Randall N. Bills
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| Randal N. Bills | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Game Designer Author BattleTech Line Developer |
Randall N. Bills has been the product Line Developer for BattleTech since the year 2000, when FASA still published the game. Prior to that, he was the assistant line developer for BattleTech from as early as 1996 until FASA sold the rights to the BattleTech intellectual property to WizKids in 2001.
He remained in place when FanPro LLC acquired the license to what was then Classic BattleTech, and again in 2007 when the license went to Catalyst Game Labs.
Bills is also the author of several novels, set in both the BattleTech (before and after WizKids acquired it) and Star Trek universes. On 22 August, 2007, it was announced that Bills had moved on from BattleTech to become Catalyst Game Labs' roving developer, allowing him to help out on projects that need it, or on any potential future new lines.[1] He was succeeded as BattleTech Line Developer by Herbert A. Beas II, but resumed the mantle again after Beas left the position in August 2013.
Randall lives in Washington state with his wife Tara, children Bryn, Ryana, and Kenyon; as well as a pet snake.
Contents
Bibliography
Novels
BattleTech
- 2000 Path of Glory (ROC)
- 2002 Imminent Crisis (ROC)
- 2004 Clangründer: Abkehr (in German; published via BattleCorps as Fall from Glory)
- 2006 Clangründer: Traum (in German; original script never published in English)
MechWarrior: Dark Age
- 2004 Hunters of the Deep (ROC)
- 2005 Heretic's Faith (ROC)
- 2006 Principles of Desolation (with Jason M. Hardy) (ROC)
- 2007 Pandora's Gambit (ROC)
Star Trek
- Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Aftermath (eBook)
- 2003 Demon, book 1 (with Loren L. Coleman)
- 2004 Demon, book 2 (with Loren L. Coleman)
Sourcebooks
The following are BattleTech source books wherein Randall is given a writing credit.
- 1997 Northwind Highlanders
- 1998 BattlePack: Fourth Succession War
- 1998 Technical Readout: 3060
- 1998 Twilight of the Clans
- 1999 Field Manual: ComStar
- 2001 MechWarrior's Guide to the Clans
- 2002 Technical Readout: 3067
- 2002 Technical Readout: Project Phoenix
- 2005 Combat Equipment
- 2005 Dawn of the Jihad
- 2005 Interstellar Players
- 2005 Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade
- 2006 Historical: Brush Wars
- 2006 Total Warfare
- 2006 Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex
- 2007 Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade
- 2008 Technical Readout: 3039
- 2008 Technical Readout: 3075
See also
- BattleTech-related works by Randall N. Bills
References
- http://www.booksnbytes.com/authors/bills_randalln.html (Accessed 6/26/2007)