N. Robin Crossby

Nick Robin Crossby ( born May 18, 1954 in London, † July 23, 2008 in Coquitlam (British Columbia) ) was the author of the fantasy game world HârnWorld and the pen -and- paper role-playing game HârnMaster and founder of the publishing house Keléstia Productions.

Life

Robin Crossby was born on 18 May 1954 as the third of four children of his Welsh- English parents in London. In 1968 he emigrated with his parents and two of his siblings to Vancouver in Canada. There he made an associate degree in philosophy. Later he married and moved to Maple Ridge, where he lived until his death with his wife Sharon. The marriage produced three daughters were born. In January 2006, a liposarcoma was diagnosed in the abdomen at Crossby. Surgery and more chemotherapy regimens applied interim improvement, but remained ultimately unsuccessful. On 23 July 2008, he succumbed to cancer at a hospice in Coquitlam, near Maple Ridge.

Even as a child in the London years, Robin Crossby began playing together with his siblings RPGs. Another early hobby that should have an impact on his later career was designing and drawing fictional maps. The mid-1970s began to Crossby to publish parts of his self-written RPG rules in magazines. In 1983 he published in collaboration with the ( Canadian at the time) game publisher Columbia Games, the first edition of HârnWorld. Three years later, the publication of his role-playing game system HârnMaster. By 2003, Crossby and Columbia Games made ​​together numerous other publications on HârnWorld and HârnMaster. 2003, Crossby and Columbia Games parted in dispute and began Crossby material under his own label Kelestia Productions to publish. The dispute over the copyright to HârnWorld and HârnMaster publications was not settled until death Crossbys 2008.