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'''Don Perrin''' (born 1 October 1964) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] writer and former military officer.<ref name="sfbookcase">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfbookcase.com/author.asp?author=Don+Perrin|title=Don Perrin|publisher=SFBookcase.com| |
'''Don Perrin''' (born 1 October 1964) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] writer and former military officer.<ref name="sfbookcase">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfbookcase.com/author.asp?author=Don+Perrin|title=Don Perrin|publisher=SFBookcase.com|access-date=2008-03-24}}</ref><ref name="alliterates">{{cite web|url=http://alliterates.com/index.php?/categories/7-Don-Perrin|title=Don Perrin|publisher=The Alliterates|access-date=2008-03-24}}</ref> |
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==Early life and education== |
==Early life and education== |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Don Perrin was Vice President of Operations with Mag Force 7, Inc.<ref name="wizardsbio">{{cite web|url=http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=DonPerrin|title=Don Perrin| |
Don Perrin was Vice President of Operations with Mag Force 7, Inc.<ref name="wizardsbio">{{cite web|url=http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=DonPerrin|title=Don Perrin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224011344/http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=DonPerrin|archive-date=February 24, 2009}}</ref> He wrote a series of novels in the Mag Force 7 series, with the first hitting the shelf in April 1995.<ref name="wizardsbio"/> He has three successful collectible game designs to his credit with [[Star of the Guardians (collectible card game)|Star of the Guardians Collectible Trading Card Game]] and [[Wing Commander Collectible Trading Card Game]], and the Star Trek: the Card Game.<ref name="wizardsbio"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.donperrin.com/bibliography/|title=Bibliography|website=Don Perrin|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> Perrin has also designed role playing products for Imperium Games's [[Traveller (role-playing game)|Traveller]] RPG Universe.<ref name="wizardsbio"/> For the fourth edition of ''Traveller'' (also called ''Marc Miller's Traveller'' or ''T4'') published by Imperium in 1996, each of the designers worked on separate portions of the rules, with Perrin writing rules for starships.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}</ref>{{rp|331}} Perrin then worked on the game ''Zero'' (1997) for Archangel Entertainment.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|351}} Perrin is also a contributor to the [[Dragonlance]] novel series. |
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Perrin and [[Lester W. Smith|Lester Smith]] designed the ''[[Sovereign Stone (role-playing game)|Sovereign Stone]]'' RPG (1998) based on the trilogy of ''[[Sovereign Stone]]'' books, and [[Margaret Weis]] formed the company [[Sovereign Press, Inc|Sovereign Press]] with herself as CEO to publish the RPG.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|351}} |
Perrin and [[Lester W. Smith|Lester Smith]] designed the ''[[Sovereign Stone (role-playing game)|Sovereign Stone]]'' RPG (1998) based on the trilogy of ''[[Sovereign Stone]]'' books, and [[Margaret Weis]] formed the company [[Sovereign Press, Inc|Sovereign Press]] with herself as CEO to publish the RPG.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|351}} Perrin announced on April 17, 2001, that Sovereign Press would replace its original game system for ''Sovereign Stone'' with a line based on the [[D20 System]].<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|352}} To support the setting, Weis and Perrin wrote a short story titled "Shadamehr and the Old Wives Tale" which was published in ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #264 (October, 1999).<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|352}} Wizards of the Coast licensed the Dragonlance setting to Sovereign Press as the result of an agreement in 2002 to be used for role-playing publication; Weis and Perrin wrote the ''[[Dragonlance Campaign Setting]]'' (2003), with [[Jamie Chambers]] and [[Christopher Coyle]], which Wizards of the Coast published, and afterwards allowed Sovereign Press to further expand on the material in that book by publishing supplements making use of the [[d20 System|d20]] license.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|353}} Perrin left Sovereign Press in 2004 and Weis then formed the new company [[Margaret Weis Productions]].<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|353}} |
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Perrin acted as an advisor for [[Margaret Weis]] on the final [[Star of the Guardians]] novel, ''Ghost Legion'' (in which he also appears as a character). The couple co-authored the [[Mag Force 7]] novels. |
Perrin acted as an advisor for [[Margaret Weis]] on the final [[Star of the Guardians]] novel, ''Ghost Legion'' (in which he also appears as a character). The couple co-authored the [[Mag Force 7]] novels. |
