Lawrence Whitaker

Lawrence Whitaker is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Lawrence Whitaker
Nationality	English
Occupation	Game designer

Career

Lawrence Whitaker had worked on Chaosium fanzines.^[1]: 430 Whitaker gained experience with the Basic Role-Playing system of RuneQuest while working on the Eternal Champion games from Chaosium in the 1990s.^[1]: 399 Mongoose Publishing hired Whitaker in 2007, where he wrote their fourth RuneQuest setting, Elric of Melniboné (2007).^[1]: 399 Whitaker authored many books for Mongoose in their RuneQuest line, particularly throughout their universal, Second Age and Elric lines.^[1]: 399

Whitaker and Pete Nash began to revamp the RuneQuest game for Mongoose in 2010, which resulted in RuneQuest II.^[1]: 399 Whitaker left Mongoose later in 2010 after four years with the company.^[1]: 402 After Mongoose's license to RuneQuest expired, Mongoose kept the game in print under the title Legend. Meanwhile, Whitaker and Nash formed a company, The Design Mechanism, to pick up the RuneQuest license and publish a sixth edition of the game in 2012. That edition remained in print until 2016, when it was retitled Mythras.

Whitaker has also worked for Alephtar Games.^[1]: 430