David Johansen
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Apparently of heart failure. There's a thread about it on tbp.
He's the designer of the Critter Commandos miniatures game, Critter Tech, $tarcorp$ miniatures game, The Duel rpg, and perhaps most infamously, d20 Foundation A World In Black and White. Which may have been the very lowest point in the d20 glut.
I've always admired his plucky little company even though it was pretty hard to get here in Canada and honestly given the on and off again nature of the business and the website.
I do have his $tarcorp$ rules and I'll admit "Fed Ex Rangers, when it absolutely positively has to be blown up overnight!" is one of my favorite lines from anything ever. It's a neat little game with a fun sense of humor. It sounds like he floundered a bit in later years. I don't know what he did for a living, it seems unlikely that his gaming work could have made a living. Still it makes me sad to know he's gone. I love the weird little games and companies where someone just says "damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead."
He's the designer of the Critter Commandos miniatures game, Critter Tech, $tarcorp$ miniatures game, The Duel rpg, and perhaps most infamously, d20 Foundation A World In Black and White. Which may have been the very lowest point in the d20 glut.
I've always admired his plucky little company even though it was pretty hard to get here in Canada and honestly given the on and off again nature of the business and the website.
I do have his $tarcorp$ rules and I'll admit "Fed Ex Rangers, when it absolutely positively has to be blown up overnight!" is one of my favorite lines from anything ever. It's a neat little game with a fun sense of humor. It sounds like he floundered a bit in later years. I don't know what he did for a living, it seems unlikely that his gaming work could have made a living. Still it makes me sad to know he's gone. I love the weird little games and companies where someone just says "damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead."