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Ken St. Andre: Game design, Awards and honors & Overview

Kenneth Eugene St. Andre (born April 28, 1947) is an American fantasy game designer and author, best known for creating the fantasy role-playing game Tunnels & Trolls (T&T) and the computer role-playing game, Wasteland.

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Ken St. Andre topic overview

The analysis highlights Game design, Awards and honors and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Ken St. Andre.

Related topics
30
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
34
Extracted relationships
60
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
34

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Game design · 16 topics
Overview · 11 topics
Awards and honors · 2 topics
Personal life · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Born
Kenneth Eugene St. Andre (1947-04-28) April 28, 1947 (age 79) Ogden, Utah, U.S.
Genres
Role-playing games, fantasy
Occupations
Game designer, writer
Other names
"Ken", "Trollgod", "Trollgodfather"
Period
1975–present

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Game design

Awards and honors

Personal life

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Ken St. Andre connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ken St. Andre shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ken St. Andre → Andre, Andre's, April, As, Bear, Buffalo Castle, Deathtrap Equalizer Dungeon, December, Deluxe, Dragons, Dungeons, Elizabeth Danforth, Fiery Dragon Productions, Flying Buffalo, French, He, In, James, July, Ken Another extracted example is Ken St. Andre → Andre, Andre's SFWA, Delver's Tales, Entertainment, Facebook, Flash Fiction, Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseTrollgodfather, Ken St, Ken's, Ken's Flash Fiction, Press, RPG Geek, St, Successor, Trollhalla, Trolls, Tunnels. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Ken St. Andre

Top relations

related to Game design · 34
Ken St. Andre → Andre, Andre's, April, As, Bear, Buffalo Castle, Deathtrap Equalizer Dungeon, December, Deluxe, Dragons, Dungeons, Elizabeth Danforth, Fiery Dragon Productions, Flying Buffalo, French, He, In, James, July, Ken
related to External links · 17
Ken St. Andre → Andre, Andre's SFWA, Delver's Tales, Entertainment, Facebook, Flash Fiction, Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseTrollgodfather, Ken St, Ken's, Ken's Flash Fiction, Press, RPG Geek, St, Successor, Trollhalla, Trolls, Tunnels
Spouses · 2
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see also · 2
Ken St. Andre → Andre, Ken St
Born · 1
Ken St. Andre → Kenneth Eugene St. Andre (1947-04-28) April 28, 1947 (age 79) Ogden, Utah, U.S.
Genres · 1
Ken St. Andre → Role-playing games, fantasy
Occupations · 1
Ken St. Andre → Game designer, writer
Other names · 1
Ken St. Andre → "Ken", "Trollgod", "Trollgodfather"
Period · 1
Ken St. Andre → 1975–present

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

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Ken St. Andre relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 60 structured relationships around Ken St. Andre. Examples in this analysis include Ken St. Andre → Born → Kenneth Eugene St. Andre (1947-04-28) April 28, 1947 (age 79) Ogden, Utah, U.S. and Ken St. Andre → Genres → Role-playing games, fantasy. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ken St. AndreBornKenneth Eugene St. Andre (1947-04-28) April 28, 1947 (age 79) Ogden, Utah, U.S.1.00infobox
Ken St. AndreGenresRole-playing games, fantasy1.00infobox
Ken St. AndreOccupationsGame designer, writer1.00infobox
Ken St. AndreOther names"Ken", "Trollgod", "Trollgodfather"1.00infobox
Ken St. AndrePeriod1975–present1.00infobox
Ken St. AndreSpouses.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…1.00infobox
Ken St. AndreSpousesRocio ​(m. .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}2024)​1.00infobox
Ken St. Andrerelated to External linksKen St0.60section
Ken St. Andrerelated to External linksAndre's SFWA0.60section
Ken St. Andrerelated to External linksFacebook0.60section
Ken St. Andrerelated to External linksTunnels0.60section
Ken St. Andrerelated to External linksTrolls0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Ken St. Andre bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Game, Ken and St. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Gaming
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    • Trolls
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    • Designed
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  • the science fiction and fantasy writers of america
    • Role-playing
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    • Wasteland
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  • tunnels & trolls
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ken St. Andre, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ken St. Andre with Game design. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Ken St. AndreGame design · splits 18 ⟂ 17
Ken St. AndreOverview · splits 23 ⟂ 12
Ken St. AndreAwards and honors · splits 32 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ken St. Andre

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples60
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ken St. Andre to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Game design, Awards and honors & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ken St. Andre · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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