Ron Edwards

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ron Edwards
Occupation	Game Author
Date Of Birth	Sep 4, 1964(1964-09-04)
Age	60
Birthplace	San Diego
Country	United States
Birth City	San Diego
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ron Edwards Biography

Ron Edwards is one of the most popular and richest Game Author who was born on September 4, 1964 in San Diego, San Diego, United States. Ronald Edwards (born September 4, 1964) is a game designer involved in the indie role-playing game (RPG) community, and a game theorist. He created the Sorcerer role-playing game, the GNS theory of gameplay, and The Big Model. Edwards is also co-founder of The Forge, an online community to support indie RPG design and publication.

With Ed Healy, Edwards created the website Hephaestus’s Forge in December 1999, as a creator-owned-game publisher site. The original site closed in late 2000 due to hosting problems, but Edwards and Clinton R. Nixon resurrected the site as “The Forge” in April 2001, hosted at indie-rpgs.com. It continued to run successfully until 2012.

Edwards purchased a booth at GenCon 34 in 2001 for Adept Press; the following year, the booth was doubled in size to also include The Forge.

Also in 2002, Edwards was awarded a Indie RPG Award in the category “Human of the Year”. His award citation reads in part “He has single-handedly done more for the indie RPG industry than anyone by helping folks get started or into the industry, promoting others’ games, and generally being an amazing rescource to us all […] He is a bloody powerhouse of rock and roll game- designerdom. The man is unstoppable. He’s a walking explosion of indie gaming coolness.”

As a result, he turned down the offer to publish, and in 1996, he printed copies of Sorcerer and distributed them using the shareware model, mailing a copy to anyone who asked for it and asking for $5 in return if they liked the game. Soon afterward he produced an ashcan of the game to sell at conventions. He continued to playtest Sorcerer and produced a fully rewritten version of the game that he began selling in PDF form after acquiring the sorcerer- rpg.com domain.

Ron Edwards Net Worth

Ron Edwards is one of the richest Game Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ron Edwards 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ron Edwards first started playing RPGs in 1978 when he was 14, starting with Dungeons & Dragons, which had been published four years earlier. He also tried other RPGs such as Tunnels & Trolls, Runequest, and his early favorite, The Fantasy Trip. Through high school and university, he continued to play RPGs, and entered an experimental phase in the 1980s and 1990s, playing as many as 200 different RPGs, including Champions, Stormbringer, GURPS, Rolemaster, Cyberpunk 2020, Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game and Over the Edge.

During the 1990s, Edwards was involved in discussions on Usenet about the theory of gameplay during RPGs, debating topics such as the fiction generated during role-playing — in Edwards’ words, “when it is or isn’t a story, and if it is, how it got that way.” As Edwards monitored the Usenet discussions, he realized that different players brought dramatically different priorities to the table — what he called Gamism, Narrativism, and Simulationism. In an online article in 1999, Edwards started to posit what would become his “GNS Theory” of how those three elements were related to techniques used during role-playing.

After seeing Obsidian: The Age of Justice, an RPG independently published by Micah Skaritka, Dav Harnish, and Frank Nolan, for sale at Gencon 33 in 2000, Edwards decided he could publish his own RPG books while retaining ownership. He created Adept Press, through which he published his second RPG, Elfs (2001) as a PDF. He also re-published Sorcerer as a 128-page hardcover volume in

2001. RPG historians Steven Torres-Roman and Cason Snow believe this was a turning point for indie RPGs, saying that when Edwards released the hardcover version, he “showed independent game designers the way to publish their own games.” Ron Edwards and Sorcerer subsequently won the second annual Diana Jones Award for “excellence in gaming” in 2002.

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While Edwards was a graduate student and biology instructor at the University of Florida, working on his PhD and writing a dissertation focused on evolutionary theory, he began to design an RPG he called Sorcerer. He sent the finished game to an existing RPG publisher; the publisher agreed to publish it and sent Edwards a standard contract, which gave the publisher the right to control artwork and marketing, to revise the book in the future if the author did not want to and to terminate the contract at their discretion. Edwards found the proposed contract unacceptable — inspired by indie comic creator Dave Sim, he believed that creators should have control over their own works.

Facts & Trivia

Ron Ranked on the list of most popular Game Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ron Edwards celebrates birthday on September 4 of every year.