Lynn Willis was a wargame and role-playing game designer, best known for his work with Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop, and Chaosium.
10 Facts About Lynn Willis
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Lynn Willis designed the MicroGames Olympica and Holy War.
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Chaosium published Lords of the Middle Sea, and Lynn Willis joined Chaosium in 1978.
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Lynn Willis helped founder Greg Stafford trim and refine the RuneQuest rules into Basic Role-Playing, the rules that would serve as the base for many of Chaosium's RPG lines.
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Lynn Willis wrote the Call of Cthulhu campaign The Masks of Nyarlathotep with Larry DiTillio.
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Lynn Willis was included in the design credits for Worlds of Wonder and the Ringworld RPG.
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Lynn Willis co-designed the fifth edition of Call of Cthulhu with Sandy Petersen, and when Keith Herber departed from Chaosium in 1994, Lynn Willis replace him as the editor of the Cthulhu line.
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Lynn Willis worked with Petersen again for the sixth edition of Call of Cthulhu.
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Lynn Willis left Chaosium in late 2008 due to ill health; at the time, he was the longest serving employee at Chaosium, having 30 years of experience with the company.
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On September 11,2008, the President of Chaosium, Charlie Krank, informed the public that Lynn Willis had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.