Ritchie?

[aldarron]

David James Ritchie is mentioned a lot in regards to his collaboration with Dave Arneson for TSR. Doing a web search I see he also authored some wargames in the early '80's and co authored Dragonquest. Beyond that, not much to be found. So who is David Ritchie? Why was he the one who was choosen to work with Arneson? What is his story? Anybody know?

[Havard]

Good question. I tried contacting him a few years ago, but no luck.

IIRC Bruce Heard was product manager for the DA series, so he might know something...

Havard

[Havard]

Frank Mentzer described him like this:

He was a hard-core wargamer before he (and his wife Deb) joined us at TSR; try SPI game design/editing credits.

Here's his website:
http://home.fnal.gov/~ritchie/

Some of the games he has worked on:

Classic D&D
City of the Gods (1987) TSR, Inc.
Duchy of Ten, (1987) TSR, Inc.
Temple of the Frog (1986) TSR, Inc.
Adventures in Blackmoor (1986) TSR, Inc.

AD&D
Destiny of Kings (1986) TSR, Inc.
Shattered Statue, The (1987) TSR, Inc.
OA2: Night of the Seven Swords = TSR: AD&D 1 (1986)

Boot Hill
BH3: Ballots & Bullets; TSR: Boot Hill 2 (1982)
Arena of Death

DragonQuest
SPI: DragonQuest 1 (1980 Box)
SPI: Frontiers of Alusia (DragonQuest) (1981)
SPI: DragonQuest 2 (1982)
SPI: DragonQuest 2 (1982 Box)
TSR: DragonQuest 3 (1989)


Gamma World
TSR: Gamma World 1 (1978)
TSR: Famine in Far-Go (1982)
TSR: Gamma World 2 (1983 Box)
TSR: Gamma World 3 (1986 Box)
TSR: Gamma World 4 (1992)

GangBusters
TSR: GangBusters 1 (1982 Box)

Ares #11
Albion: Land of Faerie by David J. Ritchie, Redmond A. Simonsen and Nick Karp. Two player strategy game set in ancient Britain
History of the Third Formorian War article

I got parts of this off some of Finarvyn's old posts @DF.

Havard