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Jon Pickens is a game designer and editor who has worked on numerous products for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game from TSR〔Tianen, Dave (August 20, 1993). "GEN CON: Where dragonmasters, Star Fleet admirals come to play", ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', p. D14.〕 and later Wizards of the Coast. ==Early life and education== Jon Pickens was born in Mishawaka, Indiana on August 12, 1954. In 1968, he was introduced to miniatures wargaming, and his parents bought him the ''Blitzkrieg'' wargame for Christmas that year. A couple of months later, Pickens responded to an ad in ''Popular Mechanics'' for a magazine titled ''Strategy & Tactics''. He wrote in for a sample copy, and “spent the rest of the summer mowing lawns to get enough money to buy some wargames advertised in the magazine, and to get all the back issues.”〔 The publishers did not carry back issues, “So I wrote a letter to this collector, whose name was Gary Gygax, and arranged to buy the back issues from him. Gary invited me to attend a gaming convention in Madison. By a coincidence, my father had a speaking engagement in Delavan, which is near Lake Geneva, on the same weekend, so he took me up.”〔 Pickens and Gary Gygax drove up to Madison, and Gygax later invited him to the Gen Con convention; Pickens attended beginning with Gen Con 3 and for many years after that.〔 Pickens attended Valparaiso University, and in 1976 he earned a B.A. degree in English and Economics. He continued to attend conventions while in college, and discovered TSR's new ''Chainmail'' miniatures game at the 1973 Gen Con; the following year, TSR debuted the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. After college, Pickens began writing occasional articles for ''Dragon'' magazine, and was active in the ''Alarums & Excursions'' publication.〔 〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Pickens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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