Lawrence Whitaker is a

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Lawrence Whitaker had worked on

Chaosium Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon ...

fanzines. Whitaker worked with ''

RuneQuest ''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. It was first publis ...

s ''

Basic Role-Playing ''Basic Role-Playing'' (''BRP'') is a tabletop role-playing game which originated in the ''RuneQuest'' fantasy role-playing game. Chaosium released the ''BRP'' standalone booklet in 1980 in the boxed set release of the second edition of ''RuneQu ...

'' system on Chaosium's ''Eternal Champion'' games in the 1990s. In 2007, Whitaker was brought in to

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties ''Traveller'', '' Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

, where he became the author of their fourth ''RuneQuest'' setting, ''Elric of Melniboné'' (2007). Whitaker was able to take a hand in the authorship of many critical books in Mongoose's ''RuneQuest'' line, mainly spread across their universal, ''Second Age'' and ''Elric'' lines. Whitaker and Pete Nash decided to revamp Mongoose's ''RuneQuest'' game and thus they released ''RuneQuest II''. Whitaker decided to leave Mongoose later in 2010 after a four-year run with the company. After Mongoose's license to ''RuneQuest'' expired, Mongoose kept the game in print under the title ''Legend''. Meanwhile, Whitaker and Nash formed a company, The Design Mechanism, to pick up the ''RuneQuest'' license and publish a sixth edition of the game in 2012. That edition remained in print until 2016, when it was retitled ''Mythras''. Whitaker has also worked for Alephtar Games.

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