Dave Allsop

Dave Allsop is a Scottish game designer and artist for role-playing games and video games.

Career[]

Dave Allsop developed the role-playing game SLA Industries (1993); the Scottish company Nightfall Games was founded solely to publish the game.^[1]^: 280 Wizards of the Coast later bought SLA Industries, but then returned it to Nightfall, who licensed it to Hogshead Publishing; in 2002, Hogshead closed down and thus SLA Industries returned to Allsop.^[1]^: 427 Allsop was by then the flatmate of Angus Abranson, and they decided to form a new role-playing company in 2003 called Cubicle 7 Entertainment.^[1]^: 427 Allsop started work on a new release of SLA Industries, but in the Fall of 2004 Allsop decided to pull out of Cubicle 7 to pursue other opportunities.^[1]^: 427 In 2005, Allsop, with , produced The Book of Unremitting Horror, a book of monsters for the d20 System, published by Pelgrane Press.^[1]^: 384 Allsop returned to Cubicle 7 in 2007 as the SLA Industries line editor, which started releasing new books again in 2011.^[1]^: 427

He is known for his work on the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.^[2] He has also contributed art to the digital collectible card game Hearthstone.

His Dungeons & Dragons work includes interior art for Eberron Campaign Setting (2004), Monster Manual III (2004), Expedition to Castle Ravenloft (2006), Cityscape (2006), Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells (2006), Fantastic Locations: City of Peril (2007), Monster Manual V (2007), An Adventurer's Guide to Eberron (2008), the fourth edition Monster Manual (2008), the fourth edition Manual of the Planes (2008), Demon Queen's Enclave (2008), Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons (2009), and Martial Power II (2010).

Allsop was the concept artist for One Thumb Mobile, for their game Celtic Heroes,^[3] from 2012 to 2015.^{[citation needed]} He returned to freelance work in February 2015.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
^ "Card Search".
^ "One Thumb prepares for Celtic Heroes expansion with key hires".

External links[]

"Dave Allsop :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on January 2, 2011.

[designers-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

[2] "Card Search".

[Pocket_Gamer_news-3] "One Thumb prepares for Celtic Heroes expansion with key hires".

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