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RIP Rick Loomis

Started by airboy, August 27, 2019, 06:39:46 PM

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airboy

Rick Loomis died of cancer.  He was the owner of Flying Buffalo Games.

Among his titles were:
Nuclear War
Tunnels & Trolls
Grimtooth's Traps
and a huge number of Play By Mail Games

He was a co-founder of GAMA which hosts Origins Game Fair.

I met him a couple of times over the decades and he was a very nice fellow.

You can read more at: https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/43903/rolling-for-initiative-r-i-p-rick-loomis

Steelgrave

I interacted with Loomis more than once in the 80's as I was a dedicated PBM gamer who had written a number of reviews as well as my having some design affiliation with a PBM company at the time. Rick was a legend in that community and while PBM may be effectively dead, lots and lots of those same gamers are computer gamers today. A genuine nice guy and a very big fish in a small pond.