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Nationality
  
Irish

Role
  
Novelist

Name
  
Gareth Hanrahan


Occupation
  
Game designer

Home town
  
Cork

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Books
  
The Laundry, The Quintessential Paladin II, The Slayer's Guide to

Other names
  
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

Book Review | The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan


Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan is an Irish game designer and novelist who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Career

Hanrahan was one of the game designers included in the experimental community connected to the Gaming Outpost. When Mongoose Publishing pulled their Paranoia writing in-house, it was overseen by Hanrahan. Hanrahan wrote Mongoose's fifth RuneQuest setting, Hawkmoon: The Roleplaying Game (2007). Hanrahan authored the Traveller Core Rulebook (2008), which managed to outsell RuneQuest and become Mongoose's new #1 game. Hanrahan's 12th-century setting Deus Vult (2010) received new support in RuneQuest II. When Mongoose separated from Rebellion in March 2010, Hanrahan was one of those let go during the resulting layoffs. Hanrahan helped Pelgrane Press support their GUMSHOE System by producing monthly supplements starting in late 2010. In 2011, Cubicle 7 expanded its staff with industry insiders like Hanrahan, Walt Ciechanowski, Charles Ryan, and Neil Ford.

He is employed as a full-time writer for Pelgrane Press. He also holds the position of Line Developer for The Laundry Files roleplaying game published by Cubicle 7.

Fiction

Hanrahan is the author of the Paranoia novel Reality Optional. He has also contributed short stories to the Stone Skin Press anthologies The Lion and the Aardvark and Schemers.

Awards and nominations

Hanrahan has received the following ENnie awards:

  • 2011: Best New Game (Silver), The Laundry RPG by Cubicle 7
  • 2012: Best Rules (Silver), Lorefinder: GUMSHOE Pathfinder Mashup by Pelgrane Press

    • Hanrahan has received the following ENnie nominations:

  • 2012: Best Adventure, Dead Rock Seven by Pelgrane Press
  • 2012: Best Adventure, Invasive Procedures by Pelgrane Press
  • 2013: Best Adventure, The Zalozhniy Quartet by Pelgrane Press

    • Hanrahan has received the following Origins nominations:

  • 2014: Best RPG Supplement, The Heart of the Wild by Cubicle 7

    • Games

    Games designed / written by Hanrahan include:

  • The Slayer's Guide to Titans (2003)
  • The Quintessential Halfling (2003)
  • The Quintessential Paladin II: Advanced Tactics (2004)
  • The Quintessential Druid II (2004)
  • OGL Horror (2004)
  • The Traitor's Manual (2004), Paranoia RPG
  • EarthForce Campaign Book (2005), Babylon 5 RPG
  • Eyes of the Stone Thief (2015), 13th Age RPG

    • References

    Gareth Hanrahan Wikipedia
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