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Bruce Heard

Bruce Heard (born in in Nice, France) is a game designer, and an author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR. At least, this is what Wikipedia says about me!

I grew up in France (mostly), England, Morocco, Washington DC, and Texas. I speak mostly French and English, with a little Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Returning to Nice for my education, I graduated from the lycée hotelier in 1977; I got passionately interested in wargames when I was attending the Lycée ... primarily in Avalon Hill games like Kriegspiel, Luftwaffe, Third Reich, and Panzer Leader — the classics. There were, of course, no French editions of these games at the time, so I had to learn the American versions. I loved to travel, so I studied hotel management and worked as a concierge in both France and California.

While living in San Francisco I discovered the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, and when I returned to Paris I joined my first regular Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) group. I started writing articles on D&D and AD&D for French gaming magazine Casus Belli, and there learned that TSR was looking for someone to translate the games into French. Well, I spoke and wrote both languages, and I knew the games, so a request reached Gary Gygax. By a coincidence, he was just about to come to Paris on business, and so we set up a meeting. I must have done OK, because he offered me the job. After a few months of doing translation work in Nice, TSR requested I move to the home office in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. For a sun-loving Mediterranean like me, Wisconsin in February was a bit of a shock.

After working for two years as a translator, I transferred to TSR's Games Division in July 1985 as an Acquisitions Coordinator, in charge of contracting freelance writers. I also did game design, including adventure modules CM7, Tree of Life; M1, Into the Maelstrom; and co-authorship of DL12, Dragons of Faith.

I worked on a number of products for the basic Dungeons & Dragons game, including writing the "Voyage of the Princess Ark" series for Dragon magazine, a monthly feature that lasted about three years, as well as other products for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. I was the Basic D&D line Product Manager for years, during which the beloved D&D Gazetteers and the Rules Cyclopedia were published. I also worked at TSR as the director of production planning and head of games acquisitions.

My son Noel came to this world when TSR went bankrupt. One of the outcomes of the happy event in my life was that I could not follow my colleagues to Renton, Wa, at WotC, which had salvaged most of TSR's creative team. My writing years went on hiatus while I explored other avenues. After some time at US Web near Milwaukee and United Airlines at O'Hare, I'm now back in Wisconsin to re-invent myself and do what I really want to do!

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I'd like to credit Clyde Caldwell for the elements in the background which came from the cover art for GAZ3 The Principalities of Glantri.

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RUINS OF THE UNDERCITY - * **Deep beneath the streets of the City-State of Cryptopolis, sanctuary of the lich-thieves and abode of the Red Goddess, sewers and ancient ruins mingle...
5 months ago
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

More on Amateur Hour - When I say that RPGs are "amateur hour" I mean a couple of different things. On the one hand that term has a pretty negative connotation-- of unprofessiona...
5 months ago
Eternal Keep

Day Zero-The Reconstruction Continues - 2012 turned out to be apocalyptic in more ways than just Mayan. It was a year that saw great changes in the gaming community, the repercussions of which will...
5 months ago
Of Dice and Djinn

Custom Class: Naked Mole Ratling - *The first new class I've made for my Death to Humans! campaign. I'm using race as class in my heavily house-ruled Franken-clone**, but to each their own....
5 months ago
Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine

Friday, December 28 - Several years ago, remote sensing equipment revealed three concentric circles once made of large wooden posts in an area now known as the North Fort at Ohi...
5 months ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

My New Blog - *SEE YOU THERE!* LAKE GENEVA ORIGINAL CAMPAIGN
6 months ago
Gigaboot.dk

The Rebirth of TSR? - Greyhawk Grognard has a really interesting post about the new TSR. Check it out here.
6 months ago
Greyhawk Adventures 576CY

Character Spotlight - Jurgen Frangst - *Campaign*: LEGACY the Path of Heroes *Class*: Barbarian *Level*: 5 *Race*: Human (Suel) *Alignment*: Neutral *ABILITY SCORES* STR 19 DEX 16 CON 18 INT...
8 months ago
The Dark Dungeon Vaults

Widget Problem Seems Solved! - Yeeeeeeeaaah! I just noticed the widget problem seems to be solved, in which blog rolls couldn't be updated. This means that in due time (which I'm rather ...
9 months ago

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