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Terry K. Amthor is an American game designer and author. He is best known for his work on the Shadow World role-playing game setting, which he created in 1983. He has also written several books and articles on game design and role-playing games.
Amthor was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 18, 1958. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied computer science and mathematics. After graduating in 1981, he worked as a software engineer for a number of companies, including IBM and Microsoft.
In 1983, Amthor created the Shadow World role-playing game setting, which he published through Iron Crown Enterprises. The setting was later adapted into a series of novels and a computer game.
Amthor has written several books and articles on game design and role-playing games, including The Shadow World Master Atlas, The Shadow World Player's Guide, and The Shadow World Game Master's Guide. He has also written several articles for Dragon Magazine and other gaming publications.
As of 2021, Terry K. Amthor's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
| Popular As |
Terry Kevin Amthor |
| Occupation |
Game designer, Author |
| Age |
62 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
| Born |
18 October, 1958 |
| Birthday |
18 October |
| Birthplace |
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Date of death |
September 25, 2021 |
| Died Place |
N/A |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Terry K. Amthor Net Worth
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Terry K. Amthor's net worth
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
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Terry K. Amthor Social Network
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With the ‘new’ Iron Crown Enterprises/Guild Companion
After leaving ICE full-time in 1992, Amthor co-founded Metropolis Ltd. in order to produce the English-language version of the controversial Swedish modern-horror game Kult. In 1992–1994, Amthor edited, co-authored and art-directed several books for the line.
In 1992 Amthor founded Eidolon Studio, writing Shadow World supplements under license from ICE. He published the third edition of his Shadow World Master Atlas (2001) through Eidolon. He continues to write and produce RPG supplements for the current incarnation of Iron Crown Enterprises, Guild Companion Publications. Mjolnir published the Shadow World Master Atlas Fourth Edition (2003), Amthor's 224-page overview of the Shadow World. Shadow World Player Guide: The World (2010) by Amthor was a brand-new introduction to the Shadow World, and was published by Guild Companion Publications. He published his first fantasy novel, Loremaster Legacy, (set in the Shadow World environment) in 2013.
Amthor was guest of honor at the Boras Spelkonvent 8, a gaming convention in Sweden, November 1990, and led a Middle-earth tournament.
The second edition of Rolemaster (1989) was supported by Amthor's Shadow World campaign setting, which combined the older Loremaster background into a larger whole. ICE needed its own fantasy world, and tapped Amthor to build on Fenlon's original Iron Wind and Vog Mur concepts, and create a unified fantasy world. He created a high-fantasy world with science-fiction legacy elements. While superficially similar to standard fantasy (e.g., Elves, Wizards...), it has a complex history featuring numerous factions, good and evil, vying for control. Elves are portrayed as technology-obsessed, even to the point of being 'steampunk.'
Amthor also collaborated with Kevin Barrett in the creation of Spacemaster (1985), the science-fiction version of Rolemaster, which also had a second edition in 1988.
Amthor wrote Court of Ardor (1983), an early Middle-earth campaign game book published by ICE as a Rolemaster supplement. It was the only published ICE supplement set outside of 'known' Middle-earth, and in many ways did not follow the 'feel' of Middle-earth. Pete Fenlon in an interview years later referred to Ardor as a 'rogue' module. Perhaps ironically, Court of Ardor has since become one of the most sought after ICE Middle-earth sourcebooks on bidding sites.
Though Iron Crown Enterprises was founded and incorporated in 1980, initially it could afford few full-time employees. From 1980 to 1982, Terry Amthor worked at UVa's Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library and what was known then as the Sci-Tech Library Engineering and Science Library, serving in the bibliography departments of both libraries, and also contributing to the initial Library of Congress conversion from a card catalog to an online catalog, via OCLC.
Terry K. Amthor was one of the original founders of Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) in 1980, along with Pete Fenlon, S. Coleman Charlton, Richard H. Britton, Bruce Shelley, Bruce Neidlinger, Kurt Fischer, Heike Kubasch, and Olivia Johnston.
After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1980, Terry Amthor continued to live in Charlottesville, Virginia until 1992. Then he moved to Arlington, VA, until October 2015, when he moved back to Charlottesville. where he currently resides. He has travelled extensively, and has been to the U.K. several times, has travelled to Italy (Florence, Siena and Venice), Greece (Athens, Olympia, and several islands, including Crete, Mykonos, and Santorini), Turkey, Switzerland, and several countries in Central America to visit Maya Pre-Columbian sites, including Chichen Itza, Tikal, Copán, and Tulum.
He attended the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1976. It was at UVa that he first discovered D&D through a gaming group led by Pete Fenlon, who was running a campaign set in Middle-earth. While at UVa, he took a number of classes in architectural history, focusing on Greek, Roman, and Pre-Columbian architecture. He also took graduate-level classes in advanced mathematics and art history. Amthor went on to graduate in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Design, while maintaining his close associations with the Fenlon group throughout his college years. This association led to his participation in the founding of Iron Crown Enterprises.
Terry K. Amthor (born October 18, 1958) is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games, and as a fantasy author.
