Bill Bridges

Bill Bridges (born September 17, 1965) is a game developer and author from Atlanta, Georgia, who has contributed to role-playing games. He has worked extensively with Holistic Design and White Wolf. Bridges co-created Fading Suns with Andrew Greenberg at Holistic Design. He has also written for Chaosium and contributed to Star Trek game products for Last Unicorn Games.

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Bill Bridges is an award-winning writer and narrative designer of numerous games. He was one of the original developers of White Wolf’s World of Darkness and is the co-creator and developer of the Fading Suns science-fiction universe. He is a Fellow at Atlanta’s Mythic Imagination Institute.

Formerly Senior Content Designer on CCP Games’ World of Darkness MMO, he is now a full-time freelance writer. He was the lead designer of the award-winning Storytelling system rules for White Wolf’s World of Darkness games, and designed and developed the award-winning games Mage: The Awakening, Promethean: The Created, and Werewolf: the Apocalypse.

His novels include The Silver Crown and Last Battle (both for Werewolf). Bill has written for Chaosium and helped develop Last Unicorn’s Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine roleplaying games. He co-wrote the scripts for Viacom’s interactive horror movie Dracula Unleashed, Interplay’s Starfleet Academy, and contributed to world design for Segasoft’s Emperor of the Fading Suns.