[OT] Nigel Findley In Memoriam

[Mortaneus]

I was chatting with a friend about the recent surge of WizKids popularity, the Shadowrun clicky-game, and he reminded me of something:


A moment of silence, please, for the late, great Nigel Findley.


He is greatly missed.

 

[Darkness]

Re: [OT] In Memoriam

A moment of silence, please, for the late, great Nigel Findley.

He is greatly missed.

Amen to that.
Nigel Findley was one of the greatest...

Who?

An RPG designer. A very good one, that is.
Here is the best information of his work that I could find with a quick Google search; maybe someone else knows a better page.

 

[Tratyn Runewind]

Hello,

Yes, and at least one of the prominent board members here (Teflon Billy, if I'm not mistaken) had the privilege of knowing him well, and gaming with him in the past. There was a thread mourning his passing on an older incarnation of these boards.

Here's the GAMA Academy's Hall of Fame page; Mr. Findley was honored in 1994.

Requiescat in pace...

 

[BOZ]

Re: Re: [OT] In Memoriam

Amen to that.
Nigel Findley was one of the greatest...An RPG designer. A very good one, that is.
Here is the best information of his work that I could find with a quick Google search; maybe someone else knows a better page.

hmm, he wasn't working for as long as i'd imagined. ("He died suddenly of a heart attack in February of 1995." - oh, that's why. )

still, Greyhawk Adventures, Draconomicon, and Tome of Magic were some excellent works to be credited with.

 

[Grazzt]

Nigel was an awesome guy.

 

[Teflon Billy]

He certainly was an awesome guy. Nigel was a good friend and one of the few game authors whose stuff I can read for its own entertainment value. His game fiction was (almost uniquely) non-stupid. Check out "Lone Wolf" for Shadowrun, the character "Ranger" is based on me Whoo!

He was an inveterate paintballer, an accomplished drinker and he died way too young

Thanks to whoever started this thread.

 

[Synicism]

The gaming industry lost a lot when he passed away. Findley was one of the best.

 

[Synicism]

Re: Re: Re: [OT] In Memoriam

still, Greyhawk Adventures, Draconomicon, and Tome of Magic were some excellent works to be credited with.

Not to mention a pretty good chunk of something called Shadowrun and one of my favorites: GURPS: Illuminati.

 

[Aaron L]

I actually just not too long ago found and read House of the Sun (I'm pretty sure it was that), written by him, and thought it was great, and then was deeply saddened when it said he had recently died at the back of the novel.

 

[ForceUser]

Shadowrun is quite possibly one of the best RPGs ever. Never has a published setting fired my imagination like Shadowrun. The breadth, the depth, the half-truths, untruths, ugly truths...the sheer vitality of the setting has yet to be matched by anyone.