Ken Rolston

Ken Rolston
Nationality	American
Occupation	Computer game and board game designer

Ken Rolston is an American computer game and board game designer best known for his work with West End Games and on the hit computer game series The Elder Scrolls. In February 2007, he elected to join the staff of computer games company Big Huge Games to create a new role-playing game.

Ken has a master's degree from NYU, and is a member of the Science Fiction Writers Association. He has been a professional games designer since 1982.

Ken Rolston spent twelve years as an award-winning designer of paper-and-pencil role-playing games. His credits include games and supplements for Paranoia, RuneQuest, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, AD&D, and D&D.

Rolston was a Basic Role-Playing writer for Chaosium. Rolston had also done work for Chaosium's Stormbringer and Superworld lines. When Rolston was a new hire at West End Games in 1983, he became the fourth creator on Paranoia and was responsible for turning Greg Costikyan's dry rules into a highly atmospheric game, the results of which were published at GenCon in 1984. Rolston wrote a complete manuscript for a magic system for Games Workshop to use in their Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay RPG, but they rejected it; Rolston's manuscript thus circulated on the internet for years. Rolston left West End Games when Scott Palter decided to move the company from New York to rural Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1988. Chaosium stopped writing material for RuneQuest at Avalon Hill in 1989, but RuneQuest returned in 1992 with Rolston as editor. Rolston's first publication as part of the "RuneQuest Renaissance" was Tales of the Reaching Moon contributor Michael O'Brien's Sun County (1992). In 1994, Avalon Hill dropped Rolston from their regular staff, relegating him to freelancer status; his last two manuscripts, Strangers in Prax and Lords of Terror saw print that year but afterward Rolston moved on to work for a multimedia company.

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