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| caption    = D&D Author Randy Richards
 
| caption    = D&D Author Randy Richards
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| birth_date  = [[Birth Date:=1966-01-09|[[1966-01-09]]]]
 
| birth_place = [City:=New Orleans], [State_Name:=Louisiana], [Country_Name:=United States] {{flagicon|US}}
 
| birth_place = [City:=New Orleans], [State_Name:=Louisiana], [Country_Name:=United States] {{flagicon|US}}
 
| occupation  = Author, professional photographer
 
| occupation  = Author, professional photographer
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==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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Randy Richards was born January 9th, 1966. He originally hails from [[Chalmette, Louisiana|Chalmette (LA)]], the location of the Battle of New Orleans. He currently lives in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge (LA)]], where he runs a photography business and writes for publications.
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Randy Richards was born January 9th, 1966. He originally hails from Chalmette, Louisiana, the location of the Battle of New Orleans. He currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he runs a photography business and writes for publications.
    
Randy Richards has been playing Dungeons and Dragons since the late 70s, but started in earnest in the early 80s. "In the 1980s," Randy says, "we had the Basic D&D boxed game in our Gifted & Talented class, and I used to play a Cajun halfling. The other kids loved it, especially the accent."  Randy graduated from Chalmette High School in 1984, then from college in 1989, and moved to Tennessee. The move proved to be beneficial for Randy's career in photography. "People know me for my writing," he says, "but they don't know my day job is photography (DanceBackwards.com). Olan Mills, which operates out of Chattanooga, hired me to work for them as a kids photographer, then a glamour photographer, and finally a church directory photographer."
 
Randy Richards has been playing Dungeons and Dragons since the late 70s, but started in earnest in the early 80s. "In the 1980s," Randy says, "we had the Basic D&D boxed game in our Gifted & Talented class, and I used to play a Cajun halfling. The other kids loved it, especially the accent."  Randy graduated from Chalmette High School in 1984, then from college in 1989, and moved to Tennessee. The move proved to be beneficial for Randy's career in photography. "People know me for my writing," he says, "but they don't know my day job is photography (DanceBackwards.com). Olan Mills, which operates out of Chattanooga, hired me to work for them as a kids photographer, then a glamour photographer, and finally a church directory photographer."
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After five years in Tennessee, Randy was transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and started a family. "This is when I first got published. I wrote "Dark Magic in New Orleans" for Dungeon Magazine. After receiving scores of complimentary letters from people all over the world, I decided to start writing on a regular basis. With all my traveling with work there really wasn't time, but while driving I would make notes on anything available: cardboard boxes, gum wrappers, paper cups -- anything!"
 
After five years in Tennessee, Randy was transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and started a family. "This is when I first got published. I wrote "Dark Magic in New Orleans" for Dungeon Magazine. After receiving scores of complimentary letters from people all over the world, I decided to start writing on a regular basis. With all my traveling with work there really wasn't time, but while driving I would make notes on anything available: cardboard boxes, gum wrappers, paper cups -- anything!"
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In the late 90s Randy hosted a series of Gen Con events, one of which included the co-creators of D&D, [[Gary Gygax]] and [[Dave Arneson]], and other big names including Frank Mentzer, Lisa Stevens (now CEO of Paizo Publishing), and Anne Brown. "This got my name known in the industry, although at the time that wasn't my goal.  I was just trying to have fun and spread the joy of gaming."  
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In the late 90s Randy hosted a series of Gen Con events, one of which included the co-creators of D&D, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and other big names including Frank Mentzer, Lisa Stevens (now CEO of Paizo Publishing), and Anne Brown. "This got my name known in the industry, although at the time that wasn't my goal.  I was just trying to have fun and spread the joy of gaming."  
 
