Charlie Krank

Charlie Krank
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

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

Early life

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

Career

Charlie Krank, an employee of the San Francisco game store Gambit, started volunteering to help Chaosium playtest in 1978 and became a paid employee two years later.[2]:83 Krank designed the collectible card game Mythos, which won the 1996 Best Card Game award at Origins.[3] When Greg Stafford founded Issaries, Inc. and left Chaosium after 25 years, long-time employee and part owner Krank stepped up as the new president of Chaosium.[2]:94 Chaosium almost went out of business in 2003, and for a time afterward it was run out of president Krank's house with no 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]

References

  1. http://www.chaosium.com/charlie-krank/
  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.
  4. Lynn Willis: Rest In Peace
  5. Stafford and Petersen back at Chaosium, Yog-Sothoth.com, retrieved 9 June 2015

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