Lester W. Smith

Lester W. Smith
Lester W. Smith
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Game designer, educational writer
Years active	1984–present
Known for	Dragon Dice
Website	lestersmith.com

Lester W. Smith is a

game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games

.

Career

Early work and GDW

Lester Smith began his game-design career in 1984 with Mind Duel, a science-fiction board game submission to

Traveller: 2300 (1986) as an expansion of the original Traveller role-playing game.^[2]^: 58 He designed the Temple of the Beastmen board game.^[1] Smith designed the role-playing game Dark Conspiracy (1991) which used the new GDW "house system" of rules originally created for the second edition of Twilight: 2000.^[2]^: 60 Smith designed the Minion Hunter board game.^[1]

TSR and Dragon Dice

Smith later left GDW to work for

James Ward, John Danovich, and Sean Everette, Smith co-founded the d20 company Fast Forward Entertainment.^[2]

^: 351

Later work

Smith worked as an educational writer and technologist for a

Houghton Mifflin design house and for a time served as the president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.^[1] As of 2018, Smith is officially retired.^[5] Since 2011, Smith has launched 13 successful funded campaigns on the crowdfunding platform kickstarter.^[5] These projects include books, role-playing games and card games that Smith has designed himself.^[5]

Personal life

Lester Smith is an alumnus of Illinois State University.^[5] He married his wife Jennifer and they had four daughters together.^[5] In 2015, Smith and his wife moved to Loma, Nebraska to live closer to family.^[5]

References

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ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0
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^
ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7
.

^ Swan, Rick (February 1995). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (#214). Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR: 39.
^ "Chaos Progenitus".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Schucht, Eric (September 27, 2018). "Loma resident thinks outside the box to design game masterpieces". Columbus Telegram. Retrieved October 27, 2018.

External links

"Lester Smith :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on March 8, 2005.
Home page

[HG-1] 
ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0
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[designers-2] 
ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7
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[Dragon_#214-3] Swan, Rick (February 1995). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (#214). Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR: 39.

[4] "Chaos Progenitus".

[:0-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Schucht, Eric (September 27, 2018). "Loma resident thinks outside the box to design game masterpieces". Columbus Telegram. Retrieved October 27, 2018.

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