Lynn Willis

Lynn Willis ( 1955 - January 18, 2013) was a wargame and role-playing game designer, best known for his work with Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), and Chaosium.

Biography Willis began by designing science fiction wargames for Metagaming Concepts, starting with Godsfire in 1976. Here he also designed two titles in the MicroGames range: Olympica (1978) and Holy War (1979). Willis co-designed the fifth edition of Call of Cthulhu with Sandy Petersen, and when Keith Herber departed from Chaosium in 1994, Willis replaced him as the editor of the Cthulhu line. Willis created the game Elric! with Richard Watts as a new Basic Role-Playing version of Stormbringer. Willis died on January 18, 2013.