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Indiana Jones And The Rising Sun
''Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun'' is a supplement published by West End Games (WEG) in 1994 for the action-adventure role-playing game ''The World of Indiana Jones'', itself based on the ''Indiana Jones'' movie franchise. Description ''Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun'' provides information about using Japan in the 1930s as a setting. Content includes an overview of Japan at that time, the military, society and culture, martial arts, and equipment that would be found in Japan at that time. There is also a chapter titled "Unearthly Nippon" that outlines various Japanese supernatural phenomena and creatures. New role-playing material includes several new player character types such as local guide, spy, and street kid. The book includes a complete adventure, "Indiana Jones and the Masamune Blade": The player characters must trace the whereabouts of an archaeology professor, who has gone missing during an expedition to Japan to search for a rare artifact. A pair of cardstock gamem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Of Indiana Jones And Trhe Rising Sun
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Tank Girl
''Tank Girl'' is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine ''Deadline''. After a period of intense popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tank Girl inspired a 1995 feature film. After a long hiatus, the character returned to comics in 2007 and has appeared regularly in the years since. Originally written by Martin and drawn by Hewlett, the character has also been drawn by Philip Bond, Glyn Dillon, Ashley Wood, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Jim Mahfood, Brett Parson, Jonathan Edwards, Craig Knowles, Rufus Dayglo, Andy Pritchett, and Mike McMahon. Tank Girl (Rebecca Buck – later revealed to have been born as Fonzie Rebecca Buckler) drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw for her sexual inclinations and her substance abuse. The comic centres on her misa ... [...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] |
Greg Farshtey
Gregory Todd Farshtey (born July 14, 1965) is an American writer, best known for his work on the Bionicle series of novels (2003–2010), the Bionicle comics (2001–2010), and the Ninjago graphic novel series. Literary career Gregory Todd Farshtey was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and subsequently grew up in nearby Monroe, New York and Stamford, Connecticut. In high school, Farshtey began writing seriously, where he wrote and edited a weekly satirical newsletter, Lunatic News and World Report. After graduating with a B.A. in communications from the State University of New York at Geneseo, he worked as a reporter and sports editor before securing an editorial position with West End Games. Over the next seven years, he authored or co-authored over 35 roleplaying game books and helped to create the '' Shatterzone'' and ''Bloodshadows'' roleplaying game universes. He also authored a handful of short stories: the anthologies ''Dragons Over England'' (1992), ''Strange Tales fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pulver
David L. Pulver (born 2 November 1965 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian freelance writer and game designer, author of more than fifty role-playing game rulebooks and supplements, including the award-winning ''Transhuman Space''. Early life and education Pulver has a History BA from Queen's University. Role-playing game designs In a 2010 interview, Pulver stated that although he has been doing work for Steve Jackson Games (SJG) "ever since I became a freelance writer," he also worked for TSR, Game Designer's Workshop, West End Games, Iron Crown Enterprises, and White Wolf Publishing, before his significant contribution to the Guardians of Order catalogue. He is a fan of anime and manga.DiceCast Special Holiday Interview Episod(by Polymancer Studios). Podcast, includes interview with David Pulver In 1989 Pulver designed the first version of '' GURPS Ultra-Tech'', an equipment guide that could be used with many different (science fiction) worlds. Pulver contributed adventures t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game
''The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game'' is a licensed pulp style action-adventure role-playing game published by TSR in 1984 that is based on the ''Indiana Jones'' movie franchise. Publication history In 1984, TSR gained the license to make a role-playing game based on ''Indiana Jones''. It was released as a boxed set designed by John Byrne and David "Zeb" Cook, with artwork by Robert Amsel, Larry Elmore, Dennis Kauth, and Dave "Diesel" LaForce. A set of pewter miniatures was also marketed in 1984 for use with the game, which the players could choose to use instead of the cardboard cutouts that were provided with each book. Although a number of adventures and supplements were published in 1984 and 1985, the game did not sell well. The company eventually allowed the license to expire, and publication stopped. All unsold copies of the game were destroyed at that time. (Employees at the UK office of TSR Hobbies mounted a portion of the burnt remains of the las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSR (company)
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] |
The World Of Aden
''The World of Aden'' is a 1995 role-playing game supplement published by West End Games for ''MasterBook''. Contents ''The World of Aden'' is a setting designed for use with West End Games' Masterbook and D6 systems, and is based on a background developed by SSI and used in two PC games, '' Thunderscape'' and '' Entomorph''. Shane Lacy Hensley wrote the world book, which was later converted into a tabletop roleplaying game by West End Games. When SSI sold off its assets, the World of Aden was not included. Shane Hensley received an official transfer of the intellectual property from the former president of SSI, and eventually sold it to Kyoudai Games, who publishes the current version of the tabletop RPG (as of February 2022). Publication history Shannon Appelcline commented that " ''The World of Bloodshadows'' (1994), a noir fantasy, was West End's only original setting for ''MasterBook''; everything else was licensed. ''The World of Indiana Jones ''The'' () is a grammatic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From The Crypt (comics)
''Tales from the Crypt'' was an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955, producing 27 issues (the first issue with the title was #20, previously having been ''International Comics'' (#1–#5); ''International Crime Patrol'' (#6); ''Crime Patrol'' (#7–#16) and ''The Crypt of Terror'' (#17–#19) for a total of 46 issues in the series). Along with its sister titles, ''The Haunt of Fear'' and '' The Vault of Horror'', ''Tales from the Crypt'' was popular, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s comic books came under attack from parents, clergymen, schoolteachers and others who believed the books contributed to illiteracy and juvenile delinquency. In April and June 1954, highly publicized congressional subcommittee hearings on the effects of comic books upon children left the industry shaken. With the subsequent imposition of a highly restrictive Comics Code, EC Comics publisher Bill Gaines cancelled ''Tales from the Crypt'' and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Games
West End Games (WEG) was a company that made Board game, board, Role-playing game, role-playing, and wargaming, war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product lines included ''Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Star Wars'', ''Paranoia (game), Paranoia'', ''Torg'', ''DC Universe Roleplaying Game, DC Universe'', and ''Junta (game), Junta''. History Scott Palter received a Juris Doctor, JD from Stanford University, Stanford in 1972 and joined the New York State Bar Association, New York State Bar before he began work at the family firm, Bucci Imports. Drawing on this financial connection, Palter was able to found West End Games, named after the bar in which the meeting that finalized its founding occurred: the West End Bar near Columbia University. Initially a producer of board wargames, In 1983, Palter hired Ken Rolston, Eric Goldberg (game designer), Eric Goldberg and Greg Costikyan as game design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species (film)
''Species'' is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman. It stars Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, and Natasha Henstridge in her film debut role. The film's plot concerns a motley crew of scientists and government agents who try to track down Sil (Henstridge), a seductive extraterrestrial-human hybrid, before she successfully mates with a human male. The film was conceived by Feldman in 1987, and was originally pitched as a film treatment in the style of a police procedural, entitled ''The Message''. When ''The Message'' failed to attract the studios, Feldman re-wrote it as a spec script, which ultimately led to the making of the film. The extraterrestrial aspect of Sil's character was created by H. R. Giger, who was also responsible for the beings from the ''Alien'' franchise. The effects combined practical models designed by Giger collaborator Steve Johnson and XFX, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
