Pagan Publishing

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Pagan Publishing
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Founded1990;33 years ago (1990)
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United States

Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by John Scott Tynes in 1990. [1] 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 multiple other Call of Cthulhu products, including a foray into card games with Creatures & Cultists and miniature games with The Hills Rise Wild! .

Contents

Pagan is based in Seattle, Washington and comprises Adam Scott Glancy as business manager and John H. Crowe III and Brian Appleton as editors. It continues to occasionally produce Call of Cthulhu books as well as non-gaming fiction and non-fiction under the Armitage House imprint.

History

Pagan Publishing was founded in 1990 in Columbia, Missouri by the 19-year-old John Tynes, who loved the work of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Chambers. [2] : 244  The company started with the magazine The Unspeakable Oath , with issue #1 (December 1990) as a digest-sized quarterly publication focusing on Call of Cthulhu material. [2] : 244  Dennis Detwiller joined the company due to his interest in the magazine, contacting Tynes after he saw The Unspeakable Oath #3 (Summer 1991) and spending time volunteering for the company. [2] : 244  Pagan Publishing released compilations of The Unspeakable Oath material, including: the anthology Courting Madness (1992); the card game Creatures & Cultists (1992) from The Unspeakable Oath #4 (Fall 1991); and The Weapons Compendium (1993) of weapon statistics both from the magazine and new weapons as well. [2] : 245 

Products

Call of Cthulhu Supplements

Delta Green

  • Delta Green (February 1, 1997), the basic sourcebook; ISBN   1-887797-08-4.
  • Delta Green: Countdown (1999), the 2000s sourcebook, by John Tynes, Dennis Detwiller and Adam Scott Glancy, ISBN   1-887797-12-2.
  • Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 1: Machinations of the Mi-go ISBN   1-887797-13-0.
  • Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 2: The Fate.
  • Delta Green Eyes Only Volume 3: Project Rainbow ISBN   1-887797-21-1.
  • See No Evil (Unspeakable Oath 16/17)
  • Delta Green (May 2007), the basic sourcebook with dual BRP/D20 stats; ISBN   1-887797-23-8.
  • Delta Green: Eyes Only (November 2007), a compilation of the Eyes Only chapbooks with additional material; ISBN   1-887797-27-0.

Fiction

Other Games

Non-Fiction

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References

  1. ↑ "A Brief History of Game #6: Pagan Publishing: 1990-Present - RPGnet". www.rpg.net.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
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