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The fantasy role-playing game Dragon Warriors is set in a fantasy world called "Legend" modeled on medieval Europe in an era approximate to this year.

Agota Kristof

The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author in his own right, compared the novel favorably to an RPG.

Artix Entertainment

(often abbreviated to AE) is an independent video game developer and publisher that creates browser-based role-playing games using the Flash and Unity engines, and has recently begun developing games for mobile platforms including iOS and Android.

Basic Role-Playing

Pendragon (acquired in 1998 by Green Knight Publishing, and 2005 by White Wolf), while related, has sufficiently different mechanics that it can be seen as a separate system.

Brian R. James

As a writer, Brian is best known for his online and print works for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published by Wizards of the Coast.

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

It bases some of its narrative around Lovecraft's novella Herbert West–Reanimator, also containing elements from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

Campaign setting

Settings that have been explored in roleplaying games include Pendragon (Arthurian), Sengoku (Japanese warring states), Recon (Vietnam War), Tibet (historical Tibet), and Fantasy Imperium (historical Europe).

Crafty Games

Additionally he has worked on many acclaimed games, including Legend of the Five Rings, 7th Sea, Doomtown, When Darkness Comes, and the Battlestar Galactica RPG.

Darcsyde Productions

Darcsyde Productions is a small-scale Australian web development and publishing concern, based in Melbourne, which has specialised in creating websites and role-playing games (RPGs).

Dice pool

Vampire: The Masquerade (1991) and Over the Edge (1992) followed, which were written by Ars Magica designers Mark Rein-Hagen and Jonathan Tweet respectively, the pair having been impressed by the potential of the dice pool mechanic and each having decided to make their own game based on dice pools.

Donna Barr

Barr also produced illustrations for the Traveller role-playing books, including Alien Module 8: Darrians, the MegaTraveller Player's Manual and several issues of both the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society and Challenge magazine.

Druaga

In the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, Druaga is listed part of the Babylonian pantheon and is the god of devils.

ENnies

The Annual Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (or ENnie Awards) are annual, fan-based awards for role-playing game products and publishers hosted at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Fading Suns

Fading Suns was written by Andrew Greenberg and Bill Bridges, known for having been involved with the original Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse role-playing games which were published by White Wolf Publishing.

Family Guy Online

Family Guy Online was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the animated television series Family Guy, developed in a partnership between Roadhouse Interactive and 20th Century Fox.

Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks

Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks (full title: Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms) is a book by author Ethan Gilsdorf and a work of travel literature, memoir and immersion journalism that explores fantasy and gaming subcultures.

Fred Fields

Fred Fields is an artist whose work has appeared largely in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR.

Gamebook

Examples of games with prolific solitaire lines were Dungeons & Dragons, GURPS, Das Schwarze Auge, DC Heroes, and Call of Cthulhu.

The second type is the role-playing game solitaire adventure (an example of this is the Tunnels and Trolls series of gamebooks), which combines the branching-plot novel with the rules of a role-playing game, allowing the game to be played without a Gamemaster but requiring the purchase of separate manuals.

Gamemaster

For example, the Storyteller System used in White Wolf Game Studio's storytelling games calls its GM the "storyteller", while the rules- and setting-focused Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game calls its GM the "judge".

Gray Waste

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Gray Waste (more fully, the Gray Wastes of Hades; also, Hades, The Three Glooms, Hope's Loss or The Nadir) is a strongly evil aligned plane of existence.

Greyhawk Calendar

The Greyhawk Calendar is a fictional calendar used in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game.

Heroes of Ruin

Heroes of Ruin is an action role-playing game in which the player battles various enemies such as snipers, beasts, and fencers.

Hunter: The Reckoning: Wayward

It is the sequel to Hunter: The Reckoning and based on the Hunter: The Reckoning role-playing game.

Ken Frank

He has also produced artwork for games from other companies, including Traveller (Game Designers' Workshop).

Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game

The Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game originally written by John Wick and published by Alderac Entertainment Group, under license from Five Rings Publishing Group, in 1997.

Margaret Weis

Her newest company, Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd, publishes RPG line based on several licenses including Serenity and Battlestar Galactica as well as Ed Greenwood's new solo venture into roleplaying, Castlemourn.

