[7]: 382  In the early 1980s, Ward and Rose Estes formed an education department at TSR, planning to market classroom modules to teachers.

[7]: 19 Ward, with David Cook, Steve Winter, and Mike Breault, co-wrote the Ruins of Adventure scenario that was adapted into the popular computer game Pool of Radiance.

[10] When TSR produced a second edition of AD&D (1989), Ward instituted changes such as removing assassins and half-orcs as player character options from the game, explaining this decision in Dragon #154 (February 1990) that "[a]voiding the Angry Mother Syndrome has become a good, basic guideline for all of the designers and editors at TSR, Inc"; Ward printed many replies from upset players in Dragon #158.

[7]: 23 Ward can be glimpsed early in the Dragon Strike tutorial video playing the man who is slapped in the face at the king's party.

[7]: 382  Ward also wrote the horror fantasy game Tainted Lands (2009), based on the "SIEGE" system from Castles & Crusades.

[7]: 382 Together with Frank Mentzer, Chris Clark and Tim Klark, Ward co-founded Eldritch Enterprises, which planned to publish a variety of general works as well as new creations for role-playing games.

[5]: 234 [13] Ward wrote for Gygax Magazine beginning in 2013,[14] including a new Metamorphosis Alpha adventure "They All Died at the International Space Station,"[15] which was also released as a standalone product.

[17][18][19] In 1973, Ward married his high school sweetheart Janean M. Bray,[9] and they had two sons and a daughter together, James, Theon and Breck.