birth_place nationality genre article_title name occupation
united states american role-playing games , fantasy , wargames rick swan
 rick swan writer , game designer
rick swan

rick swan is a game designer and author for tsr .
swan also wrote `` the complete guide to role-playing games '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- , published by st. martin 's press .
he was a regular columnist for inquest gamer .
