Carlos J. Martijena-Carella

Carlos J. Martijena-Carella is a role-playing game designer and novelist.

Career RPGs Following an introduction to GURPS in Steve Jackson's Man to Man, C.J. Carella got his first work in the role-playing games industry on GURPS Martial Arts (1990) and freelance work for Steve Jackson Games. Carella designed GURPS War Against the Chtorr (1993), which game designer Rick Swan called a "first-rate supplement for the GURPS game". He also wrote GURPS Voodoo: The Shadow War, published in 1995.

Carella then became a staff member of Palladium Books. While editor-in-chief at Myrmidon Press from 1993–1997, Carella also wrote Rifts Manhunter (1996), as a crossover between Rifts and Myrmidon's own science-fiction game Manhunter.

Following negative experiences with the business side of Myrmidon Press, Carella decided to sell the rights to his games to another publisher. At the time, Eden Studios, Inc. founders George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat were fans of his work and talked with Carella about developing a crossover book for Conspiracy X and Witchcraft. Since Conspiracy X supplement sales were dropping by 1998, Eden Studios wanted to add more lines to revitalize the business, and signed an exclusive license with Carella to publish his WitchCraft and Armageddon role-playing games.

Novels The New Olympus Saga: Armageddon Girl (2012) Doomsday Duet Apocalypse Dance The Ragnorak Alternative(2015)

noir-horror series where unlikely heroes battle an upcoming Lovecraftian apocalypse: Bad Vibes (2014) Shadowfall: Las Vegas (2015) Dante's Demons (2015)

Warp Marine Series: mil-SF with some interesting Lovecraftian elements: Decisively Engaged (2015) No Price Too High (2016) Advance to Contact (2016) In Dread Silence (2017) Havoc of War (2017)