Answer the following question: Facts: - genre: role-playing games , fantasy , wargames - birth date: 14 january 1949 - name: timothy j. kask - nationality: united states - image: timjkask2011.jpg - birth place: moline , illinois , united states - occupation: game designer , editor Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of tim kask .
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timothy james kask -lrb- born january 14 , 1949 -rrb- is an american editor and writer in the role-playing game industry .kask became interested in board games in his childhood , and later turned to miniatures wargames .while attending university after a stint in the us navy , he was part of a group that playtested an early version of the new role-playing game '' dungeons & dragons '' -lrb- d&d -rrb- for game co-designer gary gygax .gygax hired him as the first employee of tsr , inc. in 1975 .after editing some of tsr 's early '' d&d '' publications , kask became editor of '' the strategic review '' , which later became '' the dragon '' , and then '' dragon magazine '' .kask left tsr in 1980 to start manzakk publishing .he left the games industry in 1983 , and spent some time as a freelance editor and speechwriter before becoming a teacher .in 2010 he returned to the games industry as one of the co-founders of eldritch enterprises .