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Portals Of Twilight
''Portals of Twilight'' is a supplement for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1981. Contents ''Portals of Twilight'' is a fantasy campaign setting supplement focusing on a world that characters can travel to using magical portals. The book describes 32 wilderness locations and a city, and provides game statistics for new monsters. Publication history ''Portals of Twilight'' was written by Rudy Kraft, and was published by Judges Guild in 1981 as a 48-page book. TSR chose not to renew its ''Dungeons & Dragons'' license with Judges Guild when that license expired in September 1980. Judges Guild was able to keep their ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' license for another year, allowing them to publish adventures like ''The Illhiedrin Book'' (1981), ''Zienteck ''Zienteck'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1981. Plot summary ''Zienteck'' is a scenario for character levels 5-9 set in a large dungeon complex. Th ... [...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] |
Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leading publishers of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' related materials. Its flagship product, ''City State of the Invincible Overlord'', was the first published RPG supplement to feature a fully developed city environment. The supplement was followed closely by numerous ancillary cities, maps, and other materials published by Judges Guild. History Judges Guild was founded on July 4, 1976, utilizing concepts developed by co-founder Bob Bledsaw, in his home ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') campaign. Bledsaw, along with partner Bill Owen, travelled to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to visit the headquarters of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), publishers of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', on July 17, 1976. Bledsaw and Owen had hoped to convince TSR to publish some of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient mythology, myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic (paranormal), magic or other supernatural elements as a ma ... [...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] |
Rudy Kraft
Rudy Kraft III is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Steve Perrin and Rudy Kraft designed the ''RuneQuest'' (1978) mythical fantasy roleplaying game, set in the world of Glorantha created by Greg Stafford, and published by Chaosium. Judges Guild's first publication after obtaining the license for ''RuneQuest'' was Kraft's ''Broken Tree Inn'' (1979), an adventure that featured material cut from Chaosium's own ''Snake Pipe Hollow'' (1979), although the Glorantha references were removed in the Judges Guild publication. Kraft and Jennell Jaquays' ''Adventures Beyond the Pass'', originally intended for Judges Guild, was never published by them; Greg Stafford instead published it through Chaosium as ''Griffin Mountain'' (1981). Kraft also contributed to Chaosium's '' Thieves' World'' (1981). Kraft was one of the contributors to Flying Buffalo Flying Buffalo Inc. (FBI) is a game company with a line of role playing games, card games, and other gami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Illhiedrin Book
''The Illhiedrin Book'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1981. Plot summary ''The Illhiedrin Book'' is an adventure scenario intended for player character A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not control ...s of levels 1-2, who are hired to find a magical book that may be hidden in the Tomb of Charrellsfane or a wizard's tower, while the residents of both locations try to stop them, and competing parties of adventurers try to get the book first. ''The Illhiedrin Book'' was designed to be used with first-level characters, allowing the possibility of second level characters joining them. Alcastra the wizard wants to obtain the Illheidrin Book, which was last possessed by a wizard who died 300 years ago, and she will equip a party to go lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zienteck
''Zienteck'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1981. Plot summary ''Zienteck'' is a scenario for character levels 5-9 set in a large dungeon complex. The book includes detailed wandering monster tables and several local wilderness encounters. Beyond the ill-famed Black Angel Woods, legend has it lie the remains of Wizard Zienteck's stronghold – where wizardly books and treasure survived the destruction of Griendal the Dragon. This booklet provides encounter tables for the Black Angel Woods and Dragon Mountains, two new monsters (black angels and fire chameleons), a wilderness map, a Dragon's Lair map, and the info on Zienteck dungeon (including an optional players' map). Publication history ''Zienteck'' was written by Mark Harmon, and was published by Judges Guild in 1981 as a 32-page book. TSR opted not to renew Judges Guild's license for ''D&D'' when it expired in September 1980. They managed to hold onto their ''AD&D'' licen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trial By Fire (Judges Guild)
''Trial by Fire'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1981. Plot summary ''Trial by Fire'' is an introductory adventure intended for 1st-level player character A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not control ...s, a one-level dungeon located underneath a fortress. ''Trial by Fire'' is an ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' introductory scenario in which the adventurers enter an underground land featuring dangerous monsters, with magic and treasure as rewards. Each room includes a description along with game rules related to each situation. Publication history ''Trial by Fire'' was written by Mike Wilson, and was published by Judges Guild in 1981 as a 32-page book. TSR chose not to renew its ''Dungeons & Dragons'' license with Judges Guil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, ''Fate'', which has won numerous awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others to run LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest starting in 1999, and came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves. While on a trip to Lake Tahoe, friends Hicks and Donoghue developed a new game based on a conversation about running another ''Amber'' game and fixing some problems with ''FUDGE''; the result was ''Fate'' which Hicks and Donoghue would publish under the name Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released a complete first-edition of ''Fate'' through Yahoo! Groups (January 2003) then cleaned up the technical writing and slightly polished the system for a second edition (August 2003). Hicks and Donoghue began work on the licensed '' Dresden Files Roleplaying Game'' in 2004, but publication was held up because they decided to use ''Spir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stackpole
Michael Austin Stackpole (born November 27, 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his ''Star Wars'' and '' BattleTech'' books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Game design career Michael Stackpole was hired full-time at Flying Buffalo after they accepted his submission for a solo '' Tunnels & Trolls'' adventure which was published in 1978 as ''City of Terrors''. He wrote columns on industry news and reviews for Flying Buffalo's magazine ''Sorcerer's Apprentice''. Stackpole worked for Coleco from 1980-1981 after Rick Loomis, Stackpole, and the president of Coleco met at a gaming and pinball convention. Stackpole designed the roleplaying game '' Mercenaries, Spies a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer''. History ''The Space Gamer'' (''TSG'') started out as a digest quarterly publication of the brand new Metagaming Concepts Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, '' Stellar Conquest''. The company also inven ... company in March 1975. Howard M. Thompson, the owner of Metagaming and the first editor of the magazine, stated "The magazine had been planned for after our third or fourth game but circumstances demand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the creation of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', SJ Games created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes. SJ Games' early titles were microgames initially sold in 4×7 inch ziploc bags, and later in the similarly sized Pocket Box. Games such as ''Ogre'', ''Car Wars'', and ''G.E.V'' (an ''Ogre'' spin-off) were popular during SJ Games' early years. Game designers such as Loren Wiseman and Jonathan Leistiko have worked for Steve Jackson Games. Today SJ Games publishes a variety of games, such as card games, board games, strategy games, and in different genres, such as fantasy, sci-fi, and gothic horror. They also published the book ''Principia Discordia'', the sacred text of the Discordian religion. Raid by the Secret S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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