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RedBrick Limited
RedBrick Limited was a New Zealand game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. The company moved to the United States in 2010 and established business as RedBrick LLC. In 2018, RedBrick Publishing – the successor to RedBrick's earlier incarnations – started operations. History In 2005, FASA Corp granted RedBrick Limited a license for ''Earthdawn'' based on a very professional proposal they submitted. RedBrick named their line "Earthdawn Classic" to differentiate it from Living Room Games' edition and to show that they were staying closer to the art styles and setting of the original FASA line than Living Room Games had. RedBrick's line kicked off with the ''Earthdawn Player's Companion'' (2005). In 2005 and 2006, ''Earthdawn'' had two companies simultaneously publishing "official" material - but RedBrick was soon the only publisher of the game. In 2007, Holistic Design licensed ''Fading Suns'' to RedBrick Limited. RedBrick promised new supplements using t ... [...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] |
FASA
Fasa ( fa, فسا, Fasā, also Romanized as Fassa) is a city and capital of Fasa County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 110,825, in 33,379 families. Fasa is the fourth most populous city of the province. The city dates back to the Achaemenid period. Fasa's economy is based on agriculture and Pastoralism. Jahrom, Darab, Sarvestan, Kherameh and Estahban are neighbours of Fasa. This city is located on the road from Shiraz to Kerman, This has made Fasa a strategic and important city. Name The name Fasa is derived from the older form Pasā. Various etymologies for this name have been proposed. Local tradition holds that Fasa is named after a legendary prince named Pasa, son of Fars and grandson of Tahmuras. In Ibn al-Balkhi's retelling the legend, Fars granted the town of Fasa to Pasa; in Hamdallah Mustawfi's version, Pasa founds the city himself (in this version, he is directly the son of Tahmuras). Harold Bailey proposed on linguistic grounds that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earthdawn
''Earthdawn'' is a fantasy role-playing game, originally produced by FASA in 1993. In 1999 it was licensed to Living Room Games, which produced the ''Second Edition''. It was licensed to RedBrick in 2003, who released the Classic Edition in 2005 and the game's Third Edition in 2009 (the latter through Mongoose Publishing's Flaming Cobra imprint). The license is now held by FASA Games, Inc. (from FASA), who have released the Fourth Edition, with updated mechanics and an advanced metaplot timeline. Vagrant Workshop released the ''Age of Legend'' edition in 2016 using alternative rules-lite mechanics. The game is similar to fantasy games like ''Dungeons & Dragons'', but draws more inspiration from games like ''RuneQuest''. The rules of the game are tightly bound to the underlying magical metaphysics, with the goal of creating a rich, logical fantasy world. Like many role-playing games from the nineties, ''Earthdawn'' focuses much of its detail on its setting, a province called Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living Room Games
Living Room Games was an American game company, active between 2000 and 2006, that produced role-playing games, game supplements and books, particularly for the ''Earthdawn'' series. Description Living Room Games were a group of ''Earthdawn'' fans, friends, and gamers who took the news of ''Earthdawn'' being canceled harder than most. They licensed the game from FASA Corp in 2000, and produced of a second edition of the game in 2001, culminating in a revised second edition release in 2005. Meanwhile, FASA also granted RedBrick Limited, RedBrick a parallel license for ''Earthdawn'', and RedBrick at first called their line "''List of Earthdawn books#RedBrick Releases - Classic Edition, EarthDawn Classic''" to differentiate it from Living Room Games' edition and to indicate that they were staying closer to the art styles and setting of the original FASA line than Living Room Games had. Living Room Games also published Digital Burn, Tony Digerolamo's Complete Mafia for D20, and Capcom W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holistic Design
Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), is an American game company. It was founded in 1992 as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming. The company has developed many computer games in its history, including ''Battles of Destiny'', ''Hammer of the Gods (video game), Hammer of the Gods'', ''Final Liberation'', ''Merchant Prince'' series, ''Emperor of the Fading Suns'', and ''Mall Tycoon''. HDI also has a number of miniatures games in its inventory, including ''Noble Armada'', ''Carnage'' and ''Combat Zone''. Their most famous product is perhaps its role-playing game ''Fading Suns'', but they also have a number of other RPGs to their credit, such as ''Rapture: The Second Coming'', and their Real-Life Roleplaying series covering Afghanistan, Colombia, Somalia, and the FBI. In 2011, the company entered into an arrangement with RedBrick to continue the creation and publication of Fading Suns as a tabletop RPG. The company also announced a tablet game called Noble Armada which has not yet been released. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fading Suns
''Fading Suns'' is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design. The setting was also used for a PC game (''Emperor of the Fading Suns''), a live action role-playing game ('' Passion Play''), and for a space combat miniature game ('' Noble Armada''). History After the computer game '' Machiavelli the Prince'', Holistic Design decided to do something new - a space strategy computer game, which would eventually become ''Emperor of the Fading Suns'' (1996). Holistic brought on two experienced world designers, Andrew Greenberg and Bill Bridges, to create a cohesive and interesting universe for the game, which would also be used as the basis for a tabletop role-playing game to be released simultaneously. Greenberg and Bridges had helped define the style of White Wolf Publishing's World of Darkness and, according to Shannon Appelcline, people noticed this game's similarity to the "White Wolf style". Appelcline comments further: "Fading Suns is uniqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaming Cobra
Flaming may refer to: * Anything set aflame or on fire * Flaming (Internet), the act of posting deliberately hostile messages on the Internet * Flame maple, the striped figures in maple woodwork prized for their beauty * Fläming, a region in Germany * Flaming drink, various kinds of fire-ignited alcoholic drinks * "Flaming" (song), a 1967 song by Pink Floyd from their album ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' * The Flaming Lips, an American music group founded in 1983 * ''Flaming Pie'', an album by Paul McCartney, first released in 1997 * An alternative, British, name for Gassing (textile process) See also * * * Flame (other) Flame is burning gas or vapour, the visible part of fire. Flame, flames or FLAME may also refer to: Fire * Eternal flame, a constantly burning flame ** Olympic flame, eternal flame used as a symbol for the Olympic Games * Flame retardant, materi ... * Flamboyant (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongoose Publishing
Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Paranoia'', as well as fantasy titles. History Mongoose Publishing was founded in Swindon, England, in 2001 by Matthew Sprange and Alex Fennell. Sprange initially wanted to publish a miniatures game, but he ultimately went with the less expensive alternative of using Wizards of the Coast's d20 System license. It grew out of the '' d20 System'' boom sparked by ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 3rd edition. The first release, the ''Slayer's Guides'', concentrated on different monster types for the ''d20 system'', while the subsequent Quintessential books, detailed specific character classes. The latter was to span three years and thirty-six different titles. In 2003 the company released the magazine ''Signs and Portents'', a house organ aimed at supple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
