Loren Wiseman is an award-winning wargame and role-playing game designer, game developer

Game developer

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, and editor.

Game Designers' Workshop

Loren Wiseman published Eagles (later published by Avalon Hill as Caesar’s Legions), his first wargame, through Game Designers’ Workshop in 1974. As a partner at GDW, his primary responsibilities were game development - editing and revising game manuscripts and preparing them for publication. Nevertheless, he designed the wargame Pharsalus (1977), and wrote the award-winning Twilight: 2000 role-playing adventure Going Home.

Wiseman was editor of the Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society (24 issues) and its successor Challenge magazine (53 issues).

Steve Jackson Games

When GDW closed in 1996, Wiseman moved to Steve Jackson Games where he became Art Director and GURPS Traveller line editor. He wrote GURPS Traveller and several supporting products, including GURPS Traveller Nobles and The Interstellar Wars.

Awards and recognition

Wiseman received the Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Adventure for Twilight: 2000 Going Home. He was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in 2003.

External links

• www.lorenwiseman.com Loren Wiseman's homepage