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Brian Medchill (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Companion, Pathfinder Fiction Subscriber), Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 01:20 AM

I recently re-read an Al-Qadim module by Steve Kurtz and it got me to wondering why he stopped writing. I loved everything he produced, including several Dungeon adventures. A quick search came up with a couple results. One was a Steve Kurtz that is an art professor who was arrested by the FBI for possesion of bacteria! I'm guessing that is a different person. There are also people by that name who are a missionary and one who is a doctor specializing in joint replacement. I was just wondering, does anybody know if the same guy who wrote "The Lady Rose" is one of these individuals?


Mike McArtor (Contributor), Thu, Sep 2, 2004, 12:08 PM

Brian Medchill wrote: I recently re-read an Al-Qadim module by Steve Kurtz and it got me to wondering why he stopped writing. I loved everything he produced, including several Dungeon adventures. A quick search came up with a couple results. One was a Steve Kurtz that is an art professor who was arrested by the FBI for possesion of bacteria! I'm guessing that is a different person. There are also people by that name who are a missionary and one who is a doctor specializing in joint replacement. I was just wondering, does anybody know if the same guy who wrote "The Lady Rose" is one of these individuals? I dunno if he's one of those fellas you mentioned, but try Pen & Paper's RPG database. It's pretty nifty, and not only because the Dungeon and Dragon staffs are listed in there. ;D Hmm...staff of the dungeon and staff of the dragon sound like cool names for magic items...


Arnwyn (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Modules Subscriber), Wed, Sep 8, 2004, 09:27 AM

Brian Medchill wrote: I recently re-read an Al-Qadim module by Steve Kurtz and it got me to wondering why he stopped writing. I loved everything he produced, including several Dungeon adventures. I'm with you, there. I have never been done wrong by anything created by Steve Kurtz. Both is Al-Qadim stuff and his Dungeon adventures were always fantastic. Fantastic! and one who is a doctor specializing in joint replacement. Actually, come to think of it, it could be him. Qay back when in Dungeon, at the end of the adventure there were the little "About the author" blurbs, and IIRC it said something about Steve Kurtz being educated in "biomechanics". Who knows?


Brian Medchill (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Companion, Pathfinder Fiction Subscriber), Sat, Sep 11, 2004, 01:13 AM

Sorry it took so long, but thanks to you both for your replies. I finally got some time to do some serious Googling and apparently Dr. Steven Kurtz is now "designing mechanical contrivances to replace parts of the human body". http://www.rpgunited.com/author/authors/kurtzs.html I miss his writing, but he is apparently doing even more important work (sorry Mike!)


TheFourthMan, Tue, Apr 1, 2008, 01:59 PM

Thanks for solving the mystery of Steven Kurtz's disappearance from rpg writing. I, too, loved everything I saw by him, and I often wondered where and why he vanished. My own web searches turned up nothing helpful, so I'm happy to finally know. I managed to track down another "vanished" writer I liked from that general time-frame -- David Eckelberry. While Kurtz was my favorite of the two, I always felt Eckelberry was solid and reliable, even if he didn't always impress me as consistently as Kurtz did. Turns out Eckelberry has been working as a producer on the Dungeons & Dragons Online MMORPG for a while now ... Thanks again, 4th