Bruce Harlick

Bruce Harlick became the first employee of Hero Games in 1982.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|146}} Harlick was a gamemaster running a Champions campaign in the fictional Ocean City for his fellow employees.{{rp|146}} He edited the supplements Champions II (1982),{{cite news |date=April 1983 |title=Capsule Reviews: Supplements |url=https://archive.org/details/space-gamer_201601/Space_Gamer_62/page/n39/ |magazine=The Space Gamer |via=Internet Archive |number=62 |accessdate=2023-11-26 }}{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Timothy |last2=Lee |first2=Tony |date=1998 |title=Official Price Guide to Role Playing Games |url=https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui0001brow/ |location=New York |publisher=House of Collectibles. Ballantine Publishing Group |via=Internet Archive |pages=[https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui0001brow/page/108/ 108] |isbn=0-676-60144-8 |issn=1520-4537 |accessdate=2023-11-26 }} and Enemies II (1982).{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Timothy |last2=Lee |first2=Tony |date=1998 |title=Official Price Guide to Role Playing Games |url=https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui0001brow/ |location=New York |publisher=House of Collectibles. Ballantine Publishing Group |via=Internet Archive |pages=[https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui0001brow/page/110/ 110] |isbn=0-676-60144-8 |issn=1520-4537 |accessdate=2023-11-26 }} His Champions characters Marksman and Foxbat appeared in the Champions comic book series (1986-1987) from Eclipse Comics after Dean Mullaney secured licensing rights; after some of the licensing rights were pulled, the characters continued as Huntsman and The Flying Fox, respectively.{{rp|149}} Harlick also worked for TSR as an editor on Dark Sun supplements, such as Merchant House of Amketch (1993), Marauders of Nibenay (1993), and The Ivory Triangle (1993).

Harlick later replaced Monte Cook as line editor for the Hero System books at Iron Crown Enterprises.{{rp|149}} Harlick and Bill Robinson took over as editors for the magazine Adventurers Club, after issue #18 had appeared in fall 1992, and after promising to revive the magazine issue #19 was published a few months later and issue #20 after that.{{cite news |last=Varney |first=Allen |author-link=Allen Varney |date=September 1993 |title=A third life for my favorite role-playing game |url=https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine197/ |magazine=Dragon |via=Internet Archive |volume=18 |number=4 #197 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine197/page/n76/ 75], [https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine197/page/n79/ 78] |accessdate=2023-11-26 }} Harlick contacted Chris Avellone,{{cite interview |url=http://www.mognation.com/video/mog-nation-interview-chris-avellone-of-obsidian/ |title=MOG Nation Interview: Chris Avellone of Obsidian |last=Avellone |first=Chris |interviewer-last=Drew |interviewer-first=Denver |date=September 3, 2013 |website=MOG Nation |language=en |format=video |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131028080845/http://www.mognation.com/video/mog-nation-interview-chris-avellone-of-obsidian/ |archive-date=October 28, 2013}} asking him to write a character book for Champions, which he agreed to, resulting in 1993's Underworld Enemies.{{cite interview |url=https://www.avclub.com/avc-at-gdc-10-an-interview-with-alpha-protocol-creator-1798219328 |title=AVC at GDC '10: An interview with Alpha Protocol creator Chris Avellone |last=Avellone |first=Chris |interviewer-last=Dahlen |interviewer-first=Chris |date=March 11, 2010 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012223449/https://games.avclub.com/avc-at-gdc-10-an-interview-with-alpha-protocol-creator-1798219328 |archive-date=October 12, 2018}}{{cite interview |url=https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/chris-avellone |title=Designer Notes 11: Chris Avellone |last=Avellone |first=Chris |interviewer-last=Johnson |interviewer-first=Soren |date=September 9, 2015 |website=Idle Thumbs Network |language=en |format=audio |access-date=December 2, 2023}} Harlick was one of the members of the fanzine Haymaker!, along with fellow Champions writers Steven S. Long, Chris Avellone, and Bryce Nakagawa.{{cite news |date=November–December 1994 |title=Haymaker! |url=https://archive.org/details/shadis-issue-16/page/51/ |magazine=Shadis |via=Internet Archive |volume=3 |number=4 #16 |page=51 |accessdate=2023-11-26 }} He was one of the authors of Enemies Assembled! (1995). Harlick was involved, with Steve Peterson and Ray Greer, in the Hero Games partnership with R. Talsorian Games that began in 1996.{{rp|150}} Harlick was one of the authors of the supplement Alliances (1997).{{cite news |last=Swan |first=Rick |date=February 1998 |title=Roleplaying Reviews |url=https://archive.org/details/dragon-magazine-270/Dragon%20Magazine%20244/page/100/ |magazine=Dragon |via=Internet Archive |volume=22 |number=7 #244 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dragon-magazine-270/Dragon%20Magazine%20244/page/104/ 104] |accessdate=2023-11-26 }}{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Timothy |last2=Lee |first2=Tony |date=1998 |title=Official Price Guide to Role Playing Games |url=https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui0001brow/ |location=New York |publisher=House of Collectibles. Ballantine Publishing Group |via=Internet Archive |pages=[https://archive.org/details/officialpricegui0001brow/page/116/ 116] |isbn=0-676-60144-8 |issn=1520-4537 |accessdate=2023-11-26 }} Harlick designed Champions: New Millennium (1997), described as a major-spin off that was "a much darker version of the work in which almost all of the world's super-heroes have been wiped out in a millennial apocalypse, and the players' characters must take their places."{{cite book |last=Tringham |first=Neal Roger |date=2015 |title=Science Fiction Video Games |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QH3SBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA227 |location=Boca Raton |publisher=CRC Press |via=Google Books |page=227 |isbn=978-1-4822-0389-9 |accessdate=2023-11-26 }}

