title: Steffan O'Sullivan
text: # Steffan O'Sullivan
  
  Steffan O'Sullivan is the author of several role-playing game books.
  
  ## Career
  
  Steffan O'Sullivan was a writer for GURPS products including GURPS Swashbucklers (1990) and GURPS Bunnies & Burrows $(1992).^{:319}$ He designed the FUDGE role-playing game system, first releasing it for free on the internet on December 7, $1993.^{:319}$ His friend Ann Dupuis wanted to start her own game company, using FUDGE as its flagship game; O'Sullivan agreed, as long as she allowed the game to remain available for free on the internet, so Dupuis formed Wild Mule Games and published FUDGE in a limited print run in $1994.^{:319}$ Dupuis changed the company's name to Grey Ghost Press in 1995, and convinced O'Sullivan to work up a new FUDGE ruleset, published on the internet in June 1995, and released later that year as the first large-scale FUDGE release from Grey Ghost $Press.^{:320}$ O'Sullivan changed the name from FUDGE to Fudge in 2000, and transferred the rights to the game to Grey Ghost Press officially in March $2004.^{:320}$ O'Sullivan wrote the Princess Bride role-playing game using the FUDGE system, which was published by Toy Vault in 2019.
  
  Among his works are the GURPS system books Bestiary, Bunnies & Burrows, Fantasy Bestiary and Swashbucklers. He is also the collaborative author of the Fudge open gaming system and the Sherpa game.
  
  He currently lives in New Hampshire.
  
  