I'm Ken St. Andre--And You're Not!

and why would you want to be?

Hey, it's an another update!. I haven't updated this page since August 27, 2005, but today is actually June 18, 2008. I don't think the page will get any more exciting, but at least it will be more up-to-date and perhaps more interesting.

Much to my surprise, I am still alive. I am now 61 years young, and probably still the least published and least important active member of SFWA. Good thing we don't have to publish a novel a year or something to maintain membership--get in once, and send the $50 renewal fee every summer. About all I do for SFWA is recommend things for the Nebula awards and show up at Arizona SF conventions.

There is good news this year on the personal publishing front. Fiery Dragon has sold out of T & T 7.0, and is updating the game. I have made a few changes in the rules and am now calling it T & T 7.5. It has a new cover, by a new artist, but is still part of the same sequence of delvers and trolls going head to head. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time ever that different editions of a game had cover pictures that worked together to illustrate a little gaming story or sequence. The product looks good, and I'm very pleased with it. Also published this year:
GRIFFIN FEATHERS and other tales of Trollworld--a full-length, albeit fairly sort novel set in my gaming universe. I'm very pleased to tell you the book is availabe from Amazon.com.

I have my own personal club for T & T fans--Trollhalla. If you'd like to find out about it, or possibly join, go to Trollhalla. This is for hardcore gamers and fantasy game addicts only.

An internet game has taken control of my mind and my time for the last 5 years. It is called Runescape. It has many failings, but is still totally addictive, at least to me. Check it out at: Runescape. I am now a high level character-- not the highest, but level 130 combat is pretty good--I'm among the top 7% of all fighters in the game, and in the top 4% overall. Figure about 2,000,000 characters playing in Runescape, and you can see that I have risen to the top. Competition to stay at the top is very tough and I'm slipping, but my character is still godlike to most of the players. (hee hee)

To get this web page started, I'd like to say a few words about who I am. My name is Ken St. Andre. I'm an active member of SFWA, though my qualifications are slight. This year I'm taking it easy and not on a Nebula jury, but if you've published something really good in 2008, and you want it to get read, send it to me:

Like the other members of SFWA, I sometimes write things. See above where I listed my accomplishments, meagre as they are for 2008.

My real claim to fame comes from having created TUNNELS AND TROLLS way back in 1975. Although it came out several months after the original Dungeons and Dragons, it was the first role-playing game in the U.S. to actually bear a copyright notice. The seventh edition is now out. We skipped the 6th edition as unlucky. (Various pirate 6th editions exist, however.)

In addition to Tunnels and Trolls, I also wrote/created/designed or helped write/create/design the games Stormbringer, Monsters! Monsters!, and Wasteland.

This is version 5, created on June 18, 2008.

--I=====> Ken

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