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Bruce Heard

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Born

Nice, France

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http://bruce-heard.blogspot.com/

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Fantasy, Historical Fiction, History

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J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Ken Follett

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Bruce Heard is a game designer and the author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR. More recently, Bruce launched a new project, The World of Calidar, which tells the story of a flying ship and her crew, and depicts Calidar, a fantasy setting for use with role-playing games. It is written to appeal to both fantasy fiction readers and hobby game players. This project's funding on Kickstarter was highly successful, resulting in more than 200% backing. The final project will yield multiple titles, the first of which is planned for June 2014.

Bruce's full bio is listed here:
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The Gazetteer Writer's Manual

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The Principalities of Glantri (Dungeons and Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying, Gazetteer GAZ3)

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Bruce Heard said: " From the author: Here's a review that you might find useful, written by Beedo at "Dreams of the Lich House."

"My love for the GAZ3, Principalities of Glantri, is disproportionate to the amount of time it's actually seen use on the game table, but it's From the author: Here's a review that you might find useful, written by Beedo at "Dreams of the Lich House."

"My love for the GAZ3, Principalities of Glantri, is disproportionate to the amount of time it's actually seen use on the game table, but it's a perennial visitor during my bouts of Gamer ADD when I'm casting around for a new campaign setting. One of these days.

Glantri is a late 80's classic D&D product written by Bruce Heard, part of the Gazetteer series for classic D&D's "Known World". Glantri is a realm of wizard-princes where magic is king; it's chock full of chaotic, homicidal, high level magic users. It's about as gonzo a setting I've seen; the source of magic throughout the world is an alien nuclear reactor deep beneath Glantri City, buried there when an ancient star ship crash landed, suffered a melt down, and sank beneath the earth. The ultimate origin of most magical creatures in the Known World is magical mutation.

Glantri did magic-as-technology long before Eberron; it did the Great School of Magic well before Hogwarts (and had arcaners vs mundaners); it's had vampire, lich and werewolf wizards in various dark brotherhoods well before the Camarilla and WOD; it's got power politics, skullduggery, and even a few cameos from Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne (courtesy of X2 Castle Amber). Glantri City is riddled with twisting canals and waterways like Venice, and the streets are home to conniving cabals of every sort, including powerful thieves and assassin's guilds. There's quite a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor, too, so the tone can be adjusted lighter or darker to fit your own vision - it wouldn't be hard to run a Glantri-game like Discworld, for instance.

The Glantri sourcebook has quite a bit of rules-crunch - there are skill bolt-ons to the magic user class to allow things like potion making, elemental mastery, dracology, to necromancy; there are alternate XP rules for magic research, alternate rules for spell and item creation, and a new Path to Immortality by mastering Glantri's unique magical source, the Radiance. The later editions of Classic D&D - BECMI and the Rules Cyclopedia - went from levels 1-36 and had an end-game focused on gaining immortality. (. . .)"

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