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Charlie Krank is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Early life
Charlie Krank was born in 1957 in San Francisco.
Career
Charlie Krank was working as an employee at the San Francisco game store Gambit, when he began to volunteer to playtest for Chaosium in 1978 and two years later he was hired as a paid employee.: 83 Krank designed the collectible card game Mythos, which won the 1996 Best Card Game award at Origins. Krank was a long-time employee and part owner of Chaosium when Greg Stafford founded Issaries, Inc. and left the company after 25 years, so Krank became the new president of Chaosium.: 94 Chaosium nearly shut down in 2003, but Krank ran the company out of his house for a time without any paid staff.: 94
On September 11, 2008, Krank informed the public that his friend and fellow long-time Chaosium employee Lynn Willis had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Krank later reported that Willis died on January 18, 2013.
In a forum posting of 3 June 2015, Sandy Petersen announced that Krank was no longer President of Chaosium.
References
External links
"Charlie Krank :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on February 25, 2005.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Chris Perfetti
- Charlie Krank
- Ringworld (role-playing game)
- Chaosium
- Mythos (card game)
- Gods of Glorantha
- Cults of Terror
- King of Chicago (Call of Cthulhu)
- The Cairo Guidebook
- Shadows of Yog-Sothoth
- Prince Valiant: The Story-Telling Game