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List Of Role-playing Game Artists
This is a list of notable role-playing game artists, past and present. The people in this list created artwork for one or more notable, published role-playing game book, miniature, or other product. A * Jason Banditt Adams - ''Desolation RPG'' by Greymalkin Designs, Mongoose Publishing's series such as '' Traveller'', ''CONAN'', ''Elric'' and others, as well as HERO Games titles * Attila Adorjany - his work has appeared in comics, video games, film, TV, and roleplaying games including products by White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games, and Steve Jackson Games * Dave Allsop - his art appears in games for Wizards of the Coast and his own creation SLA Industries for Nightfall Games *Glen Angus * Samuel Araya - his published cover art includes '' Unknown Armies 2nd Ed.'' (Atlas Games), ''Weapons of the Gods'' (Eos Press), '' Tibet: The Roleplaying Game'' (Vajra Enterprises), along with various White Wolf / World of Darkness titles and '' All Flesh Must Be Eate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal role-playing game system, system of rules and guidelines. There are several forms of role-playing games. The original form, sometimes called the tabletop role-playing game (TRPG), is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing game, live action role-playing (LARP), players physically perform their characters' actions.(Tychsen et al. 2006:255) "LARPs can be viewed as forming a distinct category of RPG because of two unique features: (a) The players physically embody their characters, and (b) the game takes place in a physica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vajra Enterprises
Vajra Enterprises, founded in 2001, is a publishing company which produces tabletop role-playing games. Vajra's games have a reputation for taking the conventions of more traditional genres and turning them around, into something familiar yet different. For example, at the beginning of ''Fates Worse than Death'', there is a page-long list of features differentiating it from traditional cyberpunk. Vajra strives to create very specific and detailed game settings, as opposed to many other companies which strive to create generic settings with wide appeal. Game System All Vajra Enterprises releases are based on the Organic Rule Components system, also known as ORC. The publisher offers free licenses to use the ORC system on approval of the subject matter by Vajra Enterprises. The ORC game mechanics have been criticized by reviewers as being too "crunchy". When used in a game system review, the term "crunchy" indicates relatively complex and number-driven game mechanics. Game prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Bocchio
Carlo Bocchio, also known as JackOilRain (born March 25, 1974), is an Italian illustrator and comic book artist ( Heavy Metal). His style was strongly influenced by Simon Bisley, Justin Sweet, and by costume designer Bob Ringwood. His paintings have been published in the World of Warcraft role-playing game and on collectible card games such as A Game of Thrones, Call of Cthulhu, Runebound (Fantasy Flight Games), Wizards of the Coast's '' Dungeons & Dragons'' (including interior art on '' Drow of the Underdark'' Schwalb, Robert J., Ari Marmell, Anthony Pryor Anthony Pryor is the author and co-author of several roleplaying game products. Career Anthony Pryor has worked as a game designer for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. His professional RPG credits include the 1992 Greyhawk setting modules '' Patriots ..., and Greg A. Vaughan. '' Drow of the Underdark'' ( Wizards of the Coast, 2007)) and Nephandum/Creatures of terror, Empyrea (Asterion Press for role-playing games), and now w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Beauvais
Denis ("Den") Beauvais (born 1962) is a Canadian artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games. He was born and raised in Ottawa.Saxberg, Lynn (April 4, 1990). "Dragons and demons make Aylmer artist famous", ''Ottawa Citizen'', p. E3. Career Den Beauvais spent one year studying in the art program at the High School of Commerce, but is otherwise self-taught. Beauvais has done cover art on books, magazines, and game boxes. He won the Eagle Award in 1989 for Favourite Comic Book Cover for ''Aliens'', and was nominated for the Chesley Award for Best Paper Back/Hard Cover Artist in 1992 and 1994. He has also done work for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, including doing 13 covers for ''Dragon'' beginning in 1983. His ''Dungeons & Dragons'' covers include ''Temple of the Frog'', and '' Van Richten's Guide to Vampires''. He also licensed work to Dark Horse Comics, and worked on the ''Predator'' comics. Although Beauvais spent much of the 2000s in the US, he now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baxa
Thomas M. Baxa is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games. Biography Tom Baxa grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He enrolled at Northern Illinois University, where he studied under comic and fantasy artist Mark Nelson. Works Tom Baxa has continued to produce interior illustrations for many ''Dungeons & Dragons'' books and ''Dragon'' magazine since 1989, as well as cover art for ''Realmspace'' (1991), ''Greyspace'' (1992), ''Swamplight'' (1993), and ''Forest Maker''. He has also produced artwork for many other games including ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness'' (Palladium Books), ''Torg'' (West End Games), ''GURPS'' (Steve Jackson Games), ''Shadowrun'' and ''Earthdawn'' (FASA Corporation), and illustrated cards for the ''Magic: The Gathering ''Magic: The Gathering'' (colloquially known as ''Magic'' or ''MTG'') is a Tabletop game, tabletop and Digital collectible card game, digital Collectible card game, collectable card game created by Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Barr (artist)
