Wesley D. Ives
| Wesley D. Ives | |
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| 🏡 Residence | Raleigh, NC |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
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Wes Ives was an American game designer.
Career
Ives was a major contributor of Chivalry & Sorcery role-playing game[1] who wrote one of the most wanted supplement for C&S.[2] He produced 5 games for Fantasy Games Unlimited, an american publishing house for role-playing games and contribute to Thieves' World Complete Sanctuary Adventure Pack from Chaosium, one of the oldest publishers of role-playing games still in existence.
During his short game designer life he also wrote articles for Alarums & Excursions and Dragon magazines.[3] He wrote an article about character attributes which was published in the first issue of Dragon.[4]
Edward E. Simbalist intended to produce a series called the Compleat Role-Player's Handbook, the first book of which was meant to be available at Gen Con 1979, writing it with Ives and Wilf Backhaus, but no installments of the Handbook series were ever produced.[5]
He worked as a computer technician for a school system in Swansea, South Carolina. He died from the flu in 1995.
Books written or co-authored by Wes Ives
- Destrier (Chivalry & Sorcery) (1978), Fantasy Games Unlimited[6][7]
- Swords & Sorcerers (Chivalry & Sorcery) (1978), Fantasy Games Unlimited[6][8][9]
- Saurians (Chivalry & Sorcery) (1979), Fantasy Games Unlimited[6][10]
- Chivalry & Sorcery Sourcebook (1981), Fantasy Games Unlimited[6][11]
- Thieves' world (1981), CHAOSium[12][13]
- Chivalry & Sorcery Sourcebook 2 (1983), Fantasy Games Unlimited[14][6]
References
- ↑ A history of RPGs: Made by fans; played by fans
- ↑ rare rpg on Tome of Treasures
- ↑ articles in Dragon magazine
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine045_201903/Dragon%201-50/Dragon%20Magazine%20%23001/page/n5/mode/2up
- ↑ https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Elusive_Shift/PM_tDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA199&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 https://archive.org/details/heroicworldshist0000schi_r6y9/page/126/mode/2up
- ↑ player's aid for C&S
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/sharedfantasyrol0000fine/page/274/mode/2up
- ↑ a culture supplement for C&S
- ↑ a world supplement for C&S
- ↑ rules expansion for C&S
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/dungeoneer17/dungeoneer_17/page/20/mode/2up
- ↑ Robert L. Asprin's Thieves' World adaptation for C&S
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/Space_Gamer_48/page/32/mode/2up
External links
- An interview of Edward Simbalist talking about Wes Ives contributions.
- An interview of Lee Gold talking about Wes Ives contributions.
- Wes Ives on RPGgeek.
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