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Richard Snider
Richard Leonard Snider (August 29, 1953–November 17, 2009) was a game designer who worked primarily on role-playing games. Early life and introduction to role-playing games Richard Snider was born to Leonard and Elizabeth Snider, one of ten children, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After moving to Minnesota, he and his brother John joined the Midwest Military Simulation Association gaming group, where he met Dave Arneson, David Wesely, Ken Fletcher, Dave Megarry, and others. Snider was also one of the players in Arneson's original ''Blackmoor'' group. He contributed many suggestions for rule revisions and additions, and Arneson dedicated an entire section of his ''The First Fantasy Campaign'', published by Judges Guild in 1977, to Snider's contributions. Career In 1974, Richard's brother John designed '' Star Probe'', a science fiction role-playing game that was published by TSR. In 1977, Richard, John, Brian Blume and Greg Svenson co-authored an expansion to ''Star Probe'' titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albuquerque
Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in 1706 as ''La Villa de Alburquerque'' by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés''.'' Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain, the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the city was an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. Located in the Albuquerque Basin, the city is flanked by the Sandia Mountains to the east and the West Mesa to the west, with the Rio Grande and bosque flowing from north-to-south. According to the 2020 census, Albuquerque had 564,559 residents, making it the 32nd-most populous city in the United States and the fourth largest in the Southwest. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which had 916,528 residents as of July 2020, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Blume
Brian John Blume (January 12, 1950 – March 27, 2020) was an American game designer and writer, principally known as a former business partner of Gary Gygax at TSR, Inc., original publishers of the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Biography Early life Brian Blume was born January 12, 1950, in Oak Park, Illinois to Melvin and Kathleen Blume, and grew up in Wauconda, Illinois with four brothers and three half-brothers. Blume began playing chess at age seven, and '' Gettysburg'' at age nine. He was fascinated by history in junior high school and was involved in miniature wargaming in high school. After graduating as class valedictorian, Blume attended Wabash College, but left to become a tool and die making journeyman for his father's company for five years. ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and TSR Blume met Gary Gygax at the Gen Con game convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Gygax and his friend Don Kaye had recently formed Tactical Studies Rules in Lake Geneva in order t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). It has been published by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargaming, miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game Chainmail (game), ''Chainmail'' serving as the initial rule system. ''D&D'' publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry, and also deeply influenced video games, especially the role-playing video game genre. ''D&D'' departs from traditional wargame, wargaming by allowing each player to create their own Player character, character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of The Dead
''Tower of the Dead'' is the only adventure published by Avalon Hill in 1984 for the fantasy role-playing game '' Powers & Perils''. Description ''Tower of the Dead'' is a boxed set that contains a 56-page adventure book, and a cardstock gamemaster's screen. Plot summary Through a four-part adventure, the player characters become aware that the lich Nilgeranthrib seeks to become ruler of Thaliba, and they will need to destroy the lich to prevent this. The four parts of the adventure take place in the city of Porta, near the city, on the road, and in the Tower of the Dead for the final confrontation with the lich. Publication history Avalon Hill entered the fantasy role-playing game market with ''Powers & Perils'' in 1983. Sales were poor, and only two supplements and one adventure were published. The adventure was 1984's ''Tower of the Dead'', a boxed set designed by Richard Snider Richard Leonard Snider (August 29, 1953–November 17, 2009) was a game designer who worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origins Game Fair
Origins Game Fair is an annual gaming convention that was first held in 1975. Since 1996, it has been held in Columbus, Ohio at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Origins is run by The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Origins was chartered to serve gaming in general, including wargaming and miniatures gaming. Origins is the site of the annual Origins Awards ceremony. For many years, the Charles S. Roberts Awards for historical boardgames were presented at Origins, but these are now presented at the World Boardgaming Championships. Board games, trading card games, LARPs and role-playing games are also popular at Origins. Origins Game Fair was formerly known as the Origins International Game Expo. The name was changed in the summer of 2007. Origins typically has a theme each year, which affects some of the events and decorations like banners or art, and the Origins mascot will be depicted wearing an outfit related to the theme as well. The theme in 2012 was Time Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powers & Perils
