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Lenard Lakofka
Lenard "Len" Lakofka (born in 1944) is an American writer of material for the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons''. He was an influential voice in the development of the game, as well as the author of what has been called one of the greatest ''D&D'' adventures ever written. Although he was never a member of the staff at TSR, the company that published the game of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', Lakofka was one of the playtesters of the new game as it was being developed, edited early manuscripts, wrote a widely read monthly magazine column about ''D&D'', and his home campaign setting of the Lendore Isles was incorporated into Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting. TSR commissioned three D&D adventures from Lakofka, but only published two of them before Lakofka's friend Gygax was ousted from TSR in 1985. The third module was not released until 1999, after TSR was taken over by Wizards of the Coast. Lakofka continued to write sequels to the first three adventures, and a fourth module in the series was released on-line by Dragonsfoot.org in 2010, with the fifth module planned for an on-line release in 2011.
==Before D&D==
While living in Chicago in the 1960s, Len Lakofka became involved in wargames, including Avalon Hill's ''Diplomacy''. His increasing interest in ''Diplomacy'' led him to join the International Federation of Wargamers, and through the IFW met its vice-president, game designer Gary Gygax. In 1968, Gary Gygax convinced the IFW to organize a one-day convention called Gen Con at the Horticultural Hall in Lake Geneva WI. Lakofka was by this time president of the IFW, and travelled to Lake Geneva to help set up, run events and clean up. At the end of the day, before taking down his sand table and locking up the Hall, Gygax introduced a new set of miniatures rules to Lakofka and a few others.〔 Those rules would subsequently be published as Chainmail, a precursor to D&D.
Back in Chicago in 1969, Lakofka wrote the first issue of his own "Dippy 'zine"—a fanzine devoted to ''Diplomacy''—titled ''Liaisons Dangereuses''.〔 He would eventually publish 81 issues over the next 8 years. In 1969, he also was the organizer of Gen Con II.〔
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