Colin A. Suleiman[1] is a writer, game designer, and musician who has worked primarily in dark fantasy and horror for role-playing games and fiction. Through the course of his career, he has been a guest of honor or attending professional at over 140 conventions across seven countries.
Suleiman attended the Landon School as a child and Churchill High School, and went to the University of Maryland in the late 1990s.
C.A. Suleiman has made contributions to books for role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and World of Darkness.[2] Suleiman was one of the writers of and conceived and developed the line.[3] [4]
His D&D work includes City of Stormreach, Cityscape, Dragonmarked, Heroes of Horror, and Faiths of Eberron.[5]
He launched a transmedia fantasy property called The Lost Citadel, based around the meshing of zombie horror and traditional fantasy tropes. The world debuted with a fiction anthology,[6] and then with a Kickstarted game line.[7]
C.A. Suleiman created and developed a Cthulhu Mythos game and setting called Unspeakable: Sigil & Sign,[8] which focuses on the Old One cultists as protagonists.
In late 2017, the Horror Writers Association banned Suleiman from its events in response to accusations of sexual harassment; Green Ronin, publisher of The Lost Citadel fiction anthology and role-playing game, then distanced itself from Suleiman over the same allegations, despite co-owner Nicole Lindroos' maintaining of Suleiman's innocence.[9]
C.A. Suleiman is the founder of the Washington, D.C.-based interstitial rock group Toll Carom.[10]