(1950-01-12)January 12, 1950[1] Oak Park, Illinois, United States[2]
Died
March 27, 2020(2020-03-27) (aged 70) Elkhorn, Wisconsin, United States
Occupation
Writer, game designer
Nationality
American
Genre
Role-playing games, fantasy, wargames
Spouse
Victoria Miller
Brian John Blume (January 12, 1950 – March 27, 2020)[2] was an American game designer and writer, principally known as a former business partner of Gary Gygax at TSR, Inc., original publishers of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
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Brian John Blume (January 12, 1950 – March 27, 2020) was an American game designer and writer, principally known as a former business partner of Gary Gygax...
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(1976), the third supplement to the original Dungeons & Dragons rules, BrianBlume invented two artifacts he called the Hand and Eye of Vecna. These were...
Eldritch Wizardry is a supplementary rulebook by Gary Gygax and BrianBlume, written for the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy...
Great Depression. BrianBlume persuaded Gygax to allow Brian's brother Kevin to purchase Melvin Blume's shares. This gave the Blume brothers a controlling...
and Roundheads (1973) with Jeff Perren Warriors of Mars (1974) with BrianBlume Classic Warfare (1975) Dungeon! (1975) with David R. Megarry, Michael...
later emphatic that he never gave author BrianBlume any information about the wizard, and insisted that Blume had been forced to make up the published...
Rary: Rary was a wizard created by BrianBlume and played only until he reached the 3rd level, at which point Blume retired him, having reached his objective...
Eldritch Wizardry (1976), BrianBlume invented two artifacts he called the Hand and Eye of Vecna (pp.43–44). [Gygax: "Brianblume (sic) was the creator of...
distributed copies of the first issue to fanzine Albion subscribers; BrianBlume received one of these copies, and sent them a copy of the new game Dungeons...
: 239–249 The Warriors of Mars rules for miniature warfare by Gary Gygax and BrianBlume were controversial, and a legal dispute with the owners of the rights...
1973 by playing acquaintance BrianBlume to invest $2000 in TSR to become an equal one-third partner. (Gygax accepted Blume's offer right away. Kaye was...
role-playing game that was published by TSR. In 1977, Richard, John, BrianBlume and Greg Svenson co-authored an expansion to Star Probe titled Star Empires...
together, and Arneson's own final draft was never used. Despite all this, BrianBlume eventually provided the funding required to publish the original Dungeons...
Patricia Claire Blume in Finchley, then part of Middlesex (now a suburb of North London), the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, a "not very...
home Dungeons & Dragons campaign. The Rogues Gallery was written by BrianBlume with Dave Cook and Jean Wells, with a cover by Erol Otus and interior...
1:285 scale miniature wargaming battles set in World War II. Written by BrianBlume and published by TSR, Inc. (the same company that created Dungeons &...
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