23 Facts About Robin Laws

Robin Laws is the author of a number of novels and role-playing games as well as an anthologist.

Robin D Laws has been a professional game designer and an author since the early 1990s.

Robin D Laws has been playing role-playing games since he was a teenager and has worked as a game designer since the early 1990s.

Daedalus Games got its start when Robin Laws came to Jose Garcia in 1993 with an idea for a role-playing game based on Hong Kong action cinema; while Garcia liked the idea, his first priority was Nexus: The Infinite City which was published in 1994 with Garcia as the primary designer and developer, and Robin Laws, Bruce Baugh, and Rob Heinsoo as additional authors.

Daedalus Games was then incorporated as Daedalus Entertainment in advance of publishing the Hong Kong action setting Robin Laws had envisioned, but beginning with a collectible-card game to take advantage of that then-booming market.

However, Daedalus had to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1997 when the CCG market crashed; when the company sold some of its properties a few years later, Robin Laws re-acquired Feng Shui.

In 1998, Greg Stafford asked Robin Laws to create a new role-playing game based on his world of Glorantha, which became known at first as Hero Wars, published in 2000 as the first fully professional product for Issaries, and later expanded and re-published in 2003 as HeroQuest.

Pelgrane Press revealed on January 20,2000 that Robin Laws was going to be the primary author for their licensed role-playing game based on the Jack Vance stories in the Dying Earth setting.

Robin Laws was the senior designer for The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game.

The Esoterrorists by Robin Laws was the first release with this system, supported by his sourcebook The Esoterror Factbook ; the next year, Pelgrane released Fear Itself by Robin Laws.

Robin Laws has contributed supplements to Ken Hite's Trail of Cthulhu line, notably the randomized Armitage Files resource and the Dreamhounds of Paris campaign frame, in which players take on the roles of actual surrealist artists as they confront horror in the Dreamlands.

Robin Laws designed Mutant City Blues and Ashen Stars as investigative games in the superhero and space opera genres.

In 2012, Robin Laws ran a Kickstarter for his game Hillfolk, featuring his new Dramasystem.

Robin D Laws published his first novel Pierced Heart in 1996, set in the world of Over the Edge; it was released as an e-book in 2014.

Robin Laws had stories published in Synister Creative's pulp magazine, and in the fiction anthology The Book of All Flesh for the All Flesh Must Be Eaten RPG: "The first is a light-hearted adventure, and the other is really, really dark".

Robin Laws wrote Hamlet's Hit Points, published by small press company Gameplaywright, and is currently working on a second volume, applying the same approach to narrative structure with a focus on fiction and screenplay writing.

Robin Laws is the editor of the Stone Skin Press fiction imprint from Pelgrane Press.

Robin Laws writes an irregular advice column for role-players called See Page XX, and releases a weekly podcast with Ken Hite for Pelgrane Press, Ken and Robin talk about stuff.

Robin Laws is frequently invited to be a guest speaker at conventions around the world, having made appearances at Gen Con Australia and Ropecon in Finland.

Robin Laws attends Gen Con Indy and the Toronto International Film Festival every year.

Robin Laws has stated that he often cannot attend Fan Expo Canada because that convention often takes place too soon after Gen Con and too soon before TIFF, but he likes to attend it whenever he can.

Robin Laws was Fan Expo's gaming guest of honor in 2005 and 2010.

Since 2010, Robin Laws has participated in Dragonmeet in London as a guest of Pelgrane Press.