Bill Bridges (game designer)
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Bill Bridges (born September 17, 1965) is an American role-playing game developer and fantasy author. He designed the role-playing games Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, and Promethean: The Created. He additionally worked on a video game based on his Fading Suns role-playing game Emperor of the Fading Suns. He is currently a developer at Holistic Design.
Bill Bridges was an original developer for White Wolf Publishing from 1992 to 1995, where he contributed to Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Bridges was the line editor for Werewolf and as one of the early World of Darkness developers, he was central to defining the look and feel of White Wolf's World of Darkness productions. He worked on the Storytelling system rules for all the World of Darkness games. It was his goal to present werewolves as something besides accursed humans, an idea which has since been echoed in some popular contemporary novel series. He was a part of the original Mage: The Ascension design team. He has many writing credits encompassing most of the second edition World of Darkness games, and helped design Rage, the Werewolf collectible card game.
He left White Wolf Publishing in 1996 to join Holistic Design (HDI), where he co-created Fading Suns with Andrew Greenberg. Bridges points to Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun and Isaac Asimov's Foundation as his inspiration for the setting. Bridges' largest were his Alustro's Journals, a series of "Marco Polo" style diaries featuring the travels of the pilgrim Alustro and his companions. He was the primary author of the War in the Heavens series, which revealed the secrets of the Symbiots and the Vau. Minor literary similarities can be seen between the Symbiots and the 'defenders of Gaia' Garou in Werewolf: the Apocalypse.
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