C. J. Carella

Carlos J. Martijena-Carella is a role-playing game designer and novel author.
Career.
RPGs.
Following an introduction to GURPS in Steve Jackson's Man to Man, C.J. Carella got his start in the role-playing games industry with "GURPS Martial Arts" (1990) and freelanced 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 "", published in 1995.
Carella was later a Palladium Books staffer. He created the "Nightbane" setting and was involved in the production of "Mercenaries" and "Pantheons of the Megaverse" for Palladium's multigenre RPG RIFTS. Carella also authored "Rifts Manhunter" (1996) for Myrmidon Press, a cross-over book between Myrmidon's own science-fiction game "Manhunter" and "Rifts". Carella designed the role-playing games "CJ Carella's WitchCraft" (1996) and "" (1997), which were first published by Myrmidon.
Carella developed the "Unisystem" for the first editions of "WitchCraft" and "Armageddon". Carella had bad experiences with the business end of Myrmidon, and since George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat of Eden Studios, Inc. were fans of his work, they had talked about doing a "Conspiracy X"/"Witchcraft" crossover book.
By 1998, sales on "Conspiracy X" supplements were slowly dropping and they realized that they needed more lines to revitalize the business. In July 1998, Eden Studios announced that they had come to agreement for an exclusive license to Carella's "WitchCraft" and "Armageddon" RPGs. Carella created a simplified variant of "Unisystem" for the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game" (2002) that he called the "cinematic" system. Carella's "Secret of the Ancients" (2003) was the final volume of Eden's Odyssey adventures series. Carella also co-designed Eden Studios' RPG "Terra Primate".
Novels.
The New Olympus Saga:
noir-horror series where unlikely heroes battle an upcoming Lovecraftian apocalypse:
Warp Marine Series: mil-SF with some interesting Lovecraftian elements: