 Later he became head of design at MicroProse, then managing director of Pivotal Games, a publisher of video games including "".Jim Bambra worked on game design and materials for various companies during the 1980s and early 1990s, including TSR (publisher of "Dungeons and Dragons"), Games Workshop ("Warhammer"), and West End Games ("Star Wars RPG").In 1983, Bambra wrote "The Beginner’s Guide to Roleplaying Games" (with Paul Ruiz), published in "Imagine" magazine Issue 6 (Sept 1983), explaining what an RPG is and accompanied by a comic strip, "The Adventures of Nic Novice".