J. Andrew Keith
# J. Andrew Keith

John Andrew Keith (August 31, 1958 – August 7, 1999) was an American author and games developer.

## Career

J. Andrew Keith, and his brother William H. Keith Jr., responded to ads in Journal of the Travellers Aid Society for authors to write for Game Designers' Workshop (GDW); Loren Wiseman started them with freelancing for GDW in the late 1970s and the three of them set up much of the early material for $Traveller.^{:56}$ J. Andrew Keith's wrote so much for the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society that he began to use the pseudonyms John Marshal and Keith $Douglass.^{:56}$ The Keith brothers were making enough money that they were able to freelance full-time by $1979.^{:56}$ The Keith brothers then began working for FASA by the end of $1980.^{:119}$ FASA began publishing adventures for Traveller beginning with Ordeal by Eshaar (1981) by the Keith brothers, who then wrote the "Sky Raiders" trilogy (1981-1982) for $FASA.^{:119}$ J. Andrew Keith briefly edited the magazine High Passage in 1982 before the High Passage Group told FASA that they could no longer publish material for High Passage; FASA replaced this magazine with a new magazine by J. Andrew Keith called Far Traveller beginning in October $1982.^{:119}$ FASA ended its support of Traveller in 1983, so the Keith brothers continued writing Traveller material with the new company Gamelords, but continued working for FASA on other $games.^{:120}$ The Keith brothers wrote seven supplements for Gamelords, including The Mountain Environment (1983), The Undersea Environment $(1983),^{:342}$ and The Desert Environment $(1984).^{:131}$

J. Andrew Keith wrote some adventures for Fantasy Games Unlimited's Chivalry & Sorcery before the line ended in $1984.^{:74}$ The Keith brothers then worked on some of FGU's other lines in 1985 including Aftermath!, Daredevils, Flashing Blades, and Psi $World.^{:75}$ The Keith brothers also designed Freedom Fighters (1986), one of the last role-playing games published by $FGU.^{:75}$

## Works

Andrew was a rather prolific Science Fiction and Role-Playing Game author, and the bibliography presented below is in no way comprehensive. Several of these works were with various co-authors, most commonly his brother, William H. Keith Jr.

* A note regarding pen names in the words of William H. Keith Jr.:

"We shared several [pen names]: Keith William Andrews, Keith Douglass, and H. Jay Riker. Back in the Traveller days, when he was doing a ton of writing for the old Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, he used several pen names, including Keith Douglass and John Marshall, so it wouldn't look like the journal was entirely an Andrew Keith production."

### Science fiction novels

* Wing Commander: False Colors
* Wing Commander: Heart of the Tiger
* The Fifth Foreign Legion: March or Die
* The Fifth Foreign Legion: Honor and Fidelity
* The Fifth Foreign Legion: Cohort of the Damned
* Battletech: Blood of Heroes
* Battletech: Mercenary's Star

### Science fiction short stories

* The Legacy of Leonidas
* Rendezvous with Death
* Orion Rising

### Traveller RPG material

Books, Supplements, and Folio Adventures: Cargonaut Press, Digest Group Publications, FASA, Gamelords, GDW, Marischal Adventures, and Seeker.

* $Escape^{:333}$
* Letter of Marque
* Faldor: World of Adventure
* Rogues in Space: Letter of Marque
* Rogues in Space: Scam
* Starport Planetfall

**GDW**

* The Traveller Adventure
* Alien Module 1 Aslan $(1984)^{:328}$
* Alien Module 2 K'kree $(1984)^{:328}$
* Alien Module 3 Vargr $(1984)^{:329}$
* Alien Module 4-Zhodani $(1985)^{:329}$
* Alien Module 5 Droyne $(1985)^{:329}$
* Alien Module 7-Hivers $(1986)^{:329}$
* BeltStrike: Riches and Danger in the Bowman $Belt^{:330}$
* Alien Realms
* Aliens for Traveller
* Arctic Environment
* Chamax Plague
* Horde
* Night of Conquest
* Merchant Prince: Special Supplement 1
* Exotic Atmospheres: Special Supplement 2 $(1983)^{:339}$
* Nomads of the World $Ocean^{:327}$
* Murder on Arcturus $Station^{:328}$
* Traveller Adventure 13: Signal $GK^{:328}$
* Double Adventure 6, Divine Intervention/Night of $Conquest^{:332}$
* Travellers' Aid Society Alien Encyclopedia
* World Builder's Handbook

**Gamelords**

* The Mountain Environment $(1983)^{:337}$
* The Drenslaar Quest (1983)
* The Undersea Environment $(1983)^{:342}$
* Ascent To Anekthor $(1984)^{:329}$
* Startown Liberty (1984)
* The Desert Environment (1984)
* Duneraiders (1984)
* A Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector $(1984)^{:337}$
* Wanted: Adventurers (1984) under the pen name, John Marshal

**FASA**

* The Trail of the Sky $Raiders^{:342}$
* The Legend of the Sky $Raiders^{:336}$
* Fate of the Sky $Raiders^{:333}$
* Harrensa Project $(1983)^{:340}$
* Ordeal by Eshaar $(1981)^{:337}$
* Stazlekh Report, The $(1983)^{:340}$
* Uragyad'n of the Seven $Pillars^{:342}$

**Marischal Adventures**

* Flight of the $Stag^{:334}$
* Salvage Mission (1981, $1987)^{:336}$
* Trading Team(1981, $1987)^{:342}$

**Digest Group Publications**

* Grand Census
* Grand Survey

### Miscellaneous Traveller Credits: FASA, and Seeker

* Adventure Class Ships I - Booklet II
* Adventure Class Ships II - Booklet I & $II^{:328}$
* Aslan Mercenary Ships - Booklet I & $II^{:330}$
* I.S.C.V. Leander - Booklet (scenarios: The Hostage, Terminal Velocity, and Raider!)
* I.S.P.M.V. Fenris - Booklet (scenarios: Boring From Within, Prisoners at Large, and Surprise Reversed)
* I.S.P.M.V. Tethys - Booklet (scenarios: Enemy Action, Staff Meeting, and Retreat from Stiara)
* Merchant Class Ships - Booklet I & $II^{:336}$
* Starport Module I: Hotel Complex - Booklet (scenarios: Break-In, The Gamblers, and Hostages) $(1981)^{:339}$
* Z.I.S.M.V. Vlezhdatl - Booklet (scenarios: Boarding Action, Prize Crew, and Escape) $(1981)^{:343}$