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Don Perrin, Michael Cosentino and Kathyrn Plamback purchased the two US wargaming magazines, "The Courier" and "MWAN" and combined them into the Historical Miniature Gamer Magazine in 2005.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080724194109/http://www.hmgmagazine.com/ HMG – Historical Miniature Gamer]". Archived from [http://www.hmgmagazine.com/ the original].</ref> This magazine won the Nonfiction Publication of the Year Award at the 32nd Annual Origins Awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gama.org/OriginsAwards/OriginsAwardsWinnersThe2000s/The2005OriginsAwards/tabid/3250/Default.aspx |title=32nd Annual Origins Awards | |
Don Perrin, Michael Cosentino and Kathyrn Plamback purchased the two US wargaming magazines, "The Courier" and "MWAN" and combined them into the Historical Miniature Gamer Magazine in 2005.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080724194109/http://www.hmgmagazine.com/ HMG – Historical Miniature Gamer]". Archived from [http://www.hmgmagazine.com/ the original].</ref> This magazine won the Nonfiction Publication of the Year Award at the 32nd Annual Origins Awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gama.org/OriginsAwards/OriginsAwardsWinnersThe2000s/The2005OriginsAwards/tabid/3250/Default.aspx |title=32nd Annual Origins Awards |access-date=2014-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410162911/http://www.gama.org/OriginsAwards/OriginsAwardsWinnersThe2000s/The2005OriginsAwards/tabid/3250/Default.aspx |archive-date=2014-04-10 }}</ref> The magazine offered articles on wargaming/wargames (of widely varied periods), tips on painting, building hints, scenarios, reviews of wargaming books, rules, miniatures and a monthly column by Howard Whitehouse. In 2007 James Manto was brought in as editor-in-chief to help with the organization and structure of the articles. Taking advantage of Perrin's QPOD (Quality Printing on Demand) in-house printing (where small numbers of books, rules, supplements can be printed inexpensively) the magazine underwent a complete overhaul to an easy to hold quarterly magazine. The magazine was closed in 2008. |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Perrin was married to [[Margaret Weis]],<ref name="fictionfactor">{{cite web|url=http://www.fictionfactor.com/interviews/margaretweis.html|title=Interview with Don Perrin and Margaret Weis|first=Ciara|last=Grey|publisher=Fiction Factor| |
Perrin was married to [[Margaret Weis]],<ref name="fictionfactor">{{cite web|url=http://www.fictionfactor.com/interviews/margaretweis.html|title=Interview with Don Perrin and Margaret Weis|first=Ciara|last=Grey|publisher=Fiction Factor|access-date=2008-03-24|archive-date=2016-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321101352/http://www.fictionfactor.com/interviews/margaretweis.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> though they are now divorced.<ref name="divorce">{{cite web|url=http://www.dlnexus.com/news/newsletter/12550.aspx|title=TALADAS TRILOGY/DARK DISCIPLE ANNOUNCEMENT|date=2003-04-17|publisher=The DragonLance Nexus|access-date=2008-03-24}}</ref><ref>Hall, Melissa Mia (7 June 2004). "Dragon Lady Keeps Flying", ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' '''251''' (23): 23–26.</ref> |
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Perrin married Kathryn Plamback in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2016.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.donperrin.com/biography|title=Biography - Don Perrin|last=Don|first=Perrin|date=4 April 2019|website=Don Perrin |
Perrin married Kathryn Plamback in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2016.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.donperrin.com/biography|title=Biography - Don Perrin|last=Don|first=Perrin|date=4 April 2019|website=Don Perrin}}</ref> |
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He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.<ref name=":0" /> |
He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.<ref name=":0" /> |
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===Mag Force 7 series=== |
===Mag Force 7 series=== |
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* ''[[The Knights of the Black Earth]]'' (1995),<ref>Steinberg, Sybil S. (24 April 1995). "Fiction – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin", ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' '''242''' (17): 64.</ref><ref>Smith, Candace (15 April 1995). "Fiction – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin", ''[[Booklist]]'' '''91''' (16): 1487.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cassada | first1 = Jackie | year = 1995 | title = SF & fantasy – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin |
