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D&D Author, Randy Richards

			"I am either the freakiest person in a group of normal people, or the most normal person in a group of freaks." Male 42 years old BATON ROUGE, Louisiana United States Last Login:8/19/2008
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http://www.myspace.com/dreadmire

D&D Author, Randy Richards's Interests

General

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Writing, photography, DJ-ing, Dungeons and Dragons, Warcraft & Starcraft video games, fishing, bowling, zoos, putt-putt golf, mountain hikes, Chuck E. Cheese, Celebration Station, Disneyworld, swimming, and chocolate.

Music

I listen to just about anything, depending on my mood.

Classic rock: Doors, Stones, Aerosmith, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Jefferson Airplane, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ozzy, Creedence, Crosby Stills & Nash, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac.

80's Rock: Bon Jovi, Journey, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Boston, Billy Joel, Bryan Adams, The Clash, Cheap Trick, Foreigner, Kiss, Queen, Rush, U2.

Showtunes

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80's Pop: The Cars, GoGo's, Pat Benetar, Adam Ant, B-52's, Duran Duran, David Bowie, INXS, Madonna, The Police, Simple Minds.

Others: Pearl Jam, Sheryl Crow, Blues Traveler, Shania Twain, Barenaked Ladies, Creed, Black Crowes, Bonnie Raitt, Green day, Counting Crows, Nirvana, R.E.M., Santana, Spin Doctors.

Movies

My favorite movie of all time is Gone With The Wind.

Back to the Future 1-3	Planet of the Apes 1-5 (originals)	The Fly 1-2 (remakes)	The Fly 1-2 (originals)	Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
The Mummy 1-3 (remakes)	The Lord of the Rings (remake)	Raiders of the Lost Ark	King Kong (original)	Gone with the Wind
Forbidden Planet	Aliens	Chronicles of Narnia	The Mummy (original)	Scrooged
A Christmas Carol	Starship Troopers	Groundhog Day	The Ice Pirates	Dr. Strangelove
Big Trouble in Little China	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	The Secret of NIMH	The Last Unicorn	The Lord of the Rings (animated)
The Return of the King	The Hobbit	The Incredible Mr. Limpet	King Kong	Little Shop of Horrors
Ghostbusters I & II	Mary Poppins	Young Sherlock Holmes	Interview with the Vampire	The Last Starfighter
The Adventures of Robin Hood	Mighty Joe Young	The Wizard of Oz	The Exorcist	The Sixth Sense
Poltergeist	Maximum Overdrive	Brainstorm	Dreamscape	Witchboard
Fright Night	An American Werewolf in London	Pumpkinhead	The Valley of Gwangi	A Clockwork Orange
Westworld	Time Bandits	Jason and the Argonauts	Dragonheart	Legend
Army of Darkness	Clash of the Titans	The Dark Crystal	Labyrinth	The NeverEnding Story
Dragonslayer	Heavy Metal	Soylent Green	The Day the Earth Stood Still	Night of the Living Dead
Invisible Man	Classic Monsters	Frankenstein	Young Frankenstein	Lifeforce
The Thing	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Logan's Run	The Andromeda Strain	The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park	Gattaca	Tremors 1-4	Colossus - The Forbin Project	Total Recall
Predator	The Time Machine	Terminator 2 - Judgment Day	Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan	The Day of the Triffids
Flash Gordon	The Abyss	Blade Runner	The Matrix	War of the Worlds (remake)
The War of the Worlds (original)	Doctor Who - The Key to Time	Independence Day	The Valley of Gwangi	H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon
Overboard

Television

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The Office, Heroes, Law & Order (all of them), Smallville, Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis, The 4400, The Dead Zone, Eureka, Battlestar Galactica, Saturday Night Live, Digging For The Truth, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, Futurama, Lost Worlds, NOVA, Doctor Who, Seven Days, Star Trek (all of them), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, The O'Reilly Factor, The Janice Dickinson Agency, Forensice Files, Family Guy, and Lost:

Lost Letterman

One Froggy Evening

Books

Dragonlance: Brothers in Arms	Dragonlance: The Soulforge	Dragonlance: The Last Tower	Dreadmire	Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies
Dragonlance: Brothers Majere	Dragonlance: Chronicles	Dragonlance: Legends	I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire	I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin
Journey to the Center of the Earth	Foundation	I, Robot	Prelude to Foundation	Forward the Foundation
Foundation's Edge	Second Foundation	Foundation and Earth	Foundation and Empire	Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
Cosmos

Heroes

Rosa Parks, George Washington, Ghandi, and Albert Einstein.

Doctor Who

The "Children in Need" special Doctor Who episode.

