Randy Richards

Randy Richards is a game designer and author of Dungeons & Dragons adventures and articles. His first published article, "Dark Magic in New Orleans," appeared in Dungeon issue #71 in 1998; his book, "Dreadmire", a campaign setting for the d20 system, was published by Spellbinder Games in 2006.

Biography
Randy Richards was born January 9th, 1966. He originally hails from Chalmette, Louisiana, the location of what is often called the Battle of New Orleans. His family is from Cades Cove, before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created. He currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he runs a photography business and writes for publications.

Gaming industry
Richards is also the former editor of the Greyhawk Grimoire, an online publication devoted to the World of Greyhawk campaign setting; and is the founder of the World of Greyhawk Fan Club, which once claimed to be "the largest Greyhawk fan organization in the world." The organization claimed among its members such luminaries as Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, Rob Kuntz, Frank Mentzer, Len Lakofka and Jim Ward. In 1998 Randy sponsored the "Celebrity Greyhawk Dinner" and "Greyhawk Celebrity Panel Seminar." He has written numerous online fan-fiction adventures set in the Greyhawk campaign setting, including "Slerotin's Tunnel" and "Suel Imperium: Age of Glory".

Richards is active in the gaming industry, giving seminars and hosting panel discussions at conventions throughout the United States. Common topics of his seminars have included "How to Get Happily Published," "World of Greyhawk," "Dreadmire," and other gaming industry subjects. His latest projects include the book Katrina vs. St. Bernard Parish, a photograph tour of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Chalmette and other parts of St. Bernard Parish; and Dreadmire Adventures, an adventure-book expansion of the campaign setting he created.

In early 2006, Randy Richards was the subject of an interview for Gloomwing Magazine, a gaming, art and short fiction periodical.

In mid 2006, Randy Richards bought into Spellbinder Games, a New Orleans, Louisiana based publishing company that produces game books. Recently they have published "Dreadmire", (ISBN 0977338339) a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The book used the d20 system rules from the 3.5 version revision. It is soon to be followed by "Dreadmire Adventures", an expansion of the campaign setting; and a fantasy novel based on the setting by Elizabeth Donald, named "Dreadmire: High Adventure at Low Tide".

Guest Appearances
Randy Richards has been a paid guest at gaming and fantasy conventions across the U.S., including Dragon*Con[http://www.dragoncon.org/dc_past_guests.php#R] as a D&D author guest in 1998 and 2006; Gen Con where is hosted panel discussions with Gary Gygax in 1998; Crescent City Con as an Gaming Guest in 1998 and 2001; BabelCon as an author guest in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (scheduled); ConCarolinas as a Gaming Guest in 2006 and 2008 (scheduled); CoastCon as a D&D Guest in 1998, 2000, and 2006, and was on their board of directors of CoastCon for 2007.

Randy Richards was elected to the board of directors to the Science & Engineering Education Foundation after appearing as an author guest at BabelCon in 2006. He has maintained the position for the last two years.

TV Appearances & Community Activism
Randy Richards has appeared in TV commercials for national companies (such as Cox Cable), and in local TV newscasts in Baton Rouge and New Orleans for his photojournalism. He placed third in the Adult Landscape category of the LUMCON 2006 Bayous of Louisiana photography contest. His Hurricane Katrina photographs are part of the Lousiana Bucket Brigade's "Life in the Wake of Katrina" tour. In addition, Randy Richards has appeared in both The Advocate newspaper and the Times-Picayune newspaper as the subject of articles.

Published works
*Dark Magic in New Orleans. Dungeon #71 (TSR, 1998).
*Dreadmire (Spellbinder Games, 2005).
*Suel Imperium: Age of Glory. Available online:
*The Impossibly Precarious Balancing Truck,' part of the nationally traveling photo exhibit Life in the Wake of Katrina (scroll to bottom of page)
*Dreadmire Adventures (Spellbinder Games, 2008).

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