{"id":10,"date":"2023-01-02T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:40:04","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?page_id=10","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi. I&#8217;m Clayton A. Oliver. I&#8217;ve been a gamer since about 1984, when a classmate in elementary school introduced me to <em>Car Wars<\/em>. I picked up tabletop roleplaying games a couple of years later with <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996, I somehow landed an internship with White Wolf, where Phil Brucato and Rich Dansky gave me my first shots at writing for the hobby. I&#8217;ve been an occasional contributor ever since, working as a freelancer for White Wolf (<em>Vampire: The Masquerade<\/em>, <em>Werewolf: The Apocalypse<\/em>, <em>Mage: The Ascension<\/em>, <em>Wraith: The Oblivion<\/em>, <em>Trinity<\/em>, <em>Adventure!<\/em>, and some general World of Darkness material), Alderac Entertainment Group (<em>Spycraft<\/em> and <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em>), 93 Games Studio (<em>Twilight: 2013<\/em>), and Onyx Path (general Chronicles of Darkness, <em>Aeon<\/em>). I&#8217;ve also done two <em>Twilight: 2000<\/em> sourcebooks on spec, both of which Far Future Enterprises accepted for publication.  The full list is <a href=\"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?page_id=12\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsenet, I usually post under the handle Tegyrius.  Due to namesquatting, I use \/u\/copper-n-lead-dragon on Reddit and @a_pen_and_a_BHP on BoardGameGeek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife and I provide professional staffing services for one cat who prefers the fringes of haunted Appalachia to his origin in the frozen tundra hellscape of the Midwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my professional life, I&#8217;m an emergency manager and recovering technical writer. This blog isn&#8217;t about those aspects of my life. If you want that face, you&#8217;ll probably be better served by my defunct EM blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/emergencypants.wordpress.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/emergencypants.wordpress.com\/\">Emergency Pants<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I&#8217;m Clayton A. Oliver. I&#8217;ve been a gamer since about 1984, when a classmate in elementary school introduced me to Car Wars. I picked up tabletop roleplaying games a couple of years later with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness. In 1996, I somehow landed an internship with White Wolf, where Phil Brucato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}