C.J. Carella

C.J. Carella
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Carlos J. Martijena-Carella is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

C.J. Carella got his start in the role-playing games industry with GURPS Martial Arts (1990) and freelanced for Steve Jackson Games.[1]:340 Carella designed GURPS War Against the Chtorr (1993), which game designer Rick Swan called a "first-rate supplement for the GURPS game". [2] Carella was later a Palladium Books staffer.[1]:340 Carella authored Rifts Manhunter (1996) for Myrmidon Press, a cross-over book between Myrmidon's own science-fiction game Manhunter and Palladium's multigenre RPG Rifts.[1]:340 Carella designed the role-playing games Witchcraft (1996) and Armageddon (1997), which were first published by Myrmidon.[1]:340 Carella developed the Unisystem for the first editions of WitchCraft[3] and Armageddon.[4][5] Carella had bad experiences with the business end of Myrmidon, and since George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat of Eden Studios were fans of his work, they had talked about doing a Conspiracy X/Withcraft crossover book.[1]:340 By 1998, sales on Conspiracy X supplements were slowly dropping so they realized that they needed more lines to revitalize the business, and in July 1998 Eden Studios announced that they had come to agreement for an exclusive license to Carella's Witchcraft and Armageddon RPGs.[1]:340 Carella created a simplified variant of Unisystem for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game (2002) that he called the "cinematic" system.[1]:342 Carella's Secret of the Ancients (2003) was the final volume of Eden's Odyssey adventures series.[1]:342 Carella also co-designed Eden Studios' RPG Terra Primate.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
  2. ↑ Swan, Rick (March 1994). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR) (#203): 86.
  3. ↑ Davenport, Dan (October 2002). "CJ Carella's WitchCraft (Review)". RPGnet. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
  4. ↑ Pyle, Marx. "Interview with M. Alexander Jurkat". Sci•Fi 411. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
  5. ↑ "Interview with CJ Carella". FlamesRising.com (webzine). 2005-01-10. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  6. ↑ Burnaugh, Michael (October 2002). "Interview with C.J. Carella of Eden Studios". GamingReport.com. Retrieved 2007-10-13.

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