Mistborn series

In early 2009, Brandon Sanderson announced he was working with Crafty Games to release a role-playing game based on the series.

Morrigan Press

Morrigan Press Inc. is a pen and paper roleplaying game publisher headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Music of Final Fantasy XI

The music of the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI was composed by Naoshi Mizuta along with regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu and Kumi Tanioka.

NEC PC-9801

Despite having hardware specifications far inferior to the Fujitsu FM Towns and Sharp X68000 personal computers, the massive install base and steady flow of game titles (in particular "dōjin" style dating sims and RPGs, as well as early games of the Touhou Project franchise) kept it as the favored platform for PC game developers in Japan until the rise of the DOS/V clones.

Piece of Wonder

Piece of Wonder is a hybrid tactical RPG and visual novel originally published in Japan in February 2002 by Studio Crossfire and released on January 21, 2007 in the United States by Hirameki International.

Point Lookout Light

In the 2009 Point Lookout expansion to the 2008 role-playing game Fallout 3, the Point Lookout lighthouse contains a laboratory complex central to the story.

Quest Corporation

They were originally known as Bothtec, which had developed The Scheme, a Metroidvania-style open world action role-playing game featuring music by Yuzo Koshiro, that same year.

Richard Dorton

With over 70 games under his belt, some of his recent work include Silent Hill: Homecoming, Resident Evil 5, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned Action-RPG.

Sasha Miller

She wrote a number of works set in Andre Norton's Witch World, including GURPS Witch World (1989) with Ben W. Miller, a rule book for the GURPS role-playing game system, and the novel Falcon Magic (1994), published in the On Wings of Magic omnibus.

Scrye

JM White, publisher of the role-playing game magazine Cryptych, launched the magazine in June 1994 after being introduced to Magic by its publisher, Wizards of the Coast's Peter Adkison, in July 1993.

Sterling Hershey

Sterling Hershey is a full-time architect and freelance game designer, who has worked on two different incarnations of the Star Wars role-playing game for both West End Games and Wizards of the Coast and also on the Star Wars Miniatures game.

Steve Perrin

While at Chaosium he also created Stormbringer, Worlds of Wonder, Elfquest, and Superworld, and contributed to Thieves' World and Call of Cthulhu.

Steven C. Wade

Steven C. Wade (born 1983) is a Massively Multi-player Online Game/MMORPG veteran who has created and introduced several online computer games to the western markets, including: A Tale in the Desert Series from eGenesis, Last Chaos from Aeria Games, and most recently, Dragon Oath from the NASDAQ listed Changyou.com Ltd.

The Missing Ring

The Missing Ring is a fantasy adventure game with a similar premise to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game series—a band of adventurers, which may include humans, elves, dwarves or wizards, enters an enchanted palace to seek treasure and slay enemies.

The Shadow of Yesterday

The Shadow of Yesterday (or TSoY) is a narrativist sword and sorcery (with optional elements of heroic fantasy) indie role-playing game, designed by Clinton R. Nixon and published by CRN Games.

Tim Dedopulos

Early in 1995 he joined the Glasgow office of Seattle games giant Wizards of the Coast to work on their dystopian future-horror game SLA Industries.

Troll Lord Games

Another module written for the world of Erde was called Dark Druids written by Robert J. Kuntz, RPG author and ex-employee of TSR, Inc.

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc (or VESI) is an American roleplaying games company located in Powder Springs, Georgia.

Wong Yuk-long

Wong Jan-lung (born 1950), better known by his pseudonym Wong Yuk-long or Tony Wong, is a Hong Kong manhua artist, publisher and actor, who wrote and created Little Rascals (later re-titled Oriental Heroes) and Weapons of the Gods.

Xander Bennett

He has written tabletop RPG books for The Le Games (Unorthodox Pirates), Highmoon Media (The Song of Roland), and Dogsoul Publishing.

Z-G

In an attempt to branch out, Mark Rein·Hagen, creator of the Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game, founded Atomoton, a company that would focus more on collectible forms of gaming.

Zeta Ceti

:Baten Kaitos is also the name of a role-playing game for the Nintendo Gamecube


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