Tom Dowd

Thomas A. Dowd is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career Thomas Dowd was one of the writers who created supporting material for the Villains and Vigilantes role-playing game from Fantasy Games Unlimited. The Shadowrun 2nd Edition rules from FASA, by Dowd with Paul Hume and Bob Charrette, won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1992. Dowd was working at FASA in 1990 when he met Peter Adkison, who was trying to understand how the gaming industry worked, and Dowd advised him to attend the next Gama Trade Show in March 1991.