Travis Heermann Bio
Travis has been a gamer since the 6th grade, when he discovered D&D. It has been all downhill ever since. He grew up reading about hobbits, vampires, Cimmerians, Tharks, and Jedi, forever twisting him into the warped form he now enjoys. These characters so inspired him that he started writing novels when he was 14. He graduated from the University of Nebraska (Go Huskers!) with a degree in Electrical Engineering. This did not deter him from wanting to write, however. His epic fantasy novel, The Ivory Star, was published in 1996. Around the same time, he discovered an awesome new CCG called Legend of the Five Rings. He was hooked. Not long after that, he fell in with the rough crowd at AEG, starting out as a Bounty Hunter, and is now their devoted freelance slave. Since then, he has also been a regular contributor to Scrye magazine. His work for AEG has included numerous supplements, including five Adventure Keep modules, several titles from the d20 Topics line, such as Undead, Monsters, Gods, War, Good, and Mercenaries, the Swashbuckling Adventures core rulebook, and the L5R line, including Creatures of Rokugan, Way of the Shugenja, Secrets of the Lion, Secrets of the Scorpion, Secrets of the Crane, Secrets of the Unicorn, and most recently the Warlord RPG Campaign Book. He has been a native of Nebraska all his life, but in the summer of 2003 he moved to Fukuoka, Japan, to work as an English teacher. He enjoys all kinds of games (of course!), particularly Warlord, L5R, and Cthulhu, reading, studying Japanese history and language, Shakespeare, camping, and hunting defenseless woodland creatures with large-bore firearms.