George Edward Barr (born January 30, 1937) is an American science fiction and fantasy artist. Career Barr's work shows influences from Arthur Rackham, Hannes Bok and Virgil Finlay. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' describes him as one of the least appreciated SF/fantasy artists. His work is often romantic and whimsical. His technique involves overlaying pen and ink line work with pastel watercolors. Barr began his art career in 1960 by contributing artwork to various high-profile science fiction fanzines in fandom and for many years displaying and selling his artwork in the art shows of both regional science fiction conventions and at the annual World Science Fiction Convention. A collection of his professional fantasy and science fiction paintings, '' Upon the Winds of Yesterday and Other Explorations'', was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1976. The volume debuted at MidAmeriCon, the 34th World Science Fiction Convention, where Barr was the convention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exalted
''Exalted'' is a high fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Publishing in July 2001. The game is currently in its third edition. It was originally created by Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli and Stephan Wieck, and was inspired by world mythologies and anime. Influences The setting is strongly influenced by Tanith Lee's ''Tales from the Flat Earth'', Michael Moorcock's '' Hawkmoon'', Lord Dunsany's ''The Gods of Pegana'' and Yoshiaki Kawajiri's ''Ninja Scroll''. Other influences include Glen Cook's ''The Black Company''; Sean Stewart's '' Resurrection Man'', ''The Night Watch'', and ''Galveston''; Homer's ''Odyssey'', the Bible, and Wu Cheng'en's ''Journey to the West''. System The game uses ten-sided dice and a variation of the Storyteller System to arbitrate the action, and, as with many other RPGs, requires little beyond the rulebooks themselves, dice, pencil, and paper. The ''Exalted'' version of the rules were derived from the trilogy of White ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghislain Barbe
Ghislain Barbe is a Canadian illustrator and artist. He is best known for designing the visual aspects of the Heavy Gear science fiction franchise in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was also responsible for the overall graphics of publisher Dream Pod 9's role-playing game lines ''Jovian Chronicles'' and ''Tribe 8'', along with some other works, for which he illustrated nearly a hundred books. He also created the visuals for the characters of PBS's educational cartoon TV series ''Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat'' and collaborated to several other shows such as CinéGroupe's '' Lion of oz and the badge of courage'' and '' Pig City.'' In the videogames industry, apart from art directing console games (''Teen Titans'', '' Monster House'', ''Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings''), he designed some of the newer characters of the Carmen Sandiego ''Carmen Sandiego'' (sometimes referred to as ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?'') is a media franchise based on a series of computer g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stormbringer (role-playing Game)
''Stormbringer'' is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game published under license by Chaosium. Based on the Elric of Melniboné books by Michael Moorcock, the game takes its name from Elric's sword, Stormbringer (though one edition was published as ''Elric!''). The rules are based on Chaosium's percentile-dice-based ''Basic Role-Playing'' system. System The game uses a variant of Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying, with its own rules for magic and other setting-specific elements. The first three editions are functionally similar, while the fourth edition changed the magic system extensively. ''Elric!'' was a substantial reworking of the game, and ''Stormbringer'' fifth edition consists of the ''Elric!'' rules with additional material from several older, out-of-print supplements incorporated. History Chaosium had already published a boardgame based on Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné series, called '' Elric'' in 1977. There have been several editions of the tabletop role-playing game: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuneQuest
''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson (game designer), Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. It was first published in 1978 by Chaosium, The Chaosium. Beginning in 1984, publication passed between a number of companies, including Avalon Hill, Mongoose Publishing, and The Design Mechanism, before finally returning to Chaosium in 2016. ''RuneQuest'' is notable for its system, designed around percentile dice and an early implementation of skill (role-playing games), skill rules, which became the basis for numerous other games. There have been several editions of the game. History In 1975, game designer Greg Stafford released the fantasy board game ''White Bear and Red Moon'' (later renamed ''Dragon Pass''), produced and marketed by Chaosium, The Chaosium, a publishing company set up by Stafford specifically for the release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