When Cybergames.com acquired Hero Games in 2000, Harlick became the new President of the Hero Games division.{{rp|151}} Harlick joined the video game industry, becoming part of projects such as The Matrix Online and DC Universe Online for Monolith Productions, a Marvel Comics MMORPG for Sigil Games Online, as well as an Indiana Jones game for LucasArts.{{cite book |last=Harlick |first=Bruce |editor-last=Lowder |editor-first=James |date=2010 |chapter=Bruce Harlick on Battleship |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/familygames100be0000unse/page/22/ |title=Family Games: The 100 Best |url=https://archive.org/details/familygames100be0000unse/ |location=Seattle |publisher=Green Ronin Publishing |via=Internet Archive |page=[https://archive.org/details/familygames100be0000unse/page/25/ 25] |isbn=978-1-934547-21-2 |accessdate=2023-11-26 }} Harlick left LucasArts in 2007 and moved to Paragon Studios as lead designer for City of Heroes.{{cite news |last=Bott |first=Adrian |date=2008-10-08 |title=CoX's Bruce Harlick talks mission building, moral choices |url=https://www.engadget.com/2008-10-08-coxs-bruce-harlick-talks-mission-building-moral-choices.html |publisher=Engadget |accessdate=2023-11-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126234500/https://www.engadget.com/2008-10-08-coxs-bruce-harlick-talks-mission-building-moral-choices.html |archivedate=2023-11-26 }}{{cite news |last=Greene |first=Maggie |date=2008-11-01 |title=Behind City of Heroes |url=https://kotaku.com/behind-city-of-heroes-5073445 |website=Kotaku |accessdate=2023-11-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126234819/https://kotaku.com/behind-city-of-heroes-5073445 |archivedate=2023-11-26 }}

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=994 |archive-date=2005-02-16 |title=Bruce Harlick :: Pen & Paper RPG Database |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050216115017/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=994 |access-date=2014-01-04 }}
• [https://rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/1502/bruce-harlick Bruce Harlick] at RPGGeek
• {{cite news |last=Baugh |first=Bruce |authorlink=Bruce Baugh |date=2008-08-31 |title=Podcast Roundup 2: The Vintage Gamer; 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction |url=https://www.tor.com/2008/08/31/podcastweek2/ |website=Tor.com |accessdate=2023-11-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126234520/https://www.tor.com/2008/08/31/podcastweek2/ |archivedate=2023-11-26 }} The article notes: "2d6 Feet in a Random Direction covers roleplaying, minis, and board gaming, with forays elsewhere. Episode 36, for instance, spends some quality time with Chris Bennett and Bruce Harlick, talking about computer game design, changing markets, and things like that."

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