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Rick Priestley (born 29 March 1959) is a British game designer[1] and author mainly known as the creator of Warhammer miniature wargame.

Rick Priestley
Born	(1959-03-29) March 29, 1959 (age 63) Lincoln, England
Occupation	Wargame designer, writer
Nationality	British

Career

Rick Priestley, with Bryan Ansell and Richard Halliwell, designed the miniatures game Warhammer Fantasy Battle for Games Workshop.[2]^: 47 Priestley, with Andy Jones, and Marc Gascoigne of Warhammer, developed the idea for the Black Library which produced the magazine Inferno! as a result beginning in July 1997.[2]^: 50 Priestley also designed the large-scale wargame Warmaster (2000).[2]^: 50

Rick left Games Workshop in 2009, complaining that the corporate culture had grown too focused on sales and no longer cared about innovation in game design. He is now co-owner of Warlord Games,[1] and also does consulting work on a freelance basis. He is an associate at River Horse Games.[3]

At the end of 2011 he was elected to the committee of the Society of Ancients.[1] In December 2012 he announced plans to launch a new science fiction game The Gates of Antares[4] with an initial attempt at funding raised through Kickstarter. Gates of Antares is now being released through Warlord Games.

Personal life

Priestley was born on 29 March 1959 in Lincoln, England. He studied "Archaeology with Classics and Ancient History" at Lancaster University, graduating in 1981. He lives near Nottingham.

Works

Priestley worked extensively for Games Workshop. He is credited with authoring or co-authoring the following games:

• Warhammer Fantasy Battle (with Bryan Ansell and Richard Halliwell)[5]
  • Terror of the Lichemaster, a set of three linked scenarios using the Warhammer Fantasy Battle rules
• Warhammer Ancient Battles (with Jervis Johnson, Alan and Michael Perry)[6]
• 1644[7]
• Warhammer 40,000 (with Andy Chambers, Jervis Johnson and Gavin Thorpe in later editions)[8]
• Necromunda (with Andy Chambers and Jervis Johnson)[9]
• Warmaster (with Alessio Cavatore and Stephan Hess)[10]
• Warmaster Ancients[11]
• The Alamo: Victory or Death[12]
• The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (with Alessio Cavatore)[13]

Since joining Warlord Games, he has authored or co-authored the following games:

• Black Powder (with Jervis Johnson and John Stallard)[14]
• Hail Caesar[15]
• Bolt Action (With Alessio Cavatore)
• Beyond the Gates of Antares
• Warlords of Erehwon
• The Red Book of the Elf King (for Lucid Eye Publications)

References

External links

• Personal website

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