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Marcus Rowland (author)
Marcus L. Rowland (born 1953) is an English author in the field of role-playing games, particularly games with Victorian era content. Biography Marcus Rowland owned a copy of the original boxed set of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' as early as 1977, then switched to ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' (AD&D) in 1979 and started to act as Dungeon Master. Rowland had an interest in writing magazine articles — he had already written two articles about scientific photography for ''Amateur Photographer''. After playing ''AD&D'' for a couple of years, he started to submit articles about role-playing games to hobby magazines, beginning with a variant character class for ''AD&D'', the Detective, that appeared in the April–May 1981 edition (Issue #24) of ''White Dwarf (magazine), White Dwarf''. He became a frequent contributor to ''White Dwarf'', ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon'', ''Challenge (game magazine), Challenge'', ''Different Worlds'', ''The Space Gamer'', and ''Dragon (magazine), Dragon'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampstead
Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly in the London Borough of Camden, with a small part in the London Borough of Barnet. It borders Highgate and Golders Green to the north, Belsize Park to the south and is surrounded from the northeast by Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. Hampstead is known for its intellectual, artistic, liberal, and literary associations. It contains a number of listed buildings, such as Burgh House, Kenwood House, the Spaniard's Inn, and the Everyman cinema. With some of the most expensive housing in London, Hampstead has had many notable residents, both past and present, including King Constantine II of Greece and his wife Queen Anne Marie, Helena Bonham Carter, Agatha Christie, T. S. Eliot, Jon English, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais, Jim Henson, George Orwell, Harry Styles and Elizabeth Taylor. As of 2004, Hampstead has been home to more Prime Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
