Bill Bridges (born September 17, 1965) is an American role-playing game developer and fantasy author. He designed the role-playing games Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, and Promethean: The Created. He additionally worked on a video game based on his Fading Suns role-playing game Emperor of the Fading Suns. He is currently a developer at Holistic Design.
Career
Early career
Bill Bridges was an original developer for White Wolf Publishing from 1992 to 1995, where he contributed to Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Bridges was the line editor for Werewolf and as one of the early World of Darkness developers, he was a key figure in developing the look and tone of the productions for the setting. He worked on the Storytelling system rules for all the World of Darkness games. It was his goal to present werewolves as something besides accursed humans, an idea which has since been echoed in some popular contemporary novel series. He was a part of the original Mage: The Ascension design team. He has many writing credits encompassing most of the second edition World of Darkness games, and helped design Rage, the Werewolf collectible card game.
1995 to 2000
He left White Wolf Publishing in 1996 to join Holistic Design (HDI), where he co-created Fading Suns with Andrew Greenberg.
2000 to date
Bridges moved back to White Wolf Publishing on February 12, 2002, Bridges saw the game he created through to its conclusion in the Time of Judgment. Bridges and Ken Cliffe developed the book, The World of Darkness (2004), a single rulebook to cover the new version of the World of Darkness setting and rule system. He later moved on to Promethean: The Created,
Bridges also co-chairs the presenter programming for the biannual myth-based academic conference and performance festival, Mythic Journeys. His published novels include The Silver Crown,