Charlie Krank

Charlie Krank is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Charlie Krank
Born1957 (age 65–66)
San Francisco, California, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Early life

Charlie Krank was born in 1957 in San Francisco.[1]

Career

Charlie Krank, an employee of the San Francisco game store Gambit, started volunteering to help Chaosium playtest in 1978 and became a paid employee two years later.[2]: 83  Krank designed the collectible card game Mythos, which won the 1996 Best Card Game award at Origins.[3] When Greg Stafford founded Issaries, Inc. and left Chaosium after 25 years, long-time employee and part owner Krank stepped up as the new president of Chaosium.[2]: 94  Chaosium almost went out of business in 2003, and for a time afterward it was run out of president Krank's house with no paid staff.[2]: 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.[4] Krank later reported that Willis died on January 18, 2013.[5]

In a forum posting of 3 June 2015, Sandy Petersen announced that Krank was no longer President of Chaosium.[6]

References
  1. "Charlie Krank". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
  2. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. "Origins Award Winners (1996)". Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Archived from the original on 2007-01-25.
  4. "An open letter to the Chaosium Community from Charlie Krank". Chaosium.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05.
  5. "Lynn Willis: Rest In Peace". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22.
  6. Stafford and Petersen back at Chaosium, Yog-Sothoth.com, retrieved 9 June 2015
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