Allan Grohe
| Allan T. Grohe Jr. | |
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 Allan "grodog" Grohe at work in his office on 17 April 2012. Photo by Ethan Grohe (then 4 years old). | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Born: | November 8, 1969, New Jersey (USA) |
| First Greyhawk work: | "Artifacts of Oerth" in Dragon #294 (April 2002) |
| Alias: | grodog |
Allan T. Grohe Jr. (born 8 November 1969) is an award-winning game designer, editor, and poet, and has been playing AD&D and other RPGs since 1977. Allan’s first professional gaming publication (“More for the Shadow Master”) appeared in White Wolf Magazine #11 in 1987; he has also contributed to The Unspeakable Oath, Pyramid, Polyhedron, and Dragon Magazine, among others. Allan has worked extensively with Biohazard Games (Blue Planet, Upwind), Pagan Publishing (Delta Green), Different Worlds Publications (Tadashi Ehara), and Pied Piper Publishing (Robert J. Kuntz). Allan co-founded Black Blade Publishing with Jon Hershberger in 2009 to publish top-quality old-school gaming products, including OSRIC, Monsters of Myth, and Kuntz’ The Original Bottle City. Allan’s most-recent projects are Tales of Peril: The Complete Boinger and Zereth Stories of John Eric Holmes, and The Twisting Stair, a gaming newsletter focused on dungeon design that Allan publishes with Tony Rosten.
Allan’s editorial, design, and development work has contributed to winning one Origins Award and securing four Origins Award nominations, winning one ENnie Award and two ENnie Award nominations.
Allan is known online as grodog, where he publishes a website featuring World of Greyhawk content, as well as his non-gaming writing (poetry, personal essays, and literary scholarship), and the usual fan ephemera at http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/. He grew up in Merchantville, a small town in southern New Jersey, and lives in Wichita, Kansas, with his lovely wife Heather, their two wonderful sons Ethan and Henry, and their two pugs Tara and Gypsy.
Greyhawk Works
Author or Co-Author, Game Designer or Co-Game-Designer
- Grohe Jr., Allan T.. "The Iounic Loop - Reimagining the Ring of Gaxx" in AFS#4. Halls of Tizun Thane: December 2013.
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- Grohe Jr., Allan T., and Erik Mona. "All Oerth's Artifacts." Dragon #299. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2002.
- -----. "Artifacts of Oerth." Dragon #294. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2002.
Editor or Developer
- Kuntz, Robert J. The Eight Kings. Different Worlds Publications, 2004.
- -----. RJK-1 The Original Bottle City. Pied Piper Publishing, 2007.
- -----. LGCC-1 The Original Bottle City. Black Blade Publishing, 2014.
- -----. The Original Living Room. Pied Piper Publishing, 2007.
- -----. The Stalk. Pied Piper Publishing, 2009.
- -----. "Warlock's Walk." Unpublished GenCon tournament version. Pied Piper Publishing, 2007.
- Kuntz, Robert J., and Allan T. Grohe Jr. "An Interview with Robert J. Kuntz" in Oerth Journal #14. Council of Greyhawk, April 2002. Available online, GreyhawkOnline.com
- Kuntz, Robert J., and Erik N. Shook. El Raja Key's Arcane Treasury. Pied Piper Publishing, 2007.
Semi-Greyhawk and Non-Greyhawk Works
Author or Co-Author, Game Designer or Co-Game-Designer
Editor or Developer
- Kuntz, Robert J. The Eight Kings. Different Worlds Publications, 2004.
- -----. CAS1 Cairn of the Skeleton King. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006.
- -----. CAS2 Tower of Blood. Black Blade Publishing, 2006.
- -----. The Original Living Room. Pied Piper Publishing, 2007.
- -----. The Original Living Room. Pied Piper Publishing, 2007.
- -----. RJK-1 Cairn of the Skeleton King. Pied Piper Publishing, 2015.
- -----. RJK-2 Tower of Blood. Black Blade Publishing, 2015.
External links
Disclaimer:Any lore presented through the following links does not necessarily adhere to established officially published content, and the views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the editors of this wiki.
- Allan Grohe's blog
- "grodog's start in gaming - 1977: Cedar Avenue, Star Wars, and Holmes Basic" on Allan Grohe's blog
- Allan Grohe's Linked-In profile
- Allan Grohe's Greyhawk articles on the Canonfire! web site.
- Grodog's Greyhawk - Allan Grohe's Greyhawk web site
- Black Blade Publishing Facebook page
- The Twisting Stair Facebook page