Bill Fawcett was one of the players in early
Dungeons & Dragons games being played in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas, using photocopied prototypes of the rules handed out by
Gary Gygax.
Darwin Bromley brought Fawcett on as a partner in
Mayfair Games soon after the company was formed in 1980, and they worked together to design the game
Empire Builder (1980). He edited the book
The War Years 1: The Far Stars War (1990). With
David Drake, he co-edited
The Fleet series (1988-1991), as well as its sequels,
Battlestation, Book One (1992), and
Battlestation, Book Two: Vanguard (1993). As a book packager, Fawcett was able to arrange a publishing deal between
Wizards of the Coast and
HarperCollins for novels set in the
Magic: The Gathering multiverse of Dominia; the first novel in this series was
Arena (1994). His 2008 book, "Oval Office Oddities," was described as "Chock-full of information—trivia, anecdotes, charts, illustrations, etc." and focused on the lives of American presidents and their wives. ==Works==