Bruce Heard

Bruce Heard (born March 9, 1957) is a game designer, and an author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR.

Early life Heard was born in Nice, France, on March 9, 1957, to his French mother and U.S. Navy officer father. "I grew up in France, England, Morocco, Washington, DC, and Dallas, all before I started school. I speak French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and a little German," he said. After a few months of doing translation work in Nice, TSR moved the translating job to the home office in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, so Heard moved to the United States.

Works Bruce Heard worked on several products for TSR on the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set game, and wrote the Voyage of the Princess Ark comic series that was published in Dragon magazine, as well as some Advanced Dungeons & Dragons products. He also worked for TSR as a product manager, director of production planning, and head of games acquisitions.