Rick Krebs

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Richard S. Krebs (born October 9, 1949 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is a role-playing game designer. He received a B.A. from Albright College in 1971.

[edit] Career

Rick Krebs is the original game designer for TSR, Inc.'s Gangbusters, a historical role-playing game set in the 1920's^[1]. Krebs' professional involvement in the industry goes back to fantasy fanzine Phanta Carta and the first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. He is credited in the Preface to the 1979 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide. He also wrote the articles, "D&D meets the Electronic Age" and "Non-player characters Have Feelings Too" for Dragon Magazine. Since the mid 1990s, he has worked primarily on the play-by-mail game ElderLords and the computer game Eamon adventures, a horse racing game, and refining several artificial intelligence games. In addition to game design, Rick Krebs is a regular emailer on the Tony Kornheiser Radio Show for several years.