His work at Interplay included Bard's Tale III, Wasteland, Neuromancer, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and Star Trek: Judgment Rites. In the 1980s, Stackpole began designing computer games for Coleco and then Interplay Productions. : 22 He compared BADD's statistics of suicides among role-playing gamers to the rate of general teen suicide and found the percentage of roleplayers committing suicide was actually lower than those who were not gamers, and published his argument in an article called "The Truth about Role-Playing Games" in the 1989 book Satanism in America he also published the document "The Pulling Report" in 1990, which further discredited Pulling's stand against roleplaying games. : 22 Stackpole published one of his first articles about the role-playing games misinformation from the media in Sorcerer's Apprentice #14 (Spring 1982) as an article titled "Devil Games? Nonsense!", : 38 and even debated the Western Regional Director of Pulling's BADD organization on a radio program broadcast on July 14, 1987. In response to the accusations of Patricia Pulling (among others) who felt that the " occult" elements of Dungeons & Dragons were driving people to suicide, Stackpole began to defend the game and the roleplaying game community. : 39 He later returned to work with his fellow creators of Wasteland as a writer on its sequel Wasteland 2, released in 2014 by inXile Entertainment. Andre, and Liz Danforth designed the computer roleplaying game Wasteland, published by Interplay in 1988. : 38 Stackpole left Flying Buffalo after the company's 1985 move to Scottsdale, Arizona. : 36 Stackpole designed the roleplaying game Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes, which Flying Buffalo published in 1983. : 36 Stackpole worked for Coleco from 1980-1981 after Rick Loomis, Stackpole, and the president of Coleco met at a gaming and pinball convention. : 36 He wrote columns on industry news and reviews for Flying Buffalo's magazine Sorcerer's Apprentice. Michael Stackpole was hired full-time at Flying Buffalo after they accepted his submission for a solo Tunnels & Trolls adventure which was published in 1978 as City of Terrors. From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. Michael Austin Stackpole (born November 27, 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books. Role-playing games, video games, fantasy, science fiction novels
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