* ''[[The Knights of the Black Earth]]'' (1995),<ref>Steinberg, Sybil S. (24 April 1995). "Fiction – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin", ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' '''242''' (17): 64.</ref><ref>Smith, Candace (15 April 1995). "Fiction – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin", ''[[Booklist]]'' '''91''' (16): 1487.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cassada | first1 = Jackie | year = 1995 | title = SF & fantasy – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin | journal = [[Library Journal]] | volume = 120 | issue = 7| page = 119 }}</ref> {{ISBN|0-451-45425-1}} |
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* ''[[Robot Blues]]'' (1996),<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hamburger | first1 = Susan | year = 1996 | title = Robot Blues |
* ''[[Robot Blues]]'' (1996),<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hamburger | first1 = Susan | year = 1996 | title = Robot Blues | journal = [[Library Journal]] | volume = 121 | issue = 19| page = 91 }}</ref> {{ISBN|0-451-45581-9}} |
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* ''[[Hung Out (novel)|Hung Out]]'' (1998),<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cassada | first1 = Jackie | year = 1998 | title = Hung Out: Fiction |
* ''[[Hung Out (novel)|Hung Out]]'' (1998),<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cassada | first1 = Jackie | year = 1998 | title = Hung Out: Fiction | journal = [[Library Journal]] | volume = 123 | issue = 13| page = 140 }}</ref> {{ISBN|0-451-45618-1}} |
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===Dragonlance universe=== |
===Dragonlance universe=== |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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* {{isfdb name|id=Don_Perrin|name=Don Perrin}} |
* {{isfdb name|id=Don_Perrin|name=Don Perrin}} |
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=871 |archive-date=April 27, 2005 |title=Don Perrin :: Pen & Paper RPG Database| |
*{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=871 |archive-date=April 27, 2005 |title=Don Perrin :: Pen & Paper RPG Database |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050427112328/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=871 |access-date=July 27, 2019 }} |
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*[http://www.donperrin.com DonPerrin.com] |
*[http://www.donperrin.com DonPerrin.com] |
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Latest revision as of 12:55, 8 February 2024
Don Perrin | |
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Born | Iserlohn, Germany | October 1, 1964
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Spouse | Margaret Weis (divorced) Kathryn Plamback |
Website | |
donperrin |
Don Perrin (born 1 October 1964) is a Canadian writer and former military officer.[1][2]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Iserlohn, Germany, Perrin grew up in Kingston, ON, Canada, McMasterville, QC, Canada, Bromley, Kent, England, and Ottawa, ON, Canada. Perrin served in the Canadian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, in the Canadian Department of National Defence.[1] He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1987.[1]
Career[edit]
Don Perrin was Vice President of Operations with Mag Force 7, Inc.[3] He wrote a series of novels in the Mag Force 7 series, with the first hitting the shelf in April 1995.[3] He has three successful collectible game designs to his credit with Star of the Guardians Collectible Trading Card Game and Wing Commander Collectible Trading Card Game, and the Star Trek: the Card Game.[3][4] Perrin has also designed role playing products for Imperium Games's Traveller RPG Universe.[3] For the fourth edition of Traveller (also called Marc Miller's Traveller or T4) published by Imperium in 1996, each of the designers worked on separate portions of the rules, with Perrin writing rules for starships.[5]: 331 Perrin then worked on the game Zero (1997) for Archangel Entertainment.[5]: 351 Perrin is also a contributor to the Dragonlance novel series.
Perrin and Lester Smith designed the Sovereign Stone RPG (1998) based on the trilogy of Sovereign Stone books, and Margaret Weis formed the company Sovereign Press with herself as CEO to publish the RPG.[5]: 351 Perrin announced on April 17, 2001, that Sovereign Press would replace its original game system for Sovereign Stone with a line based on the D20 System.[5]: 352 To support the setting, Weis and Perrin wrote a short story titled "Shadamehr and the Old Wives Tale" which was published in Dragon #264 (October, 1999).[5]: 352 Wizards of the Coast licensed the Dragonlance setting to Sovereign Press as the result of an agreement in 2002 to be used for role-playing publication; Weis and Perrin wrote the Dragonlance Campaign Setting (2003), with Jamie Chambers and Christopher Coyle, which Wizards of the Coast published, and afterwards allowed Sovereign Press to further expand on the material in that book by publishing supplements making use of the d20 license.[5]: 353 Perrin left Sovereign Press in 2004 and Weis then formed the new company Margaret Weis Productions.[5]: 353
Perrin acted as an advisor for Margaret Weis on the final Star of the Guardians novel, Ghost Legion (in which he also appears as a character). The couple co-authored the Mag Force 7 novels.
