Roger Sanger
Roger Sanger is an American game designer and the owner of Digest Group Publications, a small publishing firm focused on the role-playing game market and specifically on the game Traveller. Career In 1994, Roger Sanger joined "History of the Imperium Working Group" (HIWG), an international association of fans of Megatraveller a science fiction role-playing game designed by Digest Group Publications (DGP) and published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1987. HIWG had developed a lot of significant user-generated material for the MegaTraveller universe, some of which was included in GDW's supplement Rebellion Sourcebook. However, when Sanger joined HIWG in 1994, it was a group in crisis mode. The previous year, GDW had released a new edition, Traveller: The New Era. This edition featured harder science, and moved the timeline forward several centuries, after interstellar government and society had largely collapsed. Overnight the new edition superseded Megatraveller and made obsolete all of the material generated by HIGW over the past seven years. It also made all of the Megatraveller material produced by Digest Group Publications out of date, driving that company towards bankruptcy. Sanger was originally interested in setting up a licensed electronic fanzine, but GDW turned down the proposal. Sanger