Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by

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in 1990. It began by publishing a '' Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game fanzine, ''

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''. In 1994, the company moved from Columbia, Missouri to

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where it incorporated. The staff at this time included John Tynes as editor-in-chief, John H. Crowe III as business manager,

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as art director, and Brian Appleton and Chris Klepac as editors. Tynes, Detwiller, and

Adam Scott Glancy Adam Scott Glancy is an author and game designer known for co-developing ''Delta Green'', as well as penning game settings, source books, short fiction, and essays related to the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Career Adam Scott Glancy, with J ...

released the ''

Delta Green ''Delta Green'' is a contemporary era setting for the ''Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Scott Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishin ...

'' modern ''Call of Cthulhu'' campaign setting in 1996. Pagan has released multiple other ''Call of Cthulhu'' products, including a foray into card games with '' Creatures & Cultists'' and miniature games with '' The Hills Rise Wild!''. Pagan is based in Seattle, Washington and comprises

as business manager and John H. Crowe III and Brian Appleton as editors. It continues to occasionally produce ''Call of Cthulhu'' books as well as non-gaming fiction and non-fiction under the Armitage House imprint.

History

Pagan Publishing was founded in 1990 in Columbia, Missouri by the 19-year-old John Tynes, who had a love for the work of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Chambers. The company started with the magazine ''

'', with issue #1 (December 1990) as a digest-sized quarterly full of '' Call of Cthulhu'' material.

joined the company because of the magazine, after he saw ''The Unspeakable Oath'' #3 (Summer 1991), got into touch with Tynes and thereafter started volunteering at the company. Pagan Publishing published compilations of material from their magazine, including: ''Courting Madness'' (1992), an anthology of ''The Unspeakable Oath'' material; ''Creatures & Cultists'' (1992), a reprint of a card game that appeared in ''The Unspeakable Oath'' #4 (Fall 1991); and ''The Weapons Compendium'' (1993), which contained weapon stats from ''The Unspeakable Oath'' and new ones as well.

Products

Call of Cthulhu Supplements

* ''Alone on Halloween'' by Scott David Aniolowski and John Tynes * ''Devil's Children'' by

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, David Godley and David Witteveen * ''Mortal Coils'' * ''Walker In The Wastes'' by John H. Crowe III * '' Coming Full Circle'' by John H. Crowe III * ''The Realm of Shadows'' by John H. Crowe III * '' The Golden Dawn'' * ''The Resurrected 1: Grace Under Pressure'' * ''The Resurrected 2: Of Keys & Gates'' * ''The Resurrected 3: Out of the Vault'' * ''Final Flight'' by John H. Crowe III * ''The Mysteries of Mesoamerica'' by Brian Appleton, John H. Crowe III, and Clint Staples * ''Bumps in the Night'' by John H. Crowe III

Delta Green

* ''

'' (February 1, 1997), the basic sourcebook; . * ''Delta Green: Countdown'' (1999), the 2000s sourcebook, by John Tynes,

and

, . * ''Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 1: Machinations of the Mi-go'' . * ''Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 2: The Fate''. * ''Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 3: Project Rainbow'' . * ''See No Evil'' (Unspeakable Oath 16/17) * ''Delta Green'' (May 2007), the basic sourcebook with dual BRP/ D20 stats; . * ''Delta Green: Eyes Only'' (November 2007), a compilation of the ''Eyes Only'' chapbooks with additional material; .

Fiction

* ''Delta Green: Alien Intelligence'' (Tynes Cowan Corp, March 1998), short stories collection, . * ''Delta Green: Dark Theatres'' (Armitage House, 1999), short stories collection, . * ''Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement'' (Tynes Cowan Corp, 2000), novel by John Tynes, . * ''Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy'' (Impressions, 2003), novel by

, . * ''The King in Yellow'' (Armitage House, 2006), play by

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, .

Other Games

* ''The Hills Rise Wild'' miniature game * ''Creatures & Cultists'' card game

Non-Fiction

* ''A Cthulhu Mythos Bibliography & Concordance'' * ''

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References

External links

Pagan Publishing
- official site.
Armitage House
- official site. *{{bgg publisher, 266 Role-playing game publishing companies Book publishing companies based in Seattle Publishing companies established in 1990 Publishing companies based in Columbia, Missouri