John Harshman is a

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who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

In 1975,

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published '' Triplanetary'' by Harshman and Marc Miller. Harshman,

Frank Chadwick Frank Chadwick is an American multiple-award-winning game designer and ''New York Times'' best selling author. He has designed hundreds of games, his most notable being the role-playing games ''En Garde!'', '' Space: 1889'' and ''Twilight 2000' ...

, and Loren Wiseman helped Miller design '' Traveller'' and the game was published in 1977. Harshman had been overseeing the direction of ''Travellers Imperium in-house, and as GDW licensed ''Traveller'' to other companies, he became the contact man for these various publishers.

Personal life

Harshman earned a doctorate in zoology and now lives in California.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harshman, John Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)