Timothy James Kask (born January 14, 1949) is an American editor and writer in the role-playing game industry.
This developed into a series of long late-night phone conversations about miniatures rules that eventually resulted in Gygax's invitation to Kask to come to the Gen Con gaming convention in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Kask developed and edited TSR's historical board game, William the Conqueror, 1066, and was responsible for starting the Days of the Dragon line of calendars.
Kask was responsible for hiring a number of people at TSR who subsequently went on to become influential creators in the role-playing game industry, including Kim Mohan.
He had originally written in the foreword to Eldritch Wizardry that "D&D was meant to be a free-wheeling game, only loosely bound by the parameters of the rules."
"[9] Kask stayed in the games industry for a few years, re-developing Naval War for Avalon Hill in late 1981.
But due to the ongoing recession of the early 1980s, many of his advertisers were in financial trouble, and he had difficulty collecting any of his ad revenue.
Kask was forced to cease publication after only 13 issues, admitting that "I lost my shirt" in what he called "a crushing defeat.
He went back to school in 2002, and after earning a master's degree in Education from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, he became a teacher.
[citation needed] Kask and Mentzer frequently returned to the role of auctioneer at Gen Con Indy until 2017, which was ultimately the final year for each in that capacity.