Robin Laws

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Robin D. Laws is a respected and prolific writer and game designer who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His best-known work includes the role playing games Over the Edge (with Jonathan Tweet), Feng Shui, Hero Wars, and Jack Vance's The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game. He has also authored or contributed to dozens of supplements for other RPGs, worked as co-designer on the Shadowfist collectible card game, contributed to the King of Dragon Pass computer game, and written several novels, among them Pierced Heart and The Rough and the Smooth. He is currently working on a new roleplaying game system and background called The Esoterrorists. He writes an irregular advice column for roleplayers called See Page XX.

[edit] Bibliography

A partial bibliography of the work of Robin D Laws:

Roleplaying Games and Supplements

Feng Shui: Action Movie Role Playing
- Four Bastards
- Burning Shaolin
Hero Wars
- Thunder Rebels (et al.)
Jack Vance's The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game
- Kaiin Player's Guide
- Turjan's Tome of Beauty and Horror (with Ian Thompson)
- Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages (et al.)
Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering
Pantheon and Other Roleplaying Games
GURPS Fantasy 2: Adventures in the Mad Lands
Rune
Hearts of Chaos (Doomstones Campaign Volume 3)
House of Tremere
Over the Edge (with Jonathan Tweet)
Over the Edge, 2nd Edition (with Jonathan Tweet)
- Unauthorized Broadcast
- Weather the Cuckoo Likes
Seven Strongholds
For the Earthdawn RPG:
- Throal: The Dwarf Kingdom
- Infected
- Horrors
- Denizens of Earthdawn (Volume 2)
- The Theran Empire
- Parlainth Adventures (et al.)
Ways and Means (for the Underground RPG)
HeroQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha (with Greg Stafford et al.)
Shadowfist Players' Guide (Volume 1) (with Rob Heinsoo)
Star Trek RPG (et al.)
Star Trek: The Next Generation RPG (et al.)
Raiders, Renegades, & Rogues (et al.)
Monsters, Muties and Misfits (et al.)
Nexus: The Infinite City (et al.)
The Excellent Prismatic Spray 2 (et al.)
Blood Magic: Secrets of Thaumaturgy
Pandemonium!: Adventures in Tabloid World (Contributor)
- Stranger Than Truth: Further Adventures in Tabloid World (Contributor)