In what year was the author of the single-player adventure gamebook published by Puffin Books in 1984 and republished by Wizard Books in 2002 born?
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Island of the Lizard King Island of the Lizard King is a single-player adventure gamebook written by Ian Livingstone, and illustrated by Alan Langford. Originally published by Puffin Books in 1984, the title is the seventh gamebook in the Fighting Fantasy series. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2002. A digital version developed by Tin Man Games was released for Android and iOS.
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Ian Livingstone Ian Livingstone CBE (born 29 December 1949 ) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of a series of role-playing gamebooks, "Fighting Fantasy", and the author of many books within that series. He is also one of the co-founders of prominent games company Games Workshop.
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Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.
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Powers &amp; Perils Powers & Perils (P&P) is a role-playing game written by Richard Snider and published by Avalon Hill in 1983 as a boxed set.
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Christopher Stasheff Christopher Stasheff (born 1944) is an American science fiction author and fantasy author whose novels include "The Warlock in Spite of Himself" (1969) and "Her Majesty's Wizard" (1986). He has a PhD. in Theatre and taught radio and television at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico; he is now retired and living in Champaign, Illinois. Stasheff has been noted for his blending of science fiction and fantasy, as seen in his "Warlock" series, which placed an "'epic fantasy' in a science fictional frame". Stasheff's writing is often seen in the moral and ethical mentor style similar to Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks or J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Blizzard Pass Blizzard Pass was the first solo adventure module for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. It was published by TSR in 1983 and used the "Basic Rules".
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The Complete Thief's Handbook The Complete Thief's Handbook is a supplemental rulebook published in 1989 for the 2nd edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game.
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The Savage Frontier The Savage Frontier (product code FR5) is an accessory for the "Dungeons & Dragons" campaign setting "Forgotten Realms". It describes the Savage Frontier of Faerûn. The book was written by Paul Jaquays and published by TSR in 1988. Cover art is by Larry Elmore, with interior illustrations by Esteban Maroto, and cartography by Dave Sutherland, Dennis Kauth, and Jaquays.
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Player's Secrets of Talinie Player's Secrets of Talinie is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, published in 1995.
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Shadows of Evil (Mayfair Games) Shadows of Evil is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Mayfair Games in 1984.
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The Keep (Mayfair Games) The Keep is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Mayfair Games in 1984.
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Sean Williams (author) Sean Llewellyn Williams (born in Whyalla, South Australia on 23 May 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is the author of over eighty published short stories and thirty-nine novels, including "Twinmaker" and (with Garth Nix) the "Troubletwisters" series. He has co-written three books in the "Star Wars: New Jedi Order" series and is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. His novelisation of "" was the first novelisation of a computer game to debut at #1 on the "New York Times" bestseller list.
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Wrath of the Immortals Wrath of the Immortals, written by Aaron Allston, is a boxed set for the "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D") fantasy role-playing game first published by TSR in 1992, revising the rules of the "Immortals Rules" box set that was originally released in 1986.
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Rahasia Rahasia is an adventure module published by TSR, Inc. in 1984, for the "Basic Set" rules of the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Its product designation is TSR 9115. The book was designed by Tracy and Laura Hickman, and features artwork by Jeff Easley and Timothy Truman.
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Robin Jenkins (game designer) Robin Jenkins (born July 20, 1959, in Woodruff, Wisconsin) is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
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Maelstrom (role playing game) Maelstrom is a role-playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book (ISBN  ; ISBN  ). The game is set in a 16th to 17th century British setting - the Tudor Period and the Elizabethan era - although the rules can be adapted to other locations or time periods. Firearms (readily available in Europe at this time) are conspicuously absent from the setting, mentioned only in passing in the initial rulebook.
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Expedition to Undermountain Expedition to Undermountain is a generic setting adventure module for the "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D") roleplaying game. The book contains a 221-page adventure designed for first-level characters using the "D&D" version 3.5 rule set.
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Midnight on Dagger Alley Midnight on Dagger Alley is a solo adventure module for the first "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" edition of the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, published in 1984 by TSR, Inc.
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Robert Rankin Robert Fleming Rankin (born 27 July 1949) is a prolific British author of comedic fantasy novels. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with "Snuff Fiction" in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies. His books are a mix of science fiction, fantasy, the occult, urban legends, running gags, metafiction, steampunk and outrageous characters. According to the (largely fictional) biography printed in some Corgi editions of his books, Rankin refers to his style as 'Far Fetched Fiction' in the hope that bookshops will let him have a section to himself. Many of Rankin's books are bestsellers.
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Night Wizard! Night Wizard! (ナイトウィザード , "Naito Uizaado" ) is a Japanese contemporary fantasy role-playing game designed by Takeshi Kikuchi and FarEast Amusement Research (F.E.A.R.) released in 2002. In the modern-day earth campaign setting, player characters called "Wizards" (ウィザード) fight against the world enemy named "Emulators" (エミュレーター) and their lords "Maō" (魔王) and explore the dungeons built by "Emulators".
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Arcana Unearthed Arcana Unearthed (properly Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed, ISBN  ) is a role-playing game created by Monte Cook and first published in 2003. Described as a "variant player's handbook", the 256-page hardcover core rulebook bears many similarities to the "Players Handbook" of 3rd Edition "Dungeons & Dragons", on which Cook worked a few years prior. In terms of rules, "Arcana Unearthed" is based on the d20 system of "Dungeons & Dragons", although due to including rules for character advancement it cannot be an official d20 system product. (It does, however, use the Open Gaming License.)
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White Plume Mountain White Plume Mountain is an adventure module for the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, written by Lawrence Schick and published by TSR in 1979. The 16-page adventure bears the code "S2" ("S" for "special"). The adventure is a dungeon crawl where the players' characters are hired to retrieve three "notorious" magical weapons: a trident, a war hammer and a sword, each possessing its own intelligence. The adventure contains art by Erol Otus, and a cover by Jeff Dee. A sequel, "Return to White Plume Mountain", was published in 1999, and an updated version conforming to v3.5 rules was released online in 2005. The original was again updated for the 5th edition in 2017 as the fourth part of "Tales from the Yawning Portal".