Bob Liddil began gaming under the instruction of his good friend Jack Powers in the late 1970’s . During that time, Bob wrote and published Dimensions an Doors, Castles and Kingdoms, Demons and Notmen and designed Certificates of Birth, Life, Death, Survival, Slavery, Manumission, and the all important Master Scribe’s Certificate, (sort of "The One Ring" of certificates), a certificate that authorized or entitled owners of blank certificates to issue certificates. These were later incorporated into The Masterscribe’s kit sold through Zocchi’s of Biloxi and The Armory of Baltimore, both pivotal distributors of dice and all things gaming.

Bob was blessed to have known the great Lou Zocchi, and the late impetuous Roy Lippman, both "guru level" distributor- entrepreneurs during the heyday of gaming. It was due to the enthusiasm of those pioneers and others like them that these publications actually got into the hands of game fans around the USA and Canada.

In the 1980’s Bob authored The 30-sided Character and Other Tales on a commission for The Armory, then subsequently, authored The 30-sided Adventure and Other Tales, featuring a gorgeous Ruth Thompson Cover (she is a Goddess you know), crafted for authorized publication by Roy Lippman at The Armory, then, Rascals Rogues, Rapscallions And Renegades, Little Shop of Posions and Potions and Apothecary On The Street Of Dreams in association with Pandora’s Treasures and the beautiful, talented Dallas Nillsen, creator of Pandora’s Dice Wheel.

Bob turned to fiction in the late 80’s and early 90’s, penning Dragon in a Box, The Old Troll Comes To Town, Feodor Felonis and the Thief, and Yorkshire Luck for Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, followed by The Blue-eyed Thief for TSR’s Dragon Magazine. His Science Fiction Murder Mystery short story, Murder Under Glass was published in Mike Resnick’s well received anthology, Whatdunnits.

Shortly thereafter Bob’s long sought after membership in the prestigeous Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America was accepted.

Somewhere in the middle of all that, The Captain 80 Book of Basic Adventures, and a new (especially for the Commodore 64) version of Castles and Kingdoms came into being.

Crazy Igor, a very famous huckster and vendor of gamestuff once said of Bob, "That guy’s crazier than I am." After a convention in Evansville Indiana, the prolific Science Fiction Author, Allen Steel pretty much affirmed what Igor had previously iterated.

Even Binky The Ghost is in agreement.

Today, Bob, at 60, is semi-retired, having lived a lifetime as a Science Fiction and Role-playing gypsy, now making his home in Pensacola Florida, and at http://www.digitropolis,net.

His profound wish is to spend the rest of his life writing and trying to keep Damien the dangerous from getting his 3x5 card torn in half.

UPDATE: Bob Liddil passed away on 2 May 2011.  He was loved by many!  He was truly a gentle giant!