Gavin Thorpe
{{Short description|British game designer and author}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2015}}
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Gavin Thorpe is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games. He has also authored a number of novels and short stories for the Black Library.
Career
Gav Thorpe was a games designer for Games Workshop beginning in 1994.{{Cite book | contribution=Hammer of the Scots | title=Hobby Games: The 100 Best | last=Thorpe | first=Gav | editor-last=Lowder | editor-first=James | editor-link=James Lowder | publisher=Green Ronin Publishing | year=2007 | pages=142–145 | isbn=978-1-932442-96-0}} His credits include the Inquisitor skirmish game, as well as work on several editions of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, and supplements for both game systems.{{cite news|date=10 April 2014|title=Storm of Vengeance is a game that is fiendishly addictive|newspaper=Lincolnshire Echo|page=59}} He also designed the board game Gobbo's Banquet, and has written more than half a dozen novels for the Black Library. He also wrote the script for the Mark of Chaos computer game. Thorpe stopped working at Games Workshop in 2008.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
Bibliography
=Legacy of Caliban trilogy=
- Ravenwing (January 2013)
- Master of Sanctity (June 2014)
- The Unforgiven (July 2015)
=Last Chancers=
- Thirteenth Legion (December 2000){{cite book |last=Thorpe|first=Gav|title=Thirteenth Legion|date=1 December 2011|publisher= The Black Library|isbn=978-0-85787-466-5}}
- Kill Team (October 2001)
- Annihilation Squad (March 2004)
- Deliverance (short story)
- Liberty (short story)
=Path of the Eldar=
- Path of the Warrior (July 2010){{cite book |last=Thorpe|first=Gav|title=Path of the Warrior|date=1 July 2011|publisher= The Black Library|isbn=978-0-85787-988-2}}
- Path of the Seer (September 2011){{cite book |last=Thorpe|first=Gav|title=Path of the Seer|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849700818|url-access=registration|date=1 September 2011|publisher= The Black Library|isbn=978-0-85787-318-7}}
- Path of the Outcast (September 2012)){{cite book |last=Thorpe|first=Gav|title=Path of the Outcast|date=1 August 2012|publisher= The Black Library|isbn=978-0-85787-801-4}}
=Short stories=
- Aenarion Published in Issue 12 of Hammer and Bolter October 2011{{cite book |last=Thorpe|first=Gav|title=Aenarion|date=2011|publisher= The Black Library|isbn=978-0-85787-098-8}}
- The Divine Word Published in Black Library Weekender Anthology November 2012{{cite book |last=Thorpe|first=Gav|title=The Divine Word|date=2012|publisher= The Black Library|isbn=978-1-78251-175-5}}
=Novels=
Reception
In reviewing the Warhammer novel The Blades of Chaos (2003), critic Don D'Ammassa wrote that it is "better written than most similar novels", although it has "little to offer readers who aren't fond of this subgenre."{{cite journal|author=D'Ammassa, Don|date=January 2004|title=The Blades of Chaos|journal=Chronicle|volume=26|issue=1|page=33}} D'Ammassa also reviewed The Heart of Chaos (2004), stating that "Thorpe always does a competent job and this one has a rousing finish."{{cite journal|author=D'Ammassa, Don|date=December 2004|title=The Heart of Chaos|journal=Chronicle|volume=26|issue=12|page=45}}