Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a role-playing game in the subgenre named after what author?
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Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a Lovecraftian horror tactical role-playing game developed by Red Wasp Design in conjunction with Chaosium. The game was released in 2012, first for iOS in January, then for PC in May, and for Android in June.
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Lovecraftian horror Lovecraftian horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (and in some cases, unknowable) more than gore or other elements of shock, though these may still be present. It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), who is largely credited as the first author to pioneer the genre.
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Super Genius Games Super Genius Games is a publisher of role-playing games for a variety of systems including: Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The company was founded by R. Hyrum Savage and Stan! in the Fall of 2007.
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Eberron Eberron is a campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D") role-playing game, set in a period after a vast destructive war on the continent of Khorvaire. Eberron is designed to accommodate traditional "D&D" elements and races within a differently toned setting; Eberron combines a fantasy tone with pulp and dark adventure elements, and some non-traditional fantasy technologies such as trains, skyships, and mechanical beings which are all powered by magic.
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Andrew Greenberg Andrew Greenberg is a game designer of tabletop role-playing games and role-playing video games.
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The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game based on The Wheel of Time, an epic fantasy series by American author Robert Jordan.
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Gloom (card game) Gloom is a tabletop card game created by designer Keith Baker and published by Atlas Games in 2004. It won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game in 2005. Four expansion packs have been created since the release of the original game called, "Unhappy Homes", "Unwelcome Guests", "Unquiet Dead" and "Unfortunate Expeditions". Additionally, In August 2011, Cthulhu Gloom, which serves as either a standalone game or a fourth expansion pack, was released, and one Cthulhu expansion pack has been released, called "Unpleasant Dreams".
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Ford Ivey Ford Ivey (born 1947–48), sometimes called the "Grandfather of NERO", is the founder of several live action role-playing games, including NERO International, Shandlin’s Ferry, Wildlands, The Isles, a live version of Call of Cthulhu, and his newest game, The Osiris Sanction. Ford is the recipient and namesake of the LARPY Lifetime Achievement award, and is the LARP Guest of Honor at Origins Game Fair in July, 2007.
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Michael Breault Michael Breault (born May 28, 1958 in Central Falls, Rhode Island) is a game designer and editor, and an author of several products for the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game from TSR.
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Dungeons &amp; Dragons retro-clones "Dungeons & Dragons" retro-clones are fantasy role-playing games that seek to emulate editions of "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D") no longer supported by Wizards of the Coast. They are mostly made possible by the terms of the Open Game License and System Reference Document, which allows the use of much of the proprietary terminology of "D&D" that might otherwise collectively constitute a copyright infringement. While these rules lack the name "D&D" or any of the associated trademarks, their intent is to have a playable experience similar to those older editions.
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Pagan Publishing Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by John Scott Tynes in 1990. It began by publishing a "Call of Cthulhu" role-playing game fanzine, "The Unspeakable Oath". In 1994, the company moved from Columbia, Missouri to Seattle, Washington where it incorporated. The staff at this time included John Tynes as editor-in-chief, John H. Crowe III as business manager, Dennis Detwiller as art director, and Brian Appleton and Chris Klepac as editors. Tynes, Detwiller and Adam Scott Glancy released the "Delta Green" modern "Call of Cthulhu" campaign setting in 1996. Pagan has released many other "Call of Cthulhu" products, including a foray into card games with "Creatures & Cultists" and miniature games with "The Hills Rise Wild!".
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Books in the Cthulhu Mythos Many fictional works of arcane literature appear in H.P. Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The main literary purpose of these works is to explain how characters within the tales come by occult or esoterica (knowledge that is unknown to the general populace). However, in some cases the works themselves serve as an important plot device. Thus, in Robert Bloch's tale "The Shambler from the Stars", a weird fiction writer seals his doom by casting a spell from the arcane book "De Vermis Mysteriis".
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Tunnels &amp; Trolls Tunnels & Trolls (abbreviated "T&T") is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Ken St. Andre and first published in 1975 by Flying Buffalo. The second modern role-playing game published, it was written by Ken St. Andre to be a more accessible alternative to "Dungeons & Dragons" and is suitable for solitaire, group, and play-by-mail gameplay.
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Campaign setting A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A "campaign" is a series of individual adventures, and a "campaign setting" is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place. Usually a campaign setting is designed for a specific game (such as the "Forgotten Realms" setting for "Dungeons & Dragons") or a specific genre of game (such as Medieval fantasy, or outer space/science fiction adventure). There are numerous campaign settings available both in print and online. In addition to published campaign settings available for purchase, many game masters create their own settings, often referred to as "homebrew" settings or worlds.
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Neverwinter Saga Neverwinter Saga is a saga written in the Forgotten Realms campaign world, a popular "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing setting, by fantasy and science fiction author R.A. Salvatore. The tetralogy begins with "Gauntlgrym" which is set twenty-four years after the events of "The Ghost King". "Gauntlgrym" is also the twentieth book concerning one of Salvatore's famous characters, Drizzt Do'Urden. The saga contains "Gauntlgrym", "Neverwinter", "Charon's Claw", and "The Last Threshold". This tetralogy is preceded by The Transitions Series.
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Stephen R. Marsh Stephen R. Marsh is an American game designer and lawyer best known for his contributions to early editions of TSR's "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG). Some of the creatures he created for the original edition of "D&D" in 1975 have been included in every subsequent edition of the game.
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Richard Lederer Richard Lederer (born May 26, 1938) is an American author, speaker, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on word play such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He refers to himself as "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His weekly column, "Looking at Language", is syndicated in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States.
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Troy Christensen Troy Christensen (born July 16, 1964) is an American author and game designer. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he is an established figure in the role-playing game community.
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Weird fiction Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It can be said to encompass the ghost story and other tales of the macabre. Weird fiction is distinguished from horror and fantasy in its blending of supernatural, mythical, and even scientific tropes. British authors who have embraced this style have often published their work in mainstream literary magazines even after American pulp magazines became popular. Popular weird fiction writers included Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, and Clark Ashton Smith.
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Realms of Chaos (video game) Realms of Chaos is a platform game written for MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software as shareware. The game was authored by Keith Schuler, who had previously designed "Paganitzu", and was originally to be a sequel entitled "Alabama Smith and the Bloodfire Pendant". It is still sold by Apogee.
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Dave Gross Dave Gross ( ) is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
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Robert Crucian Robert Crucian is a fictional character in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, introduced by writer Jason Bengtson. As of 2011, the character is the focus of a short story and audio-play by Bengtson, at least one fan site, and has found some crossover success among players of the Delta Green franchise.