Steve Henderson (game designer)

Steve Henderson (1944 - March 8, 2006) was the co-designer of several

titles and supplements.

Career

Steve Henderson, Steve Perrin and Warren James, began working on an idea for an original role-playing game system for Glorantha, and were soon joined by Ray Turney from the original failed design team.^[1] Henderson's work includes RuneQuest,^[2] Worlds of Wonder and Superworld, and a partner in DunDraCon. He was one of the founders of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), where he was known as Sir Steven MacEanruig.

He wrote the first RuneQuest adventure supplement, Balastor's Barracks^[3] with assistance from Steve Perrin and Warren James. The adventure is a dungeon crawl where the adventurers seek a powerful magic item as the primary quest. The adventure is intended as an introductory adventure for new players and game masters who are new to the RuneQuest system, providing practical demonstrations of many of the mechanics of this game system.

As Sir Steven MacEanruig,

station in Oakland, California. The BART practice has been the starting point for many people who participate in SCA combat, as well as serving as a laboratory for the improvement of training practices, and the development of combat recreation techniques to better and more safely simulate medieval combat.

Henderson was at the initial event of the SCA on May 1, 1966.

Henderson died on March 8, 2006, as the result of a stroke.^[5]

References

External links

• SCA announcement
• SCA Today obituary
• Steve Henderson, An Appreciation by Steve Perrin