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Steve Crompton
Steven S. Crompton is a Canadian-born artist, author and designer who has worked in the role-playing and comic genres since 1981. In the gaming industry he is best known as the artist for the Grimtooth's Traps books as well as other ''Catalyst'' role-playing game supplements, '' Tunnels & Trolls'' and the ''Nuclear War'' card game. Education Steven Crompton went to Arizona State University art college for two years, the Scottsdale Community College, and the Vo-Tech Commercial Art School. Career Starting in 1981, Steve Crompton worked as staff illustrator for Flying Buffalo Inc., and did the art and designed some of the traps in ''Grimtooth's Traps''. He also did maps and Illustrations for numerous other RPG books and games published by the company from 1981-1985. during that period he did freelance work for Steve Jackson Games, Game Designers Workshop, Fantasy Games Unlimited, and others. His first widely distributed comic was ''Elves of Lejentia #1 - 3'', in 1987. In 1991, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken St
Ken or KEN may refer to: Entertainment * ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer. * ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film. * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine. * Ken Masters, a main character in the ''Street Fighter'' franchise. People * Ken (given name), a list of people named Ken * Ken (musician) (born 1968), guitarist of the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel * Ken (SB19 musician) (born 1997), stage name of Felip Jhon Suson of the Filipino boy group, SB19 * Ken (VIXX singer) (born 1992), stage name of Lee Jae-hwan of the South Korean boy group, VIXX * Naoko Ken (born 1953), Japanese singer and actress (Ken as surname) * Thomas Ken (1637–1711), English cleric and composer * Tjungkara Ken (born 1969), Aboriginal Australian artist * Ken Zheng (born April 5, 1995) is an Indonesian actor, screenwriter and martial artist Other * Kèn, a musical instrument from Vietnam. * Ken (doll), a product by Mattel. * ''Ken'' (unit) (間) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimtooth's Traps Too
''Grimtooth's Traps Too'' is a 1982 role-playing game supplement published by Flying Buffalo's Blade division. Contents ''Grimtooth's Traps Too'' is a compilation that presents 101 more traps intended to be used in any role-playing game system. Reception William A. Barton reviewed ''Grimtooth's Traps Too'' in ''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 la ...'' No. 61. Barton commented that "Though a few might think the idea is stretching thin after two volumes, most GMs should find ''Traps Too'' useful for ideas to plague their players - who may want to buy it in self-defense and memorize its contents to know what to look out for. Either way, it's sure to enliven (endeaden?) RPG play." References {{reflist Fantasy role-playing game supplements Role-playing ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catacombs Of The Bear Cult
''Catacombs of the Bear Cult'' is a 1981 role-playing game adventure for '' Tunnels & Trolls'' published by Flying Buffalo. Plot summary ''Catacombs of the Bear Cult'' is an adventure in which the Death Empress puts a bounty on werebear cultists of the Great Bear Cult who come down from the hills to rob caravans traveling the Great Highway, so the 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 search the wilderness for their headquarters. Reception W.G. Armintrout reviewed ''Catacombs of the Bear Cult'' in '' The Space Gamer'' No. 54. Armintrout commented that "If you play T&T, buy this. If you don't – well, this and the rulebook would be a good place to start!" References {{Rpg-stub Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1981 Tunnels & Tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Buffalo
Flying Buffalo Inc. (FBI) is a game company with a line of role playing games, card games, and other gaming materials. The company's founder, Rick Loomis, began game publishing with ''Nuclear Destruction'', a play-by-mail game which started the professional PBM industry in the United States. Loomis added games and players while introducing Play-by-mail game#Computer versus human moderated, computer moderation and soon incorporated into the company Flying Buffalo Inc. The company published games in other genres, including card games such as Nuclear War (card game), ''Nuclear War'' and a role playing game called ''Tunnels & Trolls'', a game similar to ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Flying Buffalo acquired its 10,000th customer account number in 1980 and reached its largest size of 21 employees in 1983. In July 2021, Webbed Sphere bought Flying Buffalo with plans to incorporate Flying Buffalo's products. The PBM games were not included in the sale and were continued by a separate company cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Proliferation (card Game)
