Bruce Cordell - Citizendia

Bruce Robert Cordell (born 1968) is an American author of roleplaying games and fantasy novels. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting He is the winner of the Origins Award as well as several ENnies. The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry He lives in Seattle with his wife and household of pets.

1 Biographical timeline
2 Roleplaying work
- 2.1 Adventures
  - 2.1.1 2nd Edition AD&D
  - 2.1.2 3rd Edition D&D
- 2.2 Sourcebooks
  - 2.2.1 2nd Edition AD&D
  - 2.2.2 3rd Edition D&D
3 Novels
4 References
5 External links

Biographical timeline

1968 - born in Watertown, South Dakota
1992 - received Bachelor of Science in biology from University of Colorado at Boulder, hired as a Research Associate by NeXstar (since bought out by Gilead)
1995 - hired by TSR, Inc. (originally Tactical Studies Rules), the Dungeons & Dragons company, relocated to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
1997 - hired by Wizards of the Coast, relocated to Seattle

Roleplaying work

Bruce Cordell's RPG work includes many scenarios and sourcebooks; many of which are directly or indirectly concerned with monsters of a Lovecraftian bent (particularly mind flayers and psionics). Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Watertown is a city in and the County seat of Codington County, South Dakota, United States. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles The University of Colorado at Boulder ( CU-Boulder, UCB officially Colorado and CU colloquially is the Flagship University Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 TSR Inc was an American game publishing company most famous for publishing the Dungeons & Dragons Role-playing game. Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by Lake Geneva is a city in Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of Games primarily based on Fantasy and In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game illithids (commonly known as mind flayers) are monstrous humanoid aberrations

Cordell frequently references certain characters, ideas, and organizations in his RPG works, creating a private continuity between various supplements. In Fiction, continuity (also called time-scheme) is consistency of the characteristics of persons plot, objects places and events seen by the reader or For example, The Illithiad references the character of Strom Wakeman and the organization known as the Arcane Order (an organization detailed heavily in another of Cordell's works, College of Wizardry). Wakeman was quoted occasionally in Planescape books by Cordell, such as A Guide to the Ethereal Plane, and was instrumental to the course of events in the adventure Dawn of the Overmind (books which were themselves also connected through a phenomenon called an ether gap). Planescape is a Campaign setting Meanwhile, the Arcane Order returned in Tome and Blood as a detailed organization and the basis of a prestige class. Character class is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons Role-playing game.

Most of Cordell's work for Malhavoc Press has followed similar patterns, creating a sort of story arc across When the Sky Falls, If Thoughts Could Kill, and Hyperconscious, connected by the god-like Dark Plea and, to a lesser extent, the kureshim race. In an interview with Monte Cook, Cordell himself described his style as including "subtle story threads that connect seemingly unrelated projects". Monte Cook is a professional table-top Role-playing game designer and writer ^[1]

Adventures

2nd Edition AD&D

Gates of Firestorm Peak (1996)
Evil Tide (1997)
Night of the Shark (1997)
Sea of Blood (1998)
Return to the Tomb of Horrors (1998)
A Darkness Gathering (1998)
Masters of Eternal Night (1998)
Dawn of the Overmind (1998)
The Shattered Circle (1998)
Return to White Plume Mountain (1999)
Die Vecna Die! (with Steve Miller, 2000)
Reverse Dungeon (with John D. Return to the Tomb of Horrors is a boxed set Return to White Plume Die Vecna Die! is an Advanced Steve Miller may refer to Steve Miller (athletics, President and CEO of the Professional Bowlers Association Steve Miller (business, Rateliff, 2000)

3rd Edition D&D

The Sunless Citadel (2000)
Heart of Nightfang Spire (2001)
Bastion of Broken Souls (2002)

Sourcebooks

2nd Edition AD&D

College of Wizardry (1998)
Dungeon Builder's Guidebook (1998)
Bastion of Faith (1999)
The Illithiad (1998)

3rd Edition D&D

Enemies and Allies (2001)
Psionics Handbook (2001)
Epic Level Handbook
Tome and Blood (2001)
Expanded Psionics Handbook (2004)
Complete Psionics (2006)

Third-Party d20 System Sourcebooks

If Thoughts Could Kill (Malhavoc Press, 2002)
Hyperconscious (Malhavoc Press, 2004)

Bruce has written nearly 40 game products: a list of which can be found externally here: Amazon list of credits

Novels

Plague of Spells (Forgotten Realms Novel, #1 in series Abolethic Sovereignty), December 2008

Stardeep (Forgotten Realms Novel, #3 in series The Dungeons), November 2007

Darkvision (Forgotten Realms Novel, #3 in series The Wizards), 2006

Lady of Poison (Forgotten Realms Novel, #1 in series The Priests), 2005

Oath of Nerull (Writing as T. The Expanded Psionics Handbook is a sourcebook by Bruce Cordell for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game that contains a multitude of rules and options The Epic Level Handbook is a rulebook by Wizards of the Coast containing rules for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition characters to attain levels above 20 The d20 System is a Role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons H. Lain), 2004