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Gary L. Thomas (game Designer)
Gary L. Thomas is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Gary Thomas and Joe D. Fugate Sr. started Digest Group Publications (DGP) together in 1986 as a business that they ran part-time while working as editors at other jobs. Fugate published articles in their magazine ''The Traveller's Digest'' which got the attention of Marc Miller at Game Designers' Workshop, who started a long-lasting working relationship between GDW and DGP by requesting Fugate and Thomas expand and revise the material in those articles, which GDW then published as the last of the small black rulebooks for ''Traveller'', '' Book 8: Robots'' (1986). Thomas wrote the first published '' MegaTraveller'' scenario, "Lion at Bay", which first appeared in ''The Traveller's Digest'' #9. Thomas later worked on material for TSR, the last of which was published in 1989-1991. His ''D&D'' design work includes '' The Book of Lairs II'' (1987), ''Monstrous Compendium The ''Monstrous Com ... [...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] |
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] |
The Shadow Elves
''The Shadow Elves'' is an accessory for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Contents ''The Shadow Elves'' gazetteer which describes the underground region where the shadow elves live. Publication history GAZ13 ''The Shadow Elves'' was written by Carl Sargent and Gary Thomas, with a cover by Clyde Caldwell, and was published by TSR in 1990 as a 64-page booklet and a 32-page booklet, with a large color map and an outer folder. Later printings merged the two Guides into one 96-page booklet; although they did not repaginate the new booklet. Reception Reviews *''GamesMaster International ''GamesMaster International'', or GMI, was a roleplaying game magazine in the UK published by Newsfield Publications starting in July 1990. It was subtitled the Independent Fantasy Gaming Monthly. The magazine featured the same editorial team as ...'' (Issue 4 - Nov 1990) References Dungeons & Dragons Gazetteers Mystara Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monstrous Compendium
The ''Monstrous Compendium'' is a series of accessories for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game released from 1989 to 1998. The title was then used for a series of 5th Edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements released on D&D Beyond. Volumes MC1 ''Monstrous Compendium, Volume One'' was published by TSR in 1989. It was written by the TSR staff, with a cover by Jeff Easley, and interior illustrations by Jim Holloway, and came boxed with 144 loose-leaf pages and eight color cardstock dividers (each with a color painting on it) in a three-ring binder. This supplement was the basic monster book containing all the adversaries needed for a typical campaign using 2nd edition ''AD&D'' rules. Each monster has a description and illustration on its own page, and each page is separate, allowing for easy removal and retention of alphabetical order when monsters created by the DM or monsters from later additions are added in. MC2 ''Monstrous Compendium, Volume Two' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book Of Lairs II
''The Book of Lairs'' is an accessory book for the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, first published by TSR in 1986. It contains an assortment of monster-themed mini-adventures. A second volume was published in 1987. TSR coded the accessories REF3 and REF4 respectively, as part of a series of similarly-coded accessories. Both volumes were received well by critics, with the second being seen more positively than the first. Publication history ''The Book of Lairs'' was first published for the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' game system by TSR in 1986 as a ninety-six page volume. Michael Breault and Jim Ward designed the original, which had a cover by Clyde Caldwell. ''The Book of Lairs II'' was published by TSR in 1987, also as a ninety-six page volume. The authors included David Cook, Jennell Jaquays, Anne Gray McCready, Bruce Nesmith, Jeff O'Hare, and Steve Perrin, and it featured a cover by Larry Elmore. Contents ''The Book of Lairs'' contains a series of one- a ... [...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] |
Robots
A robot is a machine—especially one Computer program, programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the robot control, control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to evoke Humanoid robot, human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics. Robots can be autonomous robot, autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's ''Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility'' (ASIMO) and TOSY's ''TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot'' (TOPIO) to industrial robots, robot-assisted surgery, medical operating robots, patient assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed Swarm robotics, ''swarm'' robots, UAV drones such as General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and even microscopic Nanorobotics, nano robots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
