David L. Pulver

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David L. Pulver (born 1965-11-02 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian freelance writer and game designer, with a History degree from Queen's University. He is the author of more than fifty role-playing game rulebooks and supplements, including the award winning Transhuman Space.

Steve Jackson and David Pulver coauthored a novella entitled Thera Awakening that was distributed with the Interplay computer game Stonekeep. This novella describes the back story and history of the Stonekeep world and characters and was completed before the game itself was finished.

David was the Guest of Honor at the 1992 U-Con gaming convention (held annually at the University of Michigan).

David is the designer of GURPS Vehicles, a set of rules to design vehicles from a stone-age canoe to faster-than-light starships. GURPS Traveller (especially GURPS Traveller: Starships and GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces) and GURPS World War 2 (including GURPS WW2: Motorpool) use somewhat simplified specialized versions of it. The design rules in GURPS Robots and GURPS Mecha are fully compatible with it. GURPS Reign of Steel uses the rules from GURPS Robots.

In 2007, he completed the first vehicle design rules for the 4th edition of GURPS, titled GURPS Spaceships.

Contents

[edit] Writing Credits: GURPS Books

  • Main rulebook (Winner of the 2003 Grog d'Or Award for Best Role-playing Game, Game Line or RPG Setting.[2])
  • Deep Beyond
  • The High Frontier
  • Traveller Alien Races 1, 2, 3 and 4
  • Traveller: Ground Forces
  • Traveller Planetary Survey 6: Darkmoon
  • Traveller: Star Mercs
  • Traveller: Starships
  • Ultra-Tech I and II
  • Ultra-Tech 4th edition
  • Vehicles 1st and 2nd Editions
  • Vehicles Expansion I
  • Vehicles Expansion II
  • Vehicles Lite
  • Y2K

[edit] Writing Credits: Other Game Systems

  • BESM Dungeon
  • Big Eyes, Small Mouth (main rulebook) 2nd edition and 3rd editions
  • Big Robots, Cool Starships
  • Centauri Knights
  • Hot Rods and Gun Bunnies
  • Bubblegum Crisis: Before and After
  • The Complete Druid
  • Cybor Gladiators
  • d20 System
  • BESM d20 Role-playing Game
  • Centauri Knights d20
  • d20 Mecha
  • d20 Military Vehicles

[edit] References

  1. ^ Origins Award Winners (1992). Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
  2. ^ Transhuman Space wins Grog d'Or 2003. GamingReport.com [1]. Retrieved on 2007-09-05.

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