Greg Stafford
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| Born |
Francis Gregory Stafford February 9, 1948 Waterbury, Hartford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Francis Gregory Stafford (born February 9, 1948, in St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, Hartford, Connecticut), usually known as Greg Stafford, is an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism.
Greg Stafford began wargaming after picking up a copy of U-Boat by Avalon Hill, and in 1966 as a freshman at Beloit College he started writing about the fantasy world of Glorantha. After rejection from a publisher, Stafford created White Bear and Red Moon set in Glorantha, and after three different companies were unable to publish the game he created Chaosium. He derived the name partly from his home, which was near the Oakland Coliseum, and combining "coliseum" with "chaos." White Bear and Red Moon (1975) was Chaosium's first published game.White Bear and Red Moon was also Stafford's first professional game. Stafford designed the board game Nomad Gods. Stafford also designed the wargames Elric (1977) and King Arthur's Knights (1978).
Stafford wanted the world of Glorantha to be part of an original role-playing game; this ultimately resulted in Steve Perrin's RuneQuest (1978), which was set in Glorantha. Stafford and Lynn Willis simplified the RuneQuest rules into the 16-page Basic Role-Playing (1980). He designed the miniatures game Merlin. Stafford considers his 1985 role-playing game King Arthur Pendragon his masterpiece. He co-designed the Ghostbusters role-playing game. Stafford designed the Prince Valiant roleplaying game, published in 1989, which featured a strong storytelling basis and other innovations. Stafford decided to produce a fiction line for Call of Cthulhu after he realized that many Lovecraft fans of the early 1990s had never actually read Lovecraft's fiction but were only familiar with him through Call of Cthulhu.
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