Rick Meints is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Rick Meints was an American expatriate in the 1990s who joined the British fan publisher Reaching Moon Megacorp, which was "the center of Glorantha culture at the time" according to

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. Meints was one of the staff on the leading

Glorantha Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford. Overview 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 ''RuneQ ...

fanzine '' Tales of the Reaching Moon'' (1989-2002), published by Reaching Moon Megacorp. Meints wrote a book about collecting publications related to Glorantha, ''The Meints Index to Glorantha'' (1996, 1999), which was published by the Reaching Moon Megacorp. Meints and Colin Phillips founded

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

in 1998, which published ''

HeroQuest ''HeroQuest'', is an adventure board game created by Milton Bradley Company, Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop in 1989, and re-released in 2021. The game is loosely based around archetypes of fantasy role-pl ...

''. In July 2015, as part of an announcement by Greg Stafford 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 (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fic ...

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

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