In Hobby Games: The 100 Best, the top designers, authors, and publishers in the hobby games field write about the most enjoyable and cleverly designed games of the last fifty years. Their essays cover the gamut of the hobby market, from board games to wargames, collectible card games to miniatures games to roleplaying games, with titles both familiar and esoteric. Writers include such legendary designers as Gary Gygax, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, Richard Garfield, and Larry Harris; best-selling authors R. A. Salvatore, Tracy Hickman, Douglas Niles, and Ed Greenwood; computer industry notables Warren Spector, Bruce Shelley, Jack Emmert, and Bruce Nesmith; as well as dozens of other prominent and award-winning creators, including Richard Berg, Monte Cook, Zeb Cook, Greg Costikyan, Bruno Faidutti, Jeff Grubb, Steve Jackson (US), Tom Jolly, Marc W. Miller, Alan R. Moon, Christian T. Petersen, Sandy Petersen, Mike Pondsmith, Ted Raicer, Greg Stafford, S. Craig Taylor, Jr., Martin Wallace, James M. Ward, Jordan Weisman, Stewart Wieck, and Teeuwynn Woodruff. Hobby Games: The 100 Best also features a foreword by board game legend Reiner Knizia and an afterward by SPI founder and wargame legend James F. Dunnigan.
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