| 词条 | Tom Dowd (game designer) |
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|name = Tom Dowd |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = |birth_place = |spouse = |nationality = American |residence = |other_names = |known_for = |education = |employer = |occupation = Game designer |home_town = |website = }} Thomas A. Dowd is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. CareerThomas Dowd was one of the writers who supported Fantasy Games Unlimited's role-playing game, Villains and Vigilantes.[1]{{rp|75}} The Shadowrun 2nd Edition rules from FASA, by Dowd with Paul Hume and Bob Charrette, won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1992.[2] In 1990, Dowd met Peter Adkison, who was trying to figure out how the gaming industry worked, and Dowd told Adkison to go to the Gama Trade Show.[1]{{rp|276}} After Jonathan Tweet left White Wolf Publishing for Lion Rampant, Mark Rein-Hagen turned to Dowd for his new game about vampires.[1]{{rp|217}} Dowd refined the dice pool system from Shadowrun for White Wolf's The Masquerade (1991).[1]{{rp|123}} Dowd worked with Rein-Hagen to adapt the core mechanics from his previous game success to use d10 instead of d6 for calculating probability.[3] References1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gama.org/OriginsAwards/OriginsAwardsWinnersThe1990s/The1992OriginsAwards/tabid/3236/Default.aspx |title=The 1992 Origins Awards - Presented at Origins 1993 |accessdate=2013-12-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227150749/http://gama.org/OriginsAwards/OriginsAwardsWinnersThe1990s/The1992OriginsAwards/tabid/3236/Default.aspx |archivedate=2013-12-27 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory11.phtml |title=A Brief History of Game #11: White Wolf, Part One: 1986-1995 |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Appelcline, Shannon |date=2007-02-01 |work=RPGnet |publisher=Skotos Tech Inc}} External links
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