Bill Bridges

Bill Bridges is a roleplaying game developer and author who helped create some of the World of Darkness' best known games. An original developer on Werewolf: The Apocalypse from 1992 to 1995, Bill was also part of the original Mage: The Ascension design team and has numerous writing credits encompassing most of the second edition World of Darkness games. He also helped design the Werewolf trading card game, Rage.

After years with White Wolf, he joined Holistic Design (HDI) where he co-created Fading Suns with Andrew Greenberg. His work for other companies include writing for Chaosium and development on Star Trek role-playing games published by Last Unicorn. He has also worked on computer games, notably Emperor of the Fading Suns for Segasoft (based on the Fading Suns RPG), co-writing scripts for Viacom's "interactive horror movie" Dracula Unleashed, and more Star Trek work on Starfleet Academy for Interplay.

Bridges moved back to White Wolf in 2002, replacing Jess Heinig as the developer for the revised edition of Mage: The Ascension, seeing the game he created through to its conclusion in the Time of Judgment. For the new World of Darkness, he worked on the new core rules and was a designer, author and developer on Mage: The Awakening. He later moved on line edit Promethean: The Created, which has won several awards.

Bridges also co-chairs the content committee for the biannual myth based academic conference and performance festival, Mythic Journeys. His published novels include The Silver Crown and The Last Battle, both of which are Werewolf: The Apocalypse tales featuring Jonas Albrecht.

Credits
Bill's official contributions for White Wolf include the following:

Additional Contributions/Material

 * 2002/September 30: Dark Ages: Mage's Dark Ages: Mage Rulebook
 * 1998/June: Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade's Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade Rulebook


 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Rage Across Russia

Additional Design

 * 1996/March: VTDA: Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook

Author

 * 2004/March 1: MTA: Ascension
 * 1998/January: MTA: Technomancer's Toybox
 * 1996/March: VTDA: Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook
 * 1994/December: MTA: Sons of Ether Tradition Book
 * 1994/October: MTA: The Book of Madness
 * 1994/June 10: MTA: Book of Shadows: Mage Players Guide


 * Mage: The Awakening's Mage: The Awakening Rulebook
 * Promethean: The Created's Promethean: The Created Rulebook
 * Vampire: The Masquerade's The Hunters Hunted
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Valkenburg Foundation
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Edition
 * World of Darkness's World of Darkness: Storytelling System Rulebook
 * Wraith: The Oblivion's Haunts

Based on the Work of

 * 2011/October 21:
 * 2011/September 16:

Concept and Design

 * Mage: The Awakening's Mage: The Awakening Rulebook
 * Promethean: The Created's Promethean: The Created Rulebook
 * Vampire: The Requiem's Vampire: The Requiem Rulebook
 * Werewolf: The Forsaken's Werewolf: The Forsaken Rulebook
 * World of Darkness's World of Darkness: Storytelling System Rulebook

Creator

 * 2002: Mage: The Ascension's Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition


 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Werewolf: The Apocalypse Revised Edition

Developer

 * 2004/March 1: Mage: The Ascension's Ascension
 * 2003/December 1: MTA: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts
 * 2003/September 1: MTA: Tradition Book: Sons of Ether
 * 2003/August 11: MTA: Forged by Dragon's Fire
 * 2003/July 7: MTA: Tradition Book: Order of Hermes
 * 2003/April 28: MTA: The Infinite Tapestry
 * 2003/March 3: MTA: Dead Magic II: Secrets and Survivors
 * 2003/February 3: MTA: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas
 * 2002/November 25: MTA: Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council
 * 2002/November 11: MTA: Mage Storytellers Handbook
 * 2002/July 1: MTA: Tradition Book: Hollow Ones
 * 1993/August: MTA Mage: The Ascension Rulebook


 * Mage: The Awakening's Mage: The Awakening Rulebook
 * Promethean: The Created's Promethean: The Created Rulebook
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Dark Alliance: Vancouver
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Freak Legion: A Players Guide to Fomori
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Monkeywrench! Pentex
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Project Twilight
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Rage Across Russia
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Rite of Passage
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Valkenburg Foundation
 * Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Edition
 * World of Darkness's World of Darkness: Storytelling System Rulebook
 * Classic World of Darkness's Outcasts: A Players Guide to Pariahs

Developmental Assistance

 * Vampire: The Requiem's Vampire: The Requiem Rulebook

Original Concept and Design

 * 2002: MTA: Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition

Playtester

 * 1993/August: MTA: Mage: The Ascension Rulebook


 * World of Darkness's World of Darkness: Storytelling System Rulebook
 * Wraith: The Oblivion's Wraith: The Oblivion Rulebook

System and E&D Assistance

 * 1995: MTA: Ascension's Right Hand

Special Thanks

 * 1996: MTA: Technocracy: Void Engineers: Bill "Ronin" Bridges, for turning Glass Walker on us.
 * 1995: MTA: Destiny's Price: Bill "Novel Futures" Bridges, for Rage-ing through his first novel (The Silver Crown; go buy it &mdash; it rocks!).
 * 1995: MTA: Technocracy: New World Order: Bill "Stomach Pumper" Bridges, for marking territory from Virginia on down.
 * 1995: MTA: Ascension's Right Hand: Bill "Hunters Haunted" Bridges, for trading Numinous Twilight with the custos.
 * 1993: MTA: Book of Chantries: Bill "Glass Walker" Bridges, for teaching Phil how not to curse at the machines.

Authors' Special Thanks

 * 1995: MTA: Ascension's Right Hand: Bill and Jen, for helping out with some of the polish.