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The Order Of Hermes
''The Order of Hermes'' is a supplement published by Lion Rampant in 1990 for the fantasy role-playing game ''Ars Magica''. Contents ''The Order of Hermes'' is a supplement that describes The Order of Hermes, the society in ''Ars Magica'' to which all wizards belong. The book describes in detail the thirteen Houses of the Order, each with it own magical specialities and politics. Publication history Lion Rampant published ''Ars Magica'' in 1987, and several supplements and adventures followed. ''The Order of Hermes'' was published in 1990, a 126-page softcover book written by Jonathan Tweet, with illustrations by Josh Timbrook, and cover art by Richard Thomas. Reception In the June 1991 edition of *Dragon (Issue #170), Ken Rolston Ken Rolston is an American computer game and role-playing game (pen and paper), role-playing game designer best known for his work with West End Games and on the computer game series ''The Elder Scrolls''. In February 2007, he elected to join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Of Order Of Hermes 1990
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Lion Rampant (game Publisher)
{{Short description, Tabletop role-playing game publisher Lion Rampant was a tabletop game publishing company from 1987 to 1990.Appelcline, Shannon"History of Game, #10" 3 January 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2013. Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen founded the company, and Lisa Stevens joined as the editor."Lisa Stevens" at Paizo.com. They published , a roleplaying game about wizards in the Middle Ages, plus support material for the game. In addition, they published Whimsy Cards, which introduced freeform dramatic elements to a roleplaying session. In 1990, Lion Rampant merged w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ars Magica
''Ars Magica'' is a role-playing game set in 'Mythic Europe' – a historically grounded version of Europe and the Levant around AD 1200, with the added conceit that conceptions of the world prevalent in folklore and institutions of the High Middle Ages are factual reality (a situation known informally as the "medieval paradigm"). The players' involvement revolves around an organization of magi and their allies and foes both mundane and supernatural. The game was originally developed by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen, with its first edition published in 1987. The current edition (the game's fifth) was written by David Chart, and published in 2004 by Atlas Games, who continue to develop new material for it. ''Ars Magica'' was one of the first examples of a troupe system. Early editions recommended that the players collaborate to create the campaign world and story with: * Each player having an opportunity to be Story Guide. (e.g. alternating by play session, 'chapter' o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Tweet
Jonathan Tweet (born 1965) is an American game designer who has been involved in the development of the role-playing games ''Ars Magica'', ''Everway'', ''Over the Edge (game), Over the Edge'', ''Talislanta'', the third edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and ''13th Age'', and the collectible miniatures game ''Dreamblade''. In 2015 Tweet released ''Grandmother Fish'', a full-color, full-sized book about evolution aimed at preschoolers. In 2018 Tweet released ''Clades'' and ''Clades Prehistoric'', two card games for children and adults which demonstrate the concept of a clade. Early life Native to Rock Island, Illinois, Tweet is the son of Roald Tweet, an Augustana College (Illinois), Augustana College professor emeritus and local historian, and Margaret Tweet. Jonathan Tweet started playing ''D&D'' in the 1970s, when his father gave him his first ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game. He then formed his own gaming group by recruiting classmates. Tweet graduated from Rock Island High School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Timbrook
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Richard Thomas (artist)
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Dragon (magazine)
''Dragon'' is one of the two official magazines for source material for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products, along with ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon''. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, ''The Strategic Review''. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched ''Dragon'' as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The last published issue was No. 430 in December 2013. A digital publication called ''Dragon+'', which replaces the ''Dragon'' magazine, launched in 2015. It is created by Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and its numbering system for issues started at No. 1. History TSR In 1975, TSR, Inc. began publishing ''The Strategic Review''. At the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Rolston
Ken Rolston is an American computer game and role-playing game (pen and paper), role-playing game designer best known for his work with West End Games and on the computer game series ''The Elder Scrolls''. In February 2007, he elected to join the staff of computer games company Big Huge Games to create a new role-playing game.: 13 February 2007 press release Rolston has a master's degree from New York University, and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has been a professional games designer since 1982. Tabletop role-playing games Ken Rolston spent twelve years as an award-winning designer of tabletop role-playing games. His credits include games and supplements for ''Paranoia (role-playing game), Paranoia'', ''RuneQuest'', ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'', ''Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'', and ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Rolston was a ''Basic Role-Playing'' writer for Chaosium. Rolston had al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSR (company)
TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D''). Its earliest incarnation, Tactical Studies Rules, was founded in October 1973 by Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Gygax had been unable to find a publisher for ''D&D'', a new type of game he and Dave Arneson were co-developing, so founded the new company with Kaye to self-publish their products. Needing financing to bring their new game to market, Gygax and Kaye brought in Brian Blume in December as an equal partner. ''Dungeons & Dragons'' is generally considered the first tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), and established the genre. When Kaye died suddenly in 1975, the Tactical Studies Rules partnership restructured into TSR Hobbies, Inc. and accepted investment from Blume's father Melvin. With the popular ''D&D'' as its main product, TSR Hobbies became a major force in the games industry by the late 1970s. Melvin Blume eventually transferred his shares to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stormrider
''The Stormrider'' is an adventure published by Lion Rampant (game publisher), Lion Rampant in 1989 for the fantasy role-playing game ''Ars Magica''. Contents ''The Stormrider'' is a scenario designed to introduce new players and gamemasters to ''Ars Magica''. The adventure, contained in 16 pages, is designed to be completed in a single session. A further 24 pages of front-and-back half-page reference cards provide all the information needed to play the game, including staging hints for the gamemaster. The plot requires the player characters to investigate the mysterious destructive force known as the Stormrider. The ''Stormrider Jump Start Kit'' followed the first Lion Rampant supplement, ''The Bats of Mercille''. Stormrider was designed to allow a gamemaster to quickly start gameplay (within 15 minutes) with a group of players. Publication history Lion Rampant published the rules for ''Ars Magica'' in 1987. Two years later, they released ''The Stormrider'', written by Mark Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, ''Fate'', which has won numerous awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others to run LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest starting in 1999, and came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves. While on a trip to Lake Tahoe, friends Hicks and Donoghue developed a new game based on a conversation about running another ''Amber'' game and fixing some problems with ''FUDGE''; the result was ''Fate'' which Hicks and Donoghue would publish under the name Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released a complete first-edition of ''Fate'' through Yahoo! Groups (January 2003) then cleaned up the technical writing and slightly polished the system for a second edition (August 2003). Hicks and Donoghue began work on the licensed '' Dresden Files Roleplaying Game'' in 2004, but publication was held up because they decided to use ''Spir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cults Of Prax
''Cults of Prax'' is a tabletop role-playing game supplement for ''RuneQuest''. Originally published by Chaosium in 1979, it was republished in 2016 in PDF format as part of Chaosium's RuneQuest: Classic Edition Kickstarter. Contents ''Cults of Prax'' describes 15 cults and the gods they worship. Reception Steve Jackson reviewed ''Cults of Prax'' in ''The Space Gamer'' No. 27. Jackson commented that "Gods don't have to be ''effective'' to be ''important''. Belief is the thing, and the interactions of social groups and differing beliefs in ''Cults of Prax'' is good fantasy reading even if you don't game at all." Richard L. Snider reviewed ''Cults of Prax'' for ''Different Worlds'' magazine and stated that "I view the addition of social interaction mechanisms and a delineated cosmology to be integral to a complete fantasy campaign. ''Cult of Prax'' is the only published sourcebook of this type that gives these factors anywhere near their proper weight. I applaud both authors and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |