Frank Chadwick

Frank Chadwick is an American game designer and New York Times best selling author. He has designed hundreds of games, his most notable being the role-playing games En Garde!, Space: 1889 and Twilight 2000, and the wargame series Europa and The Third World War, as well as creating Traveller with Marc Miller. He has won multiple awards for his work.

Beginnings Chadwick formed the ISU Game Club at Illinois State University with Rich Banner. The club focused on wargaming, but the students also began designing games as a fun activity and were able to convince the university to fund a new program called SIMRAD ("SIMulation Research And Design"), with the intent of aiding instructors to produce specifications for simulation games. They used their club funding to design war games. They also formed a small educational games organization in response to a project by the university to bring new ideas into the system. After failing to win this project, Chadwick and Banner, along with newcomers Marc Miller and Loren Wiseman, continued to work together, forming Game Designers' Workshop. Space: 1889 in 1989 (which was set in a steampunk milieu before the term was coined), and Twilight 2000 in 1984. After the closure of Game Designers' Workshop, Chadwick got the rights to Space: 1889.

Awards and recognition

Chadwick won numerous awards, including induction into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame and Origins Hall of Fame in 1984. He won a Charles S. Roberts Award in 1980, 1981 and 1989, was nominated for an Origins Award in 2009.

Works Below are some of Chadwick's most notable works.

Design credits 1973: Drang Nach Osten! (Europa), wargame, with Rich Banner 1975: En Garde!, RPG, with Darryl Hany 1975: 1815: The Waterloo Campaign, wargame, with John Astell 1977: Imperium, wargame, with John Harshman and Marc W. Miller 1977: Traveller, RPG, with Marc W. Miller, John Harshman, Loren K. Wiseman, and many others 1980: Tacforce, miniatures board wargame, with Marc W. Miller- CSR Award Winner 1980: Azhanti High Lightning, boardgame linked to Traveller RPG, with Marc Miller 1981: A House Divided, wargame, two-time CSR Award Winner 1981: Striker (Traveller), miniatures wargame 1981: Suez '73, wargame 1983: Assault, wargame 1984: The Third World War, wargame 1984: Fire in the East (Europa), wargame, with John Astell and Rich Banner 1984: Twilight: 2000, RPG, with John Astell, John Harshman, Loren K. Wiseman 1988: Space: 1889, RPG, with Marc W. Miller and others 1988,1992,1997: Command Decision, miniatures wargame 1994: Volley and Bayonet, miniatures wargame 2006: Command Decision: Test of Battle, miniatures wargame, with Glenn Kidd

Fiction Space: 1889 & Beyond series 2012: A Prince of Mars, Untreed Reads Publishing, B007CQDAPM, novella and book five of the Space: 1889 & Beyond series. 2014: The Forever Engine, Baen Books, , time travel novel set in a divergent Space: 1889 universe (serves as something of a prequel to Space: 1889 & Beyond, and shares some of the same characters as Conspiracy of Silence).

Cottohazz series (2013) How Dark the World Becomes, Baen Books, , science fiction crime novel (2015) Come the Revolution, Baen Books, , science fiction sequel to How Dark the World Becomes (2017) Chain of Command. Baen Books, , science fiction, set in the same universe as How Dark the World Becomes and Come the Revolution, but with new characters. (2020) Ship of Destiny, Baen Books, , sequel to Chain of Command