Charlie Krank

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Charlie Krank
Born1957 (age 66–67)
San Francisco, California, United States
Occupation Game designer

Charlie Krank is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Early life

Charlie Krank was born in 1957 in San Francisco. [1]

Career

Charlie Krank was working as an employee at the San Francisco game store Gambit, when he began to volunteer to playtest for Chaosium in 1978 and two years later he was hired as a paid employee. [2] : 83  Krank designed the collectible card game Mythos , which won the 1996 Best Card Game award at Origins. [3] Krank was a long-time employee and part owner of Chaosium when Greg Stafford founded Issaries, Inc. and left the company after 25 years, so Krank became the new president of Chaosium. [2] : 94  Chaosium nearly shut down in 2003, but Krank ran the company out of his house for a time without any paid staff. [2] : 94 

On September 11, 2008, Krank informed the public that his friend and fellow long-time Chaosium employee Lynn Willis had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. [4] Krank later reported that Willis died on January 18, 2013. [5]

In a forum posting of 3 June 2015, Sandy Petersen announced that Krank was no longer President of Chaosium. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Charlie Krank". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
  2. 1 2 3 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. ↑ "Origins Award Winners (1996)". Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Archived from the original on 2007-01-25.
  4. ↑ "An open letter to the Chaosium Community from Charlie Krank". Chaosium.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05.
  5. ↑ "Lynn Willis: Rest In Peace". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22.
  6. ↑ Stafford and Petersen back at Chaosium, Yog-Sothoth.com, retrieved 9 June 2015
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