Don Perrin, Michael Cosentino and Kathyrn Plamback purchased the two US wargaming magazines, "The Courier" and "MWAN" and combined them into the Historical Miniature Gamer Magazine in 2005.[6] This magazine won the Nonfiction Publication of the Year Award at the 32nd Annual Origins Awards.[7] The magazine offered articles on wargaming/wargames (of widely varied periods), tips on painting, building hints, scenarios, reviews of wargaming books, rules, miniatures and a monthly column by Howard Whitehouse. In 2007 James Manto was brought in as editor-in-chief to help with the organization and structure of the articles. Taking advantage of Perrin's QPOD (Quality Printing on Demand) in-house printing (where small numbers of books, rules, supplements can be printed inexpensively) the magazine underwent a complete overhaul to an easy to hold quarterly magazine. The magazine was closed in 2008.
Personal life[edit]
Perrin was married to Margaret Weis,[8] though they are now divorced.[9][10]
Perrin married Kathryn Plamback in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2016.[11]
He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.[11]
Bibliography[edit]
Mag Force 7 series[edit]
- The Knights of the Black Earth (1995),[12][13][14] ISBN 0-451-45425-1
- Robot Blues (1996),[15] ISBN 0-451-45581-9
- Hung Out (1998),[16] ISBN 0-451-45618-1
Dragonlance universe[edit]
- Theros Ironfeld (1996), ISBN 0-7869-0481-X
- The Doom Brigade (1996), ISBN 0-7869-0526-3
- Brothers in Arms (1999), ISBN 0-7869-1429-7
- Draconian Measures (2000), ISBN 0-7869-1678-8
- Bertrem's Guide to the War of Souls Volume Two (1 November 2002), Wizards of the Coast, ISBN 0-7869-2816-6, with Steven T. Brown and Mary H. Herbert
Warcraft universe[edit]
- Lord of the Clans (1 October 2001), ISBN 0-7434-2690-8
Short works[edit]
- "First Dragon Army Bridge Building Company" (in Dragons of Krynn)
- "Island of the Brutes" (in The History of Dragonlance)
- "War Diary of Lord Ariaken" (in Dragons of Summer Flame)
Tabletop RPG books[edit]
- Dragonlance Campaign Setting (1 August 2003), Wizards of the Coast, ISBN 0-7869-3086-1
- Starships: Traveller (1996), Imperium Games, ISBN 1-57828-301-9
- Sovereign Stone Game System (July 2000), Sovereign Press, ISBN 0-9658422-7-4, with Lester Smith
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Don Perrin". SFBookcase.com. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ "Don Perrin". The Alliterates. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ a b c d "Don Perrin". Archived from the original on February 24, 2009.
- ^ "Bibliography". Don Perrin. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "HMG – Historical Miniature Gamer". Archived from the original.
- ^ "32nd Annual Origins Awards". Archived from the original on 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2014-03-17.
- ^ Grey, Ciara. "Interview with Don Perrin and Margaret Weis". Fiction Factor. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ "TALADAS TRILOGY/DARK DISCIPLE ANNOUNCEMENT". The DragonLance Nexus. 2003-04-17. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ Hall, Melissa Mia (7 June 2004). "Dragon Lady Keeps Flying", Publishers Weekly 251 (23): 23–26.
- ^ a b Don, Perrin (4 April 2019). "Biography - Don Perrin". Don Perrin.
- ^ Steinberg, Sybil S. (24 April 1995). "Fiction – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin", Publishers Weekly 242 (17): 64.
- ^ Smith, Candace (15 April 1995). "Fiction – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin", Booklist 91 (16): 1487.
- ^ Cassada, Jackie (1995). "SF & fantasy – The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin". Library Journal. 120 (7): 119.
- ^ Hamburger, Susan (1996). "Robot Blues". Library Journal. 121 (19): 91.
- ^ Cassada, Jackie (1998). "Hung Out: Fiction". Library Journal. 123 (13): 140.
External links[edit]
- Don Perrin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "Don Perrin :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on April 27, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
- DonPerrin.com