Rodger B. MacGowan (born 1948) is an artist, game developer, art director and magazine publisher who has been active in the board wargame industry since the 1970s.

Hooked on the board wargaming hobby, MacGowan started reading books about military history, and received Avalon Hill games Stalingrad and Afrika Korps as birthday gifts.

[3] MacGowan created the company RBM Design Studio, borrowed money from friends,[3] and published the first issue of his new bi-monthly magazine Fire & Movement in May 1976.

[2] By the end of 1976, F&M's circulation matched that of Moves (owned by game company SPI), and was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best Professional Magazine".

For subsequent expansion sets and related games, Avalon Hill's plan had been to only portray German soldiers, but MacGowan insisted on using a different nationality on each box cover.

Game critic Kevin Pollock, reviewing Beachhead by Yaquinto Publications in 1980, opined that "the cover painting by Rodger B. MacGowan is excellent.