John Harshman


John Harshman is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

In 1975, Game Designers' Workshop published Triplanetary by Harshman and Marc Miller. Harshman, Frank Chadwick, and Loren Wiseman helped Miller design Traveller and the game was published in 1977. Harshman had been overseeing the direction of Traveller's Imperium in-house, and as GDW licensed Traveller to other companies, he became the contact man for these various publishers.

Personal life

Harshman earned a doctorate in zoology and now lives in California.