Sunday Fun Day: a little about the Author.

I spent a few years with a very odd crossover between my hobby and my paying work, especially while still at university. A little bit of that was superimposed on the problems The Roomie had with normal life things, in Remember When. In my case I came by it honestly... I went to school with one of the creators of a very popular role-playing game series, and was both a player and later an occasional writer for their games. One part of all that was the general awareness that I... knew a lot of people who did adventurous and military things. It wasn't a thing I kept secret. It was actually a sort of "hiding in plain sight" for me to be the guy who was into all sorts of stuff, but obviously not actually be some Green Beanie out in Boondooistan. The upshot of this was that I got to write a column for their gaming magazine about how to build characters for the Spy Movie Genre game in their system. That worked fine. It was fun. I even wrote an adventure for the game... which wasn't quite as fine or fun as some real life coincidences led to some issues about that, a few years after I wrote it. Anyway, the best thing from that whole time was the magazine editor's introduction of me in the first of the columns I wrote about the game. It follows, below:

"Editors Note: L. Douglas Garrett is our new author for the Covert Action department. He brings a wealth of experience to this topic, being the author of BORDER CROSSING (the first ESPIONAGE supplement), and then there's his many intelligence missions for.... What? I can't tell them about that?.... Well, what about the time in Rangoon with the steamer trunk? ....No? Perhaps I could mention the incident in Kabul involving the goat? ....Oh, all right. You'll just have to take my word for it. I can't even tell you what the L. stands for. Blasted security regulations."

Adventurers Club magazine, Winter 1983 edition, copyright 1983 Hero Games.