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'''François Marcela-Froideval''' is a [[Wikipedia:France|French]] role-playing game creator, video game producer, and comic author. | '''François Marcela-Froideval''' is a [[Wikipedia:France|French]] role-playing game creator, video game producer, and comic author. | ||
==Writing in Role-playing Games== | ==Writing in Role-playing Games== | ||
[[File:froideval02.jpg|300px|thumb|Froideval, appearing at a signing with his [[Black Moon Chronicles]] hardback.]] | [[File:froideval02.jpg|300px|thumb|Froideval, appearing at a signing with his [[Black Moon Chronicles]] hardback.]] | ||
Froideval had a major influence on the introduction of role-playing games in France, mainly as editor in chief of the ''[[Wikipedia:Casus Belli (magazine)|Casus Belli]]'' role-playing magazine. During this time, he was one of the three authors who established the French term for a "[[Wikipedia:Munchkin (role-playing games)|munchkin]]", ''Gros Bill'', from the nickname of an overly powergaming player once in Froideval's group. | Froideval had a major influence on the introduction of role-playing games in France, mainly as editor-in-chief of the ''[[Wikipedia:Casus Belli (magazine)|Casus Belli]]'' role-playing magazine. During this time, he was one of the three authors who established the French term for a "[[Wikipedia:Munchkin (role-playing games)|munchkin]]", ''Gros Bill'', from the nickname of an overly powergaming player once in Froideval's group. | ||
He left for the United States in 1982 to join [[TSR]],inc., where he worked for four years. His writing contributions include several ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' rules and monster manuals in collaboration with [[Gary Gygax]], like ''[[Oriental Adventures]]''. Back in France, he focused on translating and publishing TSR games until 1989. | He left for the United States in 1982 to join [[TSR]],inc., where he worked for four years. His writing contributions include several ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' rules and monster manuals in collaboration with [[Gary Gygax]], like ''[[Oriental Adventures]]''. Back in France, he focused on translating and publishing TSR games until 1989. | ||
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Froideval dedicated the ''Black Moon Chronicles'' series to Gary Gygax in the last issue of Volume 1, ''End of Times'', | Froideval dedicated the ''Black Moon Chronicles'' series to Gary Gygax in the last issue of Volume 1, ''End of Times'', with this dedication: | ||
<blockquote><poem>''Cette série est dédiée à E. Gary Gygax, le premier grand rêveur, l'inventeur du jeu de rôle, celui sans qui l'heroïc-fantasy et la science-fiction ne seraient a l'heure actuelle qu'un genre mineur presque oublié. À ce géant discret qui a fait rêver des millions de joueurs.<br/>A mon maître, a mon ami. Puisse-t-il éternellement vivre dans les univers qu'il a patiemment tissés.<br/>In loving memory.</poem></blockquote> | <blockquote><poem>''Cette série est dédiée à E. Gary Gygax, le premier grand rêveur, l'inventeur du jeu de rôle, celui sans qui l'heroïc-fantasy et la science-fiction ne seraient a l'heure actuelle qu'un genre mineur presque oublié. À ce géant discret qui a fait rêver des millions de joueurs.<br/>A mon maître, a mon ami. Puisse-t-il éternellement vivre dans les univers qu'il a patiemment tissés.<br/>In loving memory.</poem></blockquote> | ||
<blockquote><poem>This series is dedicated to E. Gary Gygax, the first dreamer, inventor of the role-playing game, without whom the heroic fantasy and science-fiction genre would only be today a minor, almost forgotten genre. To this quiet giant who made millions of players dream.<br/>To my master and friend. May he live forever in the universe he so patiently built.<br/>In loving memory.''</poem></blockquote> | <blockquote><poem>This series is dedicated to E. Gary Gygax, the first dreamer, inventor of the role-playing game, without whom the heroic fantasy and science-fiction genre would only be today a minor, almost forgotten genre. To this quiet giant who made millions of players dream.<br/>To my master and friend. May he live forever in the universe he so patiently built.<br/>In loving memory.''</poem></blockquote> | ||
In later years, Froideval would return to France, and would continue writing his enormously popular graphic novel series, | In later years, Froideval would return to France, and would continue writing his enormously popular graphic novel series, still using the same names of the regions published on the map of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> World of Greyhawk</span>™, as well as others of his own invention. He currently writes scenarios for ''Black Moon'' spin-off series, and other French comic series.<ref>[http://www.bedetheque.com/biblio-auteur-826-BD-Froideval.html Comic biography] at ''Bedetheque''.</ref> | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://lalunenoire.dargaud.com/site/auteur01.htm Francois Froideval] at [[Wikipedia:Dargaud|Dargaud]](publisher) website for [[Wikipedia:Black Moon Chronicles|Black Moon Chronicles]] | *[http://lalunenoire.dargaud.com/site/auteur01.htm Francois Froideval] at [[Wikipedia:Dargaud|Dargaud]](publisher) website for [[Wikipedia:Black Moon Chronicles|Black Moon Chronicles]] (''in French'') | ||
