Gary L. Thomas (game designer)


Gary L. Thomas is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Editors Gary Thomas and Joe D. Fugate Sr. founded Digest Group Publications in 1986 as a business that they ran part-time while working at other jobs. Fugate's work in The Traveller's Digest publication got the attention of Marc Miller at Game Designers' Workshop, who invited Fugate and Thomas to expand and revise the material for GDW; the result was Book 8: Robots, which would be the start of a working relationship between the two companies that lasted several years. Thomas wrote the first-ever MegaTraveller scenario, "Lion at Bay", which first appeared in issue #9 of The Traveller's Digest. Thomas later did some work for TSR, the last of which was in 1989-1991.
His D&D design work includes The Book of Lairs II, Monstrous Compendium Volume 1, Monstrous Compendium Volume 2, Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix, and The Shadow Elves.