|
Stephan Michael Sechi
Stephan Michael Sechi is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career In 1982, Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor each put in $600 and formed the company Bard Games to produce their own ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. Sechi and Cordovano's '' The Compleat Alchemist'' (1983) was the company's first product and presented a new character class: a magic-item maker. Sechi's '' The Compleat Adventurer'' (1983) offered a number of variant classes for thieves and fighters, while Sechi and Taylor's '' The Compleat Spell Caster'' (1983) presented many variant magic-user classes. Sechi oversaw Bard's next project, '' The Atlantis Trilogy'' for Bard Games, which took three years to complete but eventually the three books were published as '' The Arcanum'' (1984), '' The Lexicon'' (1985), and '' The Bestiary'' (1986). Due to personal and financial disagreements that arose in the wake of his completion of ''The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lexicon (Atlantis)
''The Lexicon'', subtitled ''Atlas of the Lost World of Atlantis'', is a supplement published by Bard Games in 1985 for ''Atlantis (role-playing game), The Atlantean Trilogy'' fantasy role-playing game, later known simply as ''Atlantis''. Description ''The Lexicon'' is an atlas that gives details about the ten regions of the world of ''The Atlantean Trilogy''. The regions are covered in alphabetical order: *Atlantis *Elysium Sea *Eria and Anostos *Gondwana *Jambu *Lemuria *Mediterranea *Mu *North Sea *Tamoanchan Each region is accompanied by a map of the region, its history, its current status, how it is subdivided into kingdoms and large islands, and notable cities and towns. Publication history In the 1980s a group of friends who played a customized version of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' — Vernie Taylor, Steven Cordovano, and Stephan Michael Sechi — decided to publish details of their home campaign and each put up $600 to form Bard Games. In 1983 the new company published thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow authors of creative works to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Content owners still maintain their copyright, but Creative Commons licenses give standard releases that replace the individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, that are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management. The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pharos Press
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, contemporary Koine ), was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC). It has been estimated to have been at least in overall height. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, for many centuries it was one of the tallest man-made structures in the world. The lighthouse was severely damaged by three earthquakes between 956 and 1323 AD and became an abandoned ruin. It was the third-longest surviving ancient wonder (after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the extant Great Pyramid of Giza), surviving in part until 1480, when the last of its remnant stones were used to build the Citadel of Qaitbay on the site. In 1994, a team of French archaeologists dove into the water of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour and discovered some remains of the lighthouse on the sea flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daedalus Entertainment
Daedalus Entertainment was a Canadian game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. History Daedalus Games began when Robin Laws approached Jose Garcia in 1993 with an idea for a Hong Kong Action Cinema RPG; Garcia liked the idea, but the RPG '' Nexus: The Infinite City'' was his first priority, and was published in 1994 with Garcia as the main designer and developer, with Laws, Bruce Baugh, and Rob Heinsoo as additional authors. Daedalus Games was incorporated as Daedalus Entertainment in preparation for publishing the Hong Kong action game Laws had intended, but Garcia liked the setting that Laws was working on and decided to use it as a basis of a collectible card game to take advantage of the CCG market and Daedalus published this game as ''Shadowfist'' (1995). Daedalus Entertainment published the role-playing game '' Feng Shui'' (1996), designed by Laws using a variant of the ''Nexus'' game system; Laws also designed supplements for ''Feng Shui''. When t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wizards Of The Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and List of science fiction themes, science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. It is currently a subsidiary of Hasbro, which acquired the company in 1999. During a February 2021 reorganization at Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast became the lead part of the new "Wizards & Digital" division. Originally a role-playing game publisher, the company originated and popularized the collectible card game genre with ''Magic: The Gathering'' in the mid-1990s. It also acquired the popular ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game by buying TSR (company), TSR and increased its success by publishing the licensed ''Pokémon Trading Card Game''. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Renton, Washington, Renton, Washington (state), Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. Wizards of the Coast publishes role-pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldenbooks
Waldenbooks, operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain, from 1995 as a subsidiary of Borders Group. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids. In 2011, the chain was liquidated in bankruptcy. History On March 4, 1933, Lawrence Hoyt (1902–1982), a former sales manager for Simon & Schuster, and Melvin T. Kafka (1905–1992) opened a rental library within leased space inside a Bridgeport, Connecticut, department store under the name Walden Book Company.Link via . The pair believed that their business would help people cope with the effects of The Great Depression. Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talislanta
''Talislanta'' is a fantasy role-playing game written by Stephen Michael Sechi and published by Bard Games in 1987. There have been six different English-language editions and several foreign language editions published. All English-language products of ''Talislanta'' are now freely available via a Creative Commons licence. Publishing history 1st edition (Bard Games) In 1982 Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor formed the company Bard Games to produce their own ''Dungeons & Dragons'' supplements. In 1986, due to personal and financial disagreements that arose after the publication of '' The Atlantis Trilogy'', Sechi sold his shares in Bard Games to Cordovano and left to begin work on a new role-playing game system and its supplements. Cordovano decided that he did not want to run Bard Games and sold it back to Sechi, giving Sechi the opportunity to publish his new game, ''Talislanta''. After publication of the rules in '' The Talislantan Handbook'' in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bestiary (Atlantis)
''The Bestiary'', subtitled ''A Compendium of Creatures and Beings from the Lost World of Atlantis'', is a supplement published by Bard Games in 1986 for '' The Atlantean Trilogy'' fantasy role-playing game, later known simply as ''Atlantis''. Contents ''The Bestiary'' is a supplement which describes many fantastical creatures that can be used in the ''Atlantis'' role-playing game. The book is divided into two sections: * Descriptions and illustrations of the creatures, which are grouped together as: ** Sidhe **goblin races **sylvan races **giants **humanoids **wereos **hybrids and magical constructs **monstrosities **dragons **living dead **demons and devils **spirits and elementals **gods, as well as details of cults and secret societies * The technical details and statistics of each creature necessary for the role-playing game. Publication history In the 1980s a group of friends who played a customized version of '' Dungeons & Dragons'' — Vernie Taylor, Steven Cordovano, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Arcanum (Atlantis)
''The Arcanum'', published by Bard Games in 1984, is the first book in the fantasy role-playing game '' Atlantean Trilogy'', later known simply as ''Atlantis''. Contents ''The Arcanum'' is the first book in ''The Atlantean Trilogy''. It includes a role-playing system largely based on the rules for '' Dungeons & Dragons'', but the generic information about the character classes and magic can also be used without the role-playing system, and adapted to another fantasy role-playing system such as ''D&D'' or ''RuneQuest'' to add an Atlantean flavor to the game. Publication history In the 1980s a group of friends — Vernie Taylor, Steven Cordovano, and Stephan Michael Sechi — who played a highly customized version of '' Dungeons & Dragons'', decided to publish the details of their new character classes and spells. Each of them put up $600 to form Bard Games. In 1983 the new company published three books known as the "Compleat Series": '' The Compleat Adventurer'' by Sechi, '' The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Creative Commons")
