Thomas A. Dowd is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Tom Dowd | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Career
editThomas Dowd was one of the writers who created supporting material for the Villains and Vigilantes role-playing game from Fantasy Games Unlimited.[1]: 75 The Shadowrun 2nd Edition rules from FASA, by Dowd with Paul Hume and Bob Charrette, won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1992.[2] Dowd was working at FASA in 1990 when he met Peter Adkison, who was trying to understand how the gaming industry worked, and Dowd advised him to attend the next Gama Trade Show in March 1991.[1]: 276 Mark Rein-Hagen turned to Dowd to design his new game about vampires, because Jonathan Tweet was his expert in game mechanics but left Lion Rampant in 1989.[1]: 217 Dowd refined the dice pool system from Shadowrun to repurpose it for Vampire: The Masquerade (1991) from White Wolf.[1]: 123 Dowd worked with Rein-Hagen to adapt the core mechanics from his previous game success to use d10 instead of d6 for calculating probability.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "The 1992 Origins Awards - Presented at Origins 1993". Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ Appelcline, Shannon (2007-02-01). "A Brief History of Game #11: White Wolf, Part One: 1986-1995". RPGnet. Skotos Tech Inc. Retrieved 2007-09-16.
External links
edit- "Tom Dowd :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on 19 May 2007.