Roger E. Moore

Greyhawk Creator

Roger E. Moore
Roger Moore attending GaryConXIV (2022).
Nationality:	United States
Born:	July 11, 1955, Winchester, Kentucky, United States
First Greyhawk work:	"The Dancing Hut" (1984).
Notabale works:	The Adventure Begins, Return of the Eight
Alias:	Rogar of Mooria

Roger E. Moore (born July 11, 1955, in Winchester, Kentucky) is an RPG designer. He is best known for his long-running tenure as editor of Dragon magazine and was the founding editor of Dungeon magazine.

Early life

Moore's family moved around Kentucky for the early part of his childhood and eventually settled down outside of Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville. Moore attended the University of Kentucky, where he majored in Astronomy before changing his major to Psychology. He married fellow student Georgia Skowlund.

Career

After he graduated from college, he entered the U.S. Army as a mental health counselor. While in Fort Bragg, NC during the summer of 1977, he first learned about role-playing games. “The place I worked at in West Germany was a combination mental-health clinic/pizza parlor/ham radio shack and library ... It was once a panzer barracks, too. I was quite bored, so I started writing articles for Dragon Magazine. I gamed heavily and met some other gamers who now write or work for magazines.” After a number of successful submissions to Dragon, Moore became a Contributing Editor. “I had a lot of time to write at work, mostly when clients were too busy to show up for appointments. I did articles on the D&D, AD&D, and Traveller games — just about anything I could find.”

After three years of duty in Mannheim, Moore went to the University of Louisville to work toward a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. “I wanted to work with the space program as a human-factors engineer,” says Moore. “After awhile, I realized that wasn’t what I wanted, so I called up Kim Mohan and asked if he needed any help on his staff.” Moore became a regular contributor of articles to Dragon beginning in 1980. He received the Army Commendation Medal and other awards during his five-year tour of duty at Ft. Bragg, N.C. and Mannheim, West Germany.

Moore joined TSR, Inc. as a magazine editor in May 1983. Moore wrote, "I lerned alot from Pat Price and Kim Mohan an picked up the majorty of my edditing skills from them an learnd to pay more attension to grammer and speling then I used too pay to." Moore wrote consistently for Dragon magazine, and became editor of Dungeon magazine in 1986, and in the same year became Editor-in-Chief of Dragon when Kim Mohan resigned. Moore moved to the games division in 1993, where he became creative director of the AD&D core rules product group.^{[citation needed]} He joined Wizards of the Coast in 1997 when TSR was acquired and continued to write and edit gaming materials of all sorts.^{[citation needed]} Moore has written fiction for Dragonlance and other game worlds. Wizard of the Coast returned to the Greyhawk setting in 1998 with Player's Guide to Greyhawk (1998) by Anne Brown and Return of the Eight (1998) and The Adventure Begins (1998) by Moore; these three books moved the metaplot of Greyhawk to a new era. The Adventure Begins won the 1998 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement. Moore left Wizards of the Coast in late 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Moore is a past member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Published books

• Moore, Roger. Return of the Eight. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998. Item code TSR9576.
• Moore, Roger E.. The Adventure Begins. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998. Item code TSR9577.
• The Maelstrom's Eye. No extended bibliography data available.. ISBN 1-56076-344-2.

Greyhawk works

• Moore, Roger E. "The Dancing Hut." Dragon #83. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1984.

———. "Elmshire: A Halfling Haven." Dragon #262. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1999.

———. "Gates in the World of Greyhawk." Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1995. Originally appeared in TSR's America Online folder, WotC later moved to its website.[1] Archived online: [2]

———. "Green Nightmare: The Amedio Jungle, Part I." Oerth Journal #4. Council of Greyhawk, 1996. Available online:[3]

———. The Adventure Begins. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.

———. "Greyhawk Mysterious Places." Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1999. Originally appeared in TSR's America Online folder as a second edition update to Greyhawk Adventures, later moved to its website. No longer live, available from the Wayback Machine: [4]

———. "The House on Summoner Court." Shadis #50 (1998) and Oerth Journal #7. Council of Greyhawk, 1998. Available online:[5]

———. "Legacies of the Suel Imperium." Dragon #241. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1997.

———. "Oerth from the Ground Up." Oerth Journal #3. Council of Greyhawk, 1996. Available online:[6]

———. "The Orbs of Dragonkind." Dragon #230. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996.

———. Return of the Eight. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.

———. "A World of Your Own: Dark and Alien Places, Part 1." Polyhedron #113. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1995.

———. "A World of Your Own: Dark and alien places, part 2." Polyhedron #114. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1995.

———. "A World of Your Own: Just How Weird Can a World Get?" Polyhedron #112. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1995.

External links

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• List of Roger E. Moore credits at Pen & Paper. Archived on the Wayback Machine: [7]
• Roger Moore at Wikipedia.

References

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