D&D Author, Randy Richards's Details

Status:	In a Relationship
Here for:	Networking, Friends
Orientation:	Straight
Hometown:	Chalmette, LA
Body type:	5' 9" / Average
Ethnicity:	White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign:	Capricorn
Smoke / Drink:	No / Yes
Children:	Proud parent
Education:	College graduate
Occupation:	Author, Photographer & DJ
Income:	$100,000 to $150,000

D&D Author, Randy Richards's Networking

Photography - Wedding - Photographer
20 years of wedding experience.

Photography - Portraiture - Photographer
Dance book photos and theater are our favorites.

D&D Author, Randy Richards's Companies

Dance Partners Photography & Video
New Orleans & Baton Rouge, LA US
Owner

www.DanceBackwards.com

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D&D Author, Randy Richards's Blurbs

About me:
Please visit my website at http://www.Dreadmire.com

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Randy Richards is an author, TV actor, photographer and dad. He has been playing Dungeons and Dragons since the late 70's, but started in earnest in the early 80's. "In the 1980's," Randy says, "we had the Basic D&D boxed game in our Gifted & Talented class, and I used to play a Cajun halfling. The other kids loved it, especially the accent." Randy graduated from Chalmette High School in 1984, then from college in 1989, and moved from Louisiana to Tennessee.

Commenting on the decision to move, Randy says, "My family is from Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountains. I just wanted to get closer to my roots - not to mention its gorgeous up there - so I moved to an area near Gatlinburg." The move proved to be beneficial for Randy's career in photography. "People know me for my writing," he says, "but they don't know my day job is photography (DanceBackwards.com). Olan Mills, which operates out of Chattanooga, hired me to work for them as a kids photographer, then a glamour photographer, and finally a church directory photographer."

.. After five years in Tennessee, Randy was transferred to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and started a family. "This is when I first got published. I wrote "Dark Magic in New Orleans" for Dungeon Magazine (issue 71). After receiving scores of complimentary letters from people all over the world, I decided to start writing on a regular basis. With all my traveling with work there really wasn't time, but while driving I would make notes on anything available: cardboard boxes, gum wrappers, paper cups -- anything!"

In the late 90s Randy hosted a series of Gen Con events, one of which included the co-creators of D&D, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and other big names including Frank Mentzer, Lisa Stevens (now CEO of Paizo Publishing), and Anne Brown, a writer for TSR. "This got my name known in the industry, although at the time that wasn't my goal. I was just trying to have fun and spread the joy of gaming."

A few years passed before Randy got the idea to write a book. "My daughter was getting older, and I wanted to have more time for her, so I decided to start my own photography business. An unintended side benefit was that I had more time available for writing. I would copy the scrap notes down when I got home, and as I was reading through them I realized they began to form a swamp theme.

That's when I started writing Dreadmire, a story about Cajun halflings (hobbits), undead mosquitoes, giant cockroaches, weregators, carnivorous plants, fungus demons, and monstrous catfish. In other words, it was just like Louisiana!" There were some false starts and delays before Dreadmire came to print, but Dreadmire was released in December of 2005 to rave reviews.

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina destroyed his hometown of Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. "Right after the storm I initially went down there to survey my mom's house," Randy says, "which had been under 15 ft. of water. What I saw there stunned me. The landscape had been obliterated. There was no life - no birds, animals, people, or insects - nothing. All I could do was start taking pictures. I went up and down the parish taking photographs of everything I could, so that it could all be documented in a vivid way. I did it for myself. What I didn't realize until much later is that many people really wanted to see the photos."

Randy's photographs can be seen in a mobile museum that is on tour of the United States. It will return to Chalmette in two years and become part of a permanent display. You can see some of these photographs in article form at http://www.dancebackwards.com/truck.html

Randy in the News

Who I'd like to meet:
Creative, non-dysfunctional people with unblemished honor, stalwart convictions, and undeterred resolve. Barring that, pretty much anybody will do.

Here are some of my favorite videos:

"White & Nerdy" Music Video

William Shatner Roast Highlights

"Fear of Girls" D&D Parody

"Get A Life" D&D Parody

Star Trek Remastered

"Gamers" Movie Trailer

Jingleheimer Junction

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D&D Author, Randy Richards has 906 friends.

Gamers

BabelCon.org

ConCarolinas

Transylvanian Electric Company

Elizabeth Donald

Dragon*Con 2008

Role Playing Public Radio

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Cast Aways Open Theatre Troupe

Shiapet

Acadiana Medieval Faire

MechaCon

Snow Cherries from France

Alesia Darkwolfe

UrchinGirl

It's Cam-tastic!

Gnymphs

Andrea

Falena

Dianne de Las Casas, Author & Storyteller

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M. B. Weston

Dana

The Consortium of Genius

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