Bill Slavicsek

Bill Slavicsek is the Director of Roleplaying Design and Development at Wizards of the Coast. He has worked for West End Games and TSR, Inc., and designed products for Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, Alternity, Torg, Paranoia and Ghostbusters. Interested in gaming from an early age, Slavicsek was introduced to roleplaying games in 1977 when he discovered Dungeons & Dragons. Originally intending to pursue a career as a comic book artist, Slavicsek ... more

Bill Slavicsek is the Director of Roleplaying Design and Development at Wizards of the Coast. He has worked for West End Games and TSR, Inc., and designed products for Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, Alternity, Torg, Paranoia and Ghostbusters. Interested in gaming from an early age, Slavicsek was introduced to roleplaying games in 1977 when he discovered Dungeons & Dragons. Originally intending to pursue a career as a comic book artist, Slavicsek switched to journalism and communication at St. John's University. After working for a year at a community newspaper, Slavicsek was hired by West End Games as an editor in 1986. In 1987 the company secured the license to publish a Star Wars roleplaying game, a project which Slavicsek oversaw as an editor and developer. In 1988 he was promoted to Creative and Editorial Director for WEG. He co-created the Torg game, published in 1990, and co-authored the novel Stormknights, which was set in the Torg universe. For much of the 1990s he was working... less