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Lynn Willis
Lynn Willis (died January 18, 2013) was a wargame and role-playing game designer, best known for his work with Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), and Chaosium. Biography Willis began by designing science fiction wargames for Metagaming Concepts, starting with ''Godsfire'' in 1976. He designed the MicroGames ''Olympica'' (1978) and ''Holy War'' (1979). Chaosium published '' Lords of the Middle Sea'' (1978), and Willis joined Chaosium in 1978. GDW published '' Bloodtree Rebellion'' (1979). Willis's relationship with Chaosium proved the most enduring; he would turn to role-playing games. He helped founder Greg Stafford trim and refine the ''RuneQuest'' rules into ''Basic Role-Playing'', the rules that would serve as the base for many of Chaosium's RPG lines. He wrote the '' Call of Cthulhu'' campaign ''The Masks of Nyarlathotep'' (1984) with Larry DiTillio. He was included in the design credits for '' Worlds of Wonder'' (1982) and the ''Ringworld'' RPG (1984). With ...
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Masks Of Nyarlathotep
''Masks of Nyarlathotep'', subtitled ''Perilous Adventures to Thwart the Dark God'', is an adventure campaign first published by Chaosium in 1984 for the second edition of the horror role-playing game '' Call of Cthulhu''. A number of revised editions have subsequently been published. ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' is a series of several sequential adventures set in the 1920s that take the player characters from New York, to London, Cairo, Nairobi, and Shanghai (with Australia and then Peru added in subsequent editions) as they deal with the threat of the god Nyarlathotep. Screenwriter Larry DiTillio wrote the adventure with game designer Lynn Willis during a writer's strike. It received positive reviews in game periodicals including ''Casus Belli'', ''The Space Gamer'', ''White Dwarf'', ''Different Worlds'', and ''Dragon'', and is considered to be one of the best roleplaying adventures of all time. Description ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' is a series of sequential adventures set in ...
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