Richard Garfield

Game Designer

Birthday June 26, 1963

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Philadelphia, PA

Age 60 years old

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About

Best known for creating the popular Magic: The Gathering card game, this designer also invented such card and board games as, respectively, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and RoboRally.

Before Fame

He began designing games in his early teens, and he went on to study mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. After earning a Ph.D. in 1993, he began teaching at Whitman College in Washington state.

Trivia

After playing Dungeons & Dragons for the first time, he was inspired to become a game designer.

Family Life

He was born in Pennsylvania to an architect father, and he spent his teenage years in Oregon. His paternal great-great grandfather was United States President James A. Garfield.

Associated With

Mark Rosewater joined him on the Magic: The Gathering design team.