[[Image:RandyGary.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''Randy Richards & [[Gary Gygax]]'', at Gen Con in 1998]]<!--image licensed for promotional use only.-->
 
[[Image:RandyGary.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''Randy Richards & [[Gary Gygax]]'', at Gen Con in 1998]]<!--image licensed for promotional use only.-->
    
==Gaming Industry==
 
==Gaming Industry==
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Richards is also the former editor of the ''Greyhawk Grimoire'', an online publication devoted to the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting; and is the founder of the World of Greyhawk Fan Club, which once claimed to be "the largest Greyhawk fan organization in the world." The organization claimed among its members such luminaries as [[Gary Gygax]], [[Dave Arneson]], [[Rob Kuntz]], [[Frank Mentzer]], [[Len Lakofka]] and [[Jim Ward]]. In 1998 Randy sponsored the "Celebrity Greyhawk Dinner" and "Greyhawk Celebrity Panel Seminar." He has written numerous online fan-fiction adventures set in the Greyhawk campaign setting, including "Slerotin's Tunnel" and "Suel Imperium: Age of Glory".
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Richards is also the former editor of the ''Greyhawk Grimoire'', an online publication devoted to the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting; and is the founder of the World of Greyhawk Fan Club, which once claimed to be "the largest Greyhawk fan organization in the world." The organization claimed among its members such luminaries as Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, Rob Kuntz, Frank Mentzer, Len Lakofka and Jim Ward. In 1998 Randy sponsored the "Celebrity Greyhawk Dinner" and "Greyhawk Celebrity Panel Seminar." He has written numerous online fan-fiction adventures set in the Greyhawk campaign setting, including "Slerotin's Tunnel" and "Suel Imperium: Age of Glory".
    
Richards is active in the gaming industry, giving seminars and hosting panel discussions at conventions throughout the United States. Common topics of his seminars have included "How to Get Happily Published," "World of Greyhawk," "Dreadmire," and other gaming industry subjects. His latest projects include the book ''Katrina vs. St. Bernard Parish'', a photograph tour of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Chalmette and other parts of St. Bernard Parish; and ''Dreadmire Adventures'', an adventure-book expansion of the campaign setting he created.
 
Richards is active in the gaming industry, giving seminars and hosting panel discussions at conventions throughout the United States. Common topics of his seminars have included "How to Get Happily Published," "World of Greyhawk," "Dreadmire," and other gaming industry subjects. His latest projects include the book ''Katrina vs. St. Bernard Parish'', a photograph tour of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Chalmette and other parts of St. Bernard Parish; and ''Dreadmire Adventures'', an adventure-book expansion of the campaign setting he created.
 
[[Image:GreyhawkGang.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''The 'Greyhawk Celebrity Panel Seminar', at Gen Con''
 
[[Image:GreyhawkGang.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''The 'Greyhawk Celebrity Panel Seminar', at Gen Con''
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'''Front Row:''' [[Frank Mentzer]], [[Gary Gygax]], [[Dave Arneson]]
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'''Front Row:''' Frank Mentzer, Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson
 
'''Back Row:''' Anne Brown, Randy Richards, Lisa Stevens
 
'''Back Row:''' Anne Brown, Randy Richards, Lisa Stevens
 
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==TV Appearances & Community Activism==
 
==TV Appearances & Community Activism==
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Randy Richards has appeared in TV commercials[http://www.dancebackwards.com/RichardsCommercial4.html] for national companies (such as [[Cox Cable]]), and in local TV newscasts[http://www.dancebackwards.com/RichardsNews.html] in Baton Rouge and New Orleans for his photojournalism. He placed third in the Adult Landscape category of the LUMCON 2006 ''Bayous of Louisiana'' photography contest.[http://www.lumcon.edu/lagniappe/photocontest/winners2006/default.asp] His Hurricane Katrina photographs are part of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade's "Life in the Wake of Katrina" tour.[http://www.labucketbrigade.org/katrina/index.shtml][http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/08/29/hanson/] In addition, Randy Richards has appeared in two major Louisiana newspapers ({{Citation
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Randy Richards has appeared in TV commercials[http://www.dancebackwards.com/RichardsCommercial4.html] for national companies (such as [[Cox Cable]]), and in local TV newscasts[http://www.dancebackwards.com/RichardsNews.html] in Baton Rouge and New Orleans for his photojournalism. He placed third in the Adult Landscape category of the LUMCON 2006 ''Bayous of Louisiana'' photography contest.[http://www.lumcon.edu/lagniappe/photocontest/winners2006/default.asp] His Hurricane Katrina photographs are part of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade's "Life in the Wake of Katrina" tour.[http://www.labucketbrigade.org/katrina/index.shtml][http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/08/29/hanson/]
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==Published works==
 
==Published works==
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