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Bruce Harlick | |
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 Bruce Harlick in 2003 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Bruce Harlick is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Bruce Harlick became the first employee of Hero Games in 1982. [1] :146 Harlick was a Game Master running a Champions campaign in Ocean City for his fellow employees. [1] :146 His Champions characters Marksman and Foxbat appeared in the Champions comic book series (1986-1987) from Eclipse Comics after Dean Mullaney secured licensing rights; after some of the licensing rights were pulled, the characters continued as Huntsman and The Flying Fox, respectively. [1] :149 Harlick later replaced Monte Cook as line editor for the Hero System books at Iron Crown Enterprises. [1] :149 Harlick was involved, with Steve Peterson and Ray Greer, in the Hero Games partnership with R. Talsorian Games that began in 1996. [1] :150 When Cybergames.com acquired Hero Games in 2000, Harlick was made President of the Hero Games division. [1] :151
Harlick also worked for TSR as an editor on Dark Sun supplements, including Merchant House of Amketch (1993), Marauders of Nibenay (1993), and The Ivory Triangle (1993).
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Its first title was the board game White Bear and Red Moon, set in Stafford's fictional fantasy gaming world of Glorantha. Chaosium's major titles have included the roleplaying games Call of Cthulhu based on the horror fiction stories of H.P. Lovecraft, and RuneQuest set in Glorantha.
Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games designed to simulate a stereotypical superhero comic book world. It was originally created by George MacDonald and Steve Peterson in collaboration with Rob Bell, Bruce Harlick and Ray Greer.
Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the Rolemaster rules system, and its science-fiction equivalent, Spacemaster, have been the foundation of ICE's business.
Monte Cook is an American professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons.
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The League of Champions are a superhero team first appearing in 1981 in the Champions role-playing game by Hero Games, and subsequently in comic book series published first by Eclipse Comics as Champions in 1986, and later by Heroic Publishing as League of Champions starting in 1987. The fictional heroes are headquartered in San Francisco.
Huntsman is the adopted crime-fighting identity of Donald Hunter, and is a member of the League of Champions. He was originally based on a character named Donald "Marksman" Henderson created by Bruce Harlick for the role-playing game Champions.
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