Career
Tom Dalgliesh is the owner of Columbia Games and a designer of many wargames and fantasy role playing materials. Dalgliesh began his career playing poker as a midshipman in the British Merchant Navy, then emigrated to Canada in 1967. In 1972, Dalgliesh, Steve Brewster, and Lance Gutteridge formed a new gaming company called Gamma Two Games, which became Columbia Games in 1982.
Brewster soon left and Gutteridge departed in the mid-1980s, leaving the company in the hands of Dalgliesh.
Dalgliesh"s designs, starting with Quebec 1759, include War of 1812, Napoleon, Slapshot, Klondike, Smoker"s Wild, Bobby Lee, Sam Grant, Dixie, Eagles, Victory, Pacific Victory, and Liberty. Dalgliesh"s work on the Hârn system includes the sourcebooks Kanday (1986), Kaldor (1986), Azadmere (1986), Melderyn (1987), and Pilots" Almanac (1988).
Dalgliesh"s company Columbia Games published the original work in 1983, and it has remained continuously in print by that company since then After a disagreement, this partnership ended and Crossby continued to develop the game without the input of Delgliesh or Columbia Games.
Dalgliesh decided to move Columbia Games from Canada into Washington state in 1994.
Crossby did not move with the company and afterward stopped producing new material for Columbia. He was chosen by vote as a "famous game designer" to be featured as the king of clubs in Flying Buffalo"s 2014 Famous Game Designers Playing Card Deck. Dalgliesh now lives in Washington (state), just south of the Canadian border, and sails as a hobby.