

His interest spiked, however, when he acquired a copy of Traveller, a science fiction role-playing game published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop. Having a lot of naval wargaming experience, he became interested in the gameplay mechanics utilized by D&D but not in the fantasy setting it presented. : 207 Pondsmith recalls that he had been designing games even as a child, but it was not until college that he was introduced to the idea of pen and paper roleplaying games when a friend got a copy of the original Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.A.

Air Force for the first 18 years of his life. Talsorian's hiatus and video game designīorn into a military family, Mike Pondsmith was the son of a psychologist and an Air Force officer, who traveled around the world with the U.S. 2.4 Design contributions outside of R.
