Greg Stolze

Greg Stolze (born 1970) is an American game designer, writer and novelist, whose work has mainly focused on writing for role-playing games and related intellectual properties.

Career Stolze began his career writing role playing games professionally when he was chosen by Jonathan Tweet to write for the Everway storytelling game; the Spherewalker Sourcebook was Stolze's first full-length RPG book. Subsequently, he was commissioned to write the original Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game.

Stolze had met John Scott Tynes when they collaborated with Robin Laws to write Wildest Dreams (1993), a supplement for Tweet's Over the Edge. Stolze and Tynes later co-designed the roleplaying game Unknown Armies; Stolze helped write the mechanics for the game, based on a setting Tynes had been developing for a few years. including Demon: the Fallen and Vampire: The Requiem and wrote novels set in the world of these games. Stolze also created the traditional strategy board game Elemental for Kenzer & Company.

For Arc Dream, Stolze co-authored Wild Talents (2006), the "sequel" to Godlike, with Detwiller, Kenneth Hite and Shane Ivey, and also wrote alternate settings for the game such as eCollapse. Arc Dream also published a print edition of Reign Enchiridion, a simplified version of his Reign fantasy RPG, which featured an innovative group resolution mechanic built on the ORE rules. For example, Stolze released the wargame Meatbot Massacre Stolze has also produced small, independent role-playing games such as Executive Decision and ... in Spaaace!, Subsequently, Arc Dream released the ORE RPG Better Angels, where each player plays one character, while also taking the role of the demon who grants another player character superpowers.

Stolze has participated in two projects resulting from highly successful Kickstarters: the Delta Green role-playing game from Arc Dream publishing, and the Third Edition of Unknown Armies, for Atlas Games. In addition, his own successful kickstarter resulted in the publication of the experimental novel "You", written in the second person and set, like his previous novels Godwalker and Switchflipped, in the universe of the Unknown Armies RPG.

Author credits

Novels Ashes and Angel Wings (2003) The Seven Deadlies (2003) The Wreckage of Paradise (2003) A Hunger Like Fire (2004) The Marriage of Virtue and Viciousness (2005) Godwalker (2005) Switchflipped (2011) Mask of the Other (2011) Sinner (2013) The Forgotten Monk (2015) You (2017)

Role-playing games Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game (1998) Unknown Armies (1998) with John Scott Tynes (3004) City of Lies box set (L-1 City of Lies) (1999) Godlike (2002) with Dennis Detwiller Wild Talents (2006) with Dennis Detwiller, Kenneth Hite and Shane Ivey, along with supplements including: eCollapse Grim War, with Kenneth Hite Progenitor Nemesis (2006) with Dennis Detwiller and Shane Ivey Reign (2007) A Dirty World (2008) Dinosaurs ... in SPAAACE! (2011) Better Angels (2013) Delta Green (2016) with Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy, Kenneth Hite and Shane Ivey