Ken St. Andre
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Kenneth Eugene St. Andre (born on April 28th, 1947) is a game designer, best known for his work with Tunnels & Trolls.
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[edit] General Information
St. Andre was born in Ogden, Utah. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. where he works as a librarian for Phoenix Public Library. He has been a librarian since 1975.
[edit] Game Design
St. Andre is the original designer of the 'pen-and-paper' role-playing game Tunnels & Trolls which was first released by Flying Buffalo, Inc. in 1975.
He also worked as a designer on the role-playing games Stormbringer and Monsters! Monsters!, and the computer game Wasteland. In 2008 he modified the 7th edition Tunnels and Trolls to bring the game world into modern times and turned it into a superhero rpg called Power Trip.
In 1985 Ken was also the first editor for a fan club newsletter based around the Adventure Construction Set computer game, one of the rare cases of a professional designer leading gamer activities for another designer's game.
[edit] Fiction
He has written various short stories and two short novels.
- "The Triple Death" (1995), in Enchanted Forests edited by Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg. An anthology of stories about magical woods. (ISBN 0-88677-672-4).
- "Turtle in the Tower" (1990), in Shadowrun: Into the Shadows edited by Jordan K. Weisman. An anthology of stories based on the Shadowrun role-playing game. (ISBN 1-55560-118-9).
- "Old Soldiers Never", in Shrapnel, a Battletech anthology.
- "The Two Worst Thieves in Khazan" (1992) in "Mages Blood and Old Bones", the one and only Tunnels & Trolls Anthology.
- "Moral Invaders" in Flash Fantastic (Jan. 2005)
- "A Thief's Day in Khazan" (2005) in Golden Heroes
- DRAGON CHILD: JUST A THIEF FROM KHAZAN. (2006)
- GRIFFIN FEATHERS; AND OTHER TALES OF TROLLWORLD. (2008)
