Nigel Findley

Nigel D. Findley (July 22, 1959 – February 19, 1995^[1]) was a Canadian game designer, editor, and an author of science fiction and fantasy novels and role-playing games (RPGs).

Biography

Nigel Findley was born in Venezuela in 1959 to Canadian parents, and lived in Spain, Nigeria, the United States, and England before moving with his family to Vancouver in 1969.^[1]

He got his start as a role-playing game author in the mid 1980s during his business career. By 1990 he had become a full-time writer, and had authored or coauthored over one hundred books, and twelve novels.

His body of work also included supplements for Mayfair's Role Aids line, Wizards of the Coast's The Primal Order, West End Games, and White Wolf Publishing. He is credited with parts of the design of Greyhawk Adventures and Fate of Istus, and wrote the whole of Greyspace. He was also part of the original core of Shadowrun RPG writers and designers, and has sole writing credit on both sourcebooks and Shadowrun world novels.

Findley died at home on February 19, 1995, in Vancouver, British Columbia,^[1] at the age of 35 from a sudden heart attack.^[5]

Legacy

The Nigel D. Findley Memorial Award was awarded for best role-playing product of the year between 1995 and 2001. The Castle Falkenstein role-playing game was the first winner of the award, while The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game was the last documented winner.^[6]

Bibliography

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

• Dragon magazine
  • "The Ecology of the Peryton" (February 1984, Dragon issue #82)
  • "The Ecology of the Will-o-Wisp" (July 1985, Dragon issue #99)
  • "The Ecology of the Greenhag" (September 1987, Dragon issue #125)
  • "The Ecology of the Gibbering Mouther" (August 1990, Dragon issue #160)
  • "The Mind of the Vampire" (October 1990, Dragon issue #162)
  • "Picture This!" (March 1992, Dragon issue 179)
• Dungeon magazine
  • "Caermor" (November 1986, Dungeon issue 2)
  • "Nightshade" (September 1987, Dungeon issue 7)
  • "Light of Lost Souls" (July 1988, Dungeon issue 12)
  • "A Question of Balance" (November 1988, Dungeon issue 14)
  • "Necropolis" (March 1989, Dungeon issue 16)
  • "The Serpent's Tooth" (September 1989, Dungeon issue 19)
  • "White Fang" (November 1989, Dungeon issue 20)
• All game worlds
  • ISBN 0-88038-837-4
    ) Design
  • ISBN 1-56076-107-5
    ) Design
  • ISBN 0-7869-1444-0
    ) Coauthor
• Forgotten Realms
  • ISBN 0-88038-876-5
    )
  • ISBN 0-88038-895-1
    )
  • ISBN 0-7869-0709-6
    ) Additional/original design
• Greyhawk
  • ISBN 0-88038-649-5
    ) Additional design
  • ISBN 0-88038-712-2
    ) Coauthor
• Lankhmar
  • ISBN 0-88038-825-0
    )
• Ravenloft
  • ISBN 1-56076-151-2
    )
  • ISBN 1-56076-633-6
    )
  • Both reprinted in Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium: Volume One (1999,
    ISBN 0-7869-1447-5
    )
• Spelljammer
  • ISBN 0-88038-845-5
    )
  • ISBN 1-56076-134-2
    )
  • Into the Void (1991 novel,
    ISBN 1-56076-154-7
    )
  • ISBN 1-56076-348-5
    ) crossover with Greyhawk
  • The Broken Sphere (1993 novel,
    ISBN 1-56076-596-8
    )
• Role Aids (unlicensed books published by Mayfair Games)
  • Witches (1990 sourcebook,
    ISBN 0-923763-24-4
    )
  • Psionics (1991 sourcebook,
    ISBN 0-923763-31-7
    )
  • To Hell and Back, Realms of Fantasy (1993 boxed set,
    ISBN 0-923763-62-7
    )
  • Seed of Darkness (1993 novel,
    ISBN 0-923763-78-3
    )