James M Ward

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He married his high school sweetheart and she's put up with him for 52 years. He has three unusually charming sons, Breck, James, and Theon. They in turn have given him six startlingly charming grandchldren, Keely, Miriam, Sophia, Preston, Teagan, and Noah.

In that same stretch of time he managed to write the first science fiction role-playing game, METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA in 1975; the first apocalypse role-playing game in GAMMA WORLD in 1978; he worked for the role-playing company TSR for over 20 years and did lots of D&D and AD&D things; including many articles in DRAGON magazine. He wrote the DEITIES & DEMIGODS Hardbound, GREYHAWK ADVENTURES Hardbound, the bestselling SPELLFIRE and DRAGON BALL Z CCGs.

He has designed major products for Troll Lords, Goodman Games, Fireside Creations, and GiantLands including:

OF GODS AND MONSTERS, STORYTELLER'S THESARAUS, THE LOST 77 WORLDS Apocalyptic RPG, DRAGONSCALES a fantasy RPG, GIANTLANDS Apocalyptic/Fantasy RPG and the FORGOTTON RUINS Fantasy role-playing game.

THE WARDEN hardbound is a science fiction detailed starship of 680 pages sold by Troll Lords. DOOM OF THE WARDEN is a science fiction tournament adventure sold by Goodman Games.

Currently he is working on writing two novels and a brand new way to play a fantasy role playing adventure.