Canon:Randy Richards

Randy Richards is a game designer and author of Dungeons & Dragons adventures and articles. His first published article, "Dark Magic in New Orleans," appeared in Dungeon issue #71 in 1998; his book, "Dreadmire", an enormous campaign setting for the d20 system, was published by Spellbinder Games in 2005.

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Randy Richards & Gary Gygax, at Gen Con in 1998

Biography

Randy Richards was born January 9th, 1966. He originally hails from Chalmette, Louisiana, the location of what is often called the Battle of New Orleans. His family is from Cades Cove, before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created. He currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he runs a photography business and writes for publications.

Gaming

Richards is also the former editor of the Greyhawk Grimoire, an online publication devoted to the World of Greyhawk campaign setting; and is the founder of the World of Greyhawk Fan Club, which once claimed to be "the largest Greyhawk fan organization in the world." The organization claimed among its members such luminaries as Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, Rob Kuntz, Frank Mentzer, Len Lakofka and Jim Ward. In 1998 Randy sponsored the "Celebrity Greyhawk Dinner" and "Greyhawk Celebrity Panel Seminar." He has written numerous online fan-fiction adventures set in the Greyhawk campaign setting, including "Slerotin's Tunnel" and "Suel Imperium: Age of Glory".

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The 'Greyhawk Celebrity Panel Seminar', at Gen Con Front Row: Frank Mentzer, Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson Back Row: Anne Brown, Randy Richards, Lisa Stevens

Richards is active in the gaming industry, giving seminars and hosting panel discussions at conventions throughout the United States. Common topics of his seminars have included "How to Get Happily Published," "World of Greyhawk," "Dreadmire," and other gaming industry subjects. His latest projects include the book Katrina vs. St. Bernard Parish, a photograph tour of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Chalmette and other parts of St. Bernard Parish; and Dreadmire Adventures, an adventure-book expansion of the campaign setting he created.

Published works

• "Dark Magic in New Orleans." Dungeon #71 (TSR, 1998).

• Dreadmire (Spellbinder Games, 2005).

• "Suel Imperium: Age of Glory." Available online: [1]

• "The Impossibly Precarious Balancing Truck," part of the nationally traveling photo exhibit Life in the Wake of Katrina (scroll to bottom of page)

External links

• Convention appearances:
  • Dragon*Con: [2]
  • Crescent City Con: [3]
  • BabelCon: [4]
  • ConCarolinas: [5]
  • CoastCon: [6]
• Pen & Paper RPG Database: [7]
• Dance Partners Photography & Video: [8]