C. J. Carella Explained

C.J. Carella
Nationality:American
Occupation:RPG designer

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

Career

RPGs

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] 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 , published in 1995.

Carella then became a staff members of Palladium Books.[2] 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] Carella designed the role-playing games CJ Carella's WitchCraft (1996) and (1997), which were first published by Myrmidon.[2]

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]

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] Carella created a simplified Unisystem variant for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game (2002) named the "cinematic" system.[2] Carella wrote Secret of the Ancients (2003) which was the final volume of the Odyssey adventures series from Eden.[2] Carella also co-designed Eden Studios' RPG Terra Primate.[8]

Novels

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: GURPS Voodoo . 4 . C.J. Carella's love affair with GURPS began with the publication of Man to Man, and he has never looked back..
  2. Book: Shannon Appelcline. Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. 2011. 978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. Swan. Rick. Rick Swan. Role-playing Reviews. Dragon.
    1. 203
    . 86. TSR. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. March 1994.
  4. Book: 4 . GURPS Voodoo . C.J. has lived in Peru ... His writing credits include ... Pantheons of the Megaverse,and Rifts Mercenaries for Palladium Books..
  5. Web site: CJ Carella's WitchCraft (Review). Davenport. Dan. RPGnet. October 2002. 2007-10-14.
  6. Web site: Interview with M. Alexander Jurkat . Sci•Fi 411 . Pyle . Marx . 2007-10-14 . https://archive.today/20120715204712/http://scifi411.com/Opinion/interview-eden.html . 2012-07-15 . dead .
  7. Web site: Interview with CJ Carella . FlamesRising.com (webzine) . 2005-01-10 . 2008-02-19.
  8. Web site: Interview with C.J. Carella of Eden Studios. GamingReport.com. Burnaugh. Michael. October 2002. 2007-10-13.
  9. Web site: C.J. Carella's Website - Fiction . www.cjcarella.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726053604/http://www.cjcarella.com/fiction . 2014-07-26.
  10. http://www.cjcarella.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/DD.19175023_std.jpg
  11. Web site: C.J. Carella's Website - Apocalypse Dance Sample . www.cjcarella.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141021225137/http://www.cjcarella.com/fiction/apocalypse_dance_sample . 2014-10-21.
  12. Book: The Ragnarok Alternative. 7 October 2015. Fey Dreams Productions, LLC.
  13. Book: Bad Vibes. 31 July 2014. Fey Dreams Productions LLC.
  14. Book: Shadowfall: Las Vegas. 25 February 2015. Fey Dreams Productions LLC.
  15. Book: Dante's Demons. 19 August 2015. Fey Dreams Productions LLC.
  16. Book: 978-1522965862. Decisively Engaged. Carella. C. J.. 28 December 2015. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform .
  17. Book: No Price Too High. 22 June 2016. Fey Dreams Productions LLC.
  18. Book: Advance to Contact. 9 October 2016. Fey Dreams Productions, LLC.
  19. Book: In Dread Silence. 25 March 2017. Fey Dreams Productions, LLC.
  20. Book: Havoc of War. 3 August 2017. Fey Dreams Productions LLC.

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