 When Rolston was a new hire at West End Games in 1983, he became the fourth creator on "Paranoia" and was responsible for turning Greg Costikyan's dry rules into a highly atmospheric game, the results of which were published at GenCon in 1984.Rolston wrote a complete manuscript for a magic system for Games Workshop to use in their "Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay" RPG, but they rejected it; Rolston's manuscript thus circulated on the internet for years.Rolston left West End Games when Scott Palter decided to move the company from New York to rural Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1988.