Steven S. Long

Steven S. Long is a role-playing game author and one of the owners of Hero Games.

Career Long started playing Champions in 1982. He began writing for the game ten years later, starting with articles in the Hero Games house magazine, Adventurers Club. He began working in the RPG industry in 1992 as a freelancer for Hero Games. Long authored the Champions subgenre sourcebook Dark Champions in 1993, along with several more Champions supplements to support it. Long wrote The Ultimate Martial Artist (1994) and The Ultimate Mentalist (1996) as the first two supplements in a line devised by Steve Peterson as sourcebooks compatible with all of the Hero System genres. All told, as of late 2001, Long had written, co-authored, edited, or developed over 70 RPG products.

In December 2001, he founded DOJ, Inc. along with Darren Watts and other investors, and purchased the rights and assets of Hero Games from Cybergames, Inc.

Personal life Long is a graduate of Duke University and Duke University School of Law. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.