Robert Charrette is an award-winning game designer and miniature sculptor as well as a writer. He continues to pursue these careers, as well as sculpting the occasional fine art bronze while constructing assorted items for his fourteenth-century reenactment hobby and attempting to keep current on a variety of eclectic intcresls, including dinosaurian paleontology and Japanese history. He currently resides in Springfield. Virginia, with his wife Elizabeth, who patiently listens to his constant complaints of insufficient time.