''Nuclear Proliferation'' is a satirical card game with a theme of nuclear war published by Flying Buffalo in 1992. Description ''Nuclear Proliferation'' is a card game for 2–6 players in which players draw cards and use them to try to eliminate other players. Components The game box contains: *40 Population cards *108 Nuclear War cards *13 display boards *1 six-sided die, with the "1" replaced by a mushroom cloud *rulebook *spin arrow card Set-up Each player is given a storage board. The two decks of cards are shuffled. A number of Population cards are dealt to each player, the exact number depending on the number of players. Nine Nuclear War cards are dealt to each player. Each player in turn immediately lays down all "Secret" and "Top Secret" cards, follows the instructions of each, and then replaces them with new cards from the Nuclear War deck. If any of the new cards are also "Secret" or "Top Secret" cards, then these are also played and replaced. This continues until al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Escalation (card Game)
''Nuclear Escalation'' is a 1983 card game published by Flying Buffalo. Gameplay ''Nuclear Escalation'' is a sequel to '' Nuclear War'' with new special rules and options. Reception Scott Haring reviewed ''Nuclear Escalation'' in ''Space Gamer'' No. 68. Haring commented that "So if you can laugh in the face of potential nuclear conflagration, ''Nuclear Escalation'' is not only a cute little game in its own right, but it combined with ''Nuclear War'' to produce a killer (pardon the expression) game that is a definite improvement on the original." ''Nuclear Escalation'' was awarded the Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best Science Fiction Boardgame of 1983". ''Nuclear Escalation'' had been the subject of a potential ban on all war related toys when two MPs of the UK Labour Party called the game "a nasty twist on the toy industry". Rick Loomis was interviewed as part of this discussion saying "the game is intended to be humorous... the subject is so serious that you have to laugh abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stormhaven
''Stormhaven'' is a role-playing game supplement for ''Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes'' published by Flying Buffalo in 1983. Contents ''Stormhaven'' is a setting for ''Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes'' that draws heavily upon pulp magazines, pulp fiction of the 1930s and 1940s, including references to Walter B. Gibson's The Shadow, and Lester Dent's Doc Savage. The titular Stormhaven is an estate on Savage Island on Lake Champlain in Vermont owned by Kenneth Allard, president of Allard Technologies, and guarded by high-tech security. Allard's invited visitors include notable people in the field of technology, celebrities, and eccentrics with ties to the Allard clan. The supplement comes in a folder that contains an 8-page booklet of maps, and a 56-page book of scenarios and character descriptions. Reception In the March-April 1984 edition of ''Space Gamer'' (Issue No. 68), Aaron Allston gave ''Stormhaven'' a thumbs up, saying, "I'd recommend you buy ''Stormhaven'' if yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins. The Origins Award is commonly referred to as a Calliope, as the statuette is in the likeness of the muse of the same name. Academy members frequently shorten this name to "Callie". History Originally, the ''Charles S. Roberts Awards'' and the Origins Awards were one and the same. Starting with the 1987 awards, the Charles S. Roberts were given separately, and they moved away from Origins entirely in 2000, leaving the Origins Awards as a completely separate system. In 1978, the awards also hosted the 1977 ''H. G. Wells awards'' for role-playing games and miniature wargaming. Categories The Origins Awards were originally presented at the Origins Game Fair in five categories: ''Best Professional Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Worlds (gamebook)
''Lost Worlds'' is a "combat picture book game" designed and trademarked by Alfred Leonardi and originally published in 1983 by Nova Game Designs. The game has had many publishers, including Chessex, Emithill, Flying Buffalo and Greysea. Resurgence A minor resurgence in published books occurred in 2004, with five new titles published in 2004 (four of them by a new licensee, 1% Inspiration Games), a further two published in June 2005 (both with photo illustrations rather than graphics), and others early in 2007 and 2008. Many of the older books are now out of print, although Firelight Game Company has said they may be reprinting some of the early books. Gameplay Play requires two players and at least two " visual combat books", with each player choosing a character (i.e., a book) from those available. At the start of play, each player removes the character sheet for that character from their book and hands the book to their opponent. The character sheet lists the various com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
