Lester Smith

Best known for the Dragon Dice game and Dark Conspiracy role-playing game, Lester Smith began his game design career in 1985. Since then, he has written or contributed to more game products than he can remember, on project lines from D&D to Star Wars, collecting five Origins Awards, a ZigZag Junior Editors’ award, and a Games 100 Best along the way. 

Since his “retirement,” Les has published a few dozen other titles as Lester Smith Games, 16 of them DriveThruRPG and DriveThruCards Best Sellers, including the D13, D6xD6, and Bookmark HP RPGs. He also served two terms as President of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, gained a few poetry awards, and published an irreverent novel in sonnets, The Pastime Machine: A Literary Turducken. 

Les currently lives in rural Nebraska, five miles from blacktop in every direction, with his spouse, second daughter, 4 Chihuahua’s, 6 Chihuahua mixes, 1 MinPin, 1 black Lab, and a white cat the family literally glued back together. 

He keeps a blog with contact info, specialty items, and some freebies at lestersmith.com.