Draft:Mike Mason

Mike lives in the small village of Gotham, near Nottingham.{{cite web |title=Mike Mason |url=https://rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/14824/mike-mason |website=RPG Geek |access-date=20 February 2025}}

Mason edited and published the Call of Cthulhu fanzine The Whisperer in the early 2000s.{{cite magazine |date=2016-12-26 |title=TTG's Top Board Games of 2016: Call of Cthulhu editor Mike Mason |url=https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/features/ttgs-top-board-games-of-2016-call-of-cthulhu-editor-mike-mason/ |magazine=Tabletop Gaming |accessdate=2024-03-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302091018/https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/features/ttgs-top-board-games-of-2016-call-of-cthulhu-editor-mike-mason/ |archivedate=2024-03-02 }}{{cite book |last1=Bowser |first1=Chad |last2=Newton |first2=Andi |last3=Holloway |first3=James |last4=Mason |first4=Mike |date=2020 |title=Cthulhu Idade das Trevas – Chamado de Cthulhu |edition=7 |language=pt |url=https://archive.org/details/co-c-idade-das-trevas/page/n270/ |publisher=New Order Editora |via=Internet Archive |page=270 |accessdate=2024-03-02 }} Mason founded and ran a group of adventure authors called the Kult of Keepers, which also organized the Cthulhu Nationals Tournament in the UK.

Mason worked on the Warhammer 40,000 role-playing game Dark Heresy at Games Workshop. Mason was the line director for Dark Heresy. Mike worked for Games Workshop as Black Industries Line Manager for the Ennie Award winning Warhammer 40,000 RPG Dark Heresy (role-playing game) before the line moved to Fantasy Flight Games. Mike co-wrote Dark Heresy, the Warhammer 40K tabletop RPG for Games Workshop.

Mike Mason and Paul Fricker wrote Cthulhu Britannica for Cubicle 7 (2009).{{cite book |last=Horvath |first=Stu |date=2023 |title=Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArKmEAAAQBAJ |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=MIT Press |via=Google Books |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ArKmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 87] |isbn=978-0-262-04822-4 |accessdate=2024-03-02 }}

Mason joined Chaosium in 2013. Mike Mason and Paul Fricker began working on the seventh edition of Call of Cthulhu in 2012, and made use of ideas from indie role-playing games.{{cite book |last=Appelcline |first=Shannon |editor-last=Adamus |editor-first=John |date=2014 |title=Designers & Dragons: The '70s |url=https://archive.org/details/designers-dragons-the-70s/Designers%20And%20Dragons%20The%201970s/page/279/ |location=Silver Spring, Maryland |publisher=Evil Hat Productions |via=Internet Archive |page=279 |isbn=978-1-61317-075-5 |accessdate=2024-03-02 }} Mason co-wrote the Call of Cthulhu seventh edition Keeper's Rulebook. Mason became the line editor for Call of Cthulhu at Chaosium. Mason was the co-writer for Pulp Cthutlhu. Mason became the Creative Director of Call of Cthulhu.{{cite book |last=Horvath |first=Stu |date=2023 |title=Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArKmEAAAQBAJ |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=MIT Press |via=Google Books |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ArKmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 86] |isbn=978-0-262-04822-4 |accessdate=2024-03-02 }} Mason also worked on the "Simulacrum Unbound" chapter for the revised Horror on the Orient Express and wrote new scenarios for the revision.https://archive.org/details/european-route-map-hi-res-pdf-1/Horror%20on%20the%20Orient%20Express/BOOK_I_-_Campaign_Book_PDF/page/4/mode/2up Mason worked on supplements such as Alone Against The Flames, Nameless Horrors and Doors to Darkness.

