C. J. Carella

C.J. Carella
NationalityAmerican
OccupationsRPG designer

Carlos J. Martijena-Carella is a role-playing game designer and novel author.

Career

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RPGs

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Following an introduction to GURPS in Steve Jackson's Man to Man,[1] C.J. Carella got his first work in the role-playing games industry on GURPS Martial Arts (1990) and freelance work for Steve Jackson Games.[2]: 340  Carella designed GURPS War Against the Chtorr (1993), which game designer Rick Swan called a "first-rate supplement for the GURPS game".[3] He also wrote GURPS Voodoo: The Shadow War, published in 1995.

Carella then became a staff members of Palladium Books.[2]: 340  He created the Nightbane setting and was involved in the production of Mercenaries and Pantheons of the Megaverse for Palladium's multigenre RPG RIFTS.[4] Carella also wrote Rifts Manhunter (1996), which was published by Myrmidon Press as a cross-book between their own science-fiction game Manhunter and Rifts.[2]: 340  Carella designed the role-playing games CJ Carella's WitchCraft (1996) and Armageddon: The End Times (1997), which were first published by Myrmidon.[2]: 340 

Carella developed the Unisystem for the first editions of WitchCraft[5] and Armageddon.[6][7] Carella had negative experiences with Myrmidon on their business end, and since George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat of Eden Studios, Inc. were fans of his work, they had talked with Carella about developing a crossover book for Conspiracy X and Witchcraft.[2]: 340 

Conspiracy X supplement sales were dropping by 1998 and so Eden Studios wanted to add more lines to revitalize the business and got an exclusive license with Carella to publish his WitchCraft and Armageddon role-playing games.[2]: 340  Carella created a simplified Unisystem variant for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game (2002) named the "cinematic" system.[2]: 342  Carella wrote Secret of the Ancients (2003) which was the final volume of the Odyssey adventures series from Eden.[2]: 342  Carella also co-designed Eden Studios' RPG Terra Primate.[8]

Novels

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The New Olympus Saga:

  1. Armageddon Girl (2012)[9]
  2. Doomsday Duet[10]
  3. Apocalypse Dance[11]
  4. The Ragnorak Alternative(2015)[12]

noir-horror series where unlikely heroes battle an upcoming Lovecraftian apocalypse:

  1. Bad Vibes (2014)[13]
  2. Shadowfall: Las Vegas (2015)[14]
  3. Dante's Demons (2015)[15]

Warp Marine Series: mil-SF with some interesting Lovecraftian elements:

  1. Decisively Engaged (2015)[16]
  2. No Price Too High (2016)[17]
  3. Advance to Contact (2016)[18]
  4. In Dread Silence (2017)[19]
  5. Havoc of War (2017)[20]

References

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  1. ^ GURPS Voodoo. p. 4. C.J. Carella's love affair with GURPS began with the publication of Man to Man, and he has never looked back.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. ^ Swan, Rick (March 1994). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (#203). Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR: 86.
  4. ^ GURPS Voodoo. p. 4. C.J. has lived in Peru ... His writing credits include ... Pantheons of the Megaverse,and Rifts Mercenaries for Palladium Books.
  5. ^ Davenport, Dan (October 2002). "CJ Carella's WitchCraft (Review)". RPGnet. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
  6. ^ Pyle, Marx. "Interview with M. Alexander Jurkat". Sci•Fi 411. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
  7. ^ "Interview with CJ Carella". FlamesRising.com (webzine). 2005-01-10. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
  8. ^ Burnaugh, Michael (October 2002). "Interview with C.J. Carella of Eden Studios". GamingReport.com. Retrieved 2007-10-13.
  9. ^ "C.J. Carella's Website - Fiction". www.cjcarella.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-26.
  10. ^ "Doomsday Duet". Archived from the original on August 27, 2022.
  11. ^ "C.J. Carella's Website - Apocalypse Dance Sample". www.cjcarella.com. Archived from the original on 2014-10-21.
  12. ^ The Ragnarok Alternative. Fey Dreams Productions, LLC. 7 October 2015.
  13. ^ Bad Vibes. Fey Dreams Productions LLC. 31 July 2014.
  14. ^ Shadowfall: Las Vegas. Fey Dreams Productions LLC. 25 February 2015.
  15. ^ Dante's Demons. Fey Dreams Productions LLC. 19 August 2015.
  16. ^ Carella, C. J. (28 December 2015). Decisively Engaged. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1522965862.
  17. ^ No Price Too High. Fey Dreams Productions LLC. 22 June 2016.
  18. ^ Advance to Contact. Fey Dreams Productions, LLC. 9 October 2016.
  19. ^ In Dread Silence. Fey Dreams Productions, LLC. 25 March 2017.
  20. ^ Havoc of War. Fey Dreams Productions LLC. 3 August 2017.
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