Bruce Harlick

Bruce Harlick is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career Bruce Harlick became the first employee of Hero Games in 1982. Harlick was a gamemaster running a Champions campaign in the fictional Ocean City for his fellow employees. and Enemies II (1982). 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. Harlick contacted Chris Avellone, asking him to write a character book for Champions, which he agreed to, resulting in 1993's Underworld Enemies. Harlick was one of the members of the fanzine Haymaker!, along with fellow Champions writers Steven S. Long, Chris Avellone, and Bryce Nakagawa. He was one of the authors of Enemies Assembled! (1995). 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."

When Cybergames.com acquired Hero Games in 2000, Harlick became the new President of the Hero Games division. Harlick left LucasArts in 2007 and moved to Paragon Studios as lead designer for City of Heroes.