*[http://lambiek.net/artists/f/froideval.htm Francois Froideval] at [[Lambiek]] | *[http://lambiek.net/artists/f/froideval.htm Francois Froideval] at [[Lambiek]] | ||
*[http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-826-BD-Froideval.html Francois Froideval] at ''Bedetheque''(''in French'') | *[http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-826-BD-Froideval.html Francois Froideval] at ''Bedetheque''(''in French'') | ||
*[http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1351 Pen-paper.net]. archive-date: March 10, 2005. ''Francois Marcela-Froideval: Pen & Paper RPG Database''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050310234311/http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1351 Wayback Machine - Pen-paper.net], | *[http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1351 Pen-paper.net]. archive-date: March 10, 2005. ''Francois Marcela-Froideval: Pen & Paper RPG Database''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050310234311/http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=1351 Wayback Machine - Pen-paper.net], Accessed: March 3rd, 2019. | ||
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Template:Greyhawk Author François Marcela-Froideval is a French role-playing game creator, video game producer, and comic author.
Writing in Role-playing Games
Froideval had a major influence on the introduction of role-playing games in France, mainly as editor-in-chief of the Casus Belli role-playing magazine. During this time, he was one of the three authors who established the French term for a "munchkin", Gros Bill, from the nickname of an overly powergaming player once in Froideval's group.
He left for the United States in 1982 to join TSR,inc., where he worked for four years. His writing contributions include several Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules and monster manuals in collaboration with Gary Gygax, like Oriental Adventures. Back in France, he focused on translating and publishing TSR games until 1989.
He wrote the scenario of several French videogames, working for Infogrames (Drakkhen) and Cryo Interactive (Dragon Lore series).
Black Moon Chronicles
In 1989, he wrote the scenario of the first Chroniques de la Lune Noire or "Black Moon Chronicles" comic album with illustrator Olivier Ledroit. He kept writing that volume until the end of the series in 2008, after which a second volume and several spinoffs followed. The reason this is significant is the names of the nations he used were later canonized as part of Western Oerik on the map of the World of Greyhawk™ found in Dragon Annual #1 (1996). The nations were created while Froideval lived and worked with Gary Gygax at TSR, inc. [1] While those names were canonized on that map, nothing more was ever done with them in officially published sources, for the most part. Those included the Empire of Lynn, Tharque and Tharquish Dominions, Ishtarland, the Elvanian Forest, Kingdoms of the Marches, Elven Lands, Erypt, and the Gulf of Ra.
Froideval dedicated the Black Moon Chronicles series to Gary Gygax in the last issue of Volume 1, End of Times, with this dedication:
Cette série est dédiée à E. Gary Gygax, le premier grand rêveur, l'inventeur du jeu de rôle, celui sans qui l'heroïc-fantasy et la science-fiction ne seraient a l'heure actuelle qu'un genre mineur presque oublié. À ce géant discret qui a fait rêver des millions de joueurs.
A mon maître, a mon ami. Puisse-t-il éternellement vivre dans les univers qu'il a patiemment tissés.
In loving memory.
This series is dedicated to E. Gary Gygax, the first dreamer, inventor of the role-playing game, without whom the heroic fantasy and science-fiction genre would only be today a minor, almost forgotten genre. To this quiet giant who made millions of players dream.
To my master and friend. May he live forever in the universe he so patiently built.
In loving memory.
In later years, Froideval would return to France, and would continue writing his enormously popular graphic novel series, still using the same names of the regions published on the map of the World of Greyhawk™, as well as others of his own invention. He currently writes scenarios for Black Moon spin-off series, and other French comic series.[2]
External links
- Francois Froideval at Dargaud(publisher) website for Black Moon Chronicles (in French)
- Francois Froideval at Lambiek
- Francois Froideval at Bedetheque(in French)
- Pen-paper.net. archive-date: March 10, 2005. Francois Marcela-Froideval: Pen & Paper RPG Database. Wayback Machine - Pen-paper.net, Accessed: March 3rd, 2019.
References
Citations
- ↑ Guiserix, Didier (2011). Casus Belli #1. Entretien - Froideval: Gygax et Moi [Interview - Froideval: Gygax and Me]. Lyon, France: Black Book Editions. p.242-245
- ↑ Comic biography at Bedetheque.