Sterling Hershey

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Sterling Hershey
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OccupationArchitect & Author
NationalityAmerican
Subject Role-playing games
Notable works Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
Website
blogs.starwars.com/silverforce

Sterling Hershey is a full-time architect and freelance game designer, who has worked on three different incarnations of the Star Wars role-playing game for West End Games, Wizards of the Coast and Fantasy Flight Games, and also on the Star Wars Miniatures game. He has pursued freelance writing and cartography work since the early 1990s. [1]

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His Dungeons & Dragons credits include Monster Manual V (2007) and Monster Vault (2010).

His screen name is SilverForce on both StarWars.com and the Wizards boards.

Star Wars bibliography

Books

Star Wars d6 - West End Games

  • Flashpoint! Brak Sector [2]
  • Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide [3]
  • The Kathol Rift [4]
  • Hideouts & Strongholds [5]
  • The Far Orbit Project (cartographer) [6]

Star Wars Saga Edition

  • Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide [7]
  • Force Unleashed Campaign Guide [8]
  • The Clone Wars Campaign Guide [9]
  • Legacy Era Campaign Guide [10]
  • Rebellion Era Campaign Guide [11]
  • Scavenger's Guide to Droids [12]

Star Wars Roleplaying Game

Articles

Media Mentions

Sterling Hershey has appeared in the following newspaper and magazine articles, websites and podcasts.

Podcasts

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References

  1. ↑ Sterling Hershey's homepage. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
  2. ↑ Hershey, Sterling (April 1995). Flashpoint! Brak Sector. West End Games. ISBN   978-0-87431-253-9.
  3. ↑ Hershey, Sterling; John Beyer; Chris Doyle; Tim O'Brien (September 1996). Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide. West End Games. ISBN   978-0-87431-284-3.
  4. ↑ Hershey, Sterling; Hidalgo, Pablo; Joshua A. Miller; Timothy S. O'Brien; Eric S. Trautmann (May 1996). The Kathol Rift. West End Games. ISBN   978-0-87431-273-7.
  5. ↑ Hershey, Sterling (March 1998). Hideouts & Strongholds. West End Games. ISBN   978-0-87431-513-4.
  6. ↑ O'Brien, Timothy S. (April 1998). The Far Orbit Project. West End Games. ISBN   978-0-87431-515-8.
  7. ↑ Thompson, Rodney; Sterling Hershey; John Jackson Miller; Abel G. Peña (August 2008). Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN   978-0-7869-4923-6.
  8. ↑ Thompson, Rodney; Sterling Hershey; Owen K.C. Stephens; Peter Schweighofer (September 2008). Force Unleashed Campaign Guide. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN   978-0-7869-4743-0.
  9. ↑ Thompson, Rodney; Patrick Stutzman; J.D. Wiker; Gary Astleford; T. Rob Brown (January 2009). The Clone Wars Campaign Guide. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN   978-0-7869-4999-1.
  10. ↑ Thompson, Rodney; Hershey, Sterling; Astleford, Gary (March 2009). Legacy Era Campaign Guide. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN   978-0-7869-4356-2.
  11. ↑ Thompson, Rodney; Sterling Hershey; Owen K.C. Stephens; J.D. Wiker (July 2009). Rebellion Era Campaign Guide. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN   978-0-7869-4983-0.
  12. ↑ Thompson, Rodney; Sterling Hershey; Patrick Stutzman; Robert Wieland (November 2009). Scavenger's Guide to Droids. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN   978-0-7869-5230-4.
  13. ↑ Talnar's Rescue. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  14. ↑ Raiding Sunfire Outpost. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  15. ↑ Han Solo vs. the Death Star. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  16. ↑ Talnar's Tatooine Traitor. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  17. ↑ Not According to Plan. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  18. ↑ The Fight for TD-32. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  19. ↑ The Control Center. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  20. ↑ Hired Guns. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  21. ↑ Repel Boarders, Part 1. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  22. ↑ Repel Boarders, Part 2. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  23. ↑ Execute Order 66. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  24. ↑ Vader's Pursuit. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  25. ↑ Tusken Rustlers. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  26. ↑ Power Beyond Belief. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  27. ↑ Core of Corruption. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  28. ↑ Iridonian Darkness. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  29. ↑ 25 to Rescue. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
  30. ↑ Order 66 podcast. Order 66 podcast RSS feed.
  31. ↑ Order 66 podcast (September 1 2008). Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  32. ↑ Order 66 podcast (January 12 2009). Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  33. ↑ Order 66 podcast (March 22 2009). Retrieved February 21, 2010.
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