Paul Fricker, Lynne Hardy and Mike Mason were credited with the system development on the Rivers of London role-playing game.{{cite news |last=Mackintosh |first=Paul |date=2022-12-15 |title=Review of Rivers of London |url=https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/19/19107.phtml |website=RPGnet |accessdate=2024-03-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302092208/https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/19/19107.phtml |archivedate=2024-03-02 }}

Mike has been both lead writer{{cite web | title='Quick and Painful': How Call of Cthulhu’s scary stories changed roleplaying | website=Tabletop Gaming | date=2020-01-17 | url=https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/features/quick-and-painful-how-call-of-cthulhus-scary-stories-changed-rolepl | access-date=2025-01-07}} and creative director {{cite web | title=Mike Mason | website=Chaosium Inc. | date=2025-01-07 | url=https://www.chaosium.com/mike-mason/ | access-date=2025-01-07}} for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game at Chaosium since 2013. Mike designed and wrote the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition rules along with Paul Fricker {{cite web | title=The Unspeakable Oath Interview | website=theunspeakableoath.com | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328020340/http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/?p=1024 | access-date=2025-01-07}}. He has also developed and written the Pulp Cthulhu rules, the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set, and has contributed to and edited numerous Call of Cthulhu books, as well as for other game systems. His work can be found in the revised Masks of Nyarlathotep, Petersen's Abominations, Down Darker Trails, Cthulhu Dark Ages, Berlin: The Wicked City, and many others.{{cite book | last=Horvath | first=Stu | title=Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground | publisher=MIT Press | publication-place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | date=2023-10-10 | isbn=978-0-262-04822-4 | page=86-87}}

{{cite web |title=Third Floor Wars Interview 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kW4By56is |website=Youtube - Channel - Third Floor Wars | date=18 January 2024 |access-date=20 February 2024}}

Starting in July 2023 Mike Mason and Paul Fricker began a short fiction podcast series focusing on weird tales. The stories are written and read by Mike Mason and Paul Fricker.{{cite web |last1=Zappone |first1=Dan |title=The Spellbinding World of Mason and Fricker's Eldritch Stories |url=https://basicroleplaying.net/the-spellbinding-world-of-mason-and-frickers-eldritch-stories/ |website=Basic Roleplaying dot net |access-date=20 February 2024}}

2009 Ennies Silver Best Game, Gold Production Values Dark Heresy, Core Rulebook, Fantasy Flight {{cite web | title=2009 Nominees and Winners – ENNIE Awards | website=ENNIE Awards – Tabletop RPG awards | url=https://ennie-awards.com/portfolio-item/2009-nominees-and-winners/ | access-date=2024-12-19}} Credited as Designed and Written by

2019 Ennies Gold Best Adventure for Masks of Nyarlothotep{{cite web |title=ENNIE Award Nominees and Winners |url=https://ennie-awards.com/portfolio-item/2019-nominees-and-winners/ |website=ENNIE awards |access-date=20 February 2024}} Credited as Revised, Written, and Edited by {{cite book |last=DiTillio |first=Larry |date=September 2018 |title=Masks of Nyarlathotep, Revised for 7th Ed|publisher=Chaosium, Incorporated |isbn=978-1-56882-412-3}}

2020 Ennies Gold Best Setting Call of Cthulhu: Berlin the Wicked City, Chaosium Inc. {{cite web | title=2020 Nominees and Winners – ENNIE Awards | website=ENNIE Awards – Tabletop RPG awards | url=https://ennie-awards.com/portfolio-item/2020-nominees-and-winners/ | access-date=2024-12-20}} credited as editor.

2022 Ennies Gold Best Supplement Call of Cthulhu: Cults of Cthulhu, Chaosium Inc. {{cite web | title=2022 Nominees and Winners – ENNIE Awards | website=ENNIE Awards – Tabletop RPG awards | url=https://ennie-awards.com/portfolio-item/2022-nominees-and-winners/ | access-date=2024-12-20}} credited as writer and editor

Mike Mason worked on and contributed to various{{cite web |title=Contributions List |url=https://index.rpg.net/display-search.phtml?key=contributor&value=Mike+Mason |website=RPG dot net |publisher=RPG.net |access-date=20 February 2025}}

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• [https://archive.org/details/AetherCon/AetherCon-Online-TTRPG-Convention_AC4-2015%20Program/page/n13/mode/2up Interview] with Mason

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