Ken Rolston
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Ken Rolston is an American computer game and
Tabletop role-playing games
Ken Rolston began working as a professional games designer in 1982. Rolston spent twelve years as an award-winning designer of tabletop role-playing games. His credits include games and supplements for Paranoia, RuneQuest, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and Dungeons & Dragons.[1][2][3][4]
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Rolston also was winner of the H. G. Wells Award for Best Role-playing Game, Paranoia, 1985,[11] and served as role-playing director for West End Games, Games Workshop, and Avalon Hill Game Company.
In 2016, Rolston joined Mongoose Games to assist in editing their newest edition of Paranoia, which was Kickstarted in 2014, in order to "hit all the right notes for both veteran players and newbies alike."[12]
Video game industry
Rolston was the lead designer for Bethesda's role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, its expansions and was also lead designer for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. He was lead designer for two Big Huge Games projects, both of which were canceled in 2009.[13]
Rolston went on to be the lead creative visionary for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a single player RPG designed by Big Huge Games, a Baltimore subsidiary of 38 Studios.[citation needed]
Selected works
Year | Title | Type | Role(s) |
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1987 | Paranoia, 2nd edition | Tabletop role-playing game | Writer |
1989 | Something Rotten in Kislev for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay | ||
1991 | Extreme Paranoia: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Shot | Novel | |
1997 | An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire | Video game | Design and Dialogue |
1998 | The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard | Additional Writing | |
2000 | Sea Dogs | Additional design and writing | |
2002 | The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind | Lead designer | |
2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean | Additional design and writing | |
2006 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Lead designer | |
2012 | Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning | Executive design director | |
2017 | The Long Dark
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Designer-in-residence |
References
- ^ a b "Veteran Designer Ken Rolston Joins BHG". Archived from the original on 22 February 2007.: 13 February 2007 press release
- ^ "RPG Legend Ken Rolston Retires". Joystiq. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
- ^ "Oblivion's Ken Rolston Speaks". H Consumer. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
- ^ "Masters of Narrative Design 6: Ken Rolston". narrativedesign.org. Archived from the original on 17 February 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
- ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ a b c Appelcline 2011, p. 179.
- ^ Appelcline 2011, p. 187.
- ^ Appelcline 2011, p. 49.
- ^ Appelcline 2011, p. 191.
- ^ Appelcline 2011, p. 91.
- ^ "THQ Signs Oblivion Designer for a 'Big Huge' RPG". Gamedaily. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
- ^ "Update 43: Design/Development Diary · Paranoia RPG".
- ^ "What Were Big Huge Games Working On (And Have They Found A Buyer)?". 9 April 2009.: Status update
External links
- Ken Rolston at MobyGames
- "Ken Rolston :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on 11 March 2005. Retrieved 15 February 2020.