Personal Life
Pondsmith has a wife, Lisa, and a son, Cody all of whom are working at R. Talsorian games. Although Mike and Lisa have met earlier, their relationship began around 1977 while both of them were still in college. They got married in February 1982. Lisa serves as a General Manager of R. Talsorian and has been credited in various titles (most notably as author alongside Jeff Grubb in The Memoirs of Auberon of Faerie sourcebook for the Castle Falkenstein system) and Cody is credited as a member of production staff in the Cyberpunk V3.0 supplement Flashpak. He's also involved in promotion and community communications related to R. Talsorian's steampunk title Castle Falkenstein. Before designing games Mike Pondsmith worked as an amateur paleontologist. In his spare time he collects plastic GI Joe action figures prominently featured in Cyberpunk v3.0 core rulebook and enjoys outdoor activities, reading as well as playing around with radio-controlled cars and planes.
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