Don Bingle

Donald J. Bingle (born ) is a Chicago-area attorney and author originally from Naperville, Illinois.
Role-playing games.
Bingle graduated from the University of Chicago. In the late 1980s he was the top-ranked player in the Role-Playing Network, and his wife, Linda, was ranked number two. He is best known as the top-ranked player in the RPGA for most of the 1990s. The Bingles began the company 54°40' Orphyte to publish role-playing books, including two "Timemaster" adventures, and supported the line with RPGA tournaments for a while. As of the end of 2004, Bingle had played in 500 tournaments using 50 different game systems.
He has also produced a large body of writing, including contributions to the "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" (2nd Edition), and his novel "Forced Conversion", which was released in November 2004 and centers around a futuristic society with the ability to upload people's minds to virtual worlds.
Bingle also authored a number of character-provided events for the RPGA, including "Don't Go There" with Saul Resiknoff, and "The Modern Pirate Game" with Tim White.