Lawrence Whitaker is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Lawrence Whitaker | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Career edit
Lawrence Whitaker had worked on Chaosium fanzines.[1]: 430 Whitaker gained experince with the Basic Role-Playing system of RuneQuest while working on the Eternal Champion games from Chaosium in the 1990s.[1]: 399 Mongoose Publishing hired Whitaker in 2007, where he wrote their fourth RuneQuest setting, Elric of Melniboné (2007).[1]: 399 Whitaker authored many books for Mongoose in their RuneQuest line, particularly throuhout their universal, Second Age and Elric lines.[1]: 399
Whitaker and Pete Nash began to revamp the RuneQuest game for Mongoose in 2010, which resulted in RuneQuest II.[1]: 399 Whitaker left Mongoose later in 2010 after four years with the company.[1]: 402 After Mongoose's license to RuneQuest expired, Mongoose kept the game in print under the title Legend. Meanwhile, Whitaker and Nash formed a company, The Design Mechanism, to pick up the RuneQuest license and publish a sixth edition of the game in 2012. That edition remained in print until 2016, when it was retitled Mythras.
Whitaker has also worked for Alephtar Games.[1]: 430
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External links edit
- "Lawrence Whitaker :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on 19 May 2007.