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Rick Meints
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Rick Meints is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

In the 1990s, American expatriate Rick Meints was a member of the Reaching Moon Megacorp, the British fan publisher that was the center of Glorantha culture at the time.[1]: 362  Meints was one of the staff on the leading Glorantha fanzine Tales of the Reaching Moon (1989-2002), published by Reaching Moon Megacorp.[1]: 179  The Megacorp also published Meints's book on collecting Gloranthan publications, The Meints Index to Glorantha (1996, 1999).[1]: 362  In 1998 Meints and Colin Phillips founded Moon Design Publications, the publisher of HeroQuest.[1]: 360 

In July 2015, as part of an announcement by Greg Stafford that Moon Design Publications had joined the ownership group of his iconic game company Chaosium, Meints formally became president of Chaosium with Stafford becoming chair of the board of directors.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ^ "Greg Stafford Announces New Ownership Group for Chaosium at Gen Con".