Scott Douglas was a member of the Role-Playing Group Association (RPGA) who acted as its Network Coordinator from 1995 to 1997, wrote articles for both Dragon magazine and Polyhedron Newszine, and acted as the latter's editor for three issues in 1996.[1]
History[]
Scott was born in the hills of San Francisco, California. His exposure to the RPGA was a role playing at the GEN CON Game Fair in 1988. Over the next few years he would continue to participate in the RPGA variously in the roles of Game Master, marshal, volunteer, and even in security.[1]
In September 1993, Polyhedron #87 revealed the winner of an RPGA contest to create a memorable Player Character. Out of all the submissions sent, the winner was Scott Douglas, then part of the Player's Guild of Central Oklahoma, with his bard "Plump". The article included a unique magic item, Dorus's lyre,[3] that would later be reprinted in the pages of Encyclopedia Magica Volume IV.[4] At that year's GEN CON Game Fair in Fort Worth, Texas, Douglas was among the many key volunteers.[5]
At the end of the year, Polyhedron #90 revealed in the article "Marvelous MacGuffins" the winners of a contest, open only to Network clubs, to design magic items. One of the winning selections was Scott Douglas's bag of many bags.[6]
In 1995, Douglas convinced the guildmasters at TSR, Inc. of his willingness and dedication to become the RPGA's new Network Coordinator.[1] His appointment to the position was officially announced that April in Polyhedron #106's "Notes from HQ".[2]
When Jeff Quick stepped down as the long-running editor of Polyhedron Newszine in 1999, he thanked Scott in his fair well address in Polyhedron #134 for "...being a personable boss and shielding me from corporate fallout as much as possible."[7]
Works[]
Author[]
- Polyhedron #86, "The Living City: Friar Cookpot" (August 1993)
- Polyhedron #87, "The New Rogues Gallery: Plump" (September 1993)
- Polyhedron #111, "City in Transition: The Future of the Living City" (September 1995)
- Dragon #223, "Winter Fantasy '96: Join the Hordes", an article in which Scott discusses the Winter Fantasy convention, its seminars, and the debut of the Living Death campaign (November 1995)
- Dragon #225, "RPGA Network News", an article in which Scott explaines the Living City campaign. (January 1996)
- Dragon #226, "RPGA Network News", a one page article in which Scott discusses how to run an RPGA-sanctioned event (February 1996)
- Dragon #227, "RPGA Network News", a one page article in which Scott discusses how to write tournament modules (March 1996)
- Dragon #228, "RPGA Network News", a one page article in which Scott discusses Network activity and the "Living City at War" series, an event that would later be known in-universe as the Three Women War (April 1996)
- Dragon #229, "RPGA Network News", a one page article in which Scott presents a few of his 297 Rules of Convention Attendance (May 1996)
- Dragon #230, "RPGA Network News", a one page article in which Scott discusses Ed Greenwood's The Everwinking Eye (June 1996)
Editor[]
- Polyhedron #106, listed as one of three "contributing editors" to editor Dave Gross (April 1995)
- Polyhedron #119 (May 1996)
- Polyhedron #120 (June 1996)
- Polyhedron #121 (July 1996)
Special Thanks[]
- Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996)
- Player's Option: Spells & Magic (June 1996)
- The City of Ravens Bluff (October 26, 1998)
Appendix[]
Background[]
- Polyhedron #122 featured "Larger than Life", a biographical article with a humorous bent on Scott Douglas, Jeff Quick, and Robert Wiese. It statted Douglas as an AD&D character, a 9th level human bard with the jongleur class kit.[1] though it's also been noted that juggling was one of his hobbies.[2]
- In the grand finale adventures of the Living City campaign, Ravens Bluff - Gateway to the Vast and Ravens Bluff Approaches Its Golden Age, Scott Douglas is among the many RPGA members included in Daniel S. Donnelly's dedication.[8][9]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Jeff Quick ed. (August 1996). “Larger than life”. Polyhedron #122 (TSR, Inc.), p. 4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kevin Melka (April 1995). “Notes from HQ”. In Dave Gross ed. Polyhedron #106 (TSR, Inc.), p. 2.
- ↑ Template:Cite polyhedron/87/The New Rogues Gallery: Plump
- ↑ slade et al (November 1995). Encyclopedia Magica Volume IV. (TSR, Inc.), p. 1330. ISBN 0-7869-0289-2.
- ↑ Jean Rabe (October 1993). “Notes From HQ: Living City Growing Pains”. In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #88 (TSR, Inc.), p. 4.
- ↑ Jean Rabe ed. (December 1993). “Marvelous MaGuffins”. Polyhedron #90 (TSR, Inc.), p. 9.
- ↑ Jeff Quick (January 1999). “Farewell Jeff...”. In Jeff Quick ed. Polyhedron #134 (TSR, Inc.), p. 2.
- ↑ Daniel S. Donnelly, Cisco Lopez-Fresquet, Paul Pederson (August 2004). Ravens Bluff: Gateway to the Vast. Living City (RPGA), p. 3.
- ↑ Daniel S. Donnelly (June 2004). Ravens Bluff Approaches Its Golden Age. Living City (RPGA), p. 3.