"Probably not the Champions guru"
Apr. 5th, 2009 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyatAaron Allston, a small god of my formative gaming years, has suffered a major heart attack. He had a quadruple-bypass in Dallas last Thursday and is currently in intensive care. He's 48 years old. Mr. Allston has no health insurance.
Allston has written a great many novels, and in the 80s he was a freelance game designer/writer. Most notably for me, he was the first listed author for the Justice Inc. roleplaying game. In fact, he and fellow authors Steve Peterson and Michael Stackpole, are featured on the cover of the game sourcebook.
This is a detail from the cover. Allston is the man in the centre of the picture, with the curly hair and beard. I would not be lying if I told you that, in the late 80s, my friends Bill and Dan and I spent hours identifying the characters on the cover. And also wondering about the identities and fabulous lives of the three men in t-shirts. Clearly, they were game writers, and involved with Champions as well as Justice Inc., and therefore the luckiest men in the universe.
Allston is 48.
Blood donors are being solicited, for those of you who happen to live in Texas, and some kind of benefit will be set up to assist with medical expenses. For more information on how you might be able to help, check out:
http://community.livejournal.com/allston_info/
Allston has written a great many novels, and in the 80s he was a freelance game designer/writer. Most notably for me, he was the first listed author for the Justice Inc. roleplaying game. In fact, he and fellow authors Steve Peterson and Michael Stackpole, are featured on the cover of the game sourcebook.
This is a detail from the cover. Allston is the man in the centre of the picture, with the curly hair and beard. I would not be lying if I told you that, in the late 80s, my friends Bill and Dan and I spent hours identifying the characters on the cover. And also wondering about the identities and fabulous lives of the three men in t-shirts. Clearly, they were game writers, and involved with Champions as well as Justice Inc., and therefore the luckiest men in the universe.
Allston is 48.
Blood donors are being solicited, for those of you who happen to live in Texas, and some kind of benefit will be set up to assist with medical expenses. For more information on how you might be able to help, check out:
http://community.livejournal.com/allston_info/
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Date: 2009-04-06 02:03 am (UTC)No health insurance...talk about adding insult to injury to poor Mr. Allston.
::B::
P.S. I used to try and figure out all those pulp reference included on that JI boxed set supplement, too!
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Date: 2009-04-06 03:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-06 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-06 05:23 am (UTC)Allston's long been one of MY industry heroes, too.
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Date: 2009-04-06 06:37 am (UTC)Makes me wonder if he's a distant cousin of mine with that last name (mine has a single l in it).