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The Best Of The Journal Of The Travellers' Aid Society, Volume 2
''The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume 2'' is a book edited by Loren Wiseman and published by Game Designers' Workshop. Contents ''The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume 2'' is a collection of articles originally published in issues 5 through 8 of the ''Journal of the Travellers Aid Society ''Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society'' is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller (rpg), Traveller, commonly abbreviated JTAS. History In 1979 Loren K. Wiseman created a magazine to support ''Traveller (role-playing game), Travel ...''. Reception William A. Barton reviewed ''The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume 2'' in '' The Space Gamer'' No. 53. Barton commented that "''The Best of the JTAS'', Vol. 2 should prove welcome to anyone who missed any ''Journals'' from 5 through 8." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society Volume 2 Traveller (role-playing game) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of The Journal Of The Travellers' Aid Society, Volume 2
''The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume 2'' is a book edited by Loren Wiseman and published by Game Designers' Workshop. Contents ''The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume 2'' is a collection of articles originally published in issues 5 through 8 of the ''Journal of the Travellers Aid Society ''Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society'' is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller (rpg), Traveller, commonly abbreviated JTAS. History In 1979 Loren K. Wiseman created a magazine to support ''Traveller (role-playing game), Travel ...''. Reception William A. Barton reviewed ''The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume 2'' in '' The Space Gamer'' No. 53. Barton commented that "''The Best of the JTAS'', Vol. 2 should prove welcome to anyone who missed any ''Journals'' from 5 through 8." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society Volume 2 Traveller (role-playing game) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loren Wiseman
Loren Keith Wiseman (March 7, 1951 – February 14, 2017) was an American wargame and role-playing game designer, game developer and editor. Career Game Designers' Workshop After graduating from Illinois State University, Loren Wiseman co-founded Game Designers' Workshop with Frank Chadwick, Rich Banner, and Marc Miller on June 22, 1973. Wiseman published ''Eagles'' (later published by Avalon Hill as '' Caesar's Legions''), his first wargame, and the fifth game published by Game Designers' Workshop, in 1974. As a partner at GDW, his primary responsibilities were game development – editing and revising game manuscripts and preparing them for publication. During this period he designed the wargame ''Pharsalus'' (1977), and wrote the award-winning '' Twilight: 2000'' role-playing adventure ''Going Home''. Wiseman helped Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Marc Miller design '' Traveller'' (1977). Wiseman was editor of the '' Journal of the Travellers Aid Society'' (24 issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Designers' Workshop
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers. History Game Designers' Workshop was originally established June 22, 1973. The founding members consisted of Frank Chadwick, Rich Banner, Marc Miller, and Loren Wiseman. GDW acquired the Conflict Games Company from John Hill in the early 1970s. GDW published a new product approximately every twenty-two days for over twenty years. In an effort to bridge the gap between role players, board wargamers and miniature wargamers, the company published RPGs with fantastic settings alongside games with realistic themes including rulesets for 15mm and 20mm miniatures set during the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the modern era; and boardgames involving these eras such as the ''Air Superiority'' series and ''Harpoon''. The company disbanded February 29, 1996 after suffering financial troubles. Products Role-pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of The Travellers Aid Society
''Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society'' is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller (rpg), Traveller, commonly abbreviated JTAS. History In 1979 Loren K. Wiseman created a magazine to support ''Traveller (role-playing game), Traveller'', which resulted in Game Designers' Workshop's''The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society'' (JTAS), which Wiseman would further develop as editor over its history. J. Andrew Keith's writing for ''JTAS'' was so extensive that he had to take the pseudonyms John Marshal and Keith Douglass (he was later 'caught' when a reader did a word-use analysis of his articles and determined that they were all written by the same person). Marc W. Miller, Marc Miller decided that, rather than using modern dates for the magazine, each issue would instead be based on the in-game Imperium's calendar, and the calendar advanced about 90 days every quarterly issue. ''JTAS'' #2 (1979) began printing excerpts from the 'Traveller News Service', which provided ... [...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] |