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Bio Sketch of Conrad Hubbard 
Well, I guess we can start simple. I was born
in 1969, a moon child just days before man reached the moon. After
that, I spent almost a dozen years living in the countryside of
Virginia, in Nelson County, without some of those things I take
for granted now - like running water or a toilet. Just before I
turned 12, I moved to the city of Richmond (Virginia), and I have
been an urbanite ever since. I like cities, their energy and their
convenience, though I do occasionally miss the peace of the country.
While it is hardly possible, I imagine a miraculous blend of the
two would best fit my temperament.Life has been a strange path. Once I was valedictorian of my high school, but I let it go to waste by not finishing college. I have won two Richmond Area Reading Council poetry contests and gone to China with the Friendship Force. I have lived too many places and held too many jobs. I believe that people should only have two children at most (replacing themselves and their mate but not increasing the overall world population), and should adopt the forsaken children of the world who need help if they claim to feel irresistible parental instincts beyond that. I have been married twice. My first wife, of 3 years, suffered a miscarriage and left me a month after that. Eventually, I married for a second time and my second wife's two kids came as part of the package. Unfortunately, my second wife was apparently not really ready to settle down yet, so she has seemingly moved on to other pastures or something (I don't precisely know as she doesn't tell me these things). As I said, a strange path. My major hobbies have always been reading, writing and roleplaying games. In 1997, my dream of having my name appear in print in a game book happened when my group's work as play testers for White Wolf's Aeon Trinity game was finally credited in a book. After playtesting, I wrote some pieces of the material for a few of their publications: Hidden Agendas, Trinity Technology Manual, Trinity Battleground and the Mokole book for Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Ultimately, I moved to Atlanta to work directly for White Wolf Publishing (in 1999) with the vast majority of my "day job" spent working on the company web site. Since then, I have added to my writing credits. The Trinity Battleground Players Guide material that I wrote before moving to Atlanta ended up being released as a free, unedited text-only download. The Stoicism rote in Dead Magic is mine, thanks to an idea sparked by my brother back in 1993. I got to do a Vampire Redemption story that was unfortunately cut from the game, though I managed to recycle much of it into use for the World of Darkness New Bremen setting. Before it closed with the Time of Judgment, the New Bremen setting grew far beyond me due to the contributions of dozens of Storytellers and hundreds of players. The 3rd Edition D&D Scarred Lands Fangsfall setting is another creation of mine which has grown to include over a dozen Dungeon Masters and scores of players. Then there was the second video game script I wrote, which also didn't see publication. The Rookhausen setting I originally created got mention in a single sentence and shown on a single map in the Ravenloft Gazetteer II, though I have also translated it into an online game setting at the Rookhausen chat which has also grown far beyond just me. No, wait, there really are some more writing credits. In addition to the aforementioned publications, the following books contain material I have written: Sorcerer:
Revised Edition I also worked on Dreams of the First Age, but I dropped off the project. Many of my ideas—ranging from Operation Wyldhand to Queen Merela to farm co-ops with magitech connections to the propaganda of the ruling class—ended up in print as part of the project, but somehow I didn't get listed in the credits. Not the first time this has happened, and it wouldn't surprise me if it were not the last. Don't get me wrong, the credited authors did 99% of the work on that project. I just wish I had been left in the credits in some capacity. I am also credited with some Concept & Design work (and sometimes playtesting) on the World of Darkness, Vampire: The Requiem, Werewolf: The Forsaken, Mage: The Awakening, Promethean: The Created, Changeling: The Lost, and Scion. I have worked on and am working on more pieces for other projects, but their current status is either confidential or uncertain at this point. I continue to do freelance writing and web design projects, mostly for White Wolf Publishing and Sword & Sorcery Studios. The rest of my time is consumed with pursuing my other dreams. Nowadays, I am working in a new department at White Wolf Publishing (now a division of CCP North America). I moved over officially around the beginning of December 2007, although I was phasing some of my previous duties to other people before then. Rumors are that we are creating a World of Darkness MMO :) Copyright
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