Like so many gaming stories, Emperor of the Fading Suns began at a bar. This was not a tavern in Waterdeep, a pub on Delphi, or even a saloon on Severus. This was the hotel bar at the Computer Game Developers Conference (CGDC), which later became GDC, and is now known as the Festival of Games.
Bill Bridges and Andrew Greenberg arrived at CGDC representing White Wolf from Stone Mountain, talking to publishers like Activision and Capcom about making Vampire and Werewolf games. In the bar they randomly encountered two Dudes named Ken Lightner and Ty Pike, representing Several Dudes Holistic Gaming.
Their conversation started around conspiracies and initiation ceremonies, leading to the discovery that both companies called Stone Mountain, Georgia, home. Yes, four devs had to travel to San Jose to meet their neighbors. Before long the conversation turned, as bar conversations so often do, to religion, and how religion might manifest thousands of years in humanity’s future.
