The ''Cthulhu by Gaslight'' supplement blends the occult and Holmesian my ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palladium Fantasy
The ''Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game'' (often shortened to ''Palladium Fantasy'' or ''PFRPG'') is a game produced by Palladium Books. It is set in the Palladium world (use of the unofficial name "Palladia" is discouraged by the publisher) some 10,000 years after a great war between the Elves in fantasy fiction and games, elves and Dwarf (Germanic mythology), dwarves. First published in July 1983 as ''The Palladium Role-Playing Game'', the ''Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game'' saw a second edition in April 1996. The two are largely compatible, though the second edition uses a later iteration of Megaversal system, Palladium's ruleset to be more compatible with the rest of their Megaverse. Setting Race Like many fantasy games, the ''Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game'' includes many different sentient Race (fantasy), races as playable characters. * Humans: the dominant race in the Palladium world, they seized control and spread after the elves diminished in their st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightbane
''Nightbane'' is a dark fantasy role-playing game and setting created by C. J. Carella and published by Palladium Books. Description The game was originally published as a 240-page softcover book in 1995, designed by Carlos J. Martijena-Carella with Kevin Siembieda. Interior art was by Vince Martin, Randy Post, Scott Johnson, and Roger Peterson, with cover art by Gerald Brom. Originally published under the title ''Nightspawn'', the game's name was changed to ''Nightbane'' after legal threats from the lawyers of Todd McFarlane, creator of the ''Spawn'' comic book. The world of ''Nightbane'' is a modern dark urban fantasy in which a secret cabal of supernatural beings from another dimension called the Nightlords and their shapeshifting minions have quietly seized control of the world's governments and corporate powers. The only beings standing in their way are the beings known as Nightbanes created by the players. The game uses Palladium's Megaversal system, which is also used b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Supernatural
''Beyond the Supernatural'' is a horror role-playing game published by Palladium Books. It has seen two editions released, both of which have introduced innovations to Palladium's standard mechanics. A versatile horror-themed game, it lends itself well to wildly different play styles and narrative tones, from schlock splatter-horror to intense psychological horror, with an entire spectrum of terror (humor, or action, etc.) in between. ''Beyond the Supernatural'' is implicitly set in the modern day, wherein magic and psychic powers are real and monsters and demonic cults exist, but out of the public eye. This, however, is not set in stone, and most of the character classes are flexible enough to account for variant settings or time periods. 1st edition The first edition of ''Beyond the Supernatural'', a 255-page book, was published September 1987 as a joint project between Randy McCall and Kevin Siembieda, the president and lead game designer of Palladium Books. In November 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
