Steve Wieck

Steve Wieck (also credited as Stephan Wieck) is best known as one of the founders of the publishing company White Wolf, Inc. He is also one of the original writers of Mage: The Ascension. Wieck is a co-founder of DriveThruRPG which later merged with RPGNow to become Wolves of Freeport. Wieck is currently the CEO of Wolves of Freeport.

Career

White Wolf Steve Wieck and his brother Stewart Wieck had their first published work in 1986 as the adventure The Secret in the Swamp for Villains & Vigilantes from FGU. Later that same year, while they were still in high school, the brothers began self-publishing their own magazine, Arcanum; Stewart soon retitled the magazine as White Wolf, publishing the first issue in August 1986. Stephan Wieck wrote the Shadowrun adventure Queen Euphoria (1990). The Wiecks had befriended the company Lion Rampant, and when that company encountered financial trouble, White Wolf and Lion Rampant decided to merge into the new White Wolf Game Studio, with Stewart Wieck and Mark Rein-Hagen as co-owners. The company encountered economic problems in 1995–1996, which resulted in a falling out between Rein-Hagen and the Wiecks, and Rein-Hagen leaving White Wolf. Wieck left White Wolf in 2007 for a seat on the board of directors at CCP. In 2006, DriveThruRPG merged with RPGNow, another online RPG distributor. , Wieck remains the CEO of OneBookShelf. Ankit Lai, CEO of Roll20, become the new company's CEO and Wieck become president of the new company and joined Roll20's board of directors.