Croc is a French creator of role-playing games, possibly one of the most prolific. Croc's games are edited by Siroz (a homophone of the French word cirrhose, meaning "cirrhosis"), now called Asmodée éditions, French for Asmodeus. Croc met the founders of Siroz (Nicolas Théry, Éric Bouchaud and Laurent Tremmel) in the "20 Naturel" RPG club of Vélizy (near Versailles) in the mid-1980s at secondary school (high school). Tabletop role-playing games are a particular form of role-playing game. ... Homonyms (in Greek homoios = identical and onoma = name) are words which have the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning. ... Asmodai (also Asmodeus, Asmodaeus) is mostly known thanks to the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit; he is also mentioned in some Talmudic legends and in demonology. ... Versailles, formerly the capital city of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial center. ...

Croc's games are characterised by much imagination, originality and satirical humour. One of his games, In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas (1989), led to the less controversial English-language game, In Nomine. In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas is the French role-playing game, created by Croc, on which the American game In Nomine was originally based. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Alternate meaning: In Nomine (role-playing game) In Nomine was a title given to a number of English pieces of music in the 16th and 17th centuries based on the plainsong Gloria tibi Trinitas and on a section of John Taverners mass itself based on that theme. ...

His first game, Bitume (bitume being the French word for "asphalt") (created in 1984 and edited in 1986) is a post-apocalyptic Mad Max-style game. In the game, Halley's comet comes too close to Earth and causes a cataclysm that destroys civilisation. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mad Max is an Australian science fiction film starring Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky. ... Comet Halley as taken with the Halley Multicolor Camera on the ESA Giotto mission. ...

Animonde (1988) is "poetic-fantasy" world, were technology (Middle-Age level) is replaced by animals (e.g. door hinges are crabs and swords are the legs of praying mantises). 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas (INS/MV, 1989), the contemporary world is the battleground of heaven and hell, in what looks like a war between two gangs or secret services. The character may adopt the role an angel or a demon, but these are very similar. In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas is the French role-playing game, created by Croc, on which the American game In Nomine was originally based. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In Heavy Metal (1991) (incidentally, Croc is a fan of Slayer), in a futuristic world, a great wall separates the rich inhabitants of the north and the poor of the south (Africa). This ultra-violent society is controlled by the CRU, the Cybernetic Repression Units (Unités de répression cybernétiques, URC). The player may play a robot from the CRU or a rebel standing against this situation. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... From left to right: Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo, and singer Tom Araya Slayer Eagle Logo, Used During the Seasons in the Abyss Era Slayer is an American heavy metal music group, founded in Huntington Park (not Huntington Beach), California in 1982 by Tom Araya (bass guitar, vocals), Kerry...

In Bloodlust (1991), a heroic-fantasy world, men are controlled by intelligent swords that sometimes allow their owner to die in order to be picked up by a more powerful human. The player plays a weapon-human cross. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Fantasy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For other definitions of fantasy, see fantasy (psychology). ...

Stella Inquisitorus (1993) is a space opera version of In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas that takes place in the year 6993. 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic adventure, interstellar travel, and space battles where the main storyline is centred around interstellar conflict and character drama. ...

In Scales (1994), a contemporary world, the player characters are dragons in human incarnations that ignore their true nature and discover their powers little by little. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

Nightprowler (1995) is a heroic fantasy game dedicated to thieves and assassins. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In C.O.P.S. (2003), the situation is close to the style of the John Carpenter movie Escape from L.A.. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, all of United States' pollution and criminals are sent to California; the state decides to stop this and declares its independence as a land of freedom. It is now 2030, and a strong police force is created to avoid the abuse of freedom and control that the criminal situation has inherited from the past. The characters are members of the C.O.P.S. (Central Organisation for Public Security), a section of the LAPD. This game is sometimes considered as the fourth edition of Berlin XVIII, a game edited in 1988 that took place in Berlin (Germany), with a social and political context marked by the Cold War (recall that this date was before the fall of the Berlin Wall); Berlin XVIII was edited by Siroz (first in the Universom collection then as a standalone game), created by Laurent Tremmel and Nicolas Thery (Croc contributed to the third edition). 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer. ... Escape from L.A. is a 1996 film directed by John Carpenter. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. ...

Croc also translated the Car Wars boardgame and its GURPS Autoduel version (both Steve Jackson Games) into French, and contributes to Le Livre des cinq anneaux, the French version of AEG's Legend of the Five Rings, edited by Siroz/Asmodée. Car Wars is a combat board game developed by Steve Jackson Games. ... GURPS (Generic Universal RolePlaying System), created by Steve Jackson Games in 1986, is designed specifically to be a role-playing game that adapts to any imaginary gaming environment. ... Steve Jackson Games (abbreviated as SJG) is a game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. ... This is about the games publisher. ... Legend of the Five Rings (often abbreviated L5R) is a fictional setting created by the Five Rings Publishing Group in 1995, and now under the control of Alderac Entertainment Group. ...

External link

• Siroz/Asmodée official website (http://www.asmodee.com) (French)