Question: What year was the writer of the game "Lords of Creation" born?
Context: Lords of Creation was a table top role-playing game published by Avalon Hill in 1983 and 1984.  The game was written by Tom Moldvay who also worked on the games "Dungeons and Dragons" and "Star Frontiers". Jeffrey William Rooker, Baron Rooker, PC (born 5 June 1941) is a British politician, who served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Perry Barr from 1974 until 2001.  He was later appointed to the House of Lords, being created a life peer on 16 June 2001 with the title Baron Rooker, of Perry Barr in the County of the West Midlands, where he was appointed to the Government for a year as the Minister of State for Asylum and Immigration.  He resigned the Labour whip in 2009 after being appointed Chairman of the Food Standards Agency and sat as an Independent member in the House of Lords until 2013 when, standing down as FSA Chairman, he took up the Labour whip once again. The Jerningham Baronetcy, of Cossey in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England.  It was created on 16 August 1621 for Henry Jerningham.  The fifth Baronet married Mary, only daughter of Mary Plowden, sister of John Paul Stafford-Howard, 4th Earl of Stafford and de jure 5th Baron Stafford (see the Baron Stafford 1640 creation).  He was succeeded by his son, the sixth Baron.  In 1807 the claim to the barony of Stafford, which had been under attainder since 1680, passed to him through his mother.  He died in 1809 when the baronetcy and the claim to the barony passed to his son, the seventh Baronet.  He petitioned the House of Lords for a reversal of the attainder of the barony of Stafford and for a writ of summons to Parliament.  In 1824 the attainder was reversed and the following year he was summoned to the House of Lords as the eighth Baron Stafford. Usha Kumari Prashar, Baroness Prashar, (born 29 June 1948) is a crossbench member of the House of Lords.  Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chairman of a variety of public and private sector organisations.  She became the first chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006. Tom Moldvay (Thomas Steven Moldvay, Nov. 5, 1948 – March 9, 2007) was a game designer and author most notable for his work on early materials for the fantasy role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons" (D&D). Marco Alberto Donadoni (born in Milan, 8 November 1951) is an Italian game designer.  He designed his first, self-produced wargame, "Iliad", in 1977; he then joined the Italian company International Team (IT), that at the time was mainly a jigsaw puzzle producer.  IT published "Iliad" and changed its core business, focusing on the wargame market, with Donadoni being its main game designer.  Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Donadoni created a number of games for IT, some of which, like "Zargo's Lords" and "Kroll & Prumni", were very successful and largely contributed to popularize wargaming in Italy and other European countries, such as France.  Angelo Porazzi, designer of "Warangel" (one of the most popular Italian wargames of recent years) has often cited Donadoni's work as one of his major sources of inspiration.  Donadoni remained as IT's main game designer until the company went bankrupt in the late 1980s, designing more than a hundred games.  After that, he collaborated with several other major Italian game companies such as Editrice Piccoli, Editrice Giochi and others. Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2 (マッハブレイカーズ: ニューマンアスレチックス 2 , Mahha Bureikāzu: Nyūman Asurechikkusu Tsu ) is a sports arcade game that was released by Namco in 1994 only in Japan; it runs on Namco NB-2 hardware and is the sequel to "Numan Athletics", which was released in the previous year.  The players must take control of up to seven new (and selectable) Numans - Masala T. (Tikka) Masala (India, born in 1800), Johnny Sanders (United States, born on 7 August 1969), Makoto Kotobuki (Japan, born on 10 October 1975), Sophia Rayleigh (United Kingdom, born on 14 July 1970), Long Rui Huan (Communist China, born on 1 January 1953), Michael Fletcher (Jamaica, born on 25 September 1966), and, Karl Weisemann (Germany, born on 9 May 1957).  All seven of these new Numans have different speed and power levels, and if less than four players are present, the CPU will randomly select up to three of the other Numans to compete against them (but they will be differently-coloured); the competition takes place over five days, and on the second, third and fourth ones, there are three (four on the third day) different events that must be qualified for.  If any player fails to qualify for an event on these days, they will have to try it again by inserting another coin and continuing - and each of the Numans has their own unique ending sequence (much like the four lords from "Exvania"), which means a player will have to finish the game with all seven of them to see them all.  The starter lights on the "Hyper Glider" event also look like Pac-Man, and a picture of him also appears on the side of a passing airship (along with: Prince Gilgamesh and Princess Ki from "The Tower of Druaga", Momo Chan out of "Wonder Momo", Valkyrie out of "Valkyrie no Densetsu", Hiromi Tengenji from "Burning Force" and Pitt and Patti from "Tinkle Pit") - while Miyuki Chan (from "Ordyne") can get seen running a "Prince Paco" (from "Marvel Land") taco stand, and the "Dig Dug" characters can be seen in the "Ground Spike" event as the crack a Numan makes in the ground goes deeper. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is an action-adventure game, the sequel to the 2010 game "", and part of the "Castlevania" franchise.  The game was developed by MercurySteam and published by Konami.  It was released late February 2014 in both North America and Europe and on March 2014 in Australia.  "Lords of Shadow 2" was released on September 4, 2014 in Japan.  A downloadable chapter has also been released in March from the same year. Peter Derek Truscott, Baron Truscott (born 20 March 1959 in Newton Abbot, Devon) is a British petroleum and mining consultant, independent member of the House of Lords and writer.  He was a Labour Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 and was elevated to the peerage in 2004.  He has written on Russia, defence and energy, and works with a variety of companies in the field of non-renewable resource extraction.  Previously somewhat low-profile in British politics, he made headlines in 2009 as one of four Labour peers named by the "Sunday Times" as being willing to accept money to help companies amend bills that would have an adverse effect on them.  He consequently became one of the first peers suspended from the House of Lords since the 17th century. Baron Cromwell is a title that has been created several times in the Peerage of England.  The first creation, which was by writ, was for John de Cromwell in 1308.  On his death, the barony became extinct.  The second creation came in 1375 when Ralph de Cromwell was summoned by writ to Parliament as Lord Cromwell.  His grandson, the third Baron, served as Lord High Treasurer to King Henry VI.  However, on his death in 1455 the barony fell into abeyance between his nieces Maude and Joan.  On Joan's death in 1490 the abeyance was terminated in favour of Maude, the fourth holder.  When she died childless in 1497 the peerage once again fell into abeyance, this time between the daughters of the first Baron.  The title remained in abeyance for over 400 years.  However, in 1922 the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords reported in favour of the petition for the termination of the abeyancy of Selina Frances Bewicke-Copley, wife of Brigadier-General Sir Charles Watson Bewicke-Copley.  She was the daughter of Sir Charles Watson Copley, 3rd Baronet, and one of the co-heirs of Maud, daughter of the first Baron Cromwell.  Selina died in 1923 and in July of the same year the abeyance was terminated in favour of her son Robert Godfrey Wolesley Bewicke-Copley, who became the fifth Baron.  He notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire.  s of 2010 the ancient barony is held by his grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his father in 1982.  Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, in April 2014 he was elected at a hereditary peers' by-election as a Crossbencher.
Answer: 1948