TheShadow Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 (edited) https://rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/19458/alan-lavergne I enjoyed his SoloQuest efforts from the early 80s. He has a couple of other credits from the same time period, then disappeared. Looks like a nom de plume. Anyone know who he was/is and where he went? Edited October 15, 2022 by TheShadow 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodney Dangerduck Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 That's his real name. (Well, maybe he's a Russian mole?) But haven't talked with him in ~40 years. He and his wife Debbie were active in SCA, so you might want to check there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I really enjoyed his SoloQuest materials, and once used SoloQuest 3: The Snow King's Bride as the basis of a very successful multi-session RQ3 Vikings mini-campaign. 3 Quote ROLAND VOLZ Running: nothing | Playing: Battletech Hero, CoC 7th Edition, Blades in the Dark | Planning: D&D 5E Home Game, Operation: Sprechenhaltestelle, HeroQuest 1E Sartarite Campaign D&D is an elf from Tolkien, a barbarian from Howard, and a mage from Vance fighting monsters from Lovecraft in a room that looks like it might have been designed by Wells and Giger. - TiaNadiezja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 As I look over Alan's product listing on RPGGeek, I realize he was all over that Vikings campaign. It started with me reading QuestWorld and realizing they had the "Souse" (because their Viking-analogues came from the South) and that it would be interesting to fit a historically-flavored-without-being-tied-to-actual-history campaign there. My original first session was the sample one from the Vikings book -- while everybody's at the longhouse, somebody comes running in to tell them "there's a dragon nearby, it attacked Rorik's Stead!" They go there and fight the thing (I actually used a hrimthur (frost) giant instead of a dragon). Then they wanted me to run something else. I dusted off Snow King's Bride and turned it into a two-session arc to bring the girl to her far-off betrothed's stead. After that, the PCs were well-defined enough that I ran mostly homebrew scenarios (the only one I remember was where the party went to Ran's domain at the bottom of the sea to ask for her aid in the village's fishing), and I think I stole his "Phoney Stones" scenario from SoloQuest and changed the god from Issaries to Njörðr. It was wild. I always meant to adapt his SoloQuest 2: Scorpion Hall for group play as well, but the opportunity never presented itself. 1 1 Quote ROLAND VOLZ Running: nothing | Playing: Battletech Hero, CoC 7th Edition, Blades in the Dark | Planning: D&D 5E Home Game, Operation: Sprechenhaltestelle, HeroQuest 1E Sartarite Campaign D&D is an elf from Tolkien, a barbarian from Howard, and a mage from Vance fighting monsters from Lovecraft in a room that looks like it might have been designed by Wells and Giger. - TiaNadiezja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) He's still around. You can find him on the board of the San Francisco Gesneriad Society, one of his more recent publications being a webinar: Joy of Sinningias. He also had a short story, The Smell of a Rat in the RuneQuest Companion. There was a follow up Zero story, Things That Love Night in Tales of the Reaching Moon issues 12, 13 & 14. Edited October 18, 2022 by David Scott 4 1 Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BakerDE Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Well if someone gets a email address for Alan I would like to have it so I can drop him a line for inspiring me to write DuckPac Book 3 : Redfeather Dreaming soloquest. We dedicated it to him (along with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone) so it would be nice to let him know his work and contribution to RQ is still appreciated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentallion Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 I loved Alan's writing and even tossed in an Easter egg in Pirates of the East Isles. In the Family History, there are two possible sorn encounters, one has virdigris eyes and viridian skin and the other the opposite. One is good, one is bad. In the random encounters table, all you ever meet are green sorn with green eyes. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShadow Posted October 25, 2022 Author Share Posted October 25, 2022 On 10/19/2022 at 4:41 AM, BakerDE said: We dedicated it to him (along with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone) UK Steve Jackson, I assume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 On 10/18/2022 at 11:41 AM, BakerDE said: Well if someone gets a email address for Alan ... On 10/21/2022 at 9:55 PM, Pentallion said: I loved Alan's writing and even tossed in an Easter egg in Pirates of the East Isles... At a guess, it wouldn't take much effort to reach him by digging a touch via the data provided above by David. Depending, I s'pose, on how much effort you're willing to put in... Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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