10 Facts About Bruce Cordell

Bruce Robert Cordell is an American author of roleplaying games and fantasy novels.

Bruce Cordell won the Origins Award for Return to the Tomb of Horrors and has won several ENnies.

Bruce Cordell once worked in the biopharmaceutical industry, where he learned to synthesize DNA.

Bruce Cordell worked on freelance game design while working in the scientific field, and was eventually hired as a full-time game designer by TSR in 1995.

Bruce Cordell created the Far Realm for the adventure The Gates of Firestorm Peak.

Bruce Cordell won the Origins Award for Return to the Tomb of Horrors, and ENnies for Mindscapes, If Thoughts Could Kill, and his work on the Manual of the Planes.

Bruce Cordell wrote the novels Oath of Nerull, Lady of Poison, Darkvision, Stardeep, and the Abolethic Sovereignty trilogy.

Bruce Cordell often referenced certain characters, ideas, and organizations in his RPG works, creating continuity between works.

Bruce Cordell co-designed the fourth edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, and Gamma World Seventh Edition.

The Strange, co-written by Bruce Cordell and Cook, was published in August 2014.