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He was a graduate of Lehman High School in Canton and attended Grove City College in Pennsylvania where he met his wife, Deborah.
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David Ritchie was a native of Canton, Ohio. David Ritchie worked for SPI until it was taken over by TSR in March 1982. As more former SPI employees left TSR or were fired, Ritchie was the final SPI holdover, and left for Coleco in late 1983.
Ritchie, along with Jon Pickens, David "Zeb" Cook, Harold Johnson, Rick Swan, and Editor Carmien, co-wrote the adventure module OA2 Night of the Seven Swords.
Ritchie and Dave Arneson detailed Arneson"s world of Blackmoor in a series of four adventure books from TSR, DA1: Adventures in Blackmoor (1986), DA2: Temple of the Frog (1986), DA3: City of the Gods (1987) and DA4: The Duchy of Ten (1987). Ritchie died in his Connecticut home on September 6, 2009, at the age of 58.
