18 Facts About Len Lakofka

Len Lakofka was born January 10,1944, in Illinois, to Alex Len Lakofka and Elsie Schumacher.

Len Lakofka's increasing interest in Diplomacy led him to join the International Federation of Wargamers, and through the IFW he met its vice-president, game designer Gary Gygax.

Len Lakofka was by this time president of the IFW, and travelled to Lake Geneva to help set up, run events and clean up.

Len Lakofka edited the manuscripts and contributed material to both books.

In 1980, Lakofka submitted three modules to TSR, taken from adventures he had originally created for his home campaign of Lendore Isle: The Secret of Bone Hill, The Assassin's Knot and Deep Dwarven Delve.

Gary Gygax was simultaneously creating his World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting, and Lakofka asked if "Lendore Isle" could be incorporated into Gygax's new world.

Gygax agreed, and Lakofka chose the largest island in the Spindrift Isles archipelago as the location of his Lendore Isles adventures.

Len Lakofka continued to write more articles in Dragon in addition to his monthly column.

When Gygax was creating the World of Greyhawk, Lakofka suggested that based on the migration patterns of various Greyhawk races as outlined in the campaign setting, that "his" Lendore Isles would have been mainly settled by Suel.

In 1984, Len Lakofka published this information as a major five-part series in Dragon.

Lakofka's third Lendore Isles adventure, L3 Deep Dwarven Delve, was scheduled to be released in 1986, and Lakofka planned to write two more "L" series adventures.

Len Lakofka stopped writing his Leomund's Tiny Hut column for Dragon; his final column was published in April 1986.

Len Lakofka stated that WotC lost his final rewrite before publication but rather than telling him, someone at WotC inserted new material into an older manuscript before it was published.

Len Lakofka continued to work on further adventures in the "L" series, and in 2009, the fourth installment, L4 Devilspawn, was released by Dragonsfoot.

Len Lakofka created a fifth module, L5 The Kroten Campaign, which was released in 3 parts by Dragonsfoot.

Len Lakofka mused about writing up to four more "L" adventures, but ultimately these were never created.

Len Lakofka passed away early in the morning of October 23,2020, aged 76, in his home with his husband, Gary Jackson.

Len Lakofka suffered from myeloid leukemia and was cremated after his passing.