''Powers & Perils (P&P)'' is a role-playing game written by Richard Snider and published by Avalon Hill in 1983 as a boxed set. History ''Powers & Perils'' (1984) by Richard Snider was scheduled to be released at Origins 1983, but the demonstration rooms in which the game was supposed to have appeared were instead left empty, and the game was eventually published early in 1984. ''Powers & Perils'' was published by Avalon Hill as a boxed set containing five books (60 pages, 52 pages, 52 pages, 44 pages, and 24 pages respectively), a pad of character sheets, and dice. Avalon Hill's house organ magazine ''Heroes'' supported ''Powers & Perils'' and the company's other role-playing lines. Products ''Powers & Perils'' is an exceedingly detailed fantasy system, with skill-based character abilities and a spell-point magic system. There are five rulebooks: the 44-page "The Character Book" covers character creation, skills, and experience; the 52-page "The Combat and Magic Book" covers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company's "Hasbro Gaming" division. Avalon Hill introduced many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming, including the use of a hexagonal grid (a.k.a. hexgrid) overlaid on a flat folding board, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at a location, and board games based upon historical events. History The Avalon Game Company Avalon Hill was started in 1952 outside Baltimore in Catonsville, Maryland by Charles S. Roberts under the name of "The Avalon Game Company" for the publication of his game ''Tactics''. It is considered the first of a new type of war game, consisting of a self-contained printed map, pieces, rules and box designed for the mass-market. Other war games published over the prior half-century, which Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thieves' World (role-playing Game)
''Thieves' World'' is a role-playing game supplement published by Chaosium in 1981, based on the ''Thieves' World'' series of novels. It was notable for including rules and statistics allowing for its use with nine different fantasy and science-fiction RPG gaming systems. Contents The ''Thieves' World Complete Sanctuary Adventure Pack'' is a boxed set published by Chaosium in 1981, containing: 1) The ''Player's Guide to Sanctuary''; 2) ''The Gamemaster's Guide to Sanctuary''; 3) ''Personalities of Sanctuary''; 4) ''Map of Sanctuary''; 5) ''Map of the Maze''; 6) ''Map of the Maze Underground''. Just as the ''Thieves' World'' series of books was a shared universe with multiple authors using a common setting, Chaosium initially positioned the Thieves' World RPG as a setting that could be used with multiple game systems. The ''Personalities of Sanctuary'' included statistics and gaming notes for ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'', '' Adventures in Fantasy'', ''Chivalry & Sorcery'', ''Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon'', based on Thomas Mallory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', and '' 7th Sea'', "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th century Europe. Many of Chaosium’s product lines are based upon literary sources. While Stafford himself has been described as "one of the most decorated game designers of all time" and "the grand shaman of gaming", multiple other notable game designers have written for Chaosium. These include David Conyers, Matthew Costello, Larry DiTillio, Paul Fricker, David A. Hargrave, Rob Heinsoo, Keith Herber, Jennell Jaquays, Katharine Kerr, Reiner Knizia, Charlie Krank, Robin Laws, Penelope Love, Mark Morrison, Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Ken Rolston, Ken St. Andre, Jonathan Tweet, John Wick, and Lynn Willis, among others. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventures In Fantasy
''Adventures in Fantasy'' is a role-playing game published by Excalibre Games in 1979, designed by Dave Arneson and Richard Snider. The game is a fantasy system, similar to early ''Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)'', which Arneson co-created. It received mixed to negative reviews in game periodicals, including ''The Space Gamer'', '' Ares'', and '' Pegasus'', and ultimately flopped. Arneson later bought the rights to ''Adventures in Fantasy'' and published a new edition in 1981 through his own company Adventure Games. Publication history Dave Arneson has been working on ''Adventures in Fantasy'' as early as 1976. It was co-designed by Richard Snider. A playtest edition was published by Excalibre Games in 1978 as a limited edition of 164 photocopied pages; each page contains two pages of manuscript printed side by side. ''Adventures in Fantasy'' was then published in 1979 as a boxed set containing a 64-page book, two 56-page books, three cardstock sheets, and a die. Since Arneson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Empires
''Star Empires'' is a 1977 board wargame published by TSR. Gameplay ''Star Empires'' is a sequel to '' Star Probe'', and is a game in which the players control a civilization that has just discovered interstellar exploration and must explore a vast star cluster. Publication history According to Shannon Appelcline, "''Star Probe'' (1975) by John M. Snider was scheduled for 1974 but slipped into 1975. It was a science-fiction board game of the sort that was just emerging as its own new field — as could be seen in Metagaming's ''The Space Gamer'' (1975–1980). ''Star Probe'' was supposed to be the first game in a trilogy, but by the time TSR released the second game, ''Star Empires'' (1977), they'd already found their niche, and it wasn't in science-fiction board gaming after all. They eventually returned the rights to the games to Snider in 1980." Reception Norman S. Howe reviewed ''Star Empires'' in ''The Space Gamer'' No. 14. Howe commented that "It may be a coincidence, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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