Charlie Krank
Charlie Krank | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) San Francisco,California,United States |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Charlie Krankis agame designerwho has worked primarily onrole-playing games.
Early life
[edit]Charlie Krank was born in 1957 inSan Francisco.[1]
Career
[edit]Charlie Krank was working as an employee at the San Francisco game store Gambit, when he began to volunteer to playtest forChaosiumin 1978 and two years later he was hired as a paid employee.[2]: 83 Krank designed thecollectible card gameMythos,which won the 1996Best Card Gameaward atOrigins.[3]Krank was a long-time employee and part owner of Chaosium whenGreg StaffordfoundedIssaries, Inc.and left the company after 25 years, so Krank became the new president of Chaosium.[2]: 94 Chaosium nearly shut down in 2003, but Krank ran the company out of his house for a time without any paid staff.[2]: 94
On September 11, 2008, Krank informed the public that his friend and fellow long-time Chaosium employeeLynn Willishad been diagnosed withParkinson's disease.[4]Krank later reported that Willis died on January 18, 2013.[5]
In a forum posting of 3 June 2015,Sandy Petersenannounced that Krank was no longer President of Chaosium.[6]
References
[edit]- ^"Charlie Krank".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-10-06.Retrieved2014-10-01.
- ^abcShannon Appelcline (2011).Designers & Dragons.Mongoose Publishing.ISBN978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^"Origins Award Winners (1996)".Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-01-25.
- ^"An open letter to the Chaosium Community from Charlie Krank".Chaosium. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-08-05.
- ^"Lynn Willis: Rest In Peace".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-01-22.
- ^Stafford and Petersen back at Chaosium,Yog-Sothoth,retrieved9 June2015
External links
[edit]- "Charlie Krank:: Pen & Paper RPG Database".Archived fromthe originalon February 25, 2005.