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Dave Allsop

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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 Adrian Bott, 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

  1. ^ a b c d e f Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ^ http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&artist=%5B%22Dave%20Allsop%22%5D
  3. ^ http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/One+Thumb+Mobile+news/news.asp?c=47088&t=news