Hitoshi Yasuda
Hitoshi Yasuda (born 25 July 1950) is a Japanese novelist, translator, and game writer. The representative of Group SNE. Yasuda graduated Kyoto University, funded Kyoto Univ. SF Club while in college. He was active as an English-American science fiction introducer and translator in the 1970s and early 1980s, and had a great influence in Japan. After the late 1980s, he moved to the game world and founded Group SNE…
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in 1986. He was involved in Gamebook Magazine, which was launched in June 1986, subsequently supervised Japanese edition of Warlock magazine, and also founded the world of Record of Lodoss War as an AAR of D&D. He has also published many books on the background for playing fantasy role-playing games under the joint name of Group SNE, which has had a great influence on the TRPG and fantasy novel world in Japan. Bibliography (translation of novels): Eden Phillpotts The Lavender Dragon John Hersey My Petition for More Space Michael Moorcock Elric of Melniboné Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor Christopher Priest The Inverted World Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Dragonlance series William H. Keith Jr. BattleTech series D. J. Heinrich The Penhaligon Trilogy series George R. R. Martin Sandkings Richard A. Lupoff The Triune Man Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic
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| ムーンストーン邸殺人事件 (Murder mystery Mini: the Moonstone Murder Case) | 2022 | 0 | |
| Dice of the Dead: Tokyo Armageddon | 2016 | 0 | |
| Blind Mythos | 2015 | 0 | |
| コクーン・ワールド ザ・ボードゲーム (Cocoon World: The Board Game) | 2015 | 0 | |
| Ghost Hunter 13: The Tile Game | 2013 | 0 | |
| Cirque du Monstre | 2012 | 0 | |
| EndBreaker! SCG: Build & Break – AmatsuKagura | 2011 | 0 | |
| EndBreaker! SCG: Build & Break | 2011 | 0 | |
| Train Raider: Europe Expansion | 2000 | 0 | |
| Train Raider | 2000 | 0 |