Rudy Kraft III is a game designer who has worked primarily on

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Career

Steve Perrin Stephen Herbert Perrin (January 22, 1946 – August 13, 2021) was an American game designer and technical writer/editor, best known for creating the tabletop role-playing game ''RuneQuest'' for Chaosium. Early life and education Perrin earned a ...

and Rudy Kraft designed the ''

RuneQuest ''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson (game designer), Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of ...

'' (1978) mythical fantasy roleplaying game, set in the world of Glorantha created 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 ...

, and published by Chaosium.

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's first publication after obtaining the license for ''RuneQuest'' was Kraft's ''

Broken Tree Inn ''Broken Tree Inn'' is a 1979 fantasy tabletop role-playing game adventure for ''RuneQuest'' published by Judges Guild. It is a RuneQuest Gateway product and so not set in Glorantha. Plot summary ''Broken Tree Inn'' contains three separate adven ...

'' (1979), an adventure that featured material cut from Chaosium's own ''

Snake Pipe Hollow ''Snakepipe Hollow'' is an adventure published by Chaosium in 1979 for the fantasy role-playing game ''RuneQuest'', then revised and republished in various editions. Plot summary ''Snakepipe Hollow'' is set in a section of unclaimed land in the ...

'' (1979), although the Glorantha references were removed in the Judges Guild publication. Kraft and Jennell Jaquays' ''Adventures Beyond the Pass'', originally intended for Judges Guild, was never published by them; Greg Stafford instead published it through Chaosium as ''

Griffin Mountain ''Griffin Mountain'' is a tabletop role-playing game supplement for ''RuneQuest'', written by Rudy Kraft, Jennell Jaquays, and Greg Stafford, and published by Chaosium in 1981. ''Griffin Mountain'' is a wilderness campaign setting for the ''Rune ...

'' (1981). Kraft also contributed to Chaosium's '' Thieves' World'' (1981). Kraft was one of the contributors to

Flying Buffalo Flying Buffalo Inc. (FBI) is a game company with a line of role playing games, card games, and other gaming materials. The company's founder, Rick Loomis, began game publishing with ''Nuclear Destruction'', a play-by-mail game which started the pr ...

's ''Citybook II: Port O' Call'' (1984).

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