Charlie Krank
Charlie Krank | |
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.jpg) Krank in 2016. | |
| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) San Francisco, California, United States |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Charlie Krank (born 1957) is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Early life
Charlie Krank was born in 1957 in San Francisco.[1] Charlie Krank wored as an employee at the San Francisco game store Gambit, when he began to volunteer to playtest for Chaosium in 1978.[2]: 83
Career
In 1980, Krank was hired as a paid employee at Chaosium.[2]: 83 Krank designed the collectible card game Mythos, which won the 1996 Best Card Game award at Origins.[3] Krank was a long-time employee and part owner of Chaosium when Greg Stafford founded Issaries, Inc. and left the company after 25 years.[2]: 94 Krank became the new president of Chaosium.[2]: 94 Chaosium nearly shut down in 2003, but Krank ran the company out of his house for a time without any paid staff.[2]: 94 In a forum posting of 3 June 2015, Sandy Petersen announced that Krank was no longer president of Chaosium.[4]
References
- ↑ "Charlie Krank". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ↑ "Origins Award Winners (1996)". Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Archived from the original on 2007-01-25.
- ↑ Stafford and Petersen back at Chaosium, Yog-Sothoth.com, retrieved 9 June 2015
External links
- "Charlie Krank :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on February 25, 2005.