Rick Meints is a

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

Career

In the 1990s, American expatriate Rick Meints was a member of the

Reaching Moon Megacorp Reaching may refer to: * Reaching (sailing) A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface. The principal points of sail roughly correspond to 45° segments of a cir ...

, the British fan publisher that was the center of Glorantha culture at the time. Meints was one of the staff on the leading

Glorantha Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford. It was first introduced in the board game '' White Bear and Red Moon'' (1975) by Chaosium and then in a number of other board, roleplaying and computer games, including ''RuneQuest'' and ''He ...

fanzine '' Tales of the Reaching Moon'' (1989-2002), published by Reaching Moon Megacorp. The Megacorp also published Meints's book on collecting Gloranthan publications, ''The Meints Index to Glorantha'' (1996, 1999). In 1998 Meints and Colin Phillips founded

Moon Design Publications Moon Design Publications are publishers of tabletop role-playing game books set in Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. They were founded in 1998 by Rick Meints and Colin Phillips in the UK. History In the 1990s, American expatriate Rick Meints was ...

, the publisher of ''

HeroQuest ''HeroQuest'', sometimes written as ''Hero Quest'', is an adventure board game created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop. The game was loosely based around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games: the ...

''. In July 2015, as part of an announcement by

Greg Stafford Francis Gregory Stafford (February 9, 1948 – October 10, 2018), usually known as Greg Stafford, was an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism. Stafford is most famous as the creator of the fantasy world of Glorantha ...

that Moon Design Publications had joined the ownership group of his iconic game company

Chaosium Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon'' ...

, Meints formally became president of Chaosium with Stafford becoming chair of the board of directors.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meints, Rick Living people Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)