John Harshman

John Harshman
John Harshman
Born	United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Game designer

John Harshman is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

In 1975, Game Designers' Workshop published Triplanetary by Harshman and Marc Miller.^[1]^: 53 Harshman, Frank Chadwick, and Loren Wiseman helped Miller design Traveller and the game was published in 1977.^[1]^: 54 Harshman had been working at GDW directing the development of the Imperium, and when GDW licensed Traveller to other companies, he became the contact within the company for these other publishers.^[1]^: 56

Personal life

Harshman earned a doctorate in zoology and moved to California.^[1]^: 63

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Appelcline, Shannon (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

External links

"John Harshman: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on 19 May 2007.

[designers-1] Appelcline, Shannon (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

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