Mike Selinker

Mike Selinker was a game designer and member of the Role-Playing Group Association (RPGA) who designed dozens of tournament modules, including at least one for the Living City program. He marshaled at one or more Gen Cons as his notorious Living City character, the scam artist Discount Marlin. Outside of Dungeons & Dragons, he also worked on the BattleTech Trading Card Game and the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game. Mike later acted as a creative director for 3 edition D&D and went on to become the president of Lone Shark Games.
==History==
Mike got his start as a tournament module author in the RPGA in 1985, having been brought in by director Harold Johnson.
When Mike later acted as one of three authors for the Book of Challenges in 3 edition, he included a subtle reference to his Living City character Discount Merlin in one of the book's puzzles, giving a bugbear dialogue that was verbatim lines he had said in the past.
Between November 2 and 3 of 2013, Mike was one of many participants in a 25-hour marathon that Wizards of the Coast held on the D&D Twitch TV channel as part of the Extra Life charity event, having rotating groups of players run through the adventure module Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle. He played in a group alongside Ben Petrisor, Derek Guder, and Stephen Toulouse.
==Works==
===Core Sourcebooks===
* Masters of the Wild (February 2002)
* Book of Challenges (June 2002)
===Living City Modules===
* The Tarots of the Tarot Hut (August 20, 1992)
===Magazine Adventures===
* Renegade's Run in Polyhedron #81 (March 3, 1993)
===Magazine Articles===
* The For-Rest Inn, an article detailing the location of the same name, in Polyhedron #49 (September 1, 1989)
* Power Word: Baffle!, an article on how to design word puzzles, in Dragon #271 (May 2000)
* Logic Missiles, an article on how to design logic puzzles, in Dragon #282 (April 2001)
==Appendix==
===Gallery===
GenCon98 Photo.png|A photograph taken at GEN CON/ORIGINS Game Fair 98. From left to right, RPGA Marshals Mike Selinker, John Cereso, and Skip Williams post signs up in Bruce Hall as RPGA member Robert Farnsworth looks on.
===References===
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