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Lawrence Whitaker

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Lawrence Whitaker
NationalityEnglish
OccupationGame designer

Lawrence Whitaker is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

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Lawrence Whitaker had worked on Chaosium fanzines.[1]: 430  Whitaker gained experience 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 throughout 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 

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Appelcline, Shannon (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
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