My mother introduced me to board games when I was about three or four years old, and to card games when I was about seven. I discovered Role Playing Games a few years later and have been playing them ever since.
I started writing games since I was twelve years old, and had my first stuff published in my early twenties. I wrote a bunch of stuff for Steve Jackson Games’ excellent Car Wars game, some of which is reproduced here.
A while back I built an entire online multiplayer game world called Hidden Tradition using Bioware’s remarkable (and still unsurpassed to this day) Neverwinter Nights toolkit. I recently revisited that territory when I wrote the Romeo & Juliet module for the Neverwinter MMO.
Eventually I ended up spending a delightful time lecturing in Computer Games Design at Stroud College in England, which would have been a dream come true if they had only paid me better.
These days I mainly play MechWarrior Online, Elite: Dangerous, Elder Scrolls Online, and Left4Dead 2 when it comes to video games, but I’ve also rediscovered my love for pen & paper gaming thanks mainly to the combination of the excellent Savage Worlds (absolutely the best universal RPG system) and the Fantasy Grounds app for playing over the Internet.
You can find me on Steam under username: rodney418. Ping me and say hello.
