Robin Laws

Robin Laws
Laws at the 2012 ENnies
Born	Robin D. Laws (1964-10-14) October 14, 1964 (age 52) Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Writer, game designer, author
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	Role-playing games

Robin D. Laws (born October 14, 1964 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer and game designer who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of a number of novels and role-playing games as well as an anthologist.

Robin D. Laws has been a professional game designer and an author since the early 1990s.

Robin D. Laws has been playing games since he was a teenager and has worked as a designer since the early 1990s.John Nephew of Atlas Games convinced Jonathan Tweet to publish a game he had been writing about in Alarums & Excursions; Laws talked with Tweet about the game in A&E and contributed to the final product as well, the result of which was Over the Edge (1992).Daedalus Games began when Laws approached Jose Garcia in 1993 with an idea for a Hong Kong Action Cinema RPG; Garcia liked the idea, but Nexus: The Infinite City was his first priority, and was published in 1994 with Garcia as the main designer and developer, with Laws, Bruce Baugh, and Rob Heinsoo as additional authors. Daedalus Games was incorporated as Daedalus Entertainment in preparation for publishing the Hong Kong action game Laws had intended, but as a collectible-card game to take advantage of the CCG market. Laws thus designed the collectible card game Shadowfist (1995). Daedalus Entertainment published the role-playing game Feng Shui (1996), designed by Laws using a variant of the Nexus game system; Laws also designed supplements for Feng Shui. Daedalus filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1997, and when the company sold off a few of its properties a few years later, Feng Shui went to Laws. Nephew told Laws that he would be happy to bring Feng Shui back into print, so when Laws was able to free up the rights he brought it to Atlas Games; Atlas announced on March 22, 1999, that they had picked up Feng Shui.