HOBBY GAMES: THE 100 BEST
Editor: James Lowder
Publisher: Green Ronin Publishing
Format: 400 pages, trade paperback
ISBN-10: 1-932442-96-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-932442-96-0
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In Hobby Games: The 100 Best, the top designers,
authors, and publishers in the hobby games field write
about the most enjoyable and cleverly designed games of
the last fifty years. Their essays cover the gamut of the
hobby market, from roleplaying games to collectible card
games, and miniatures games to wargames to board games,
with titles both familiar and esoteric. These are the
games that the designers themselves play, the ones that
have inspired their most popular creations.
Writers include such legendary designers as Gary Gygax
(co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons), Ian
Livingstone and Steve Jackson (co-founders of Games
Workshop), Richard Garfield (creator of Magic: The
Gathering), and Larry Harris (creator of Axis and
Allies); best-selling authors R. A. Salvatore, Tracy
Hickman, Douglas Niles, and Ed Greenwood; computer
industry notables Warren Spector (Deus Ex), Bruce
Shelley (Age of Empires), Jack Emmert (City of
Heroes), and Bruce Nesmith (Oblivion); as well
as dozens of other prominent and award-winning creators,
including Richard Berg, Monte Cook, Zeb Cook, Greg
Costikyan, Bruno Faidutti, Jeff Grubb, Steve Jackson (US),
Tom Jolly, Marc W. Miller, Alan R. Moon, Christian T.
Petersen, Sandy Petersen, Mike Pondsmith, Ted Raicer,
Greg Stafford, S. Craig Taylor, Martin Wallace, James M.
Ward, Jordan Weisman, Stewart Wieck, and Teeuwynn
Woodruff.
Hobby Games: The 100 Best also features a
foreword by board game legend Reiner Knizia and an
afterword by SPI founder and wargame legend James F.
Dunnigan.
Editor James Lowder has authored several best-selling
novels, including Prince of Lies and Knight of
the Black Rose, and designed game material for a wide
variety of publishers and magazines. He has helmed more
than a dozen critically acclaimed anthologies, with
subjects ranging from Arthurian Britain to zombies. He's
been a finalist for the Stoker Award and International
Horror Guild Award, and is a two-time Origins Award
winner.
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